Video & Streaming Video: Streaming Media Collections A-Z

Information about video at the UW Libraries

Collections A-K

Alexander Street Press
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The UW has licensed 15 streaming video collections, which can be found under the "My Collections" tab, with over 18,000 videos from Alexander Street Press.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
More than 7,000 historic public radio and television programs covering national, regional, and local issues including education, environmental issues, music, art, literature, dance, poetry, religion, filmmaking, and public affairs.

Asian Film Online This link opens in a new window
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Interdisciplinary collection of narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics.
AVON - Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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Documentaries, educational films, and news clips in many subject areas.
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
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Video collection includes documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage
Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive This link opens in a new window
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Video documenting Caribbean life and culture including interviews, documentaries and performances. 1970 to present.
Classical Performance in Video This link opens in a new window
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Video resource for classical music: performances, including 200 full operas and 75 dance titles, masterclasses, documentaries, scores, and interviews. (Music Online)
Counseling & Therapy in Video This link opens in a new window
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Collection of video for the study of counseling in social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatry. Includes sessions and demonstrations, consultations, lectures, presentations, and interviews.
Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
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Productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century covering ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, improvisational, and modern concert dance. (Dance Online; Volumes I and II)
Disability in the Modern World This link opens in a new window
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Interdisciplinary collection of primary documents, periodicals and video resources.
Donmar Shakespeare Collection This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video collection of the award-winning, all-female versions of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest.
Docuseek2 Complete Collection: Second Edition This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video collection of independent, social issue and educational documentaries.
Environmental Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video collection covering all aspects of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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Collection of classic and contemporary ethnographic documentaries
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
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A collection of award-winning documentaries in the humanities and social-sciences.

Films On Demand
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Films Media Group streams documentary films on a wide variety of subjects from anthropology to world languages.

Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window
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Comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010.

HuskyTV "HuskyTV is the cable and streaming TV service for the UW Seattle campus. It offers more than 130 channels of digital TV, 120 channels of live streaming TV, a cloud based Digital Video Recorder (DVR) access to HBO GO and other services....UW staff and departments interested in subscribing to HuskyTV, with streaming and HBO GO, should visit the UW-IT Service Catalog."
Internet Archive
Collections of items recorded from television, including commercials, old television shows, government proceedings, and more.
Kanopy Streaming: All Titles
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Here is a list of all titles UW has licensed from Kanopy. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select the 'Log in to Washington' button, select the 'Log in to Washington' button again, and then you will see the films that the UW Libraries has rented/licensed.

Collections L-Z

Latin America in Video This link opens in a new window
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Approximately 500 documentaries covering issues such as human rights, violence, immigration, illiteracy, popular culture, and political history; primarily in Spanish
LGBT Studies This link opens in a new window
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Films, documentaries, interviews, and archival footage exploring LGBT topics.

Media Education Foundation
The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical thinking about the impact of American mass media.

Medici.tv This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video of classical music performances including concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, master-classes, and educational films.
Meet the Press This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video archive of the weekly American television news/interview program, 1947-2003.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video of more than 500 Metropolitan Opera performances.
National Film Board of Canada | L’Office National du Film du Canada This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of online films, in both English and French, from Canada’s National Film Board/L’Office National du Film. Films marked with a CAMPUS icon are UW restricted.

New Day Digital
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35 full-length documentaries from New Day Digital

New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present This link opens in a new window
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Award-winning features and short films from leading independent distributors.
Ontheboards.TV This link opens in a new window
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Streaming-video performances in contemporary dance, theater, and music.
Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
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Collection of 250+ operatic performances. (Music Online)
PBS Video This link opens in a new window
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Documentary films and series covering history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events.
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection This link opens in a new window
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Collection of high-definition, surround-sound recordings of William Shakespeare’s plays from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford-upon-Avon theater.
Sage Video: Business & Management This link opens in a new window
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Video interviews, lectures, case studies, and tutorials on business strategies and topics. (SAGE Knowledge)
Sage Video: Criminology & Criminal Justice This link opens in a new window
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Tutorials, case studies, and films on criminal justice policy and practice. (SAGE Knowledge)
Shakespeare’s Globe on screen (2008-2015) This link opens in a new window
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Video of theatrical performances from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Shakespeare’s Globe on screen 2 (2016-2018) This link opens in a new window
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Video of theatrical performances from Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Silent Film Online This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video collection covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s.

Swank
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Digital Campus by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® allows students the flexibility to legally view course-assigned films outside the classroom.

Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
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Archive of national television news broadcasts, 1968 to present.
Theater in Video This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video of plays and documentaries.

TIB AV Portal
Scientific videos from the German National Library for Science and Technology

World Newsreels Online 1929-1966 This link opens in a new window
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American, French, Dutch & Japanese newsreels primarily covering WWII era