Research Guides: Ethnic Studies: Audio & Visual Materials

Streaming Video Collections

Academic video online
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.
Docuseek2 (Streaming Videos)
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.
Ethnographic Video Online (Alexander Street Press)
Collection of classic and contemporary ethnographic documentaries.

Comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior, covering every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
EVIA Digital Archive (Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis)
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.
Kanopy
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
Documentary films and series covering history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events
Swank Digital Campus
Swank Digital Campus provides streaming video access to feature films and documentaries.

Films and Videos Guide
A guide that helps you find additional films at the UO Libraries (streaming, dvd, film, vhs, and even laserdisk!).

Images

ARTstor
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.
Oregon Digital

Oregon Digital provides discovery of and access to unique digitized and born-digital materials, including photographs, articles, sheet music, manuscripts, ephemera, and more. Materials in the broad collection are contributed from the University of Oregon and Oregon State University.