We encourage you to explore the many videos available to our campus as part of our perpetual access (permanent) collections or annual subscription packages. These videos are immediately available at no cost to you or your students.
The Library also manages requests for title-by-title streaming video selections from a variety of vendors, if our video collections do not suit your needs. Title-by-title subscriptions cost the library an average of $150+ per title for one year of access, so we recommend only exploring this option as a last resort.
Not sure where to begin searching?
- Explore our Streaming Video Guide.
- Search the Library Catalog for videos.
- Browse our Video Collections title list.
- Contact your subject librarian for assistance finding videos appropriate for your lesson topics.
Browse Perpetual Access Collections
BroadwayHD Collection
Watch and learn from writers, directors, and actors recognized by the Tony Awards® and the Pulitzer Prize®. Ideal for theatre, drama, music, and even literature studies.
Counseling and Therapy in Video
The Classic collection includes foundational videos from 1985-2010 covering recent history of practices and features world renowned therapists demonstrating their methods and techniques.
New in 2022. The Symptom Media Collection includes mental health videos aligned to DSM-5®/ICD-10 content to help students better recognize mental health disorders and provide accurate diagnoses.
To find the new content from Symptom Media in Counseling and Therapy in Video:
- Click the filter button.
- Click the "Symptom Media” option at the top of the Publisher section."
Disability in the Modern World: History of a Social Movement
Primary sources, supporting materials, archives, and videos covering areas where the contributions of the disability community are typically overlooked.
Docuseek2
New in 2022. Streaming videos from renowned leaders in documentary distribution, including Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films, Kartemquin Films, KimStim, the National Film Board of Canada, and Terra Nova Films.
Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. IV: Festivals and Archives
Films from contemporary ethnographic film festivals, the Berkeley Media anthropology catalog, University of Manchester’s Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, and the classic ethnographic works of David and Judith MacDougall.
PBS Video Collection
New in 2022. Provides access to more than 1,200 streaming videos, including the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS on many topics, including art, science, history, business, and more
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974: Video
More than 50 hours of streaming video content provides a window into the key events, people, debates, and movements of the 1960s
Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. It spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
Subscription Collections
Academic Video Online (AVON)
Curated for the educational experience, this collection delivers almost 70,000 titles in a breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, newsreels, theatrical performances, demonstrations, etc.) spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
CBS News 60 MINUTES
Access to transcripts and nearly 500 hours of video from the news program 60 MINUTES from 1997-2014. Each news segment serves as a standalone short documentary on a specific news topic. Segments are also included from the program Sunday Morning, whose timely news pieces, cultural features, and newsmaker profiles form an ideal complement to 60 MINUTES content.
Digital Theatre Plus (DT+)
New in 2022. Streaming videos of English stage performances of classic and modern plays, unique backstage insights, practitioner interviews and written analysis from renowned academics.
Naxos Video Library
Watch streaming videos from an extensive library of more than 3,000 classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Search videos by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival
Visual History Archive (USC Shoah Foundation)
Streaming video collection of more than 55,000 primary source testimonies from survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, including the Armenian Genocide, the Cambodian Genocide, the Central African Republic Conflict, contemporary antisemitism, the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, the Guatemalan Genocide, and the Nanjing Massacre.
Open Access and Freely Available Collections
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) provides access to thousands of hours of programming — as much material as legally possible to include. More than 7,000 historic public radio and television programs are now available for streaming.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is an all-digital library that aggregates over thirteen million photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.
TED Talks
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
Title-by-Title Subscriptions and Purchases
Contact your subject librarian for more information about title-by-title subscription addition and renewal requests.
Alternative Options
Not all videos are available streaming for institutional licensing and budget constraints mean we are not able to accommodate all requests. If licensing through the library is not an option, you may be able to find a low cost pay-per-view option to suggest to your students using JustWatch.