LibGuides: Finding and Using Videos: Streaming Video (Wesleyan only)

Databases with Streamed Video

BBC Shakespeare Plays
All 37 BBC Shakespeare plays with available closed captions.
Dance in Video
Dance in Video will contain 250 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.

Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
Provides access to over 900 full-length productions and educational resources. Digital Theatre Plus includes live performances, documentaries, masterclasses, lectures, study guides, and practical workshop guides.
Digitalia Film Library This link opens in a new window
A multilingual collection of films from Spain, France and other European countries, North American Classic films, and Latin American films from South America, Central America and Caribbean including Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and others.
Docuseek2 Complete Collection This link opens in a new window
Independent documentary films covering topics in the arts, social sciences and sciences; a large number having their focus on social issues as well as on the environment. Film distributors include Bullfrog Films, First Run Features, Icarus Films, and other independent filmmakers from around the world. Generally, 1950s-current
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Educational Streaming Site This link opens in a new window
New and historical video art from the mid 1960s-current. Works in the collection range from seminal videos by pioneering figures such Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler and Joan Jonas to new digital works by emerging artists, including Seth Price, Cory Arcangel and Takeshi Murata. The streaming service offers almost 2,000 titles by 65 artists and will eventually encompass the entire EAI collection (3800 media artworks).
Good Docs Collection This link opens in a new window
GOOD DOCS represents established documentarians and passionate new filmmakers driven by their experiences as educators, academics, journalists, artists, social workers, community members, and activists.

JoVE: Journal of Visualized Experiments
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) is the first scientific journal devoted to the publication of biological, medical, chemical and physical research in a video format.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
An online video streaming service distributing films from Criterion, First Run Features, California Newsreel as well as many other producers.
Library Stack This link opens in a new window
An archive and lending library for new digital projects across visual art, design, architecture, film and theory. It contains both open access titles and ebooks that can be borrowed for a limited time with a created account.

Literature Online - Poets on Screen
The Poets On Screen Library contains 882 clips of poets reading their own and other poets' work.
OntheBoards.TV
High-quality films of full-length performances, presented through streaming video, by some of today’s most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.
Opera in Video
Opera in Video will contain 250 of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work's importance to the operatic canon.

Projectr This link opens in a new window
Projectr partners with educational institutions and public libraries throughout North America to present a curated and ever-expanding collection of acclaimed movies, archival restorations, award-winning documentaries and artist-made works from around the world

Silent Film Online
The database covers silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s.

Swank Digital Campus Streaming Films This link opens in a new window
The top 1000 films most requested by colleges in Swank’s feature film catalog. These films are available for individual viewing to the entire Wesleyan community. The Library also arranges streaming access to course-related films at faculty request.
Theatre in Video (with 2012 supplement) This link opens in a new window
Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video.