The streaming video databases linked below contain thousands of documentaries and other films to enhance your research. To find a video on your topic, skim the database descriptions below, choose one that most closely matches your topic, and search within that database using keywords related to your topic.
Alexander Street Video is a single cross-searchable platform in which users have a completely integrated online repository of WMU subscribed or owned Alexander Street video titles.
American History in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Dance in Video
Education in Video
Ethnographic Video Online
Filmaker's Library Online
Opera in Video
Theatre in Video
VAST: Academic Video Online
World History in Video
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.
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.
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.
Alexander Street Press Video Collections include American History in Video, Dance in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video, Education in Video, Theater in Video, and Opera in Video. Follow the directions below to create a link which can be embedded in an online class or webpage.
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The following digital video collections offer you thousands of documentaries and other films to enhance your research. You may be amazed at what you will discover here.