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About Online Video Resources (UofC)
For a complete list of video databases see:
- All database types - Videos for additional streaming video resources as well as for streaming video included in other (e.g. primarily text) online resources. For a broader selection enter the search term "video" in the search in database box on the left side of the page. Although most of the resources listed are subscription resources, a few are freely available on the Web.
- All subjects - film for film information
- General search for content use "film" in the database search box.
Online Video (UofC): Interdisciplinary
- Streaming video from Films Media Group
- >4,600 videos on topics in the social sciences, TED Talks, arts & humanities, science, mathematics, health, business, economics, and career counseling.
- Special features: ability to organize and bookmark clips, share playlists...
- We have a subscription which allows educational public performance rights, that is, classroom use of the films on the NFB web site for the University of Calgary.
- Curio.ca gives streaming access to the best in educational video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada; a wealth of primary-source content in English and French, including the latest from CBC's award-winning documentaries (television and radio), news, drama, children's programming and more.
- is the exclusive Canadian rights representative for : Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Pixar Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Tristar Pictures, Screen Gems, Universal Studios Canada (MCA), MGM Studios, United Artists, and many more.
- Criterion-on-demand provides easy access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions. This service includes: a bilingual website that offers title information, search capabilities, list new releases and accept title requests; more than 1500 titles; more than 1100 French titles; approximately 135 foreign language films with English subtitles; more than 100 documentary features (many from National Geographic); and closed captioned titles when available. Criterion-on-Demand represents a large number of feature film producers, including, but not limited to: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, Mongrel Media, Sony Pictures Classics, Alliance Films, Miramax Films, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Films, The Weinstein Company, as well as a smaller number of independent producers. Our title selection includes 1920 classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.
- Films in the Kanopy collection are licensed individually. To find the film, search the title in the library main search box. To see which Kanopy films we hold currently, click on the Kanopy link above. Licenses expire, so please check to confirm.
Online Video (UofC): Health Sciences and General Sciences
Bates' Visual Guide to Physical Examination
- A teaching resource consisting of 18 anatomy and system specific videos. Each video shows a step-by-step examination.
Health & Wellness Resource Center Alternative Health Module
- Provides access to over 700 health-related videos from partner Healthology, Inc.
- Includes transcripts of the videos
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- Gale OneFile. Health and Medicine This link opens in a new windowA resource for up-to-date information on the complete range of health care topics. With more than 2,500 embargo-free, full-text periodicals, reference books, pamphlets, and hundreds of videos demonstrating medical procedures and live surgeries, Gale OneFile: Health and Medicine ensures that researchers get current, scholarly, comprehensive answers to health-related questions.
- Nursing Reference Center Plus This link opens in a new windowNursing Reference Center Plus is an evidence-based information resource designed specifically for nurses. With Nursing Reference Center Plus, you get all the content in Nursing Reference Center and much more including videos, images and new topics covering nursing management and leadership.
- BBC landmark video collectionCollection of HD films about the natural world, including earth science, climate science, life sciences, geography, and more.
Online Video (UofC): Hum./Social Sci.
- Offers thousands of American history streaming video title on topics ranging from jazz music to social issues.
- Allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.
Counseling and Therapy in Video v. I and v. II
- Offers hundreds of streaming video titles for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
- Offers hundreds of the most frequently assigned films in anthropology, ethnography, and social psychology courses.
- Targeted for inclusion are works by world-famous pioneers in the field, including Edward Curtis (In the Land of the War Canoes); Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North together with his article, “How I Filmed Nanook of the North”); John Marshall (The Hunters, the entire !Kung Bushman Series; A Kalahari Family); Jean Rouch; Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; Robert Gardner (Dead Birds, Rivers of Sand, Forest of Bliss); Timothy Asch, Patsy Asch, and Napoleon Chagnon (the complete Yanomamo Series, The Ax Fight); and Asen Balikci.
- Includes field notes, liner notes, filmmaker biographies, related articles, study guides, and other context-enhancing, full-text materials.
- >1,750 English-language documentaries
- Survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Global in scope: Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Oceania
- Border and Migration studies onlineThis collection of primary source documents, archives, films, and ephemera relate to significant border areas and events from the 19th to 21st centuries. It offers researchers historical context and resources, from both personal and institutional perspectives
- Middle East online Iraq 1914-1974A collection within Gale's Archives Unbound platform, original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974. Major policy statements and other working documents are set out in context, the minor documents and marginalia revealing the workings of the mandate administration, diplomacy, treaties, oil and arms dealing. Includes photographs and colour maps, as well as contemporary film
Online Video (UofC): Visual/Perf. Arts
- Drama online BBC drama films and documentariesFeatures film adaptations of classic and contemporary plays from Sophocles and Shakespeare, to Oscar Wilde, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Bernard Shaw and contemporary writers, Michael Frayn and Joe Penhall.
- Offers hundreds of streaming video titles from 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..
- Over 1200 films ot classical music programs.
- Offers hundreds of opera performances captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries..
- Royal Shakespeare Company CollectionRoyal Shakespeare Company Collection (The) This link opens in a new window
These high-definition, surround-sound recordings of William Shakespeare's plays featuring the world's best Shakespearean actors, like David Tennant, Sir Anthony Sher, Paapa Essidu, and Simon Russell-Beale, and directors like Robin Lough and Dewi Humphrey. The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection brings The Tempest, King Lear, Hamlet and other famous performances filmed at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Stratford-upon-Avon theater to classrooms around the world.
- Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
- Access to Volume 1 and BBC Television Shakespeare series
Contains performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries on the subject of theater in streaming video. Some plays presented in multiple productions exemplifying various interpretations of the text, and technical and cultural differences among the presentations. Stage work of directors and actors are cross-searchable and available for side-by-side comparison. Interviews with directors, designers, writers, and actors, along with excerpts of live performances, provide illustration of the development of texts and the productions. When complete, Theatre in Video will contain more than 350 full-length plays and documentaries. As an add-on component available to subscribers, the BBC Television Shakespeare series contains productions of Shakespeare's greatest plays adapted for television which was originally televised from 1978 and 1985.
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