Includes more than 20,000 streaming videos which allow searching for specific video segments, organize videos into folders, create personal playlists for your students to view, and even create customized bookmarks within any program. Includes videos from the Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science & Mathematics, and Health & Medicine collections.

Over 1,000 streaming videos in the BASE subscription, plus over 100 videos selected by WMU teaching faculty to support the curriculum at Western Michigan University. Films and documentaries in this collection range from core curricular subjects like Race and Class Studies, Sociology and Education, to subjects that cater to the whole student like Mental Health, Psychology, and Health and Fitness. 

If prompted to log in on the Kanopy site, choose Find Your University, then enter Western Michigan University and log in with your Bronco NetID name and password.

Currently, University Libraries is restricting additions to this collection to titles requested by our instructors. Instructor requests should be made using the form (on the Kanopy platform) that says the film is not yet available. Please include the course number(s) and semesters the film will be used in the form's message box. Requests will be addressed within 24 hours. Alternative unmediated streaming video options are available.

A growing, searchable collection of over 1,300 videos covering the study of human culture and behavior including the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, etc. This integrated website searches Ethnographic Video Volume I and Volume II

A searchable and browsable database including approximately 1,000 hours of newsreels from the late 1890s to the 1980s. When complete it is expected to contain more than 2,000 hours of newsreel footage.

Tutorial on creating Playlists and Videoclips

This multimedia database contains essays and articles, a timeline, videos, and images of the African experience throughout the Americas. This database is cross-searchable with journals, newspapers, dissertations, and other relevant content including the International Index to Black Periodicals Full-Text, the Black Literature Index, and the Chicago Defender.

One hundred fifty-plus videos of complete opera performances, interviews, and documentaries, from the Baroque to the 20th Century. Create playlists, make and save clips, etc.