Research Guides: Political Science: Film

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Streaming Media Research Guide
"The Streaming Media Research Guide brings together all of our streaming media--both video and audio--resources into one location to help you discover something new to watch from the comfort of wherever you are right now."
Anti-Racism Films
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DOCUSEEK
Docuseek is a portal for independent, documentary, educational and social issue video and films. Docuseek2 allows you to search through the collections of its member distributors in both traditional and unique ways. Docuseek2 supports traditional key word searches, but expands it to include searching through descriptions and transcripts. Docuseek2 also adds an expanded subject taxonomy, and allows you to combine subject category searchers with grade level, length, filmmaker, awards. format and other characteristics to focus your search.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy provides access to contemporary and classic feature films and documentaries, from the major Hollywood studios as well as independent and international filmmakers.
Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to streaming videos in a variety of subject areas, including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. This database includes films, documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
A collection of the 500 most requested Hollywood and feature films of all time.
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Asian Film Online (Alexander Street)
Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity. Such themes are central to any meaningful discussion of contemporary Asian culture and society.
Ethnographic Video Online (Alexander Street)
A visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. Contains classic and contemporary documentaries previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field and select feature films.
Filmakers Library Online (Alexander Street)
Filmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.