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Academic Video Online

Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 multidisciplinary video titles including 17,000 exclusive to Alexander Street. All with a predictable annual cost, this collection is curated for the educational experience. The massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons, giving libraries a high return on investment.
History Reference Center
CONTENT:

U.S. and World history.

RESOURCE TYPES:

Full text and searchable reference books, encyclopedias, biographies, non-fiction books, periodicals, primary source documents, photos, maps, and video.

COVERAGE:

The 150 history periodicals included are updated monthly.
ICE Video Library
CONTENT:
The ICE (International Clinical Educators) Video Library contains video clips divided into the following categories: Musculoskeletal, Nervous System, Mental & Behavioral, Respiratory, Settings, and Pediatric. There are also 3 StrokeHelp® Online Courses. The videos are useful for faculty and students in physical therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy assistant and occupational therapy assistant programs.

RESOURCE TYPES:
ICE: Video; StrokeHelp®: Online Courses, PDF workbook, Faculty Guide, Assignments & Exams

COVERAGE:
175+ short video clips; 3 Online Courses

Free Streaming Video Sites

American Indian Film Gallery
The American Indian Film Gallery (AIFG) is an online collection of more than 450 historic films by and about Native peoples of the Americas, compiled and digitized by historian J. Fred MacDonald over many years. These films range in date from 1925-2010. Most date to the so-called Golden Age of educational filmmaking, from 1945 to the rise of consumer-grade video equipment in the 1970s. Many of the films from that period were sponsored by industry or governmental agencies. Others were made by independent educational filmmakers.
American Memory Collection
Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable in the Library of Congress's American Memory collections.
Archive of American Television
Founded in 1997, the Television Academy Foundation’s Archive of American Television has conducted over 800 oral history interviews (over 4000 hours) with the legends of television. These interviews chronicle the birth and growth of American TV History as it evolves, and make the interviews available worldwide. The Archive continues to produce new interviews every year. The collection covers a variety of professions, genres, and topics in electronic media history.
C-SPAN
For 36 years, C-SPAN, which is a private, not-for-profit company, has pursued its mission to make government more open to the American public, televising political proceedings to millions of households across the country. Today it's a service available in 100 million American homes, and globally via the internet, providing round-the-clock access to public affairs and political events, U.S. government proceedings, international legislatures, as well as non-fiction book discussions and American history features.
Korean Film Archive - YouTube Channel
Welcome to the Korean Film Archive YouTube Channel. Here you will find 110 classic Korean films from the 1930s onwards available for free viewing.
Living Room Candidate
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012 is an online exhibition presenting more than 300 television commercials from every election year since 1952, when the first campaign TV ads aired.
National Film Board of Canada
Welcome to the best Canadian destination for point-of-view documentaries, animation films, interactive projects and Canadian films. Watch over 3,000 captivating documentaries, feature films and animation films for free.
Open Culture
Watch 725 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin.
ScienceCinema
ScienceCinema highlights scientific videos featuring leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy. Using innovative, state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology from Microsoft Research, ScienceCinema allows users to search for specific words and phrases spoken within video files.
SnagFilms
SnagFilms is like that cool local video store with unique indie films and exciting hidden movie treasures – except everything can be watched online! For those of us looking to discover something different, SnagFilms has over 5,000 movies, TV show episodes, eye-opening documentaries and exclusive original comedy shorts. There is something to watch for everyone!
Thought Maybe
Thought Maybe is an online library of films focused on topics challenging modern society, industrial civilisation, globalisation and dominant culture. This space is an independent and autonomous resource to inform, inspire and provoke action on radical social and political change. It’s not like other websites...
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Film Archive
WGBH Open Vault
We provide online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. So have a look around and explore!