Surveillance and Society: Film

Stream thousands of films and documentaries.

AVON is now the libraries’ largest supplier of streaming video, with over 68,000 different titles—14,000 of which are only available to this platform. Its video offering include documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, and original and raw footage, some of which are major award winners. AVON is a multidisciplinary resources that includes videos from disciplines like Anthropology, Art, Counseling, Dance, Diversity Studies, Drama, Education, History, Music, Nursing, and many others.

Swank is a streaming video resource and the library licensed 500 of the most popular Hollywood featured films of all time. The videos included in this collection are the most frequently requested films by higher education faculty in all disciplines across the United States. Some of the many titles available include Brokeback Mountain, Indiana Jones, Citizen Kane, Get Out, Moonlight, Singin’ in the Rain, and many more.

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.

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.

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 Contains classic and contemporary documentaries previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field and select feature films.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 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.

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