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Streaming Videos: Collections and Guidelines

Great information on the Library's many streaming video packages & Course Reserve options!

Welcome! Instructors: Need Streaming Video for your online courses?

Library Streaming Video & Multimedia Databases

The Library subscribes to a growing number of multimedia databases that include streaming video - both full programs and clips - on many subjects. Below are some titles you may wish to browse. Many of these databases provide audio transcripts / closed captions and allow instructors to annotate specific clips for student use. Check it out!

Our Major Streaming Video Platforms:

  • 60 Minutes: 1997-2014
    This is nearly a two-decade catalog of TV footage from the CBS News archives. Contains 3,466 videos and about 350 hours of episodes. Content include investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people who made the news. Each video includes closed captions and searchable transcripts.
  • Alexander Street Press Film Platform
    Thousands of streaming documentary films across a wide variety of subjects, with an emphasis on history, the humanities and the social sciences.
  • American History in Video
    A collection of online videos for the study of American history. Includes commercial and governmental newsreels, public affairs footage, and documentaries. Accessibility: Films include closed captions and searchable transcripts.
  • Art and Architecture in Video
    This streaming collection spans period and region, including coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary art. In addition to art history and theory, the collection addresses applied topics such as architectural and graphic design. Accessibility: Films include closed captions and searchable transcripts.
  • Digital Theatre+
    Digital Theatre+ offers educational resources and recordings of English language productions for theatre and humanities students. Video and audio recordings of classic and contemporary productions are provided, as are interviews with theatre professionals. Essays, guides, and lesson plans support course work.
  • Docuseek2 Complete Collection
    Docuseek2 streams independent, social-issue and environmental films from a wide variety of documentary filmmakers. It includes films publishers such as Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, the National Film Board of Canada, and Terra Nova Films. Many films in this collection are subtitled in English, as the original film is not in English. A small percentage of films include closed captions.
  • Filmakers Library Online
    This streaming video collection provides more than 1000 award-winning documentaries in the social sciences, humanities, & sciences. Strong coverage for the social sciences, humanities, and some science content as well. Films include closed captions and searchable transcripts.
  • Films on Demand
    This streaming video collection provides educational and documentary films, television news programs, and more from a wide variety of film producers. Strong coverage for the social sciences, humanities, and some science content as well. Films include closed captions.
    Films on Demand tutorial
  • GIDEON
    Online resource about global epidemiological diseases with data sets, maps, and constantly updated information.
  • Kanopy
    A streaming media service that offers award-winning collections including films from BBC, Criterion Collection, Media Education Foundation, PBS and more. Includes documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos.
  • LGBT Studies in Video
    Features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBTQ+ history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBTQ+ families, transgender issues, religious perspectives, global comparative experiences, and other topics.
  • SAGE Research Methods Video: Reseach Ethics and Integrity
    This collection of videos covers key theories and concepts in research ethics and integrity. Video tutorials discuss ethical practices, processes, and techniques for doing research across the social, health, and behavioral sciences, so researchers can ensure their research meets accepted ethical standards. Case study videos show research ethics and integrity in action, with researchers discussing their experiences in preparing and applying for ethical approval, and navigating ethical challenges during research design, data collection, analysis, and beyond.
  • SAGE Research Methods: Data Visualization
    SAGE Research Methods: Data Visualization is a collection of resources that supports the teaching and independent learning about visualizing data. Watch videos of experts discussing the fundamentals of good design, practice creating your own visualizations with provided data with Datasets, choose the right chart for your data with the Chart Gallery, get tips and design inspiration from our Expert Insights, and explore the range of visualization tools available in the Tools Directory.
  • Theatre in Video Best Bet
    This contains performances of classic plays in streaming video format. What you'll find here are filmed performances of original theatrical productions, not feature film remakes. Browse by actor, director, and title, or search the database by using keywords. Films include closed captions and searchable transcripts.
  • Veterinary Education in Video
    Veterinary Education in Video provides access to a collection of online videos that explains more than 500 procedures and techniques across more than 600 titles, and covers clinical skills, explanations of conditions, and training on animal handling. Films include closed captions and searchable transcripts.

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