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Provides streaming video courses on a variety of subjects for high school and college students, as well as teachers. If the unit section has the VOD icon next to it, it can be streamed for free.

Home of WGBH Media Library and Archives (MLA); Provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH; Contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning.

Interdisciplinary collection of over 40,000 full video titles (not just clips) and well over 20,000 hours of content from Alexander Street Press; Content types include: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, raw footage, award-winning feature films, educational films for classroom instruction, and archival materials.

Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculumrace and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

Access to high-quality digital programs and video clips; Available collections include the Humanities and Social Sciences Collection, Science Collection, Business and Economics Collection, and Health Collection.

NOTE: for classroom and individual use only. Offering streaming through their Swank Digital Campus service, Swank Motion Pictures is the nontheatrical distributor for the majority of the major Hollywood studios as well as many independent, foreign, art house, and documentary offerings.

Collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 4,248 titles, equaling approximately 1,031 hours.

Originally produced for television broadcast by BBC; over 30 videos available; Shakespeare is rightly called the world's greatest playwright for the soaring beauty of his language, for his profound insight into human nature, for the truths he dramatized and for the realism of the characters he created, he was, and remains, a superb entertainer.

Videos filmed between 1985 to the present, providing faculty and students with a first-hand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice; This collection provides a through grounding in dozens of therapeutic methods and diagnoses, therapists demonstrating their methods and techniques, documentaries providing insight into the human condition and training in skills such as reflection and empathy.

Contains five hundred hours of 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.

Online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers; Contains demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.

Online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world; Contains over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork

Florida Voices is an initiative of the Florida Electronic Library to support all types of libraries and cultural heritage organizations in Florida in initiating and maintaining digital oral history programs.

via FIU Medical Library; Streaming collection of online seminars by leading experts in the biomedical and life sciences.

Over 150 hours of interviews and lectures with leading scientists.

NOTE: You must click on the video title to expand/collapse the available video clips ; A series exploring the basic beliefs of the major religions in the world today.

NOTE: Only 10 users at a time can access this database; Please log out of the service after completing your use; Includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogs of 130,000+ musical recordings, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music; Patrons can also access notes on the works being played as well as biographical information.

Contains 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries; Selections represent the worlds best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a works importance to the operatic canon.

Contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

Search-able U.S. history dictionaries, chronology, and encyclopedias; Includes 4,000+ primary source materials and full-text articles from 110+ history journals; Covers U.S. history from pre-Colonial times to present.

Free online access to the more than 160,000 hours of C-Span footage, covering 23 years of history and five presidential administrations, and growing.

Streaming media Web site brought to you by Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI) covers films, news, commentary, interactive programs.

Holds more than 850,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and coverage of news-related programming including ABC's Nightline and special report coverage, including coverage of major national and world events and major military conflicts; Users obtain access to streaming video of NBC nightly news broadcasts (August 1968 to present) and CNN broadcasts (1995 to present).

A wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century; The video content offered here is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.