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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 browser through our streaming video databases here, or explore directly within one of the databases listed below!
- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
- 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
- Docuseek2 This link opens in a new windowdocumentary and social issues streaming videos in all major disciplines.
- Sage Videos This link opens in a new windowEducational videos and clips mostly in the social sciences.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowStreaming videos (documentaries, cinema, film, TV) on all topics, by professor request only (students, please ask your instructor).
- 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
- Canadian films onlineStreaming documentaries, animations, alternative dramas, and indigenous cinema
- European Film Gatewayincludes Italian documentary & short films, magic lantern slides of the Cinémathèque française; Norwegian commercials of the 1950s; Hungarian film posters; post-WW II newsreels from Finland; & collections of films by the likes of Julius Neubronner. Films can be viewed but not downloaded.
- Europa Film TreasuresEuropean historical streaming films
- HooplaBorrow digital movies, music, audiobooks, eBooks, comics, and TV shows with your public library card.
- Library of Congress Films and VideosStreaming videos from the Library of Congress
- Moving Image Archive / Archive.orgStreaming videos in all genres from the Internet Archive.
- National Film Preservationrestored films for streaming
- National Screening Room, Library of CongressOtherwise unavailable movies freely accessible to viewers worldwide, as both 5 mb MP4 and ProRes 422 MOV downloads.
- PopcornflixFree service but includes ads.
- Shout Factory TVfree streaming classic cult, horror, sci-fi, etc. Think Kentucky Fried Movie, The Prisoner, Space 1999.
- Snag Filmsfree streaming films with ads, mostly B videos and documentaries
- Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Virtual CinemaDigitized films from the documentary collection of Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ): life & events in both Israel & the Diaspora, including some Holocaust-related footage.
- 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.
- CrackleFree movies, sitcoms, & anime
GVSU Film & Video on the web
- From Somewhere Else: DocumentaryProduced by Vandana Pednekar-Magal & Keith Oppenheim, looks at transnational communities in Grand Rapids; how changes in global communication have changed the immigrant experience.
- Alone: The Sicarius GamesFull-length horror feature film made by students Nehemiah Hudgins-Lopez and Nicholas Ranger, 2018.
- Last Updated: Oct 26, 2023 10:45 AM
- URL: https://libguides.gvsu.edu/filmvideo