Research Guides: Media Studies: Video and Film

Video and Film Resources

Access World News
A database of articles from 1,700 U.S. and international full-text information sources, mostly newspapers and wire services. Very useful for access to state-by-state coverage.
Coverage: late 1950"s - present
Kanopy (Streaming Video Service)
Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service providing access to a collection of films, documentaries, independent cinema, and classic movies, including titles from the Criterion Collection, PBS, and BBC.
Films on Demand - Streaming Videos
Films On Demand is a web-based digital video delivery platform that allows viewing of streaming videos from Films Media Group.
Naxos Video Library
The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts video library with over 300 operas¸ ballets¸ documentaries¸ live concerts¸ and musical tours of historic places. It includes the Naxos DVD label¸ Opus Arte¸ Arthaus¸ Dacapo¸ EuroArts¸ among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.

Open Video Project
The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities. Researchers can use the video to study a wide range of problems, such as tests of algorithms for automatic segmentation, summarization, and creation of surrogates that describe video content; the development of face recognition algorithms; or creating and evaluating interfaces that display result sets from multimedia queries.