Streaming Video: How to Access and Download

Over 25,000 videos with more added every day. Outstanding content from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, ABC News, NBC News, the BBC, National Geographic, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Bill Moyers, Shopware, Cerebellum, Cambridge Educational, and many more. Full length classic films are included, as well as award winning theater productions. Many videos on science, literature, art, history, and world cultures, and videos in many languages. The videos are divided into small usable segments and most include transcripts.

(Select the Videos & Audio Tab) Unlimited remote access to more than 63,000* (and growing) videos all cross-searchable from a single platform. The database includes scholarly video material of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, demonstrations, original and raw footage including tens of thousands of exclusive tiles. There are thousands of award-winning films, Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners along with the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material. The embeddable video player with keyword-searchable transcripts allows users to browse and refine with intuitive facets and then create and share custom clips and playlists.

More than 67,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 14,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street.Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all.

This constantly growing collection meets the full range of teaching needs for theatre studies, literature courses and drama schools. From the epic to the monologue; ensemble to one-person plays; comedy to tragedy; the historical to the contemporary; and from the highly political to the profoundly personal, there is plenty to discover.