Penn State University Libraries - Streaming Video Resources

Individual Titles (Penn State)

• Streaming Video Content: Currently available videos (partial list) with links to full or small size frame. Check this page often or consult with your subject Librarian for additions of film. [Penn State Libraries]
  • Streaming video examples:
    • Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People
      
    • Tim Wise on White Privilege: Racism, White Denial and the Costs of Inequality
    • Edward Said: On Orientalism
    • Further Off the Straight and Narrow: New Gay Visibility on Television, 1998-2006
    • The Mean World Syndrome: Media Violence and the Cultivation of Fear
    • Ethnic Notions
    • Color Adjustment
    • People Like Us: Social Class in America
  • Vendors include
    • Media Education Foundation
      • Produces documentary films to inspire critical reflection
      • Provides study guides and transcripts
    • California Newsreel
      • Film and video for social change since 1968
      • Resources include transcripts, facilitator guides, closed captioned
    • Center for New American Media
      • Produces award winning, entertaining and educational video documentaries
      • Study guides and bibliography of related books

Databases & Subject Based Collections

• American History in Video (North America) 
  • Newsreel coverage 1920-1967
  • Over 2,000 hours (5,000 items) of archival and documentary film and newsreel of American historical interest, with searchable transcripts and playlist capabilities
    
  • Contains archival and recent content from The History Channel, PBS, California Newsreel, Universal, and numerous other documentary and educational media sources
• Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume 1
  • For the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling
    
  • Over 400 hours and more than 330 videos of actual, re-enacted, and scripted therapy sessions
    
  • Searchable transcripts, Teaching and Discussion Guides
    
• Dance in Video
  • 500 hours of 20th century productions and documentaries
    
  • Browse by composer, choreographer, genre, performer, ensemble, or role
  • Contains ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, improvisational, and modern concert dance
  • Includes works of top ballet companies, up-and-coming dance troupes, choreographers,  videos on dance training
• Education in Video (United States)
  • Developed specifically for training and developing teachers
  • Includes teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms
• March of Time
  
  • Time, Inc.'s newsreel series (1935 to 1967)
  • Recorded global events and brought them to big screens around the world and later, television
    
  • Contains historic footage dating back to 1913
• Nursing Education in Video
  
  • Comprehensive collection created for the education and training of nurses, nursing assistants, and other healthcare workers
  • Searchable transcripts synchronized to full-length video
  • Updated annually to reflect changes in accepted practices and principles
• Opera in Video
  • 500 hours of staged productions, interviews, and documentaries
    
  • Cover the full range of operatic composition, from the Baroque to the 20th century
    
  • Synchronized and searchable opera subtitles, video clip-making tools, annotated playlist tools
• Theatre in Video
  
  • Over 500 hours of actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed live
    
  • Covers 1930s through the 20th century, providing a wide range of theatre history
• World History in Video (North America)
  • Selected documentaries from PBS, the BBC, and other educational filmakers
    
  • Covers human history from the earliest civilizations to late twentieth century
  • Transcripts searchable and synchronized to video
    
  • Create video playlists to be annotated, copied, and shared