Subject Guides: Journalism: Film & Documentaries

Films and Documentaries

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Consists of streamed video titles, including popular and Canadian documentaries, the Criterion Collection and other classic films, world cinema, the Great Courses, HBO documentary films, and more.
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password.
Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.
Criterion on Demand This link opens in a new window
Contains streaming video of feature films, from action and adventure to comedy, crime, literary adaptation, thrillers, and more. Films are from the following studios: Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., 20th Century Studios, Alliance Films, Entertainment One, National Geographic and more.
Coverage and Currency: 1911 to present
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password.
Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.
Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Contains videos of classical music performances, operas (with subtitles, and libretto and text when available), ballets, documentaries, live concerts, jazz performances, recitals, and musical tours of historic places.
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password.
Limited to 5 concurrent users.
Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.
National Film Board of Canada This link opens in a new window
Contains films produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction, and interactive works.
Coverage and Currency: 1917 to present
Conditions of Use: This is an Open Access resource available to all users. This database is not specifically licensed by MacEwan University Libraries.
Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
A streamed video database with over 66,000 titles across many disciplines, focusing especially on anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, and music. Includes many Alexander Street video titles.
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password.
Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.
Films on Demand: Digital Educational Video This link opens in a new window
Consists of a searchable database of streamed educational videos. Subject include business, social sciences, education, health and medicine, humanities, and science. Also included are archival films and newsreels.
Coverage and Currency: 1980s to present
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password.
Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.
CBC Curio This link opens in a new window
Accessible collection that contains documentaries from television, radio, news reports, and archival material from CBC and Radio-Canada, including popular programs like The Currrent and The National.

Note that the MacEwan access code is MVZJ-ZBFY.
Access: Access limited to Grant MacEwan University IP addresses. Remote login with a MacEwan network user ID and password.
Conditions of Use: Use of this database is restricted to members of the MacEwan University community and to users physically present in the Library. It is the responsibility of each user to ensure that they use this database for individual, non-commercial, educational or research purposes only, and do not systematically download or retain substantial portions of information.

Channel Zero - the short film channel
Prelinger Archives
A collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, amateur and sponsored) films relating to US cultural and social history.

Search tips:

To find documentaries or films in the library collection on a particular topic add the following phrases to your search terms and select videos from the Format menu:

"documentary films"

"nonfiction films"

"motion pictures"

For example; for find documentaries about world war II type the following and select videos from the Format menu:

World War, 1939-1945 AND "documentary films"

Journalism

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Films and Documentaries

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