Databases
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Black Studies (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowThis collection contains documentaries, interviews and archival video footage covering the black experience. Subjects include history, politics, art, culture, family structure, gender relationships and economic issues. Also included: SNCC Legacy Video Collection, over fifty hours of formal addresses, panel discussions, and programs commemorating the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
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American History (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowAccess thousands of hours of streaming video for the study of American history. Sources include commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. Historical eras: late 1400s - 2000.
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Filmakers Library (Alexander Street) This link opens in a new windowProvides access to hundreds of online videos focusing on the study of human culture and behavior in every region of the world. Features the works of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Digitally streams thousands of educational videos in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Engineering, Technology, and World Languages, as well as films on current newsworthy issues. Includes distributors such as Films for the Humanities & Sciences, BBC Worldwide Learning, NOVA, PBS, and HBO.
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Kanopy This link opens in a new windowDigitally streams thousands of popular films and documentaries, as well as educational videos in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Sciences, Business, and K-12 Education. Includes distributors such as PBS, Criterion Collection, Film Movement, Flicker Alley, and California Newsreel.
Streaming Videos
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All Power to The People!This documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement, taking an important look at the turmoils of the 60's and its leading players.
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Voices of Power: African-American WomenIn this program, writers Alice Walker, Bell Hooks, Dr. Martha Wharton and Dr. Valerie Lee, examine the emergence of African-American women as popular and powerful voices of social conscience.
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Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns SeriesA study and celebration of America’s greatest original art form, Ken Burns’s ten-part documentary series opens at the dawn of the 20th century and crosses the decades with the exuberance and expressive power of jazz itself.
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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross SeriesThroughout the course of the series, viewers will see that the road to freedom for black people in America has not been linear, but more like the course of a river, full of loops and eddies, slowing, and occasionally reversing the current of progress.
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A Child Shall Lead Them: The Desegregation of Nashville Public Schools, 1957Nashville was one of the first cities in the South to act on the Supreme Court 1954 decision, Brown vs. The Board of Education. The film compares the Nashville story with events that took place the same week at Little Rock High School.
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LoyaltiesThis is the poignant story of two women who discover they share two halves of a common past in the painful lineage of slave and slave holder. As a result of this discovery, the pair decide to travel to South Carolina to unravel their linked heritage.
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Black Soldier BluesWhen America established its Pacific supply base in Australia during World War II, Australia's Prime Minister warmly welcomed the estimated one million American servicemen and women stationed and passing through. The exception: black GIs. The black Americans discuss growing up in a segregated society, joining a segregated army, and fighting for a freedom that they themselves did not yet possess.