Libraries DVD/Video browsing guide

Searching for LGBTQ-related films and media can be difficult. This list is meant to make searching for films within LGBTQ studies easier for the average user. You can always search for a known title in the catalog to find material quicker. This is just a selection of films and is not exhaustive. 

• 100% Woman, DVD (MTF, trans people, documentary, US)
• 20 Centimetros, DVD (MTF, trans people, musical, Spain)
• Adventures in the Gender Trade: a case for diversity, DVD (MTF, FTM, trans, lesbian women, documentary, US)
• After Stonewall: from the riots to the millennium, DVD (Documentary, US)
• Albert Nobbs, DVD (Ireland, cross-gender presentation)
• Angels in America, DVD (gay men, AIDS, US)
• Any Day Now, DVD (gay men, family, Down syndrome, US)
• (A)sexual, DVD (asexual people, documentary, US)
• Assume Nothing, DVD (trans people, artists, New Zealand)
• Ballad of Little Jo, DVD (Western, US, cross-gender presentation)
• Ballot Measure 9, DVD (Documentary, gay rights, US)
• Before Night Falls, DVD (gay men, US, Cuba)
• Before Stonewall: The making of a gay and lesbian community, DVD (documentary, US)
• Bent, DVD (gay men, WWII, Germany)
• Les Biches, DVD (polyamory, France, Italy, lesbian women, bisexual people)
• Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant, DVD (lesbian women, Germany)
• Black is...Black ain't: A personal journey through black identity, VHS (African-American, gay men, US)
• The Blank Point, DVD (documentary, trans people, FTM, MTF, US)
• Bound, DVD (lesbian women, US)
• Boy Meets Girl, streaming (MTF, US)
• Boys Don't Cry, DVD (trans people, US, FTM)
• Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin, DVD (gay men, African-American, US, civil rights)
• Brotherhood/Broderskab, DVD (gay men, neo-Nazis, Denmark)
• La Cage Aux Folles, DVD (gay men, trans people, France, Italy)
• Call me Kuchu, DVD (documentary, gay men, Uganda)
• The Celluloid Closet, DVD (gay men, lesbian women, documentary, film history)
• Un Chant D'amour, DVD (France, gay men, prison, silent film)
• Chun guang zha xie, DVD (China, Argentina, gay men)
• Cloudburst, DVD (lesbian women, family, marriage, US)
• Coming Out Under Fire, DVD (gay men, lesbian women, military, documentary, US)
• Concussion, DVD (lesbian women, family, US)
• A Conversation with Brian McNaught on Being Gay, VHS (gay men, AIDS, US)
• Crying Game, DVD (UK, trans people)
• Cut Sleeve: lesbians & gays of Asian/Pacific ancestry, VHS (gay men, lesbian women, US)
• Damned if you Don't, DVD (lesbian women, avant-garde)
• A Death in Venice, DVD (France, Italy, gay men)
• Dog Day Afternoon, DVD (trans people, US)
• Dong gong xi dong/East Palace, West Palace, DVD (Gay men, China)
• Dos Reinas, DVD (avant-garde, lesbian women)
• In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden: In a year with 13 Moons, DVD (trans people, German)
• Eyes Wide Open, DVD (gay men, Orthodox Judaism, Israel)
• Fabulous! The story of queer cinema, DVD (documentary, gay men, lesbian women)
• Le Fate ingoranti: His Secret Life, DVD (Italy, gay men)
• Fire, DVD (India, lesbian women)
• For the Bible Tells Me So, DVD (US, religion)
• Freier Fall, DVD (Germany, gay men)
• Fresa y Chocolate, DVD (gay men, Cuba)
• Further Off the Straight & Narrow: New gay visibilities on television 1998-2006, DVD (US)
• The Gay Gene, VHS (documentary, UK)
• Gay Republicans, DVD (gay men, politics, US)
• Gay Youth, DVD (US, lesbian women, gay men)
• Hamam: il bagno turco, DVD (Italy, Turkey, gay men)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch, DVD (trans people, musical, UK, US)
• History Lessons, DVD (lesbian women, US)
• A History of Equal Rights in America, DVD (US)
• The Hours, DVD (UK, US, women, suicide)
• I Shall Not Be Removed: the Life of Marlon Riggs, VHS (gay men, documentary, African-American, US)
• If These Walls Could Talk 2, DVD (lesbian women, trans people, FTM, US)
• In the Family, DVD (gay men, family, US)
• I'm Just Anneke/The Family Journey, DVD (trans people, family)
• It's Elementary: Talking about gay issues in school/It's Still Elementary, DVD (lesbian women, gay men, education)
• Jihad for Love, DVD (documentary, religion, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt, South Africa and France)
• Juggling Gender: politics, sex and identity, DVD (documentary, lesbian women, US)
• Karmen Geï, DVD (musical, bisexual people, Senegal)
• Kate Bornstein is a Queer and Pleasant Danger, DVD (trans people, MTF, US, documentary)
• The Kids are All Right, DVD (lesbian women, family, US)
• The Killing of Sister George, DVD (lesbian women, UK)
• Kumu Hina, streaming (maha, trans people, US, Hawai'i, biographical)
• The L Word, DVD (lesbian women, US)
• Laramie Inside Out, DVD (documentary, gay men, US)
• Larkin Street Stories, Episode 3. Neither/Nor: Working with Transgender Youth, Online (trans people, documentary, US)
• Lawrence Always, DVD (MTF, trans people, Canada)
• La ley del deseo, DVD (gay men, trans people, MTF, Spain)
• Little Ashes, DVD (bisexual people, Spain)
• A Little Respect: Gay men, lesbians and bisexuals on campus, VHS (campus life, US)
• Ma Vie en Rose: My life in Pink, DVD (trans people, France)
• Madchen in Uniform, DVD (Germany, lesbian women)
• La Mala Educación, DVD (gay men, Spain)
• Maurice, VHS (gay men, UK)
• Maybe we're talking about a different God: Homosexuality and the Church, VHS (religion, US)
• Middle Sexes: Redefining He and She, DVD (trans people, intersex people, documentary, US)
• Milk, DVD (gay men, gay rights, US)
• Mosquita y Mari, DVD (lesbian women, Chicana, Mexico, US)
• My Own Private Idaho, DVD (gay men, US)
• El Niño Pez, DVD (lesbian women, Argentina)
• No Dumb Questions, DVD (trans people, MTF, documentary, US)
• Normal, DVD (trans people, MTF, US)
• O Fantasma, DVD (gay men, Portugal)
• Off the Straight & Narrow: Lesbians, gays, bisexuals and television, DVD (US)
• One Wedding... and a Revolution, DVD (gay men, lesbian women, gay rights, marriage, US)
• Orchids: My Intersex Adventure, DVD (documentary, intersex people, Australia)
• Out in Silence, DVD (documentary, gay men, US)
• Out in the Dark, DVD (gay men, Israel)
• Paradise Bent: Boys will be girls in Samoa, DVD (fa'afafine, trans people, Samoa)
• Paragraph 175, DVD (Nazi Germany)
• Paris is Burning, DVD (documentary, drag culture, US)
• Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón, DVD-PAL format (lesbian women, punk culture, Spain)
• Le Placard, DVD (gay men, France)
• Plata quemada, DVD (gay men, Argentina)
• Prodigal Sons, DVD (trans people, MTF, US)
• The Question of Equality, VHS (documentary, gay rights, US)
• Real stories from a free South Africa. Vol. 4, Umgidi, DVD  (gay men, family, South Africa)
• Radical Harmonies, DVD (lesbian women, documentary, music, US)
• Rent, DVD (musical, gay men, US)
• The Return of Sarah's Daughters, DVD (lesbian women, documentary, Orthodox Judaism, US)
• Sex in Chains/Geschlecht in Fresseln, DVD (silent film, prison, gay men, Germany)
• Show me love, DVD (lesbian women, Sweden)
• In Sickness and in Health, DVD (gay men, lesbian women, marriage, US)
• A Single Man, DVD (gay men, UK)
• Soldier's Girl, DVD (trans people, MTF, military, US)
• Southern Comfort, DVD (trans people, MTF, FTM, transphobia, US)
• Speak Up! Improving the lives of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender youth, DVD (US, education)
• Spring Fever, DVD (bisexual people, China)
• Still Black: Portrait of Black Transmen, DVD (African-American, trans people, FTM, US)
• Stonewall Uprising, DVD (documentary, gay rights, US)
• Straightlaced: How gender's got us all tied up, DVD (gender identity, class, documentary, teens, US)
• Sunday Bloody Sunday, DVD (bisexual people, UK)
• Tales of the Waria, DVD (waria, trans people, documentary, Indonesia)
• Tangerine, DVD (MTF, sex work, African-American, US)
• Tea and Sympathy, DVD (gay men, US)
• The Times of Harvey Milk, DVD (documentary, gay rights, US)
• Todo Sobre Mi Madre/All About My Mother, DVD (trans people, MTF, lesbian women, Spain)
• Toilet Training: Law & Order (in the bathroom), DVD (documentary, trans people, US)
• Tokyo Godfathers, DVD (anime, trans people, MTF, Japan)
• Tomboy, DVD (trans people, FTM, youth, France)
• Trans, streaming (trans people, documentary, MTF, FTM, US)
• Trans Generation, DVD (trans people, college, MTF, FTM, US)
• Transamerica, DVD (trans people, MTF, family, US)
• Transparent, DVD (trans people, FTM, family, birth, documentary, US)
• Trembling Before G-d, DVD (gay men, lesbian women, Orthodox Judaism, Israel, US)
• Two Spirits, DVD (documentary, trans people, Native American, Navajo Nation, Dine, US)
• Tying the Knot, DVD (documentary, gay men, lesbian women, marriage, US)
• Velvet Goldmine, DVD (musical, gay men, bisexual people, UK, US)
• Victim, DVD (gay men, UK)
• Victor/Victoria, DVD (drag culture, France)
• The Videos of Sadie Benning, DVD (lesbian women, experimental film, US)
• La vie d'Adèle. Chapitre 1 et 2 = Blue is the warmest color, DVD (lesbian women, France)
• La Virgen de los Sicarios/Our Lady of Assassination, DVD (gay men, Columbia)
• Viola di mare, DVD (lesbian women, Italy, cross-gender presentation)
• Voice Heard, Sisters Unseen, DVD (lesbian women, documentary, domestic violence, US)
• Walk on Water, DVD (bisexual people, Israel)
• The Watermelon Woman, DVD (African-American, lesbian women, US)
• We Were Here: The AIDS years in San Francisco, DVD (documentary, AIDS, US)
• Weekend, DVD (gay men, UK)
• White Frog, DVD (gay men, people with autism, Asian-American, US)
• The Word is Out: Stories of some of our lives, DVD (gay men, lesbian women, documentary, US)
• XXY, DVD (intersex people, Argentina, Uruguay)
• Yo, la peor de todas, DVD (lesbian women, Mexico)
• Yossi & Jagger, DVD (gay men, military, Israel)
• Yossi, DVD (gay men, military, Israel)
• You don't know dick: courageous hearts of transsexual men, DVD (trans people, FTM, documentary, US)