LibGuides: Women's and Gender Studies: Find Films & Videos

Kanopy

Stream thousands of films for free, thanks to the generous support of your university library.

Enjoy critically-acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, award-winning foreign films and more.

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Streaming access to educational and recreational videos.

Films on Demand Overview

You have access to over 30,000 video titles with Films on Demand.

"You’ll find outstanding content—much of it exclusive—from Films for the Humanities and Sciences, ABC News, NBC News, BBC, National Geographic, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Bill Moyers, Shopware, The Open University, A&E, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Fred Friendly Seminars, Cambridge Education, and many more. Programs from more than 800 producers are included in these comprehensive subscriptions—more than you’ll find anywhere else."

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Documentaries and news segments on contemporary issues.

Alexander Street Videos

Alexander Street Video Collections include produced films in the form of documentaries as well as primary source videos such as interviews and speeches.

American History in Video This link opens in a new window
Video collection from Alexander Street Press. American History in Video includes 2,000 total hours of streaming video content. More than half is contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s. The early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel, available online in their entirety only in this collection, capture history as it was made and reported to viewers of the time.
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
Video collection from Alexander Street Press, Black Studies in Video is an award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.