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Film & Video: DVD & Streaming video
Videos
Tips for finding DVDs or streaming videos owned by or subscribed to by the GVSU Libraries are in the left-hand column, and video content outside of GVSU is available in the right-hand column.
Streaming video databases
You can browse through our streaming video databases or explore one of the databases listed below!
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Academic Video Online
- Anatomy TV
- Dance in Video
- Education in Video
- Ethnographic Video Online
- Filmakers Library Online
- LGBT Studies in Video
- Nursing Assessment in Video
- Nursing Education in Video
- Opera in Video
- Rehabilitation Therapy in Video
- Sports Medicine and Exercise Science in Video
- Theatre in Video
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Docuseek2documentary and social issues streaming videos in all major disciplines.
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Films on Demandstreaming videos from the Films Media Group
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Sage VideosEducational videos and clips mostly in the social sciences.
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KanopyStreaming videos (documentaries, cinema, film, TV) on all topics, by professor request only (students, please ask your instructor).
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GLEAN: GVSU Visual Resources LibraryIncludes: Library Catalog of books, periodicals, and DVD/VHS, and the Visual Resources Collection of copyrighted and licensed images.
Streaming video websites
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Canadian films onlineStreaming documentaries, animations, alternative dramas, and indigenous cinema
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European Film Gatewayincludes Italian documentary and short films, magic lantern slides of the Cinémathèque française; Norwegian commercials of the 1950s; Hungarian film posters; post-WW II newsreels from Finland; and collections of films by the likes of Julius Neubronner. Films can be viewed but not downloaded.
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Europa Film TreasuresEuropean historical streaming films
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HooplaBorrow digital movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics, and TV shows with your public library card.
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Library of Congress Films and VideosStreaming videos from the Library of Congress
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Moving Image Archive / Archive.orgStreaming videos in all genres from the Internet Archive.
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National Film Preservationrestored films for streaming
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National Screening Room, Library of CongressOtherwise unavailable movies freely accessible to viewers worldwide, as both 5 mb MP4 and ProRes 422 MOV downloads.
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Shout Factory TVfree streaming classic cult, horror, sci-fi, etc. Think Kentucky Fried Movie, The Prisoner, Space 1999.
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Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Virtual CinemaDigitized films from the documentary collection of Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ): life and events in both Israel and the Diaspora, including some Holocaust-related footage.
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TubiTubi has free TV and movies, mostly from Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Lionsgate. Viewers must sign up to view anything with "mature" content, but signup is free.
GVSU Film & Video on the web
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From Somewhere Else: DocumentaryProduced by Vandana Pednekar-Magal and Keith Oppenheim, looks at transnational communities in Grand Rapids; how changes in global communication have changed the immigrant experience.
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Alone: The Sicarius GamesFull-length horror feature film made by students Nehemiah Hudgins-Lopez and Nicholas Ranger, 2018.
- Last Updated: Jun 12, 2025 2:42 PM
- URL: https://libguides.gvsu.edu/filmvideo