French feature length and short films of film study interest in the Collection are grouped below in chronological order by decades. French language films produced outside France are also included. There are some deliberate omissions, most notably the twenty-five films of Georges Melies in the Collection and the twelve part series made in China during the Cultural Revolution by Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan. Title listings for these can be found under Melies and Ivens in the personality index of the Screen Studies Catalogue. All sound films are on 16 mm, in French with English subtitles unless otherwise indicated.
Silent films have English intertitles unless otherwise indicated.
Entries for all titles should appear in the Screen Studies Catalogue. These films and videos have been acquired to supplement the availability of French films on 16 mm from other libraries, most notably that of the French Embassy's Cultural Services. The following films in the Collection were directed by Jean Renoir and Max Ophuls in Hollywood during the Forties. The second episode of the five episode Fantomas serial. All scenes except the finale are shown in flashback.