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This Media Search of the American University Library Catalog contains the titles of every video and sound recording, regardless of format, in the American University Library collections. It includes the videos in the AU Library video databases listed below.
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The John R. Hickman Collection consists of more than 10,000 broadcast quality audio recordings of vintage radio news and entertainment programs, from the 1920s through the 1970s.
The following databases contain streaming videos. Each of the titles in these databases can be found in the American University Library Catalog's Media Search above. 
A collection of more than 5,700 documentaries and newsreels on American history, each accompanied by a transcript. There are film clippings from as early as 1898. Includes newsreels from United News (1942 to 1946) and Universal (1929 to 1967). Transcripts of all programs provided.
110 films from the California Newsreel (CN) catalog. CN produces and distributes cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences. Founded in 1968, CN is the oldest non-profit, social issue documentary film center in the country, the first to combine media production and contemporary social movements. The streaming collection contains such high use titles as Color Adjustment, Ethnic Notions, and Race: The Power of an Illusion.
A collection of 2000+ streaming documentaries by Icarus Films, Bullfrog Films and other premier documentary distributors. Over 500 topic areas including anthropology, cultural studies, environmental health, social justice, and women's history.
A database of streaming videos, all academic-level documentaries, across all subject areas. Transcripts of all programs provided. NOTE: This collection also includes the contents of Filmakers Library Online, volume 2.
Captures full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century. These films, produced from 1929 right through to the early post-war period, provide a unique - and until now largely neglected - resource that will give scholars a real insight into how people learned about, and lived through the events that occurred during this period of history.