This database is a global (non-U.S.) collection for international study of black history and culture. The contributions, struggles, and identities of the African Diaspora are presented through personal accounts, video, and primary sources with a focus on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of people of African descent. The collection includes digitized primary source documents, including books, government documents, personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera.
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.
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110 films from the California Newsreel (CN) catalog. CN produces and distributes cutting edge, 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.
Provides access to over 1000 full-length productions, interviews, written content, and educational resources that reflect contemporary theatre and performance around the world.
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, justice, and women's history.
More than 1,000 ethnographic films with transcripts. The collection covers every region of the world and includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, and study guides. Transcripts of all programs provided.
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.
340+ award-winning streaming documentaries in subject areas including gender studies, sociology, journalism, politics, international studies, and psychology.
Choose from over 7500 streaming films in the humanities and social sciences, business, science and mathematics, health, and newsreels. About 50% of content has captioning available. No transcripts are provided.
Streaming video collection of over 150 famous speeches given by key contemporary and historical figures. Includes many speeches by U.S. politicians and former presidents.
An African-American oral history collection, featuring interviews with thousands of individuals from the worlds of art, business, entertainment, politics, religion, science, and sports.
This streaming video collection includes documentaries and feature films from distributors including California Newsreel, First Run Features, Frameline, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, and others. Due to financial limitations, requests for licensing from Kanopy are mediated and restricted to faculty curricular needs. Area public library systems also subscribe to Kanopy and are a better source for entertainment needs.
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A collection of streaming video from the March of Time newsreel series, produced by Time, Inc. from 1935-1967. The newsreels include reporting, location shots, and dramatic reenactment of events, and have a subjective point of view. Videos are fully transcribed and cross-searchable by subject, historical event, people, and more.
Streaming videos in this collection are documentaries from independent filmmakers on topics including African-American studies, children & families, disabilities, immigration, human rights, criminal justice, and LGBT studies.
Platino Educa is designed by and for Spanish teachers in Spain and Latin America, and offers 300+ Spanish and Ibero-American movies, classified by subjects and covering themes across Environment, Social Sciences, Language and Literature, Arts, and Justice
Includes key sequences and teaching guides.
PsycTHERAPY features over 300 videos of actual psychology therapy sessions with full-text transcriptions for easy searching. Clips can be easily made from the video sessions for individual or class viewing.
A collection of books, journal articles, case studies, videos and reference materials published by SAGE Publications on research methods and design. Includes Sage Research Video; Market Research; Practical Research and Academic Skills; Data Science, Big Data Analytics and Digital Methods; Deversifying and Decolonizing Research; Medicine and Health; Data Visualization; and Doing Research Online.
A free Internet Archive service,TV News Search searches the closed captions of news programs collected since 2009 from national U.S. networks and stations, and then allows viewing of the associated news clips. Special collections on popular topics, visualizations of top news searches, fact checks, and trending stories are also included.
An index of U.S. television news broadcasts beginning in 1968. NBC broadcasts from 1968 and CNN broadcasts from 1995 are available for viewing 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. There are no transcripts or captioning provided.
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Streaming videos in The Video Project collection cover topics including environmental science and climate change, education, social issues, health, and women's studies.
More than 380 classic and contemporary feature films, spanning the silent era through contemporary international cinema. This collection of films covers classic and contemporary cinema from Africa, Asia (primarily China, Japan, and India), Europe (including Soviet films), Latin America, and the Middle East.
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.