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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.

Literature: Engilsh, Modern languages (western), Arabic Chinese Japanese Swahili Featured Video

Persepolis, from the book by Marjorie Satrapi.  Writer and director Marjane Satrapi draws a poignant story about a young girl in Iran during the Islamic Revolution, when people's hopes were dashed as fundamentalists took power.  (The link is the trailer to the film, use Persepolis full movie link)

Streaming Service Videos

Avon

  • Literature Videos
    • This link includes over 4,400 documentaries related to literature with videos dating from the 1980's to now.

Films on Demand

  • American Literature Videos
    • Over 500 videos that allows for easy filtering of topic, ex. 19th century, 20th century, etc. Majority of videos are episodes, documentaries or TED Talks. 
  • British & Irish Literature Videos
    • Almost 700 videos that allows for easy filtering of topic, ex. 18th century, 19th century, etc. Majority of videos are episodes, documentaries or TED Talks. 
  • Introduction to Literature Videos
    • Over 150 videos that allows for easy filtering of topic, ex. American literature, British literature, etc. Majority of videos are episodes, documentaries or TED Talks. 

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