Video and Film databases
The film databases below are specialized, as their content is not the usual mainstream collection of films. Alden Library has a multitude of films from mainstream feature films to independents to documentaries. Start here to begin your search.
- Kanopy Streaming VideosKanopy is the host for this streaming service providing quality content from various distributors, i.e., California Newsreel, Media Education Foundation and many others.
- Media Education Foundation (MEF)The Media Education Foundation Gender Studies Collection (MEF) produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources (including study guides and transcripts) to inspire critical thinking about the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media.
- Meet the Press, 1947- (Interviews)Meet the Press (via VAST) - started in 1947 - Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program airing on NBC. It is the longest-running television series in American broadcasting history.
VAST: Academic Video OnlineA collection of streaming videos. Content includes documentaries, interviews, news programs and news reels, commercials and raw footage. If you create an account with VAST, you can create a collection of clips.- VAST: Tony Brown's Journal (Interviews)William Anthony "Tony" Brown is an American journalist, academian, comedian and businessman. He is best known as the commentator of the long running syndicated television show, Tony Brown's Journal. Brown is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. (Wikipedia)
- 50th Anniversary Conference of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement