Research Guides: Intermedia Art, Writing, and Performance: Multimedia

Streaming Films & Documentaries

Electronic Arts Intermix Educational Streaming
Provides access to full-length streaming art videos.
Kanopy
Kanopy offers over 8,500 streaming films, documentaries, educational and training videos from an array of producers and distributors including BBC Active and Criterion Collection/Janus films. All videos work on PCs with Flash, iPads, iPhones, and mobile devices.
Alexander Street (Alexander Street)
A search interface that provides access to audio, video, and text resources from Alexander Street Press.
Art and Architecture In Video (Alexander Street)
Streaming video collection includes coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary art. In addition to art history and theory, the collection addresses applied topics such as architectural and graphic design.
Swank Digital Campus
Streaming service featuring films, independent films and documentaries. Access Note: All videos work on PCs, however will only stream on mobile devices by downloading the Swank mobile app. For more information, visit the Swank FAQ page.

UbuWeb
Collection of online avant-garde film, video, and performance.
Prelinger Archives
Collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions.
Internet Archive: Television
Collections of items recorded from television, including commercials, old television shows, government proceedings and more.

Internet Archive Television News
Search the captions of news shows going back to 2009 on all major channels including CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, among many others. Full streaming video available.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
More than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN.
Access World News Research Collection
Online access to major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles. Also includes newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more.

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