LibGuides: Journalism Research Guide: Find Videos & Documentaries

Streaming Video Databases

Academic Video Online
Provides ~ 68,000+ streaming videos spanning most subject areas and many genres, including documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage.
Films on Demand
This collection offers 12,500 full-length streaming videos browseable by subject. Unlimited access and use from any location.
Kanopy Videostreaming
Kanopy has over 26,000 full-length films on a variety of subjects. Unlimited access and use from any location.

You can easily share films, create clips or teaching playlists, and embed them into the course system. Most films have closed captions and transcripts.

Search Tips

Films on Demand (above) is one of the best databases we have of on-demand documentary films
If you search our collection, use the "documentaries" Subject Term limiter along the left of the results page to see documentaries only

This search box will look for: