Research Guides: Sociology: Film

Films

Asian Film Online Channel
View culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmakers; narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto relevant themes: modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity.
Ethnographic Video Online: Vol 1 & 2
A visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists & ethnographers and select feature films.
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Vol 1. Lays the foundation for the study of anthropology, from the earliest days of film and recording equipment in the field. Content includes the most studied films in the classroom.
Vol 2. A selection of contemporary ethnographic film and documentaries, exploring global issues such as environmental degradation and climate change, refugee migration, and endangered languages.
Filmakers Library Online
Award-winning documentaries across the curriculum: race and gender studies, human rights, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, arts, and more; presents perspectives from diverse cultures & traditions world-wide.
DocuSeek2
A portal for independent, documentary, educational and social issue video and films. Search through descriptions and transcripts; subject taxonomy, or combine subject category searches with grade level, length, filmmaker, awards, format and more.

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Browse the subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music; search through Channels, Collections, or keywords.
Kanopy Videos
A streaming video service for education that offers thousands of documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects & disciplines.
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Provides access to more than 26,000 films and documentaries from a variety of independent filmmakers and distributors, including the BBC, PBS and the Criterion Collection.
Swank Digital Campus
A streaming video resource of the most popular Hollywood featured films; including the most frequently requested films by higher education faculty in the US.

Open Source

Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, and more.
Internet Archive: Open Access Collection
"The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. "
Open Culture: The best free cultural & educational media on the web
"Watch 700 movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin."
TED: Ideas worth spreading
"TED is a global community, welcoming people from every discipline and culture who seek a deeper understanding of the world... On TED.com, we're building a clearinghouse of free knowledge from the world's most inspired thinkers..."
Vimeo
Vimeo is a video-sharing website in which users can upload, share and view videos. It was founded in November 2004.
YouTube #Education
View open access lectures from Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and more.

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