Research Guides: Anthropology & Archaeology: Audio & Visual Materials

Finding Streaming Video

This list is a selection of streaming video sources that offer ethnographic clips and full length documentaries. For additional streaming video sources from the UO Libraries, such as feature films, follow the link below to the "Finding Videos & Films" guide.

Academic video online This link opens in a new window
Academic Video Online includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage. Patrons will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Academic institutions will find the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
Anthropology This link opens in a new window
The Alexander Street Anthropology collections offer comprehensive, multimedia resources for the study of anthropology, including the largest collection of ethnographic videos and previously unpublished archival field materials.
Docuseek2 (Streaming Videos) This link opens in a new window
Educational streaming access to content from Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, Scorpion TV,Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films.
UO users may preview and license content online.
EVIA Digital Archive (Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis) This link opens in a new window
Unedited ethnographic field video representing a wide variety of geographic areas; religious, ethnic, and cultural groups; music and dance traditions; music performances, rehearsals, and other music events; and ethnographic interviews.
Heritage Broadcasting Service This link opens in a new window
This is a collection of 250 streaming films, primarily based in archaeology. The Archaeological Legacy Institute is a non-profit based in Eugene, Oregon.
To access this resource, you must have the UO VPN Client software running. Follow these Instructions to download and use the VPN. You must also have JavaScript enabled. If you are not automatically signed in in Firefox, please use another browser.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Offers streaming access to a large variety of documentary and feature films. Major subject areas include the arts, business and training, media and communication, natural sciences and social sciences. Kanopy is limited to UO students, faculty, and staff. A DuckID is required for access both on and off campus.
PBS video collection This link opens in a new window
Documentary films and series covering history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events

Finding Videos & Films
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Finding Images

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Search over one million digital images in the fields of the arts, architecture, humanities, and sciences.
As of August 1, 2024 the former Artstor website is now completely incorporated into JSTOR. All content is now located there.