The University Libraries provide thousands of streaming videos from several different distributors. This list of subject-specific databases is a subset of the complete list of University Libraries databases. Each video database can be explored by clicking on the link below.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides hundreds of videos from the CBS News program 60 Minutes, and also includes segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides early newsreels and documentaries about American history, with thousands of hours of archival footage and more recent content from The History Channel, PBS, California Newsreel, and other documentary and educational media sources.
Over a thousand hours of archival and documentary films of historical interest. Includes selected content from the History Channel, PBS, the U.S. Government and other educational media sources. Also includes the entire series of newsreels from Universal. Transcripts are fully searchable and synchronized to the video. Video clips can be selected to create customized playlists that can be annotated, copied, and shared.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, the videos in this collection illustrate the theory and practice of a variety of art forms.
Art and Architecture in Video delivers over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms. The videos were professionally produced from the 1970s to the present.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database offers a view of Asian culture as seen by the independent Asian filmmaker. These documentaries and shorts provide insights into themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity.
Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection curated by film scholars and critics, viewers can explore the impact of globalization and urbanization on people’s everyday lives throughout the greater Asian region. Faculty and students engaged in area studies, anthropology, film studies, philosophy, geography, education, religion, gender studies, world literature, urban development, cross-cultural communication, journalism, social sciences, and humanities will benefit from exploring this rare collection of films that make silent voices heard.
Provides streaming access to the highly acclaimed BBC television productions of all 37 Shakespeare plays.
Provides streaming access to the highly acclaimed BBC television productions of all 37 Shakespeare plays. Filmed between 1978 and 1985, the videos include performances by some of Britain's most distinguished actors and actresses. Each play may be viewed in its entirety or by acts, and all videos have optional closed captioning.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains hundreds of hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Black Studies in Video features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. The collection will eventually comprise 500 hours of content. Collection Highlights: Racial Justice and Diversity Films, SNCC Legacy Video Collection, and Documentaries created by WNET Television from the 60s and 70s.
A large collection of newsreels produced by the Topical Film Company and provides a glimpse into the early twentieth century - from everyday interests, such as sport and fashion, to coverage of key events, such as the First World War, the Suffragette Movement, and the establishment of the Irish Free State.
"A large collection of newsreels produced by the Topical Film Company and provides a glimpse into the early twentieth century - from everyday interests, such as sport and fashion, to coverage of key events, such as the First World War, the Suffragette Movement, and the establishment of the Irish Free State."
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database features case studies, documentaries, interviews, biographies, and lectures that focus on the human side of commerce. Topics include globalization, operations & logistics, management, marketing, finance, strategy, entrepreneurship, macroeconomics, microeconomics, international business, negotiations, ethics, cross-cultural communication, technology, and more.
Business Education in Video features case studies, documentaries, interviews, biographies, and lectures that focus on the human side of commerce. Following the case method employed by top business schools, these films offer a first-hand look at how the conflict between unlimited demand and limited resources plays out in real life. Subjects covered include Globalization, Operations & Logistics, Management, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Business, Negotiations, Ethics, Cross-cultural communication, Technology, and much more.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database streams videos relevant to the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling, providing hundreds of videos of actual, re-enacted, and scripted therapy sessions.
Counseling and Therapy in Video is an online video collection for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling - over 2400 hours and more than 2000 videos of actual, re-enacted, and scripted therapy sessions. Includes searchable transcripts to find footage of interest. Many videos include Teaching and Discussion Guides, and a number are eligible for Continuing Education (C.E) Credits as indicated.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this collection of documentaries, training videos, and interviews visually depicts the theoretical principles and practical application of criminal justice and emergency response. It includes hundreds of hours of video for professionals and students in criminal justice and public safety.
Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video includes hundreds of hours of video for professionals and students in criminal justice and public safety. Documentaries and interviews provide personal field experiences as well as insight into the function and controversies of the justice system. Students will benefit from invaluable training videos that demonstrate how to respond to potentially-dangerous situations, all from the safety of the classroom. Featuring titles by In the Line of Duty, BBC, and A&E Television, Criminal Justice & Public Safety in Video provides an authoritative resource for both students and experts.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides hundreds of hours of 20th-century productions and documentaries. Contains ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, improvisational, and modern concert dance.
Dance in Video streams video recordings of dance productions from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides videos developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
Education in Video is an online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. It includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides analysis of key engineering failures. Includes video documentaries, text, and images. Covers more than 50 seminal case studies.
Engineering Case Studies Online will dramatically improve teaching and research by providing a single, comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. At completion, the collection will contain 250 hours and 50,000 pages of quality documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides hundreds of streaming videos along with written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering worldwide human behavior. Topics include politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography.
Alexander Street Anthropology brings together a wide range of streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography, the database will contain more than 1,800 documentary films and over 100,000 pages of full-text material at completion, including tens of thousands of pages of previously unpublished material from major archives.
Produced by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Fundamental Manufacturing Processes is a set of 44 training videos that provide descriptions, examples, and applications of technologies and processes that drive manufacturing.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides videos that define and explore today’s latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society. It includes hundreds of documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews.
Health and Society in Video defines and explores today’s latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society-- with hundreds of premium documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews.
The ICE Video Library provides excellent visual resources to both faculty and students in physical and occupational therapy.
The ICE Video Library provides excellent visual resources to both faculty and students in physical and occupational therapy curriculum all videos are filmed with actual patients and therapists in real-life treatment settings including acute care, skilled nursing, outpatient, home health and ICU. Diagnoses include, musculoskeletal, nervous system, mental & behavioral disorders, respiratory, and pediatrics.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides documentaries from producers and independent filmmakers in Latin America, presented in their original language with abstracts and indexing in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
Latin America in Video offers quality original language documentaries from some of the most important producers and independent filmmakers in Latin America. The films were produced in Latin America, by Latin Americans, about Latin American issues, such as cultural identity, political history, human rights, popular culture, agribusiness, education, religion, and much more.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring the social, cultural, and political evolution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day.
LGBT Studies provides students and researchers across disciplines a multi-content perspective on the LGBT political, cultural and social movements throughout the twentieth century and into the present day. It provides key resources of interest to students and researchers in sociology, anthropology, psychology, counseling, history, political science, gender studies, cultural studies, and religious studies.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides Time, Inc.'s newsreel series (1935 to 1967) and historical footage to 1913. The videos in this collection serve as records of global events which were brought to big screens and televisions around the world.
From 1935 to 1967, Time Inc's newsreel series, "The March of Time®" chronicled the events of our lives. These award-winning motion pictures recorded global events and brought them to big screens around the world and then later, television. The collection also contains historic footage dating back to 1913.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides episodes of Meet the Press, a weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. Included are episodes since the program's beginning in 1947.
Meet the Press from Alexander Street Press opens up a wealth of information to libraries by making over 1,500 hours of footage—the full surviving broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface. Since its television premiere in 1947, Meet the Press has cemented its position as an institution in broadcast journalism. For the first time ever, network television’s longest running program—with its thousands of interviews, panels, and debates—is available via streaming online video. Now, students and scholars have unprecedented access to this treasure trove of material, including many episodes not seen since their original broadcast.
Met Opera on Demand is an online streaming service that allows users to watch and listen to over 500 complete Metropolitan Opera performances using a mobile device or computer.
Met Opera on Demand is an online streaming video service that allows users to watch and listen to over 500 complete Metropolitan Opera performances using a mobile device or computer.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides hundreds of hours of staged opera productions, interviews, and documentaries. Covers the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the 20th century.
Opera in Video streams video recordings of opera productions and documentaries. Coverage is from the baroque era to the present.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides over 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors.
The collection includes over 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and Global Lens. There are also some 50 award winning short films. All films were presented at major film festivals, many were nominated for awards, and many have won major awards. Films include the Oscar®-nominated Twilight Samurai, directed by Yôji Yamada, and Oscar-nominated The Scent of Green Papaya, directed by Tran Anh Hung. Collectively the films in the database have won more than 1,000 awards.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides training videos for the education of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. Searchable transcripts are synchronized to full-length video. Updated annually to reflect changes in accepted practices and principles.
Nursing Education in Video is a unique online collection of videos created specifically for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers. All of the videos in the collection have been created with the guidance of the Medcom-Trainex advisory board, and are regularly reviewed for accuracy, currency, and compliance with US Federal regulations from agencies such as OSHA and CMS.
Sage Business and Management Video streams videos about business and the management and leadership of organizations.
This streaming video collection covers the following subjects: business ethics and corporate social responsibility, entrepreneurship, human resource management, international business and management, leadership, marketing, organization studies, strategic management, and more.
Advanced search for specific words and phrases spoken within video files. Over 1,700 speech-indexed videos and links to hundreds more, with ongoing updated and additions. Videos produced by U.S. Department of Energy and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s. Over 500 films which together represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory.
Silent Film Online brings together films which together represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated with ASP’s Video Advisory Board, the database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides videos in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and more.
Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video is the most extensive video collection ever assembled in the areas of fitness and health assessment, disease management, injury treatment, nutrition, medical fitness, sport science, work-site wellness, exercise adherence, and much more. Developed through an exclusive partnership with Healthy Learning, the world’s leading producer of sports medicine videos, the collection features an array of internationally renowned physicians, exercise scientists, certified athletic trainers, physical therapists, registered dietitians, sport psychologists, personal trainers, and health/wellness experts who share information, ideas, and insights on the principles, techniques, and modalities of modern exercise science and sports medicine.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides hundreds of hours of original staged productions, captured and recorded while performed live. Covers the 1930s through the 20th century, providing a wide range of theatre history.
Theatre in Video contains hundreds of videos, including documentaries and definitive performances of the world’s most important plays. From celebrated productions of Shakespeare to rare, in-depth footage of the work of Samuel Beckett, the collection covers a wide range of 20th century theatre history. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances deliver an authentic, behind-the-scenes look at hundreds of productions.
The core collection of the Vanderbilt Television News Archive includes evening news from ABC, CBS, and NBC (since 1968), and an hour per day of CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004).
Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001. In addition, through its detailed content related to news events, this resource also serves as a unique reference tool for studying historical and political events. Users have the ability to stream online some videos from the Archive's collection. Others can be secured via Interlibrary Loan.
Supplied by Alexander Street Press, this database provides selected documentaries from PBS, the BBC, and other educational filmmakers. Covers human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. Global in scope.
Streaming video of selected documentaries from PBS, the BBC, and other educational filmakers covering human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. Transcripts are fully searchable and synchronized to the video. Video clips can be selected to create customized playlists that can be annotated, copied, and shared.