The Libraries are pleased to announce the addition of two important video collections for the academic year 2014-2015.
VAST: Academic Video Online offers a multidisciplinary collection of more than 20,000 videos from a wide range of disciplines, including:
Videos include documentaries, newsreels, animation, instructional films, theatrical performances and dance, commercials, interviews, and conference presentations from producers such as the BBC, the Broadway Theatre Archive, Icarus, PBS, and Zeitgeist. Browse a full list of titles in our library catalog.
Users can create clips and curate personal playlists of films to share, view, link, email or embed on Blackboard classes. You can also send films to your mobile device for viewing on the go.
VAST Academic Video Online is part of a suite of resources from Alexander Street Press and is cross searchable with streaming music databases such as Classical Music Library and American Song Online and text collections such as Classical Scores Online or Black Women Writers.
Kanopy Streaming Service is a new company that offers theatrical releases, in addition to instructional videos and documentaries. Highlights of Kanopy collections include:
- The Criterion Collection: classic films from the silent era to today, from masters of cinema such as Renoir, Godard, Kurosawa, Cocteau, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Fuller, Lean, Lang, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Ozu, Buñuel and Powell.
- PBS documentaries from series such as The American Experience, NOVA and Frontline
- The California Newsreel Collection: cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences, including Race – The Power of an Illusion, Black Gold, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, and others.
- The March of Time: docudramas produced between 1935 and 1951 for American theaters.
- Plus, special collections on art and architecture, health and medicine, science and mathematics, education, and business.
Browse a full title list in our catalog.
Want to know more about our video and audio collections? Visit our Performing Arts and Media Library in Mullins Library, where you can find DVDs, CDs, and more. Or check out our LibGuides on Film Research, International Film, and more.
With so much to watch, you might be tempted to binge! But remember to go to class, and see you at the movies, er, library!
