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Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent This online collection is maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries. It contains digitized images and sounds of Africa contributed over the years to the African Studies Program of... View Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent Online
Birds of North America Online, The The Birds of North America Online (BNA Online) is a comprehensive and current reference work detailing the life histories of North American birds. The series provides detailed scientific informatio... View Birds of North America Online, The Online
DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) 19th century - present DRAM is an online music database offering on-demand, streaming access to an extensive and ever-growing catalog. A primary focus of the collection is the preservation and dissemination of hard-to-fi... View DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music) Online
Fieldwork recordings--Dictionary of American Regional English Dates vary From 1965–1970, fieldworkers for the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) conducted interviews with nearly 3,000 “informants” in 1,002 communities across America. They visited residents i... View Fieldwork recordings--Dictionary of American Regional English Online
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is an extensive resource devoted to music research of all the world's peoples. Each volume contains an overview of a geographic region, a survey of it... View Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online Online
Naxos Music Library Naxos Music Library is the world's largest classical music listening service. The collection provides online streaming access to over 500,000 tracks (over 37,00 CDs) from more than 50 labels, consi... View Naxos Music Library Online
Naxos Music Library: Jazz Naxos Music Library Jazz offers thousands of tracks of jazz from over 2,300 albums. Hundreds of jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fant... View Naxos Music Library: Jazz Online
Smithsonian Global Sound Smithsonian Global Sound is a database offering streaming music over the internet on demand. It is produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, and includes the published recording... View Smithsonian Global Sound Online
Soundzabound, Royalty Free Music for Schools Royalty free music, with a variety of audio themes and sound effects. Browse by type of music, mood, time (15 Seconds, 30 seconds, 60 seconds, full length) and volume. Preview audio online and down... View Soundzabound, Royalty Free Music for Schools Online

Video Databases

60 Minutes: 1997-2014 1997 - 2014 This online collection provides 350 hours of high-definition video from 17 years of broadcasts, including hundreds of segments not available anywhere else in the world. Each news segment within the... View 60 Minutes: 1997-2014 Online
Ambrose Video (BBC Shakespeare Plays) Provides streaming access to selected educational videos including the BBC complete dramatic works of William Shakespeare. (Not updated) View Ambrose Video (BBC Shakespeare Plays) Online
American History in Video 1890s - 1980s At completion, American History in Video will include 2,000 total hours of streaming video content. More than half will be contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s. The early newsreels, in... View American History in Video Online
American Rhetoric: the Power of Oratory in the United States This resource is dedicated to public communication and rhetoric of all kinds and includes a speech bank, movie speeches, audio figures of speech, the top 100 American political speeches of the 20th... View American Rhetoric: the Power of Oratory in the United States Online
Art and Architecture in Video This online streaming film collection delivers over 500 hours of documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms and providing the context necessary for ... View Art and Architecture in Video Online
BBC Country Profiles Current This site supplies information on the history, economy, and politics of countries and territories. Each profile includes an overview, map, facts, and current leaders. A media overview provides info... View BBC Country Profiles Online
Black Studies In Video 20th - 21st Century Black Studies in Video, the latest addition to Alexander Street Press’s award-winning black studies portfolio, brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable... View Black Studies In Video Online
Border and Migration Studies Online 19th - 21st centuries This collection of primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera relate to significant border areas and events from the 19th to 21st centuries. It offers researchers historical context an... View Border and Migration Studies Online Online
C-Span Video Library 1987 - present Videos and transcripts of C-Span programs; includes public affairs programming, Congressional proceedings, news conferences, BookTV non-fiction author talks and interviews, and more. Contains every... View C-Span Video Library Online
Dance in Video 1950s to current Dance in Video I & II has 900+ hours of video of complete dance performances, documentaries and interviews. These are intended to provide a foundation for the study of dance in many forms: modern d... View Dance in Video Online
Docuseek2 Docuseek2 is the internet site where one can discover, access, license, stream and share over 800 documentary and social issues films and videos. This database provides educational streaming acces... View Docuseek2 Online
Education in Video ca. 1970 - present Education in Video is an online collection of streaming video developed for training and developing teachers. The collection includes over 3,322 video titles (approx. 932 hours) of teaching demonst... View Education in Video Online
Environmental Studies in Video 1970 - present Environmental Studies in Video is an online collection bringing together documentary films and footage from diverse sources around the globe. At completion, Environmental Studies in Video will cont... View Environmental Studies in Video Online
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 1 20th - 21st Century A comprehensive online resource for the visual study of human culture and behavior and the largest, most affordable streaming video collection of its kind, Ethnographic Video Online contains more t... View Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 1 Online
Filmakers Library Online 1970s to 2011 (approximately) Interdisciplinary resource of over 1,000 issue-based documentaries and independent films from the U.S. and other countries. Topics include: race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and ... View Filmakers Library Online Online
Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection Films on Demand is a digital video streaming service which offers access to educational videos from a variety of producers including A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, B... View Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection Online
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library 1970 - present The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL) is a collaboration between New York University Libraries and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics that provides a digital li... View Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Digital Video Library Online
IME Video Library (Innovations in Medical Education) 2005 - present The IME Video Library is a collection of health science presentations available to students, faculty, community preceptors, public health organizations, and health consumers. Major educational pres... View IME Video Library (Innovations in Medical Education) Online
KnowledgeEdge Video Content 1995 - present The Tooling U-SME Knowledge Edge video collection features approximately 180 industrial and manufacturing training videos available on-demand. The focus is on real-life production situations with c... View KnowledgeEdge Video Content Online
medici.tv Medici.tv specializes in high definition video of classical music, available on the internet, mobile, tablets and connected tvs. Over 1,400 programs – concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, mast... View medici.tv Online
Moving Image Archive This is Internet Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length ... View Moving Image Archive Online
Naxos Video Library Streaming video library of opera, ballet, classical music concerts and documentaries. Contains over 1,215 full-length videos, including 190 operas, with subtitles in 5 languages. New content is add... View Naxos Video Library Online
Popular Culture in Britain and America 1950-1975 Original primary sources on society, music, politics, fashion and youth culture from 1950 to 1975. Photos, video, music, fanzines, magazines, press kits, ads and other archival material from the ti... View Popular Culture in Britain and America Online
Socialism on Film early 20th century to the 1980s Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), this collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American... View Socialism on Film Online
South & Southeast Asian Video Archive (UW Madison) The Archive features hundreds of video tapes produced by Asians, providing a different cultural perspective from material produced by Westerners about South and Southeast Asia. This unique collecti... View South & Southeast Asian Video Archive (UW Madison) Online
Television News Archive 1968 - present This resource provides descriptive summaries of over 30,000 television news programs collected in the Vanderbilt Archive since August, 1968, searchable through the TV-NewsSearch database. The Archi... View Television News Archive Online
Theatre in Video Theatre in Video contains more than 250 of the worlds most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries and interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors - all onlin... View Theatre in Video Online
UbuWeb 20th century - present UbuWeb was founded in November of 1996, initially as a repository for visual, concrete and, later, sound poetry. Over the years, UbuWeb has embraced all forms of the avant-garde and beyond. This ri... View UbuWeb Online
Women's Audio Visuals in English (WAVE) Dates vary Women's Audio Visuals In English (WAVE) is a database maintained by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office that lists documentary, experimental, and feature film and ... View Women's Audio Visuals in English (WAVE) Online

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