Streaming Media Collections - FTS 133: Real to Reel - Ellis (Fall 2022) - UVM Libraries Research Guides at UVM Libraries

Streaming Video Collections - UVM Licensed Databases

Selected list of UVM Libraries licensed streaming video collections - including documentaries. For a complete list click here.

Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
This resource is a platform for streaming video, including feature films and documentaries from around the world. Faculty note: please contact Multimedia Services if you need Kanopy videos for teaching, as access varies over time.
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
This resource provides streaming video access to documentary films, including award-winning productions. It allows users to isolate and annotate clips for scholarly projects and provides full transcripts. It can be browsed by topics, places, or director/producer; or searched by keyword or phrase.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
This resource provides access to a collection of ethnographic films with broad geographical and cultural coverage. It includes some of the most seminal ethnographic films ever produced, and includes interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

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National Screening Room (Library of Congress)
(from the website) The National Screening Room showcases the riches of the Library’s vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible to the viewers worldwide.
Folkstreams - Documentary Films of American Culture
Folkstreams is a non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures. View documentary films about American roots cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking.
British Council Film Collection
Preserved by the BFI National Film Archive, this is an archive of 100+ short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s designed to show the world how wartime Britain lived, worked and played.
National Film Board of Canada
An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB is Canada's public film and digital media producer and distributor, producing and distributing documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and alternative dramas. The NFB has uploaded for free viewing for personal use thousands of films from its archive going back to 1939. it also provides written commentaries on many of its films,