Film and Media


Academic Video Online

Contains a very large collection of the Alexander Street Press streaming video, including topics in history, art, international studies, dance, theater, and more.

Ambrose Video

Search for and watch over 700 educational streaming videos, including all 37 of the BBC Shakespeare plays. 

American history in video

This collection contains commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries covering all aspects of American history.

Digitalia Film Library

Digitalia Film Library has over 800 quality documentaries and films distributed in the following collections: Argentine Cinema, European Cinema, French Collection, History, Latin American Selection, Nature and Wildlife, North American Classic Cinema, Spanish Cinema, Cuban Cinema and Travel Documentary. 

Electronic Arts Intermix

The EAI collection spans the mid-1960s to the present, and is recognized as one of the most comprehensive video art collections in the world. EAI’s Educational Streaming Service is a unique subscription-based resource that transforms EAI’s Online Catalogue into a “digital textbook.” Almost 2,000 titles by 65 artists are currently available for streaming via this digital delivery platform. Eventually, the Service will encompass EAI’s entire collection of 3,800 media artworks.

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive (1–4)

An archival research resource of English language trade magazines for studying the history of the film, television, radio, music, and theatre, with coverage from 1880 to 2015. Among the magazines included are Billboard, The Stage, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Hot Wire, and Vibe.

FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals Database

Indexes 340 of the world's academic and popular film journals from 1972 to the present.  It was created by the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) and  includes the International Index to TV Periodicals; Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.

Film & television literature index with full text

This database provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for hundreds of publications (and selected coverage of 300), as well as full text for hundreds of journals and books. Also includes Variety movie reviews from 1914 to present and over 36,300 images from the MPTV Image Archive.

Films on demand

This collection of educational streaming videos includes content from a wide selection of producers and covers a wide variety of subject matter. This link also includes the “World Cinema Video Collection” which includes films from around the globe.