Research Guides: Film and Electronic Arts: Streaming Media

Streaming Media

Streaming media includes sound and video that is viewed or listened to on the web. The collections on this page are subscribed to by CSULB, so you will need a CSULB ID to use them off campus.

The majority of videos and songs are individually cataloged and searchable in OneSearch, but some are not. You can search for titles, or go straight to specific collections from this page. Once on the collection's site, you will be able to search for specific songs and videos, and browse what else is available.

Video Collections

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window More than 48,000 streaming videos in dozens of subject areas, including anthropology, business, counseling, history, music and film, from producers such as A&E, BBC, Bloomberg, HBO, PBS, Teachers TV, and VideoFashion News. Also includes tools to create custom playlists and learning segments.
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Ambrose Video Collection This link opens in a new window Over 700 educational videos in science, history, and literature. Includes: Career Decisions: Physical Therapy; The Neuroscience of Addiction Extended Interviews; Behavioral Science; AP Human Geography; Great Directors; Great Authors; all 37 BBC Shakespeare Plays and more.
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BBC Shakespeare Film Collection This link opens in a new window Featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent these films are an ideal choice for literature classes and for continuing personal enjoyment.
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Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection This link opens in a new window "Preserves the visual history of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of digitized print materials.” Includes: books, encyclopedias, choreography notes, photographs, dance notation and other material.
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Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window Access to 1000+ full-length theatre productions and educational resources. Contributions from 50 world-class theatre companies, industry associations, practitioners, teachers, examination boards and scholars.
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Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window More than 800 streaming video documentaries in more than 25 academic subject areas.
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Drama Online This link opens in a new window Drama Online includes full text plays from both established and new authors along with scholarly analyses and audio and video content. Collections include: The National Theatre Collection, BBC Drama Films & Documentaries, The Hollow Crown and Critical Studies and Performance Practice. Updated annually.
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DSM 5 Guided Film Collection This link opens in a new window The library of over 500 mental health simulations include Assessment Tools, DSM 5 and ICD Guided Films. Topics include: Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders, OCD Series, ADHD Series, Personality Disorder Series, Child & Adolescent Series, and Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders.
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Education in Video This link opens in a new window This multi-volume collection contains more than 1,650 hours of video that gives education students a reliable way to observe the intricacies of behavior that define effective teaching styles.
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Engineering Case Studies Online This link opens in a new window Material from newspapers, websites, journals, case studies, as well as videos, primary footage, and simulations of major engineering failures all exploring issues of engineering ethics. 
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Environmental Issues Online This link opens in a new window Brings together multimedia materials around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new window More than 20,000 streaming films in 24 subject areas from major producers, including ABC News, BBC, Frontline, National Geographic, NBC News, NOVA, and PBS.
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Food Studies Online This link opens in a new window Food Studies Online is interdisciplinary, but is of primary interest to social scientists and students of policy and business. Marketing and consumerism, food history, food movements, culinary and food design, food and identity, health, policy, religion, sociology, anthropology and history.
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Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window Access documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010. Coverage of Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Darfur, and more than thirty additional areas.
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JoVE Bioengineering This link opens in a new window JoVE Bioengineering merges both physical and life sciences to understand and predict biological processes. Applying physical science tools to life science questions allow for the discovery of better technologies to measure, diagnose, and clinically treat disease.
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JoVE Biology This link opens in a new window Includes video articles on general biology research methodologies in cell, molecular, and organismal biology, ranging from new applications of standard techniques to novel approaches aimed at understanding the functions of life and living organisms.
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JoVE Developmental Biology This link opens in a new window JoVE Developmental Biology includes methods for the study of biological development at all levels, from cellular to whole organisms. Specific topics include gametogenesis and fertilization, embryogenesis, morphogenesis and organogenesis, stem cell biology and nuclear reprogramming, regeneration and repair, mechanisms of differentiation, genetic and epigenetic control of development, evolutionary developmental biology, aging and senescence.
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JoVE Neuroscience This link opens in a new window JoVE Neuroscience includes methods and techniques for studying the brain and nervous system; also featuring potential treatments for neurological conditions and diseases.
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JoVE Science Education This link opens in a new window Educators and students use our innovative video collections in the JoVE Science Education Library to better teach and learn key concepts and fundamental techniques. These simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations cover a wide range of STEM subjects including Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Psychology, Clinical Medicine and Engineering.
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Kanopy Streaming Videos This link opens in a new window
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Beginning April 15, 2024, Android 7.1.1 will be the earliest supported Android OS for all OverDrive apps and websites, including Libby and Kanopy.
Latin America in Video This link opens in a new window Original-language documentaries from some of the most important producers and independent filmmakers in Latin America. The videos were produced in Latin America, by Latin Americans, about Latin American issues, such as human rights, violence, immigration, illiteracy, popular culture, and political history. The first of its kind, the collection’s materials are presented in their original language with abstracts and indexing in Spanish, Portuguese, and English.
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LGBT Thought and Culture This link opens in a new window Rare archival content, including letters, court documents, periodicals, speeches, interviews and ephemera from local, national and international organizations, as well as notable individuals from around the world, to trace the history of LGBT political, social and cultural movements from the late 19th century to the present day.
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Library of Congress: Film, Video, Available Online More than 8,000 videos, mostly short, mostly historical, made available streaming online from the United States Library of Congress.
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LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) This link opens in a new window Business, software, technology and creative skills training from a leading online learning company. Brush up on existing skills or learn new subjects. High-quality, current, and engaging video tutorials taught by recognized industry experts.
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Meet the Press This link opens in a new window A weekly American television news/interview program broadcast on NBC. Contains episodes from 1947 to 2013. There are interviews with leaders on politics, economics, foreign policy and other public affairs, with panel discussions providing opinions and analysis.
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Nursing Videos - Films on Demand This link opens in a new window The Films on Demand Nursing collection provides access to over 1300 nursing-related online streaming titles from numerous distributors. The videos cover a range of topics from academic success skills, patient care, and social conditions.
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PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window Contains documentaries and series featuring diverse content in science, culture, history, art, literature, business, economics and more.
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Psychological Experiments Online This link opens in a new window Documentary films, video clips, documents and interviews on classic psychology experiments and historically important psychologists. Includes experiments such as the Stanford Prison Experiment, Pavlov’s dogs, and the Black Doll/White Doll experiment on internalized racism.
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Revolution and Protest Online This link opens in a new window Examines the most studied and important events and themes related to revolution and protest from the 18th century through the early 21st century. 30+ thematic units representing a variety of time periods, regions, and topics.
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Royal Shakespeare Company Collection This link opens in a new window Provides high-definition recordings of Shakespeare's plays with top actors and directors, accompanied by teaching materials to support engagement and learning.
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SAGE Campus This link opens in a new window SAGE Campus supports the teaching and learning of skills and research methods through 200+ hours of structured online learning. The courses are self-paced and instructor-led, comprising an engaging mix of content that includes video, interactives modules, and formative assessments.
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SAGE Research Methods Video This link opens in a new window This collection contains videos covering a range of methods needed to carry out effective market research, from traditional techniques to new developments in the field.
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Social Work Online This link opens in a new window With over 100 hours of video and 50,000 pages of text this collection addresses the essential concepts students will employ in their everyday work as practitioners.
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Swank This link opens in a new window Streaming over 100 major motion pictures that are the most-requested feature films for curriculum support. Students, faculty and staff are able to stream the movies and faculty may link the movies in Canvas and/or show during class.
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TED Talks - Films on Demand This link opens in a new window More than 1,000 of the talks presented at the semi-annual TED Conferences.
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USC Shoah Foundation: Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window Dedicated to making the audio-visual interviews of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other genocides, the USC Shoah Foundation: The Institute for Visual History and Education provides a compelling voice for education, research, and action.
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Sound and Music Collections

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection This link opens in a new window Plays are chosen for literary significance as well as their ability to examine complicated moral and ethical issues. Can be used for research and instruction on issues and hot topics in the humanities, social sciences, theatre, hard sciences, law, medicine and other fields of study.
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Ethnographic Sound Archives Online This link opens in a new window Historic audio recordings from around the world (particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s) and supporting field materials.
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IPA Source This link opens in a new window IPA Source (International Phonetic Alphabet) “was developed to benefit singers, teachers, and all those interested in the correct and knowledgeable performance of vocal literature. The goal of IPA Source is to promote the comprehension and accurate pronunciation of foreign language texts in art song and opera in order that the singer may imbue each syllable with the appropriate emotional content. IPA Source offers texts to works for the solo voice in Latin, Italian, German, French, Spanish, and English.”
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medici.tv This link opens in a new window Features over 2,000 classical music programs including concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries and master classes. Also includes over 150 live broadcast events per year.
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NAXOS Music Library This link opens in a new window Complete catalogs or selected recordings of over 940 record labels. Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Includes composer info and biographies, libretti, pronunciation guides, aural training guides and more. Naxos app available for mobile devices.
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Naxos only allows 15 simultaneous users.
North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries and Oral Histories This link opens in a new window Provides a unique and personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada. ... Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews, indexed and searchable for the first time, are included, along with thousands of political cartoons.
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Audiobooks

Libby (previously Overdrive) This link opens in a new window Popular ebooks and audiobooks that you can read and listen to through the Libby app on your personal device.
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