Library News
New Films on Demand streaming videos!
Posted on August 12th, 2020
Booth Library now offers access to two streaming video collections from Films on Demand.
The Master Academic Video Collection contains over 42,000 educational, documentary, and feature films on a wide range of curricular subjects, including history, biology, business and economics, engineering, computer science, technical and trade skills, art and architecture, music and dance, philosophy and religion, geography, environmental science, anthropology, language and literature, mathematics, psychology, sociology, political science, and more. This database includes videos from over 1200 producers, such as A&E, PBS, BBC Learning, National Geographic, ABC News, NBC News, CNBC, CBC, HBO Documentary Films, PBS NewsHour, Open University, Bill Moyers, California Newsreel, Annenberg Learner, TED, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and others.
The Archival Films and Newsreels Collection offers 5000+ videos and video clips on historical events. Throughout modern history, cameras have recorded public events, wars, cultural phenomena, and government programs. This collection is a treasure trove of archival and historical films from multiple sources, including the Prelinger Archives covering U.S. cultural and social history, the WPA Film Library, the United Newsreel collection of WWII-era newsreels, and the Universal Newsreel collection produced by Universal Studios between 1929-67.
The videos are searchable and browsable by subject, category, and producer. Users can create and edit playlists, create personal accounts, view transcripts, incorporate videos into D2L, and more. For faculty: please check out the Educators’ Quick Start Guide for details on the features available.
Please contact your subject librarian for more information on these collections.
