LibGuides: Women's and Gender Studies: Streaming Video and Film

Streaming Video at LMU

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General streaming video collection of documentaries, educational films, training films, and theatrical releases. Access may be restricted and require library assistance to view.
Contents: Streaming Video
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General streaming video collection. If using Swank Digital Campus from off-campus, your LMU account information may be required. Includes course related, theatrically released films streamed for on and off-campus use.
Contents: Streaming Video
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General streaming video collection from Alexander Street Press. Contains award-winning documentaries focused on race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, and more.
Contents: Streaming Video

Docuseek2
Documentary films for higher education.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: Film Television and Media Studies, Communication Studies, History
Description: General streaming video collection. Includes materials from 1968-present. The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The core collection includes evening news from ABC, CBS, and NBC (since 1968), CNN & Fox.
Contents: Streaming Video
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: History, Political Science, African American Studies
Description: Streaming video collection from Alexander Street Press containing commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Mainly focused on the United States.
Contents: Streaming Video
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: MANY
Description: General streaming video collection containing educational films. Video may be used for classroom teaching, research, presentations, and educational non-commercial multimedia projects for use in educational institutions, provided no admission or other fees are charged for public viewing.
Contents: Streaming Video
AdForum.com This link opens in a new window
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Subjects: Communication Studies, Film Television and Media, Business
Description: Collection of advertisements (tv, print, and interactive) from around the world. Also contains agency directory.
Contents: Streaming Video, Advertisements

Streaming Video on the Web

American Indian Film Gallery
This repository contains over 450 non-fiction films that document Native lifeways from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, with a large concentration on peoples of the Southwest. The films range from a 1922 silent newsreel to recent footage of pow-wows and political meetings in 2011. The majority of the films date to the golden age of U.S. educational and sponsored filmmaking after World War II up to the advent of portable video.
American Memory Collection
Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable in the Library of Congress American Memory collections.
Archive of American Television
The archive collects in-depth video interviews with TV's greatest legends and pioneers.
British Pathé
Cinema newsreels, cinemagazines, and historic clips from 1902 to 1970.
C-SPAN
This site contains almost all C-SPAN programs since 1987.
Cinemargentino
Cinemargentino is a library of Argentinian films that allows users to stream full movies, documentaries, and shorts for free. Some with subtitles, some without.
Cineteca Nacional Online
Free and universal access to a trove of full-length Chilean films and documentaries collected by Cineteca Nacional de Chile.
Crackle
Crackle is full of films, TV shows, and original programming, mostly from Sony. It's free, yes, but there are ads during video playback.
Internet Archive
An immense, wondrous assortment of film/video delights: classic feature films, daily alternative news broadcasts, cartoons, concerts, ephemera, archival footage, educational and industrial films, classic sports videos, television, and way more. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Korean Film Archive YouTube Channel
Get your Korean cinema fix with this YouTube channel devoted to selected films produced in South Korea during the past 70 years. The Korean Film Archive maintains this extensive collection. Subtitles in English provided!
The Living Room Candidate
Watch U.S. presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2016.
National Film Board of Canada
Documentaries, animation, shorts, and informational films that are, just like Canada, more fascinating than you can imagine. Many films are free, streaming, and some are downloadable.
Open Culture
Links to more than 1,000 free movies available online collected by non-profit group of educators. Includes film noir, horror, silents, shorts, comedy, drama, and more.

ScienceCinema
Highlights scientific videos featuring leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy.
Tubi
Free films and TV shows from major studios, albeit with ads.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Film Archive
Much of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is viewable online. It features thousands of clips pertaining to the Holocaust and World War II.
WGBH Open Vault
Online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH.

Reelgood a 100% free streaming guide that offers a wide range of movies and TV shows. It also gives users a personalized view where they can see all of the shows available to them from different streaming services in one place.