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Streaming Film Collections by Subject

This guide is designed to help faculty and students identify streaming films for use in classes, projects, or even as secondary sources.

Biology Featured Film

In The Invisible Extinction, two globetrotting microbiologists, Gloria Dominguez-Bello and Marty Blaser, race to save our vanishing microbes before it’s too late. The Invisible Extinction joins them on this urgent quest from the USA to Venezuela, China, Israel, and Switzerland, revealing how the overuse of antibiotics, elective C-sections, and processed foods are driving the destruction of our inner ecology, which is happening even faster than climate change. At the same time, the film tells the stories of three patients, in the USA and China, who suffer from life-threatening diseases triggered by microbial loss and are trying experimental treatments that hold hope. As the Covid-19 pandemic hits, Marty pivots to focus on how our microbes may help protect us from the virus and future pandemics, while Gloria spearheads the creation of an international microbe vault to safeguard precious specimens.
 
 
poster with white lettering in caps, The INVISIBLE EXTINCTION. Colorful, digitized image of two forms with colorful background

Streaming Service Videos

Avon

  • Biology Videos
    • This link has already set the videos to include those from 2010 to the present with almost 700 videos ranging from a few minutes to full documentaries.  
  • Films On Demand
    • Biology Videos
    • Over 2,500 videos that allows for easy filtering of topic, ex. animal biology, marine biology, etc. Majority of videos are episodes, documentaries or TED Talks. 
  • Docuseek