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A streaming service providing access to a diverse collection of films and documentaries, including educational content and classic cinema, for students and educators.
This collection of films covers a broad range of streaming video titles for educational purposes, including documentaries, independent and foreign films, classics, training films, and full-length feature films. Kanopy includes films from a wide range of content providers, including New Day Films, PBS, the Criterion Channel, Kino Lorber, and Documentary Educational Resources.
This resource offers streaming access to a diverse collection of documentary films and videos on social issues, culture, and history, supporting education and research across disciplines.
This collection of documentaries, covering race and gender studies, human rights, globalization & global studies, ranges in release dates from 1975 to 2012. The titles (900+ videos) cross nearly all academic disciplines and educate students and researchers on critical and thought-provoking issues, figures, and cultures. Documentaries range from six minutes to nearly four hours long.
A streaming video database featuring over 1,750 documentaries on world history, covering diverse regions and significant historical events.
This online database offers a rich collection of streaming video content focused on world history, featuring critically acclaimed documentaries from renowned filmmakers worldwide. With over 1,750 documentaries, the collection spans human history from ancient civilizations to contemporary events, covering diverse regions including Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania with chronological coverage back to films from 1918. Users can access a variety of materials that include documentaries on significant historical events, cultural movements, and influential figures. The platform also provides advanced search functionalities that allow users to filter content by subject, time period, and geographic region, facilitating targeted research. Each documentary is accompanied by supplementary materials such as transcripts and bibliographies to enhance understanding and academic study. This resource is invaluable for educators, students, and researchers seeking to engage with historical narratives through visual media.
This collection provides streaming access to a wide range of historical documentaries and films, covering significant events, figures, and themes in American history for educational use.
This collection provides access to videos focusing on American history including commercial, governmental, and archival footage, newsreels, interviews, speeches and addresses, public service announcements, news stories, lectures, and documentaries. Popular topics include war and violence, political and social movements, international relations, the Depression, WWI, WWII, politics and current affairs, and United States presidents.
A collection of historical newsreels from 1935 to 1967, offering insight into key events, social trends, and global issues through short documentary films.
Discover rare and previously unpublished American History newsreels, documentaries, commercials, public service announcements, and instructional material, released from 1934 to 1966. Deep dive into the Plymouth Rock landing, westward expansion, the Civil War, women’s suffrage, the Great Depression, World War II, the Civil Rights Movement, the Space Race, the Gay Rights Movement, the Iraq War, and more. You'll uncover the inspiring voices of Native Americans, African Americans, women, the LGBT community, and other traditionally underrepresented groups in American History. Videos range from two minutes to one hour long.
Offers a comprehensive collection of materials on African American music, including biographies, scores, discographies, and essays, spanning various genres and historical eras.
Brings together 50,000 pages of text, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. Materials date before 1814 up to the present day. Browse genres such as blues, folk, jazz, gospel, orchestral, and opera.
Features a collection of streaming videos focused on classical music performances, documentaries, and educational content, showcasing composers and musicians throughout history.
This resource provides a rich collection of influential performances and documentaries spanning eras and demonstrating classical music's dynamic evolution. It contains all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances, chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances. Coverage of musical time periods spans Medieval to the 21st century, with recordings from the 1950s to the present. Browse performers and ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra; search composers such as Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Chopin.
Offers an extensive collection of classical, jazz, and world music recordings, providing streaming access to thousands of albums and detailed information on composers and works.
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 197,000 CDs with more than 3 million tracks of both standard and rare repertoire. Genres include orchestral, concerto, opera, instrumental, chamber music, sacred and secular choral, operetta, wind ensemble, and chamber music; browse also contemporary instrumental and jazz, pop and rock, and Chinese music. Peruse playlists featuring themes such as Animals in Music, Love Scenes, in Music, The Night in Music, and many others. Explore curated study guides to learn more about the Baroque Era, the Classical Era, music from Australia or South Korea, musicology, and so much more. Create your own personal account to create playlists, add albums and tracks to Favorites, and access Naxos on your mobile devices.