Qwest TV EDU Qwest TV provides access to a vast and growing archive of Black music and global sounds through live performances, documentaries, and interviews spanning diverse musical genres, from around the world. This extensive collection serves as a rich resource for academic exploration, offering rare recordings, historical footage, and expert commentary that shed light
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Africa Commons: East African Magazines, Newspapers, and Films: The Hilary Ng’weno Archive An exclusive collection of full-run magazines, newspapers, and films from the legendary Kenyan journalist, Hilary Ng’weno. The archive presents more than 100,000 pages of newly digitized, historically significant, groundbreaking publications from Ng’weno’s media company. Much of the material has not been available outside
Africa Commons: Southern African Films and Documentaries With content spanning the 1900s to the early 2000s, Southern African Films and Documentaries offers—for the first time—streaming access to more than a century of African history, politics, and culture. Five film types are represented— propaganda, newsreels, documentaries, feature films, and interviews. – Publisher
Classic Brazilian Cinema Online, 1913–1974 A unique collection of digitized historical film magazines from the 1910s to the 1960s, providing students and researchers with easy access to rare an previously dispersed sources documenting the cinematographic history of the biggest country in Latin America, Brazil. – Publisher
JFLIX A website dedicated to award winning films on various topics dealing with Judaism and Israel. From Jewish history through biographies of leaders, along with films about Israeli society and culture.
LGBT Studies in Video, Volume II In addition to volume I, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to volume II of LGBT Studies in Video. LGBT Studies in Video, Volume II builds off the first volume with a curated selection of LGBTQ+ videos covering various topics from Trans rights to AIDS activism to the intersectionality
Platino Educa Platino Educa is a film platform providing access to hundreds of Spanish and Ibero-American movies, classified by subjects and covering themes across the Environment, Social Studies, Language and Literature, Arts, and Social Justice. The selection of audiovisual works and the elaboration of the pedagogical material that Platino EDUCA offers are developed in collaboration
New streaming documentary films from Docuseek. Docuseek provides exclusive educational streaming access to documentary and social issues films. Access available via NUsearch or the Docuseek2 website. A Distant Thud in the Jungle A History of the European Working Class – Episode 1 A History of the European Working Class – Episode 2 A History of
Northwestern University Libraries now has access to collection 2 of the National Theatre Collection (in addition to collection 1). Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the collection includes the following films. Access at the publisher’s website or through NUsearch. Part 2 titles
New streaming documentary films from Docuseek. Docuseek provides exclusive educational streaming access to documentary and social issues films. Access available via NUsearch or the Docuseek2 website. Maguy Marin: time to act / Naïa Productions et Compagnie Maguy Marin présentent en coproduction avec Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes cinéma un film de David Mambouch; écrit et réalisé par David
Northwestern University Libraries now have access to films in the Docuseek upgrade to the third edition. Currently 118 new titles, with periodic additions to a total of 2400 full catalog titles by 2023. A title list is available here. Docuseek titles are available through NUsearch and at the publisher’s website. Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue
Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda In addition to Module 1: Wars & Revolutions, Northwestern University Libraries now have access to Module II: Newsreels & Cinemagazines and Module III: Culture & Society of Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda. Sourced from the archives of the British Film Institute (BFI),
