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Researching Film/Video at Duke

Online Databases for Film and Video Studies

Some of the best film studies databases, available to Duke users, include:

Film Index International This link opens in a new window
Find information about films and film industry people around the world. See also FIAF International for an index to scholarly articles about film
Performing Arts Periodicals Database This link opens in a new window
Search articles on dance, film, drama/theater, stagecraft, and performance business, mostly from 1998 onwards
MLA International Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, and other aspects of literary studies

Web Resources

Reviews and Criticism

To find reviews and film criticism, check out these sites.

Film Reference Sites

To look up titles and reference information, as well as news and reviews, try these helpful sites.

Streaming Video Databases at Duke

Anthropology Online This link opens in a new window
Search for photographs, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior for the entire world
AVON (Academic Video Online) This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming video titles across multiple Alexander Street/Proquest collections on diverse topics and formats that include feature films, newsreels, documentaries, field recordings, interviews and lectures. Producers include Sony Picture Classics, CNN, PBS, BBC Worldwide and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Some individual collections from Alexander Street/Proquest are also listed below, for example, Asian Film Online, Black Studies in Video, Dance in Video, etc.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming video with academic, vocational, and life-skills content
Docuseek This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming video of documentary and social issues films. Includes the Docuseek Complete Collection, Pragda Complete Film Collection, Good Docs, Icarus Films, Women Make Movies, and Collective Eye films.
Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming video of award-winning documentaries
OnTheBoards.TV This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming videos of performances in dance, theater and the arts
March of Time This link opens in a new window
Search streaming video from the series, The March of Time, a controversial film series from Time Inc.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Find and stream video of definitive performances of the world’s most important plays beginning in the 1930s and progressing through the 20th century
Dance in Video This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming video of dance productions and documentaries by influential performers and companies of the 20th century
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
Find and watch streaming video on a broad range of topics related to American history

Cultural Anthropology: Finding Video/Films

Film & Video at duke

Researching Film/Video at Duke

Streaming Video Databases at Duke

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