LibGuides@Southampton: Parkes Library, Special Collections, Hartley Library: Film, Television, Images

Films and Documentaries

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Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas. The depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc) makes it a useful resource for all types of user.
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Provides access to over 2,000 non-fiction film and television titles from the 20th century to the early 21st. Videos include films, newsreels, TV documentaries, interviews, party political broadcasts and parliamentary debates which are provided alongside expert essays, commentary and other supporting documents.
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Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities that offers films and documentaries.The service includes features such as captions, transcripts, clip creation, and playlist creation that allow users to share videos.

Please note: You will need to create a personal account to access Kanopy through either the mobile or TV apps. Creating an account on Kanopy will also allow you to save videos to your Watchlist to view later, create clips and playlists.

For more help creating an account, click here

Kanopy -Jewish Studies

Jewish Film Resources

Jewish Britain on Film (BFI)

National Center for Jewish Film (Brandeis University)

Stephen Spielberg Jewish Film Archive (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Catalogue - includes digital clips of films from a range of collections

Box of Broadcasts - over 1 million programmes available online

Box of Broadcasts is an online off-air TV and radio recording service which enables you to choose and record any broadcast programme from 60+ Freeview channels. All programmes are then kept indefinitely and added to a growing media archive (currently at over 1 million programmes), with all content shared by users across other UK universities. You can create clips to use in presentations and compile playlists of your favourite programmes to share with others.

See FAQs for more information.

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Newsreel

Newsreels were short current affairs films shown mainly in cinemas up until about the 1960s. They have become significant historical resources as they are often the only moving image record of an historical event. The Pathe Newsreels are on a dedicated website and MediaPlus gives access to British Paramount News (1931-1957), Gaumont British News (1934-1959) and Gaumont Graphic Newsreel (1910-1934).

British Pathe

MediaPlus (Proquest)

Images

Bridgeman Images

British Library Images Online

Center for Jewish Art (Hebrew University)

People of a Thousand Towns (YIVO)

Yad Vashem Photograph Collections

James Parkes at the BBC

The Listener

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The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929 under its director-general, Lord Reith. It was developed as the medium for reproducing broadcast talks, initially on radio, but in later years television as well, and was the intellectual counterpart to the BBC listings magazine Radio Times.