Media Collections

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.

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.

3D computer-generated models of human anatomy that may be manipulated rotating, zooming, and peeling away layers, while viewing accompanying text. For best results, use Google Chrome.

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.

Provides "head to toe" and systems-based physical examination techniques. Streaming videos, cover adult, infant, child, and older adult patients. Each video may be be viewed as a full volume, or chapter-by-chapter. Includes access to the OSCE module designed to help students prepare for Objective Structured Clinical Examination.

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.

Database provides detailed scientific information for each of the 760 species of birds nesting in the USA and Canada. It contains image and video galleries showing behaviors, habitat, nests, eggs and nestlings, and more. In addition, each online species account contains recordings of that bird's songs and calls.

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.

Online collection of videos available for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Includes counseling sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, interviews, presentations and documentaries.

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.

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.

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.

Collects streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Includes hundreds of in-classroom videos on key teaching topics and themes from respected education publishers worldwide.

Provides comprehensive source for a wide range of video and text material focusing on engineering failures and successes. Includes documentaries, accident reports, experiments, visualizations, case studies, lectures and interviews from leading engineering institutions around the world.

Collection of multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video, and audio) which focuses on environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more. The database is curated around the events and environmental issues of the 20th and 21st centuries. The content is drawn from the social sciences, ecology and earth science, and the humanities.

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.

Streaming video platform, with films spanning the Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Business, Economics and Health.

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.

Presents an extensive and unique assemblage of videos from practitioners, teachers, and researchers in a wide array of medical fields. Subjects include dentistry, nursing, rehabilitation therapy, sports medicine and exercise science, and veterinary science.

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 Libraries' catalog and List of Streaming Video Databases 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 Cindy Badilla-Meléndez, Music, Film, and Media Librarian.

Formerly Lynda Online Training. Provides Mason faculty, students and staff with free, unlimited online access to tutorials and courses in hundreds of subject areas, including office productivity; audio, video, and web software; as well as business and job skills. New courses are added every week. Log in with your Mason NetID username and password. LinkedIn Learning is available 24/7 from your computer, tablet or mobile device, and is supported jointly by Mason's ITS Learning Support Services and the University Libraries.

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 the Media Collections Infoguide. To access Lumiere, select “Apply for an Account.” For “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.
Note: 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.

Offers full-length performances from the Metropolitan Opera, including Live in HD productions, classic telecasts, and archival radio broadcast recordings, for high-quality viewing and listening.

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.

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.

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.

Access GMU-licensed commercial and academic videos via New Jersey's digital media repository, a hosting service for video streaming.

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.

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.

Presents an extensive array of content, both video and text-based. Includes therapy sessions, documentaries, interviews, keynote presentations, transcripts, client narratives and psychological experiments. Covers a vast range of client issues such as addiction, autism, depression, grief, obsessive compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide.

Access to in-depth training videos that feature professional therapists demonstrating techniques and commenting on their work. Videos provide reliable, detailed instructions for serving diverse populations and therapeutic issues. Films within the collection also provide step-by-step instructions for successfully implementing dozens of therapeutic approaches.

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.

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.

Features multimedia videos highlighting the U.S. Department of Energy's scientific research. Contains videos produced by the DOE National Laboratories, other DOE research facilities, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

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.

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.

Presents an assemblage of videos and documents in a wide array of subjects. Includes anthropology, business and economics, criminal justice and public safety, education, environmental studies, human rights studies, media studies, politics and current affairs, psychology, religion and thought, and social theory.

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.

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.

Online mental health education and training film library. These innovative DSM 5 and ICD guided films offer visual guideposts to better understand what a particular mental health diagnosis looks like. Ranging from 30 seconds to 15 minutes, the films are currently integrated into undergraduate, graduate and professional courses as instructors use as: visual anchors for reference, lecture & discussion; help students identify, understand and recognize nonverbal cues & body language indicators; provide points of reference for cross comparisons & differentiate between diagnoses; learn assessment skills; and integrate in exams for competency testing.

Teaching channel is a multi-platform service delivering professional development videos for teachers over the internet. This is an online community where teachers can watch. share, and learn diverse techniques to help every student grow.

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.

Searchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC: 1968-present; CNN: 1995-present, selected content from PBS & FOX. View Digitized news broadcasts from CNN with RealOne media player. Note: The Archive offers DVDs that are duplications of entire broadcasts as well as compilations of individual news stories specified by the individual borrower. Borrowers pay fees for the items loaned to cover the costs of providing this service.