DVD/VHS Digitization
KU Libraries offer a service to digitize portions of library owned DVDs/videos for classroom use if not available through other sources. To comply with US copyright law, faculty or instructors must complete a form and acknowledge that the service being request is a fair use of materials. Complete the request form for each title.
Multi-Media Sources on Campus
- KU Libraries CatalogUse 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.
- Open Language Resource Center CatalogThe Open Language Resource Center 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 ChannelWatch videos on all types of topics that relate to life at KU.
Streaming Availability
- Just WatchSearch for various places to find a movie or TV show, including theaters, kiosks, streaming sites, and digital download services.
- ReelgoodSearch to see where a movie or TV show might be available to stream.
Library Provided Streaming Video Collections
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowA streaming video on-demand service which provides access to educational films.
- Films on demand This link opens in a new windowFilms on Demand contains over 22,000 videos covering a variety of academic areas. The films can be played in their entirety or made into smaller segments.
- Swank Digital CampusContains 1,000 streaming films and documentaries, including many feature films.
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowThis 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 link opens in a new windowThis collection includes over 7000 films from a variety academic disciplines. Among those included are the entire BBC Shakespeare Collection.
- Broadway on DemandThe Broadway on Demand Collection provides an extensive range of content that goes beyond live performances. Along with musicals, plays, and dance performances, the collection includes unique behind-the-scenes series, documentaries, and masterclasses to help researchers gain a deeper understanding and appreciation of the art of theater.
- C-Span video library This link opens in a new windowThe video archive includes all programming from the three C-SPAN's networks.
- Dance Online: Dance in video This link opens in a new windowProvides 900 hours of video content covering the full scope of 20th and 21st century dance.
- Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new windowA film database covering theater productions, including Shakespeare, classics, musical theater, dance, opera, and recent British productions.
- Digitalia Film Library This link opens in a new windowIncludes over 800 films mostly in Spanish and Portuguese with English subtitles.
- Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new windowMet Opera on Demand offers users instant access to more than 500 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances.
- Naxos video library This link opens in a new windowProvides an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries. (Restricted to 5 simultaneous users)
- PBS Video Collection (4th Edition) This link opens in a new windowStreaming video from PBS shows including NOVA, Nature, and American Experience.
- Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveThis collection of streaming content 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).
Select Free Streaming Sites
- American ExperienceWatch entire episodes of select American Experience episodes and clips from others. Additional titles from this series are provided by the KU Libraries.
- American MemoryA limited numberof early films from the collections of the Library of Congress.
- The Archive of American TelevisionA large database of interviews with important individuals in the history of television.
- Civil Rights Digital LibraryA website that provides online films, texts, images, and audio recordings related to the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1950's and 1960's.
- Fandango MOVIECLIPSSearch the largest free collection of licensed movie clips available. The content is both contemporary and historical.
- FolkstreamsThis website contains hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures.
- Internet ArchiveThe Moving Image Archive contains nearly a quarter million films, uploaded by Archive users, and ranging from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Included films can be browsed by subject or keyword searched.
- Russian Film HubA collection of Russian films. Many with English subtitles. The site has great searching features.
- WGBH Open VaultA wide variety of contemporary and historical content from this PBS television station and NPR radio station.
- TEDRecorded presentations presented at various TED events around the world.
- TubiAn ad-supported video-on-demand service with more than 35,000 movies and TV shows
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