"Since 1984, the Criterion Collection, a continuing series of important classic and contemporary films, has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. The foundation of the collection is the work of such masters of cinema as Renoir, Godard, Kurosawa, Cocteau, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Fuller, Lean, Kubrick, Lang, Sturges, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Ozu, Sirk, Buñuel, Powell and Pressburger. Each film is presented uncut, in its original aspect ratio, as its maker intended it to be seen" (publisher's description). Currently, the UCF Libraries have 405 titles from the Collection.
Among the titles available are the following:
- 3 Women (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .T477 2004)
- Barry Lyndon (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .B3562 2017)
- The Before Trilogy: Three Films by Richard Linklater (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .A1 B3574 2017)
- Belle de jour (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .B7943 2002)
- Blue is the Warmest Color (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997.2 .B656 2014
- Gates of Heaven; Vernon, Florida: Two Films by Errol Morris (Main Library ARC Media Collection SF 414.5 .G38 2015)
- The Kid (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .K378 2016)
- Night and Fog (Main Library ARC Media Collection D 805 .P7 N54 2016)
- Night Train to Munich (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997.2 .N53 2016)
- Orfeu negro = Black Orpheus (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .O64713 1999)
- Stagecoach (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .S65732 2010)
- Sunday Bloody Sunday (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .S855 2012)
- They Live By Night (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .T42754 2017)
- Viskninger och rop = Cries and Whispers (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1995.9.F67 V58 2001)
- Wise Blood (Main Library ARC Media Collection PN 1997 .W5635 2009)