Humanities
- American RhetoricIncludes an Online Speech Bank of audio and video versions with transcripts of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events.
- BBC Shakespeare PlaysIncludes the entire BBC Shakespeare series, produced in the 1970s and 1980s. View the plays in their entirety, or link to specific Acts. Includes closed captions and transcripts.
- The HistoryMakers Digital ArchiveThis is the nation's largest video African American oral history collection. It includes transcribed interviews with 2691 history makers spanning a range of historical and biographical topics and issues.
- KanopyIncludes titles in film, business, education, global studies & languages; health; media & communications; sciences and social sciences. Films include closed captions.
If you live in the Boston area and wish to use Kanopy outside of academic use, the Boston Public Library (BPL)offers Kanopy for free, and one can watch 4 films a month. First obtain and e card: https://www.bpl.org/ecard/. Here is more BPL Kanopy-related info. https://www.bpl.org/faq/online-
Philosophy and Religion
- Althusser, an Intellectual AdventureCentered around the only filmed interview ever given by acclaimed French philosopher Louis Althusser, who murdered his wife, Helene, a few weeks after the interview was given. Includes English subtitles.
- Acts of Faith: Jewish Civilization in Spain Many Latinos in the American Southwest wear amulets and perform certain practices different from their fellow Latino Catholics—and are discovering only now, to their great amazement, that they are descended from Jews who chose conversion rather than death at the time of the great expulsion from Spain in 1492. This program looks at remnants of what was once the great Jewish civilization in Spain: the artifacts, which were Christianized or destroyed, and the people, many of whom continued to practice elements of the religion and folklore of Judaism and for most of whom the memory of Jewishness has long since been extinguished. (50 minutes)
- Buddha in the Land of the Kami (7th-12th Centuries) The history of Japan past and present is the story of the kami, the supernatural, not quite godlike spirits who underlie the Japanese-ness of Japan—who created the Japanese islands.
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance A seminal issue of our times, the fiery debate over the global influence of Islam is profoundly explored in a dialog between two renowned thinkers; Sam Harris, famed for his uncompromising ethical critique of religion and Maajid Nawaz, whose audacious plea against Radicalization and Islamism had made him an influential advocate for reform within Muslim societies. As the two dialectically challenge each other's perceptions and recount their personal experiences, a stark intercultural sentiment for inclusion, tolerance and human dignity emerges"