Video Streaming
Browse our extensive collection of video platforms. Please be aware that some platforms require you to have a valid UT Dallas email address to access them and view their content.
Academic Video Online
Academic Video Online makes video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. Search for award-winning films including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners and access content from PBS, BBC, 60 MINUTES, National Geographic, Annenberg Learner, BroadwayHD™, A+E Networks’ HISTORY® and more.
Note: This database includes some SAMPLE videos that UTD does not have access to.
Ambrose Video
Ambrose Video primarily contains documentaries and theatre productions from the British Broadcasting Corporation and Ambrose Video. Collection highlights include multiple documentary series The Long Search, The Making of Mankind, A History of the U.S. Constitution, Ancient History. The collection also contains several BBC Shakespeare theatre productions.
Docuseek
The Docuseek Collection contains over 2000 different documentaries from highly rated documentary production companies such as Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, The National Film Board of Canada, and Women Make Movies. This collection focuses on a wide variety of historical, social, cultural, environmental, religious, and interdisciplinary topics.
JoVE
Jove publishes the leading peer-reviewed, PubMed-indexed video methods journal. Articles consist of high-quality video demonstrations and detailed text protocols which facilitate scientific reproducibility and productivity. The scope of the journal includes novel techniques, innovative applications of existing techniques, and gold standard protocols in the physical and life sciences. Video demonstrations cover a wide range of STEM subjects including biology, chemistry, environmental science, psychology, clinical medicine and engineering.
Has your access to JoVE been blocked? Visit our JoVE Access FAQ to find out how to fix the issue.
Coming Soon: Microeconomics
Kanopy
This streaming video service includes documentaries, independent and foreign films, classics, and instructional films. It supports keyword searching as well as browsing by categories like arts, business, education, foreign films, global studies and languages, health, media and communications, movies and TV, science and social studies.
Notes on Kanopy Access
If a required film for a course is unavailable in Kanopy, please reach out to your course instructor to request access. While the McDermott library will make reasonable efforts to acquire materials required for coursework, the library may not honor all requests due to budgetary reasons. Many of the films may also be available on course reserves as a physical DVD.
The library has a large selection of physical DVD’s. If you have questions on obtaining a film, please feel free to contact one of the reference librarians who can assist. Films that we do not have can also often be requested through Interlibrary Loan.
In addition, Students, Faculty, and Staff also have access to streaming films on a wide variety of topics from PBS, Film Platform and Docuseek. We encourage viewing films on these platforms.
Faculty members may request Kanopy titles for classroom use by email libresv@utdallas.edu or Davin.Pate@utdallas.edu. Physical copies of DVD can be put on Media Course Reserve. The library may request faculty to place the physical copy of a film on course reserves if the class is taught in an in-person setting.
LinkedIn Learning
LinkedIn Learning is a leading online learning platform that helps anyone learn business, software, technology, and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals.
Naxos Video Library
The Naxos Video Library is a performing arts library with hundreds of videos of operas, ballets, documentaries, live concerts, jazz performances, recitals and musical tours of historic places. Users can search by composer, production, artist, venue, role or genre. Playlists with customized clips from any video are easily created for educational use or for hours of personal viewing.
TED
This website has an extensive collection of videos and talks from Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conferences with broad subject areas that include topics in technology, entertainment, design, business, science and global issues. Search by keyword, subject area, newest releases, favorites and other searchable options.