Feature Films
Swank Digital Campus
Currently Available Feature Films
Documentary/Educational Films
Films for Humanities and Sciences
Insight Media
Media Education Foundation
Forward In Time
Free Streaming Video Collections
Currently Available Documentary Films
Golden Library offers 17,000 streaming feature films and over 6,000 streamed documentary films for use in distance education classes, or for outside assignments in face-to-face classes. Films can also be streamed in a Mediasite classroom. Terms of use for each vendor are slightly different, so please see the information for each company, below. All films are streamed from vendor servers, so there are no bandwidth issues. Documentary films may be viewed using Windows Media Player, RealPlayer or QuickTime; feature films are streamed through Microsoft Silverlight player.
To reserve any film, please email Michele
Wood with the following information:
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Title of film
Date you want film available for student viewing (please give 2 weeks notice)
Swank Feature Films
Allows unlimited access for varying periods, per purchase. Film file links must be placed within
Blackboard course pages to satisfy copyright requirements for restricted
access. Search Swank Digital Campus films by title, director or genre. Click the "Movie Search" link in the
left-hand sidebar and then a film title to see a brief summary.
Films for Humanities and Sciences (FHS)
Allows unlimited access within a three-year period, per purchase. Film file links must be placed within
Blackboard course pages to satisfy copyright requirements for restricted
access. Search FHS; please limit your search to the 3-year streaming option at the Filter by Media Type box. Click title links for film summaries.
Insight Media
Insight Media Digital offers streaming educational films. Viewing terms are for one year. Links need to be placed within Blackboard course pages.
Media Education Foundation Films (MEF)
Search the MEF site, select one of the category tabs (gender, health, race, politics, commercialism), and view the film summaries. MEF allows access for seven-day periods, per purchase.
Forward In Time Documentary Films (FIT)
Visit the FIT site and click the 2011 Catalog link, on the right, for titles and summaries of their latest offerings; select a subject area on the left-hand sidebar to see a list of their earlier film titles. FIT allows unlimited access for a year at a time, per purchase.
Free Streaming Video Collections
The quality of the viewing experience cannot be guaranteed since the videos are freely available on the Internet.
Documentary Educational Films on Google (enter topic in Search box)
Documentary Educational Films on YouTube (enter topic in Search box)
Academic Earth
Annenberg Learner (look for VoD icon for free videos)
Cosmo Learning
Free Documentaries Online
Internet Archive
TeacherTube
MIT World (lectures)
PBS Nova
Folkstreams.net
Archaeology Channel
TED talks ("Riveting talks by remarkable people...")
WGBH Video Lectures