Library Guides: Film and Audio Resources @ Tulane University Libraries: Where to Watch

Stream Feature Films & Documentaries

KweliTV This link opens in a new window
KweliTV is a mission-driven mass media and entertainment company that celebrates global Black stories and amplifies black creators representing North America, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Australia through more than 700 curated indie films, documentaries, animation, shows, children’s programming and audio stories as well as immersive and live experiences.
As a global platform, kweliTV is accessible from anywhere in the world and distributed to several mobile and TV apps, platforms and educational institutions. Sixty percent of our subscription revenue goes to our 460+ content creators.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
70,000+ Feature films, documentaries, news programs, and educational films. Some international titles. There are no license expiration dates at this time.
Classic Mexican Cinema Online This link opens in a new window
Covers Mexican Cinema, from its beginnings in the late 1890s to its “Golden Age” (1930s to 1960). Includes popular movie periodicals, film flyers, and scrapbooks. Access reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements.
Criterion On Demand This link opens in a new window
Feature films from 20th Century Studios, ShearchLight and more. These films are licensed for 1 year. If you plan to use their films in class, please consult with Media Services to ensure uninterrupted access.
Digitalia Film Library This link opens in a new window
Feature films, documentaries, and television series from Latin America.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
Documentary films. These films have only 3 year licenses. If you plan to use their films in class, please consult with Media Services to ensure uninterrupted access.
Films On Demand This link opens in a new window
Documentaries. These films have 1 or 3 year licenses. If you plan to use their films in class, please consult with Media Services to ensure uninterrupted access.

Indigenous Films
Documentaries and short feature films provided by the National Film Board of Canada.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Feature films and documentaries. International selection. Please note that these films are only licensed for 1 or 3 year terms. If you plan to use their films in class, please consult with Media Services to ensure uninterrupted access. Find the Kanopy app in your app store.
Lumiere (Berkeley Library of Foreign Language Film Clips) This link opens in a new window
Lumière (fka the Berkeley Library of Foreign Language Film Clips/LFLFC) is a film teaching resource for faculty that contains more than 18,000 clips from over 600 films in 31 languages. To request access, Please Apply for an Account on the Lumière website.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Feature films and some popular documentaries. Primarily from studios in the US but some international titles are also available. These films are licensed for 3 years individually. If you plan to use their films in class, please consult with Media Services to ensure uninterrupted access.

Stream Art & Architecture

Art and Architecture in Video This link opens in a new window
Documentaries and interviews illustrating the theory and practice of a variety of art forms across time periods and styles.

Stream Health Science

Bates’ Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 8 hours of video content, 15 OSCE clinical skills videos and other materials.
ClinicalKey This link opens in a new window
Includes medical procedure videos (Procedures Consult), e-books, and journals. Find the app in your favorite app store after creating a user account.
Clinical Sports Medicine Collection This link opens in a new window
The collection includes more than 40 video masterclasses showing procedures such as foot examination, hip injections and basic biomechanical assessment.
The fifth edition Volume 1: Injuries is the essential guide to all aspects of preventing, diagnosing and treating sports-related injuries. It serves physiotherapists, team clinicians, athletic trainers, sports therapists, sports rehabilitators and trainers, as well as students in the health professions and in Human Movement Studies. The Exercise Medicine Collection — abridged content from the fourth edition — serves general practitioners and other clinicians who prescribe exercise to promote health and to treat medical conditions such as heart disease and diabetes. Additional content will be forthcoming in Volume 2: Exercise Medicine. The collection also includes more than 40 video masterclasses showing procedures such as foot examination, hip injections and basic biomechanical assessment.
LWW Health Library This link opens in a new window
Primarily and e-book collection with video clips throughout. Topics include anatomy, embryology, physiology, neuroscience, biochemistry, immunology, neuroscience, and histology.

Stream Historical World News

Access World News - Historical and Current This link opens in a new window
A U.S. and global news source that includes video and other news media formats.
American Archive of Public Broadcasting This link opens in a new window
Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America.
AP Archive (YouTube Edition) This link opens in a new window
AP Archive is the film and video archive of The Associated Press. The collection offers over 1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories from 1895 to today.
British Pathé This link opens in a new window
An extensive newsreel archive spanning 1910-1984.
Open Vault (WGBH) This link opens in a new window
An archive of shows covering historically significant events broadcast by the public television station WGBH.

Stream History

African Diaspora, 1860-Present This link opens in a new window
Includes personal accounts, video, and primary sources in this global black studies collection that focuses on the migrations, communities, and ideologies of people of African descent.
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
Provides access streaming video of commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Border and Migration Studies Online This link opens in a new window
Includes video, text, and images examining themes associated with border and migration issues.
Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Fortunoff Archive This link opens in a new window
The Fortunoff Archive currently holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of testimonies. The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions.
If you are not a Tulane affiliate, please contact Scholarly Engagement Librarian Rachel Stein at rstein7@tulane.edu. Also note, users will need to send a request to the administrator for permission for some collections and videos.
Revolution and Protest Online This link opens in a new window
Video, ebooks, reports, journals, and archival materials examine how revolution, protest, and social movements have shaped and transformed the human experience.

Stream Performing Arts

Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall This link opens in a new window
Live streams as well as the collection includes archived performances. Download the app from your favorite app store.
BroadwayHD Collection This link opens in a new window
Watch select Broadway Theatre productions.
Dance Online: Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
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.
Digital Theatre + This link opens in a new window
Includes over 300 classic, contemporary and international productions (many exclusive to DT+) and over 230 exclusive interviews exploring the dramatic, technical theatre-making process, as well as experimental, post-dramatic and applied theatre.
Digital Theatre + also offers more that 100 essays, documentaries, lectures, and study guides, covering theatre history, context, language analysis, encyclopedia entries, and practical techniques. The platform also offers more that 100 essays, documentaries, lectures, and study guides, covering theatre history, context, language analysis, encyclopedia entries, and practical techniques.
DRAMA Online This link opens in a new window
Watch Shakespeare's Globe on Screen (2008-2015) and films from Stage on Screen.
Tulane's subscription includes the Shakespeare's Globe on Screen 1 (2008-2015) & 2 (2016-2018), the Stage on Screen video collection, their Core Collection of play-texts, and the Critical Studies & Performance Practice eBook collection.
Music Online: Opera in Video This link opens in a new window
View hundreds of significant opera performances in staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new window
View world-class productions offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies from the U.K. National Theatre.
Performance Design Archive Online This link opens in a new window
Print materials as well as specially commissioned instructional videos, cover design concepts for dance, theater, opera, and music.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
View 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

When It's Not Online

The film collection at Howard-Tilton Memorial Library is a rich primary research resource for critical sense-making and serves as a pedagogical tool for the Tulane teaching and learning community. International documentaries, art film, narrative features, and animated movies may all be found in the film collections. This collection provides the Tulane community access to an inclusive and representative selection of international film and filmmakers.

All of our films can be discovered by searching Library Search and using the resource type filter 'video'.

Media Services provides several viewing options:

Watch on the Sony Big Screen

Borrow a pair of headphones from the 6th floor service desk and plug your laptop in to view your project or stream a film on the big screen.

Location: 6th floor

Check Out a USB DVD Drive/Disc Reader

Compatible with any computer equipped with a USB3 port, these portable disc readers may be used to watch DVDs from the library's extensive film collection or a personal collection.

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Check Out a Panasonic Multi-region Blu-ray/DVD player

The Panasonic Blu-ray reader is available to check out of the library and may be used to watch both Blu-rays DVDs from the library's extensive film collection or a personal collection.

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