Film Genres: Streaming services
This page highlights the streaming video services to which the Library subscribes. The films in these databases are available for viewing, creating clips and making comments. Remember, if you are off-campus, you must run VPN first before viewing any film.
Internet resource(s)
JustWatch
Want to watch a movie or TV show on a streaming service and don't know where it's available? JustWatch lets you search for content and see where that content is available. You can see where the content streams or is available for rent or purchase.
Reelgood
Reelgood is an extensive streaming guide showing all of the movies and television shows available through streaming services.
Call Number: Streaming video
Kanopy Streaming is a media streaming service to which Dartmouth subscribes. There are several collections in this service including Criterion, the DEFA Library, foreign language films and many documentaries.
An Explanation of How Kanopy Works
The Kanopy service has a distinctive business model which is based on setting up an account at the beginning of the financial year. The service is patron-driven and draws down from that annually budgeted account as films are selected by our patrons. This "patron driven" model is really rather different than an annual subscription model such as you might find with Netflix or Amazon. When using Kanopy, after the third view of a film (defined as 30 seconds or more) we are charged a license activation fee which supplies all patrons unlimited access to that particular film (not all films) for 1-year. When the 1-year license expires then the process repeats, and we potentially pay again for that same film for another year. However, a new account is set up at the beginning of each new financial year.
[Test courtesy of Kenneth Peterson, Associate Librarian for Access and Collections Strategies, 5/2019]
For another perspective on Kanopy, please see Chris Cagle's commentary in Film Quarterly.
Criterion Collection from Kanopy
Kanopy Streaming includes works in the Criterion Collection.
Asian Film Online by Alexander Street Press
Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of nearly 600 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. With Asian voices addressing Asian issues, and through works selected by Asian film experts, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights from 24 countries across the region.
Asian Theatre Video by Alexander Street Press
Asian Theater Video is a bundle of 27 films and instructional programs for introductory and advanced studies in Asian culture.
BroadwayHD by Alexander Street Press
An exclusive collection of recorded live theater plays and musicals. The complete collection includes 25 performances from the New York theater scene for educational streaming.
Classical performance in video by Alexander Street Press
This is a database of video resources for the study of classical music. Users can experience classical music through 1,600 performances, including 200 full operas and 75 dance titles, as well as masterclasses, documentaries, scores, and interviews.
Dance in video by Alexander Street Press
This searchable database containing streaming video files of dance productions and documentaries by 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.
Digitalia Film Library
A collection of streaming films and documentaries from Spain, Latin America, and other countries. The library also contains a large collection of classic North American films.
Ethnographic video online by Alexander Street Press
Ethnographic Video Online is a comprehensive online resource for the study of human culture, behavior and society around the world. The collections contain over 1,300 hours of streaming video, including ethnographic films, documentaries, select feature films, and previously unpublished fieldwork.
Meet the Press by Alexander Street Press
This database includes over 1,500 hours of footage for the news program 'Meet the Press.' Programs are dated from 1947 to the present for surviving shows.
New world cinema: independent features & shorts, 1990-present by Alexander Street Press
The collection includes approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative. The narratives provide a window into a wide range of cultures and sociological issues around the world.
Silent Film Online by Alexander Street Press
Silent Film Online contains more than 1,000 streaming online titles. These films represent the foundation of modern cinematic technique and film theory.
Theatre in video by Alexander Street Press
This database contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays are presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and the technical and cultural differences among the presentations.
Theatre in video 2 by Alexander Street Press
These collections, volumes 1 & 2, contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays are presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations.
VAST : academic video online by Alexander Street Press
VAST includes selected content from almost every Alexander Street Press individual video collection, and also many other videos not in those collections. The database covers the following subject areas and more: art, architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, economics, education, ethnic studies, ethnography, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, humanities, law and public safety, literature, opera, philosophy, political science, rehabilitation and sports medicine, feature films (including contemporary world cinema and silent films), psychology, religion, science, theatre, musical performance, and women's studies.
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