InfoGuides: FAVS 498: Development for Senior Project: List of Streaming Video Databases

Streaming Video Databases

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to over 70,000 video titles from numerous unique content partners including Sony Pictures Classics, Film Platform, Filmakers Library, Milestone Films, Microtraining Associates, PBS, and many more. Subject coverage is broad. Interactive transcripts and closed captions are available. Tutorial for the Academic Video Online database.
Ambrose Video Collection This link opens in a new window
Collects streaming video titles covering a wide range of subjects: American and European History; the cultures and achievements of American Indian, Black, Chinese, Hispanic, and Jewish peoples; Women's achievements; Religion; and the Arts. Includes the BBC Shakespeare plays.
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
Provides early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel that capture US history as it was made and reported to viewers of the time. Also contains award-winning documentaries and analysis from prominent scholars and experts. Tutorial of the American History in Video database.
Art & Design Video Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes over 1,000 videos on subjects in art and architecture and fashion studies. Provides documentaries, interviews and programs which aim to enhance the understanding and significance of the visual arts.
Tutorial for the Art & Design Video Collection database.
Asian Film Online This link opens in a new window
Online streaming of nearly 600 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts with Asian voices addressing Asian issues, and through works selected by Asian film experts, the collection offers relevant perspectives and insights. Includes themes on modernity, globalization, national identity, female agency, inequalities in opportunity amid social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity.
Tutorial for the Asian Film Online database.
BBC Literary Adaptations in Video This link opens in a new window
Collection provides access to BBC productions of famous literary works, many that were buried in the BBC archive for the past few decades. In addition to actual performances, the product includes titles like "Face to Face" where actors and directors discuss their craft.
Tutorial for the BBC Literary Adaptations in Video database.
Black Studies in Video (North America) This link opens in a new window
Features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews, and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. Provides access to their African American Perspectives collection in partnership with California Newsreel, and includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations.
Tutorial for the Black Studies in Video (North America) database.

Chapulin Films
Chapulin Films provides a rich catalog of Spanish language feature films

Dance Online: Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Tutorial for the Dance Online: Dance in Video database.
Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Collection of streaming videos featuring unique films of current, leading British theatre productions including Digital Theater's own recordings alongside collections such as BBC, Royal Shakespeare Company, Broadway Digital Archive, Royal Opera House, London Symphony Orchestra, Shakespeare's Globe etc. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources.
Diversity Video Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides documentaries, interviews, biographies, performances, and lectures that examine social, racial, and economic inequalities. Subjects include Asian Studies, Black Studies, LGBT Studies, and Women's Studies.
Tutorial of the Diversity Video Collection database.
Docuseek2 Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
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Streaming platform for documentaries and social issues films. Contains titles from a variety of film distributors, including Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films, and Terra Nova Films. Covers subjects such as anthropology, cultural and ethnic studies, business and economics, environmental studies, gender studies, history, media studies, political science, and science and technology.
Tutorial for the Docuseek2 Complete Collection database.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world covering a wide range of ethnographic documentaries, indigenous media, field notes, study guides and raw footage of human behavior. Tutorial for Ethnographic Video Online database.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Streaming video platform, with films spanning the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Business, Economics and Health.
Films on Demand: World Cinema Video Collection This link opens in a new window
Offers feature films from renowned directors across the globe, including films from the silent era, international directors, American and European masterworks from the mid-20th century, and award-winning contemporary films featured by Global Lens.

First Run Features
First Run Features was founded in 1979 by a group of filmmakers to advance the distribution of independent film. The First Run legacy includes films by such notable directors as Spike Lee, Michael Apted, Peter Jackson, Alex Gibney, Joe Berlinger, Allan Miller, Rose Troche, Josh Aronson, Sven Nykvist, Jane Campion, Ross McElwee, Michael Winterbottom, DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, Barbara Kopple, and more
HBO
A Collection of more than 250 titles.
Independent World Cinema Classic and Contemporary Film
Explore premium films from every era and from across the globe with Alexander Street's feature film collections. Laugh silently with Charlie Chaplin, read critical assessments of Citizen Kane, and delve into societal subcultures with Gus Van Sant.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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Due to the high cost of this database, requests for videos are for faculty only when they are using the films as class requirements. It covers documentaries, indies, foreign films, classics, independent films, and feature films. We strongly recommend you use the Library’s catalog and the Media Page to find videos before submitting a request. We have excellent streaming video content in other databases. If you are a Faculty and submit a request, you will get a response within 5 business days. If you have any questions please contact the Music, Film, and Media Librarian, Cindy Badilla-Meléndez.
Lumiere This link opens in a new window
Lumiere is a database sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley. It holds more than 20,000 clips drawn from more than 7000 films in 62 languages. Faculty can use clips that have already been created or they can create their own. Also, entire films are available. The clips/films can be requested only if GMU Libraries and Berkeley both currently own the DVDs. Detailed instructions on how to use Lumiere can be found in this Infoguide. To access Lumiere, click in the link, select “Apply for an Account.” Under “User institution” be sure to select George Mason University and include your department and role. For more information contact Cindy Badilla-Meléndez, Music and Media Librarian
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This Collection is limited to faculty only for registered courses. The Collection cannot be used for campus screening (not for public events). In order to approve your account, you must agree to post the URLs ONLY in Blackboard, where access is limited to students enrolled in your class; do NOT send links via email to your students.

Music Box Films
Music Box Films is a distributor of foreign and independent film in theatrical, and video-on-demand markets in the United States. Founded in 2007, the company's first releases were Tuya's Marriage, OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies, and Tell No One.

Music & Performing Arts Collection This link opens in a new window
Presents an extensive array of content in video, audio and text-based, covering different time periods, artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles. Subjects include dance, film, music, and theater.

National Geographic
A collection of more than 300 titles

National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new window
Drawing on 10 years of National Theatre Live broadcasts as well as recordings never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive, the video content includes 30 video performances. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitized archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and more are available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.
New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts,1990-Present This link opens in a new window
Delivers full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative, along with some fifty award-winning shorts.
NJVID This link opens in a new window
Access GMU-licensed commercial and academic videos via New Jersey's digital media repository, a hosting service for video streaming.
Platino Educa This link opens in a new window
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Spanish Language film streaming platform with over 300 films from Spain and Latin America. The films are classified by subject and cover a broad range of themes, including art, history, environmental science, literature, and social justice. The films were specifically selected for teaching and some come paired with preselected scene clips and educational guides. Films have Spanish and English subtitles.
Paley Center Seminars This link opens in a new window
Video collection of interviews and panel discussions recorded at The Paley Center for Media (formerly the Museum of Television & Radio). The seminars feature industry insiders discussing the processes of television production, the impact of media on contemporary society, etc. Full transcriptions and detailed indexing allow searching for topics, titles or speakers.

PBS Collection (VIVA)
400+ PBS titles from 1978 to 2006. All subject areas

Routledge Performance Archive This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance. Consists of streamed video and audio footage with relevant critical commentary, including: interviews with key figures in theater history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers from around the world; footage of legendary practitioners; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions; and documentaries. Spans more than fifty years of documented work direct from renowned practitioners and specialists, and ranges across the entire spectrum of theater topics. Tutorial for the Routledge Performance Archive database.
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection This link opens in a new window
High-definition video recordings of modern productions featuring great Shakespearean actors such as David Tennant, Sir Antony Sher, Paapa Essiedu, and Simon Russell Beale, and directors like Robin Lough and Dewi Humphrey. Recordings are accompanied by production images, teacher packs, and study notes. Tutorial of the Royal Shakespeare Company Collection database.
Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda This link opens in a new window
Collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba. Note: Access includes Module I: Wars & Revolutions.
Tutorial for the Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda database.
Sony Pictures Classics This link opens in a new window
Collection of more than 300 Sony Pictures Classics films. The catalog offers world cinema titles, including documentaries and award-winning films from filmmakers like Ang Lee, Jeff Nichols, Mike Leigh, Asghar Farhadi, Roman Polanski, Michael Haneke, David Cronenberg, Errol Morris, Ingmar Bergman, and Pedro Almodóvar.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Provides access to course-assigned films and documentaries from major motion picture studios. Requires local installation of Widevine Media Optimizer; best accessed via Google Chrome.
Tutorial for the Swank Digital Campus database.
Theatre in Video (Volumes 1 & 2) This link opens in a new window
Collection brings together classic and contemporary plays and documentaries, with a greater focus on contemporary and international productions. Includes performances from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, the BBC, Theatre Arts Films and TMW Media Group. Tutorial of the Theatre in Video (Volumes 1 & 2) database.