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Library Subscriptions
Lesley Libraries pay for these video streaming databases so you don't have to! You can even log in with your Lesley credentials to get this content when you're off campus!
- Academic Video Online Premium (ASP)-NEWAcademic Video Online Premium is a multidisciplinary database featuring a single, fully integrated platform, offering access to tens of thousands of full-length streaming video titles. Videos in are transcribed in addition to being indexed for subjects, people, places, release date, language, publisher, and video type.
- Films on Demand (FMG)Documentary and educational video clips
- Kanopy Streaming Media NewKanopy streams more than 26,000 films covering psychology, education, human services, the arts, and more.
Free on the Web
Here are a few free video databases from around the interwebs. Remember you can also use a search engine and narrow your results to just videos.
- VidevoFree stock footage
- Internet Archive: Moving ImageThis library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
- TED TalksTED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100+ languages.
- Kahn AcademyLearn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more.
- UbuWebUbuWeb is a large web-based educational resource for avant-garde material available on the internet, founded in 1996 by poet Kenneth Goldsmith. It offers visual, concrete and sound poetry, expanding to include film and sound art mp3 archives.
- Art BabbleArtBabble was conceived, initiated, designed, built, sculpted, programmed, shot, edited, painted and launched by a cross-departmental collection of individuals at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). It is intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives.
- Global ArtArt Through Time: A Global View examines themes connecting works of art created around the world in different eras. The thirteen-part series explores diverse cultural perspectives on shared human experiences.
- Art of the Western World video seriesA video instructional series on art history for college and high school classrooms and adult learners; 9 one-hour video programs and coordinated books
- List of free video databasesUniversity of Oregon's list of free video databases