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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full text articles about film and TV from popular and scholarly sources. Article publication dates back to 1975.
Research Library This link opens in a new window
Articles about film from popular and scholarly publication sources.
Art & Architecture Complete This link opens in a new window
Film and TV are included in its definition of arts.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Includes film and TV articles as literature.

Media History Digital Library
Digital collection of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access.

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Criterion Collection/Janus Film Collection This link opens in a new window
The Criterion Collection has been dedicated to gathering the greatest award-winning early cinema, foreign cinema and Hollywood films from around the world. Work of such masters of cinema as Renoir, Godard, Kurosawa, Cocteau, Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Fuller, Lean, Kubrick, Lang, Sturges, Dreyer, Eisenstein, Ozu, Sirk, Buñuel, Powell and Pressburger.
Kino Lorber Edu This link opens in a new window
Kino Lorber's varied groups of labels offer the best in contemporary, classic and documentary films that aim to engage, provoke, stimulate, and entertain today's audiences.
Silent Film Online This link opens in a new window
Silent Film Online brings together films which represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory. Carefully curated with ASP’s Video Advisory Board, the database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s.
PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window
This collection assembles hundreds of the greatest documentary films and series from the history of the Public Broadcasting Service into one convenient online interface. A core of 245 titles, selected for their high quality and relevance to academic curricula, covers many educational disciplines, including history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events. This collection provides access to the films and series users already know and trust, including Frontline, NOVA, American Experience, Odyssey, and films by Ken Burns and Michael Wood.
Latin America in Video This link opens in a new window
Latin America in Video offers quality original language documentaries from some of the most important producers and independent filmmakers in Latin America. The films were produced in Latin America, by Latin Americans, about Latin American issues, such as cultural identity, political history, human rights, popular culture, agribusiness, education, religion, and much more.
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
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.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Streaming educational videos in the humanities, social sciences, education, business and the arts from publishers such as Films for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Cambridge, and Meridian.
World Newsreels Online This link opens in a new window
World Newsreels Online: 1929–1966 captures full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the early twentieth century. Key collections include: Universal Newsreels, Universal Studios, Les Actualites Francaises, Nippon News and The March of Time. Produced from 1929 through the early post-war period, these films provide a unique resource that will give insight into how people learned about and lived through the events that occurred during this period of history.
The March of Time This link opens in a new window
The March of Time From 1935-1967, American theatergoers and television watchers were witness to Time's unique and controversial film series, The March of Time. The videos have been restored to their original luster by HBO Archives, allowing viewers to experience these historic films as audiences did in earlier decades.

Prelinger Archives
"A collection of over 60,000 'ephemeral' (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films."
Internet Archive
"Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format."

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