Research Guides
Law, Societies and Justice: Films & Podcasts
Streaming video packages
- Sage Video: Criminology & Criminal Justice This link opens in a new windowTutorials, case studies, and films on criminal justice policy and practice. (SAGE Knowledge)
- PBS VideoFull versions of many PBS Programs, such as ART:21, American Experience, American Masters, FRONTLINE, Nova, POV, and many more.
- Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new windowVideo collection includes documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage
- Disability in the Modern World This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary collection of primary documents, periodicals and video resources.
- Latin America in Video This link opens in a new windowIncludes approximately 400 original-language documentaries from some of the most important producers and independent filmmakers in Latin America. Covers issues such as human rights, violence, immigration, illiteracy, popular culture, and political history.
- AVON - Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowDocumentaries, educational films, and news clips in many subject areas.
- Streaming video collections at UW LibrariesAdditional tools, including multidisciplinary and subject-specific video streaming collections.
Selected podcasts
- Making AmendsFrom LSJ Professor Steve Herbert, who taught a class on harm, accountability, and mass incarceration at Oregon State Penitentiary.
- More PerfectThe stories behind some of the Supreme Court's biggest rulings.
- Declarations podcastFrom the University of Cambridge Centre of Governance and Human Rights.
- Amicus with Dahlia LithwickSupreme Court
- CaughtStories of young people caught up in the criminal justice system.
- Ear HustleThe daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration.
- 70 MillionDocumentary podcast about criminal justice reform.
- Forgotten PrisonDocumentary podcast about McNeil Island, home to the Special Commitment Center, which houses Washington state's "sexually violent predators."
- Disability VisibilityConversations on politics, culture, media with a social justice and intersectional lens.