The Undergraduate Library (UGL) recently purchased 260 full-length films as digital files. The films, both documentaries and a select list of feature films, are from Films Media Group (formerly Films for the Humanities & Sciences) and cover a wide range of subject areas. Links to the streaming videos are attached to the catalog records for the physical formats (VHS or DVD) for each title.
To see a list of streaming videos in the library collection, please click here. For help finding videos and games, please click here.
RealPlayer is required to view the films and can be downloaded through a link on the interim web page provided. This collection represents the first step towards creating a robust digital media collection. Please contact Mary Laskowski for questions or comments.
American Memory (The Library of Congress) American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Annenberg Media A collection of videos covering a wide variety of disciplines intended to help teachers increase their expertise in their fields and assist them in improving their teaching methods. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home. All Annenberg Media videos exemplify excellent teaching. [Many programs have video on demand.]
BBC Archive Take a trip through our collective past with the BBC archives and discover themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs.
CNN Video Breaking news videos from CNN.com.
FedFlix Welcome to FedFlix, a joint venture between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever. [This is a specific project within the Internet Archive (see below).]
Folkstreams has two goals. One is to build a national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. The other is to give them renewed life by streaming them on the internet. The films were produced by independent filmmakers in a golden age that began in the 1960s and was made possible by the development first of portable cameras and then capacity for synch sound. Their films focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different regions and communities.
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies (Yale University Library) The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies is a collection of over 4,300 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Part of Yale University's department of Manuscripts and Archives, the archive is located at Sterling Memorial Library. [Excerpts from the interviews are available online.]
Freedocumentaries.org At Freedocumentaries.org, you can stream interesting and provocative documentary films for free!
Internet Archive Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive users. Many of these movies are available for download.
Newsfilm Library (The University of South Carolina) In an historic 1980 donation, the University of South Carolina was selected by 20 th Century Fox Film Corporation to receive a portion of the Fox Movietone News Collection. This gift of internationally important, irreplaceable, and unique newsreel footage was the starting point for what has become one of the most significant academically housed newsfilm libraries in the United States. [Some clips are available online. See the links at the bottom of the Newsfilm page.]
Reframecollection.org The goal of Reframe is to help individual filmmakers, distributors, archives, libraries and other media owners to digitize and sell their work using the internet, and to become a one-stop location for anyone seeking these films.
SnagFilms is committed to finding the world‘s most compelling documentaries, whether from established heavyweights or first-time filmmakers, and making them available to the wide audience these titles deserve. SnagFilms.com is a website where you can watch full-length documentary films for free, but we’re also a platform that lets you “snag” a film and put it anywhere on the web.
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) The 400 films, selected for the virtual cinema, reflect the vast scope of documentary material collected in the Spielberg Archive. The films range from 1911 to the present and include home movies, short films and full length features.
UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
Note: The descriptions above are taken directly from the websites. Our notes are in square brackets.
University LibraryFor comments on this page contact: Mary Laskowski
Last modified by: B A Davis-Howe on 8/14/09