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NU Libraries Streaming Media GuideIncludes video and audio content we license or own from different vendors. Also includes listings from Northeastern University's Digital Repository Service.
Select Media Streaming Collections
- Academic Video Online: Premium Includes more than 48,000 video titles spanning essential subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, history, music, film, and more.
- Docuseek2 An academic streaming source for social issue films and documentaries, with hundreds of titles in all major disciplines. The platform provides exclusive educational streaming access to content from Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, the National Film Board of Canada, Scorpion TV Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films.
- Films On Demand 14 videos are currently available for streaming. To set up course playlists, or recommend new titles, faculty should contact their subject specialist.
- Kanopy Includes titles in Science, Biomedical and Health, Social Sciences, Anthropology, History, Media and Communications, Art and Architecture, Music, Criminal Justice, Business, Education and Philosophy. Films include closed captions and transcripts. 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-resources/#kanopy
- Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window Digital Campus, provided by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. provides students streaming access to course-related films. These films are licensed for one year and do not come with public performance rights.
Unique Viewing Sites
- Academy Film Archive of North America Acquires, preserves, documents, and promotes academic film by providing an archive, resource, and forum for continuing scholarly advancement and public exhibition.
- AdViews A Duke University digital archive of vintage tv commercials from the 1950s to 1980s.
- The American Archive of Public Broadcasting ollaboration of resources between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to preserve at-risk public media and provide a central web portal for access to unique programming.
- American Experience View complete episodes of select films from the PBS documentary series.
- British Pathe A newsreel archive and treasure trove of 85,000 films with historical and cultural significance. Spanning the years from 1896 to 1976, the collection includes footage from around the globe of major events, famous faces, fashion trends, travel, science and culture.
- European Film Gateway Gives quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.
- Forum Network A public media service of WGBH that collects thousands of video and audio lectures from the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policymakers, and community leaders, made available to the public for free.
- Hoopla Streaming Media Boston Public Library offers streaming movies, television episodes, music, and audio books through Hoopla. Popular titles are always available so you can borrow what you like, when you like. You must be a Massachusetts resident and have a BPL card to access. Follow instructions on their website.
- Internet Archives-Movies Contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
- Learning on Screen: British Universities & Film Council They specialists in the use of moving image and sound in education. Their unique services range from On Demand TV and radio, training, copyright advice and online scholarly resources.
- MUBI Some free viewing of unique films, most pay for view via subscription.
- National Film Board of Canada Free films from their collection, which includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works. We showcase films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians—stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more.
- National Film Registry. Library of Congress The National Film Registry is a list of movies deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. They are not selected as the "best" American films of all time, but rather as works of enduring importance to American culture. They reflect who we are as a people and as a nation. The Librarian of Congress makes the annual selections to the Registry after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public and conferring with Library film curators and the distinguished members of the National Film Preservation Board. This digital collection presents a variety of Registry titles including the World War II documentary Memphis Belle (1944), Master Hands (1936), a beautiful mechanical ballet shot on a General Motors automotive assembly line, and a plea for racial tolerance from Frank Sinatra in The House I Live In (1945). The majority of movies in Selections from the National Film Registry are freely available as both 5 mb MP4 and ProRes 422 MOV downloads.
- Open Video Project A repository of digitized video content for the digital media, multimedia retrieval, digital library and other research communities.
- Television News of the Civil Rights Era "Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970, aims to collect, digitize, and present footage from the period and to make these materials available to scholars, teachers, and students. The current archive contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia--WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke.
- Ubu Web Film and Video Avant-garde films and video.
Locating Titles for Viewing
- JustWatchA guide to watching films and tv online--includes fee-based vendors.
- ReelgoodBrowse, search, and watch TV & Movies from over 150 services, Netflix, Hulu, HBO, Disney+, Prime Video, Free Services and more!
- telescopefilm.comThis database indexes 450,000 foreign language films. Search by title, country, language, genre, etc. If available, will Include information on where to watch online. and where. Connected to 110 streaming viewing sites.