Saturday, September 30, 2017

Find Films

Find films in the library catalogue by using the advanced search option and limiting material type to VIDEO and/or DVD.  Watch a short video on finding films at the Brock Library.

These sites also offer movies:

    Criterion-on-Demand
        Stream feature films
        Find classic films, documentaries, international film, North American feature films, cult classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features
        For optimal viewing use Foxfire or Internet Explorer. For viewing in Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer, please first install the Microsoft Silverlight Plugin. 
    Kanopy
        Interdisciplinary
        Stream documentaries, feature films and training videos.

    NFB.ca Screening Room
   Find documentaries and films of the lives of Canadians, the environment, human rights, international conflict and more
Described video and closed captioning capabilities
        Register for an NFB Campus account to create custom playlists and access additional educational content  Film en Streaming

    Internet Archive Moving Image
    contains thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.

    Theatre in Video
    this database offers streaming video of performances of plays and film documentaries.

    American Memory Project: Motion Pictures
    Sixteen archival collections including Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 and Theodore Roosevelt's life on film.

Thanhouser Films Online

    Open Access 

Streaming video of 56 films produced by Thanhouser Company, accompanied by music composed exclusively for this collection and film notes by Victor Graf. The Thanhouser films are organized in chronological order of release to the US market. From its founding in 1909 through 1917, Thanhouser Company, and its successor company, Mutual's Thanhouser Film Corporation, produced and released over 1,000 silent films to worldwide distribution.