Subject & Course Guides: Streaming Video: Streaming Video Provided by KU

About Streaming Video

Streaming video makes it possible to watch films via any computer connected to the internet. The only requirement is a high-speed internet connection and one of the following video players: Windows Media, RealVideo, QuickTime, orFlash.

Some of the collections listed on this guide are restricted and only available to KU students, faculty, and staff. However, these have unique URL’s with the KU proxy server, which makes it fairly easy to include them in Blackboard, an online syllabus, or distribute via e-mail.

Multi-Media Sources on Campus

KU Libraries Catalog
Use the "Set Other Search Limits" button to limit the "Item Type" to "Video/Film/Other projected media" to search the video/DVD collection of the KU Libraries.
EGARC Catalog
EGARC provides technology assistance in the learning and teaching in the humanities. Among their resources is a large collection of DVDs and other media material.
KU's Official YouTube Channel
Watch videos on all types of topics that relate to life at KU.
KU Libraries Video Archives
A collection films from the KU Archives.

Library Provided Databases

Academic Video Online
This database provides access to many of the streaming video titles provided by Alexander Street Press. This collection includes materials on all subject matters and includes a collection of PBS films.
Ambrose Video
This large collection includes films from a wide variety academic disciplines. Among those included are the entire BBC Shakespeare Collection.
Digital Theatre Plus
A film database covering theater productions, including Shakespeare, classics, musical theater, dance, opera, and recent British productions.
Films on demand
Films on Demand is a collection of over 22,000 videos covering a wide variety of topics. The videos are divided into five broad disciplinary categories, but are also keyword searchable. The films can either be played in their entirety or in smaller clips called segments.
Film Platform
A collection of contemporary documentary films with many fresh from the film festival circuit.
Kanopy
A streaming video on-demand service which provides access to educational films.
Naxos video library
Provides an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users)
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
This collection spans the presidential administrations of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. The core collection includes evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC (since 1968), an hour per day of CNN (since 1995) and Fox News (since 2004).

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Streaming Availability

Where to Watch
Search for various places to find a movie or TV show, including theaters, kiosks, streaming sites, and digital download services.
Can I Stream.it?
Search for streaming availability of movies and television shows on the most popular streaming, rental, and purchase services.