LibGuides: More Resources: Online Videos

Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection

Films on Demand
A new Films On Demand mobile app is now available for Apple iOS and for Android. To use it, first click the link to Films on Demand, select "Your Profile", and set up a personal account. Next, download the app, and enter your personal login.

Academic Video Online (Alexander Street)

Film Platform
An innovative collaboration between leading filmmakers and film distributors from around the world bringing the finest documentary films to an academic audience. Our global selection of films includes many Oscar nominated documentaries and film festival winners. These titles, chosen for their mastery of filmmaking, introduce new concepts, expose students to fresh perspectives, and enhance classroom discussions. (702 features)
National Theatre Collection
National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive. (50 plays)
Theatre in Video
While the texts of plays can serve as lasting documents, the productions are ephemeral; a live performance is gone when the curtain falls. And yet the collaborative elements of theatre in performance—the work of the actors, directors, and designers—have tremendous scholarly and educational value long after a production closes. Now, faculty, scholars, and patrons of the performing arts will be able to revisit great performances again and again, and these landmark events can become a permanent part of the curriculum. (595 videos)
Academic Video Online

TED

TED: Ideas worth spreading TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.

Streaming Video Websites

DnaTube DnaTube is a scientific site providing video based studies, lecturers and seminars. On January 18, 2007, we started DnaTube.com to allow a self-growing community to share their scientific experiences and videos. DnaTube is a non-profit video site which is aiming to be a visual scientific resource for its visitors. We know that it is difficult to understand science by reading plain text. And we know that a picture says more than a thousand words. We believe the video-based explanations of scientific concepts will remove the barrier in front of the people desiring to enhance their scientific knowledge.
Educational Video Sites - top 25 free (refseek*)
eduTube.org EduTube is a platform launched in April 2008 which organizes the best educational videos, making it easier for you to find high quality educational videos in your areas of interest. Unlike other educational video websites, EduTube focuses specifically on videos which are very popular, highly rated, and of high educational value.
EU Screen The EUscreen portal offers free online access to thousands of items of audiovisual heritage. It brings together clips that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as chronicling important historical events, the EUscreen portal allows you to explore television programmes that focus on everyday experience. EUscreen is also intended to be a resource for educators, researchers and media professionals searching for new audiovisual content from across Europe.
Exploring the World of Music (series - Annenberg Learner) Gain an understanding of the basic elements of music with this series, an introduction to music with a global perspective. Exploring the World of Music shows how elements such as melody, rhythm, and texture create an infinite variety of sounds and serve as expressions of culture. Through rare archival footage and contemporary performances, the series presents themes such as music and the environment, music as cultural memory, and how technology changes music. The featured artists perform music from around the world, including American jazz, gospel, and rock, and traditional music from Bosnia, the Caribbean, India, Ireland, Japan, and West Africa. This series is also valuable for teachers seeking to review the subject matter.
Smithsonian Channel Smithsonian Channel™ is where curiosity lives, inspiration strikes and wonders never cease. This is the place for awe-inspiring stories, powerful documentaries and amazing entertainment. As a joint venture, Smithsonian Channel combines the storytelling prowess of Showtime Networks with the unmatched resources and rich traditions of the Smithsonian Institution. We create award-winning programming that shines new light on popular genres such as: air and space, history, science, nature, and pop culture.
UN Audiovisual Library The Audiovisual Library's mission is to provide access to and preserve the audiovisual archives from over 70 years of the history of the Organization. The AV Library makes the audio, film and video collections widely accessible to UN Offices, UN Family Organizations, professional media organizations, broadcasters, independent producers, governments, institutions and non-governmental organizations, researchers and civil society at large. We also aim to support audiovisual productions and foster public understanding of the United Nations and its goals by providing customer services and audiovisual materials in a timely and efficient manner to professional clients around the world.

Crash Course

Crash Course Tons of awesome courses in one awesome channel! Nicole Sweeney teaches you sociology, Carrie Anne Philbin teaches you computer science, Craig Benzine teaches film history, and Mike Rugnetta is teaching mythology!

National Film Board of Canada

National Film Board of Canada
Indigenous Cinema Discover the NFB’s rich online collection of Indigenous-made films.

Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death and Technology

Connected Webby Awards founder, Tiffany Shlain, investigates the connections between the major issues of our time and her own experiences during a family crisis.

Life 2.0

99 minute version Every day, across all corners of the globe, hundreds of thousands of users log onto Second Life, a virtual online world not entirely unlike our own. They enter a new reality, whose inhabitants assure alternate personas in the form of avatars – digital alter egos that can be sculpted and manipulated to the heart’s desire, representing reality, fantasy, or a healthy mix of both. Within this alternate landscape, escapism abounds, relationships are formed, and a real-world economy thrives, effectively blurring the lines between reality and “virtual” reality.
56 minute version

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

95 minute version We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists takes us inside the world of Anonymous, the radical “hacktivist” collective that has redefined civil disobedience for the digital age. The film explores the historical roots of early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater and traces how they evolved and coalesced into Anonymous, a full-blown movement with global reach and extraordinary power.
59 minute version

Terms and Conditions May Apply

Terms and Conditions May Apply Have you ever read the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policies connected to every website you visit, phone call you make, or app you use? Of course you haven’t. But those agreements allow corporations to do things with your personal information you could never even imagine. What are you really agreeing to when you click “I accept”?