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AU Library Media Collections

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.

Media Search

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Videos/Photos/Sound Recordings

AP Images Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
AP Images: Over 3.5 million news photographs from the 1840s through today. Also includes maps, timelines, logos and graphs. AP Interactives: A collection of multimedia content from the archives of the Associated Press. Interactives are fully-licensed for educational use.
ARTstor This link opens in a new window
A collection of more than one million digital art images, plus software tools for viewing, research, and teaching.

C-SPAN Video Library
Videos from 1987 to present.
Contains every program from the three C-SPAN networks aired since 1987.

Great Speeches Video Series This link opens in a new window
Over 100 great 20th Century speeches in video, supplemented by background commentary.
John R. Hickman Collection This link opens in a new window
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.

Moving Image Archive
An online archive of free movies, films, and videos. From the Internet Archive.

Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window
Streaming video testimonials from survivors of genocides, including the Holocaust, the Armenian and Rwandan genocides, the Nanjing Massacre, and other atrocities.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
An extensive archive of television news broadcasts. NBC broadcasts from 1968 and CNN broadcasts from 1995 are available online. ABC and CBS broadcasts from 1968 and Fox News broadcasts from 2004 are available through video loan, for which Vanderbilt University charges a fee to recover costs.

YouTube
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AU Library Video Databases

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.

American History in Video (North America) This link opens in a new window
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.
California Newsreel This link opens in a new window
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.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
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.
Ethnographic Video Online (North America) This link opens in a new window
Documentaries from 1922 to 2009. Updated: None.
More than 1,000 ethnographic films accompanied with moving transcripts. The collection covers every region of the world and includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, and study guides.
Filmaker's Library This link opens in a new window
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.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Over 6,000 streaming documentaries in the humanities and social sciences, business, science and mathematics, health, and newsreels. The titles in this database changes over time.
World Newsreels Online (1929-1966) This link opens in a new window
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.