This page highlights key resources containing documentary and nonfiction content. You will find additional sources for documentary and nonfiction materials in our Video A-Z Database List.
Access to over 65,000 video titles in subjects such as anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Via Alexander Street. If you have access issues, follow this link to troubleshoot.
Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum. Presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide. If you have access issues, follow this link to troubleshoot.
1891 - present. Provides access to hundreds of hours of motion pictures from the Library of Congress. Movies in the public domain are fully downloadable. Content under copyright available as streaming files.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world. The objectives of WDL include intercultural understanding and partnerships as well as providing resources for educators and scholars.
If you have a personal Netflix account, Netflix offers 1 time screenings of a limited number of original documentaries for educational screenings.
An online collection through Alexander Street providing 350 hours of video from 17 years of broadcasts, including hundreds of segments not available anywhere else. This resource also includes 175 hours of bonus segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning. Includes transcripts of the videos for ease of citation, and a citation export feature. If you have access issues, follow this link to troubleshoot.
1940 - present. A collection of nearly 7,000 audiovisual streaming files from significant public television and radio programs across the country. Preserved by the Library of Congress, WGBH Boston and the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, the material contains national and local news, local history productions, and programs dealing with education, environmental issues, music, art, literature, dance, poetry, religion and filmmaking on a local level.
Provides access to a rich collection of online video for the study of American History. Includes commercial and government newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and documentaries from PBS and the History Channel. Playlists can be created by any registered user. If you have access issues, follow this link to troubleshoot.
Consisting of more than 250 hours of programming to date, AMERICAN MASTERS is a growing film library documenting the role important individuals, groups, and movements have played in the formation of our cultural identity.
A collection focusing on border and migration issues in more than thirty worldwide border areas, such as the U.S. and Mexico, the European Union, Turkey and others.
1950s - 1960. Browse or search this digital archive of historical new film, digital collections, reference materials, editorial cartoons, transcripts, and diaries that document the civil rights movement. Provided by the University of Georgia.
1947 - 2013. Provides access to network television’s longest running program via streaming online video. Over 1,500 hours of footage containing thousands of interviews, panels, and debates in one cross-searchable interface. If you have access issues, follow this link to troubleshoot.
Content from public television station WHBH including video excerpts and transcripts.
1968 - present. Searchable database of network broadcasts (e.g. CBS, NBC, ABC) including news abstracts and broadcast descriptions.
Contains close to 48,000 titles of technical eBooks, videos, interactive tutorials, case studies, learning paths and audio books from O’Reilly & Associates, including selective titles from 200+ other publishers. Contains 30,000+ hours of video including presentations from O’Reilly for Higher Education video.
A peer reviewed scientific video journal, presenting scientific research in cellular, molecular and organismal biology with video articles from research institutions around the world.
Provides access to a streaming video database focusing on basic biology topics specifically related to laboratory techniques and methods.
A peer reviewed scientific video journal, presenting scientific research in clinical medicine and biomedical research with video articles from research institutions around the world.
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