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Streaming Video Platforms Utilized by FAU Libraries

Academic Video Online: Premium
Academic Video Online brings together over 40 multidisciplinary video collections from Alexander Street Press, covering art and architecture, diversity, health sciences, history, music and performing arts, psychology and counseling, sciences and engineering, and social sciences. See separate collection titles and the mulitmedia platform -Alexander Street Press- within our A-Z Database List.

Academic Video Online (AVON) Collections Held by FAU:

American History in Video
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Art and Architecture in Video
Art and Architecture in Video includes documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms. The collection spans period and region, including coverage of the Renaissance, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Modern, and Contemporary art.
Asian Film Online
The Asian Film Online streaming video collection includes narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts featuring Asian voices addressing Asian issues.
Black Studies in Video
Black Studies in Video brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience, covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Business Education in Video
Business Education in Video features executive interviews, corporate training video, case studies, "How To" features and documentary films that focus on all aspects of the global business environment. Subjects covered include Globalization, Operations & Logistics, Management, Marketing, Finance, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, International Business, Negotiations, Ethics, Cross-cultural communication, Technology, and much more.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
Online collection of videos available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video
Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video illustrates the strategies, techniques, and experiences of professionals serving on the front lines of justice and public safety. This compilation of documentaries, training videos, and interviews visually depicts the theoretical principles and practical application of criminal justice and emergency response.
Current Affairs in Video
Current Affairs in Video features award-winning films and documentaries emphasizing detailed analysis and discussion of the critical issues of the day.
Dance Online: Dance in Video, Volume I
Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
Dance Online: Dance in Video, Volume II
Dance in Video includes performances, documentaries, interviews, and instructional videos from the most influential performers and companies. The second volume showcases a new catalogue of dancers and partners including the Joffrey Ballet, John Jasperse Company, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Bavarian State Ballet, Royal Ballet of Cambodia, Kirov Ballet, and Compaa Nacional de Danza.
Education in Video
Education in Video provides online videos developed specifically for training and developing teachers. Content includes demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. The collection also contains a wealth of ready-to-use teaching tools, including course, study, and discussion guides, assessment checklists, and themed playlists.
Environmental Studies in Video
Environmental Studies in Video covers all realms of environmental studies, particularly ethics, policy, economics, law, sociology, planning, and environmental science. The collection addresses specific topics including alternative energy, pollution control, eco-design, sustainability, farming and agriculture, the food industry, LEED certification, waste issues, and climate change.
Ethnographic Video Online
Ethnographic Video Online provides a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. The collection covers every region of the world and feature the work of many of the influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library
This collection includes videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide.
Health and Society in Video
Health and Society in Video defines and explores todays latest medical progress in health and wellness issues and their impact on society--with hundreds of premium documentaries, profiles, reports, and interviews.
Human Rights Studies Online
Human Rights Studies Online provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. The collection includes primary and secondary materials across multiple media formats and content types for each selected event, including Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional subjects.
LGBT Studies in Video
LGBT Studies in Video is a cinematic survey of the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people as well as the cultural and political evolution of the LGBT community. This collection features award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT history, gay culture and subcultures, civil rights, marriage equality, LGBT families, AIDS, transgender issues, religious perspectives on homosexuality, global comparative experiences, and other topics.
March of Time
The March of Time, Time Inc.'s 1935-1967 controversial film series, is now available online in a single, cross- searchable collection. These videos have been restored to their original luster by HBO Archives, allowing viewers to experience these historic films as audiences did in earlier decades.
Meet the Press
Network television's longest running program (premiering in 1947), Meet the Press, is now searchable on a single platform, and includes thousands of interviews, panels, and debates. Many episodes have not been seen since their original broadcast.
Music Online: Classical Music in Video
Music Online: Classical Music in Video is a comprehensive streaming video collection of classical music performances, masterclasses, interviews, and documentaries profiling classical artists and their work, spanning musical time periods from Medieval to the twenty-first century.
Music Online: Opera in Video
Music Online: Opera in Video contains important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the worlds best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on their importance to the operatic canon.
New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990-Present
New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990????Present includes over 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, and Global Lens. All the films were shown at major festivals, including some 50 award winning short films.
PBS Video Collection
The PBS Video Collection assembles over 1,000 of the greatest documentary films and series from the history of PBS. Some of the films and series included are American Experience, Empires, Freedom, Frontline, Great Performances, NOVA, and the films of Ken Burns, Michael Wood, and more.
Funded by Florida Virtual Campus.
Psychological Experiments Online
Psychological Experiments Online is a multimedia collection that covers landmark psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries. The collection includes audio and video recordings of the original experiments, videos of modern-day replications, and modifications to the original experiments. Also included are journal articles, books and primary-source documents such as field notes and letters by the lead psychologist.
Silent Film Online
Silent Film Online brings together films which represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory. The database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s, and includes the most complete, authoritative versions of the highest quality from leading distributors.
Theatre in Video
Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.
Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy
The Video Journal of Counseling and Therapy provides access to the latest research and best practice methods in the fields of counseling, mental health, and psychology through contemporary presentations, lectures, and workshops from renowned counselors, psychologists, and practitioners.
World History in Video
World History in Video is a wide-ranging collection of critically acclaimed documentaries exploring human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. The videos cover Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.

Ambrose Video 2.0
A collection of streaming video clips and full programs including the BBC Shakespeare Plays.

Collections include:

Kanopy
A growing collection of videos in a variety of subject areas such as nursing, business, science, and film studies, and from a number of producers including California Newsreel, Criterion Collection/Janus Films, Kino Lorber, Media Education Foundation (MEF), Symptom Media, and more.

Does Kanopy support Public Performance Rights?
Short answer: Yes! If you are an educational institution, all of your Kanopy collection is available for curricular use. For non-curricular purposes view this link for details.

Perpetually Licensed Titles:

Digital Campus (Swank)
Digital Campus (Swank) does not support Internet Explorer and some earlier versions of Firefox and Chrome.
Digital Campus by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc. allows students the flexibility to legally view course-assigned films outside of the classroom. Providing digital access to course-related films allows educators to enhance the learning experience without taking up valuable class time. Faculty who wish to request a movie may fill out the Digital Campus Movie Request Form. We now have access to numerous documentaries and the top 200 films on Digital Campus.

Docuseek2
 Bullfrog Films  Collective Eye Films  Icarus Films  Terra Nova Films

Licensed Titles (no expiration unless indicated)

Affluenza
Against My Will
The Apology
The Art of Being Human
Autism: The Road Back
Beyond the Blues: Child and Youth Depression
China Blue
Cinema Novo
Death By Design
Denial
The Dhamma Brothers
DIRT! The Movie
(license expires 10/17/2025)
Drones In My Backyard
Elder Abuse: Five Case Studies
El Poeta
Escape from Affluenza
Fate of a Salesman
A Fragile Trust
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker
The Good Breast
Gore Vidal
H2Omx
I Don't Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman
Incarcerating US
Jaguar/if-jag
(license expires 8/22/2025)
King Corn
(license expires 6/22/2025)
The Legacy of Malthus
The Mad Masters
Malls R Us
Marx Reloaded
Moi, Un Noir/if-moi
(license expires 8/22/2025)
No Más Bebés
(license expires 1/8/2027)
No Time To Waste: Betty Reid Soskin
(license expires 1/7/2027)
OCD: The War Inside
Oil and Water
Panopticon
Refrigerator Mothers
The Return
Revenge of the Electric Car
Ricardo and Malthus: Did You Say Freedom?
The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
Shadows of Liberty
The Shaman's Apprentice
The True Cost
Vulva 3.0
What the F**k Are These Red Squares?
When China Met Africa

Films on Demand
A web-based digital delivery service that allows you to view streaming educational videos purchased by FAU Libraries from Films Media Group. Users can organize and bookmark clips, share playlists, and personalize folders.

Titles Licensed by FAU:

Welcome to the World: Born Poor, Die Poor?—Why Poverty?
Perpetual License

JoVE
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is a peer reviewed scientific video journal, illustrating new experimental techniques. Access provided for JoVE Biology and JoVE Neuroscience.

Featured Streaming Collections

Nursing and Mental Health in Video: A Symptom Media Collection
Features over 240 videos of the most common mental health disorders nurses may encounter – whether in a primary care setting, emergency room, medical, psychiatric or other.
Faculty can easily integrate these 2-22 minute long videos within lectures, discussion groups, tests, and distance learning programs. Video support curriculum at all levels – undergraduate, graduate, and professional.

Shoah (Visual History Archive)
USC Shoah Foundation's Visual History Archive is a streaming collection of primary source video testimonies from survivors of and witnesses to genocide. Users can search through and view more than 55,000 video testimonies.
Initially a repository of Holocaust (1939-1945) testimony, the Archive includes the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda; Anti-Rohingya Mass Violence (August-October 2017); Armenian Genocide (1915-23); and others.

Patrons can click on “Register” and create a unique username and password, as official login is required for use of “My Projects/Bookmarked Projects/Shared Projects” features.

Forms

Free Film Websites

American Experience | PBS
Full-length Documentaries
Consentric Media: The work of Dorothy Fadiman
From Producer-Our films document stories of individuals and communities working
toward social justice, human rights and personal growth.
Pluto TV
Free, ad-supported streaming service, owned by ViacomCBS Corporation.
Tubi
Free, ad-supported streaming service, owned by Fox Corporation.
Internet Archive
Classics, older films and news
Mandel Public Library
Get a free library card for access to Hoopla Streaming Videos
Palm Beach County Libraries
Hoopla Streaming
DVDs & Blu-ray
Search the catalog for the video title
*Requires a PBCLS library card
Boca Raton Public Library
Hoopla Streaming
DVDs & Blu-ray
Search the catalog for the video title
*Requires a Boca Raton Public Library card
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Searching for Videos

Verify video information at IMDB. Take note of title, director, year, and actors.
Look for videos - Try these steps

Type the title of the film in the Electronic Journal Search Box.
Check the FAU Library Catalog.
If film is not in catalog, check each of the streaming video collections below.
Check the links in the Free Film Websites box to the right for additional options.

To request a video or DVD, utilize the General Materials Suggestion Form.
If borrowing a DVD from another FAU campus, instructor must request DVD from FAU Library Catalog using their FAU account (see request at bottom left side of catalog record).
Other ideas for videos: Check for alternative videos in the DVD and streaming video collections we currently have available.

Subscriptions

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Netflix & YouTube

Educational Screenings of Documentaries
Find out which documentary titles are available for educational screenings
YouTube
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