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How do I find videos?

How to find videos:

Search the library catalog by keyword or title. Select "Audio Visual" and "Videos" from the "Resource Type" drop-down menu to find films available in streaming, DVD, and VHS format.
Browse and search the websites of Films on Demand, Kanopy, and Met Opera on Demand.

Ask a Librarian or an Educational Technologist for help and guidance in locating and using video in your teaching, research and presentations. Email us at askus@hamilton.edu or call 315-859-4735.

Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of more than 25,000 documentary videos and over 240,000 video segments, organized into 25 subject areas. Special features allow faculty and students to bookmark favorites, create and share playlists, embed videos and clips into Blackboard, create proper citations, and easily export citations to RefWorks. Captioning and searchable transcripts available for all titles.
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Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Full-length British theatre productions (from Shakespeare to contemporary), in-depth interviews with cast and crew, documentaries, masterclasses, study guides and teaching materials.
Includes works from:
Royal Shakespeare Company, the BBC, Frantic Assembly, BroadwayHD, the Lincoln Center Theater, the Old Vic, the Lyric Hammersmith, the Young Vic, the Stratford Festival, Complicité, Shakespeare's Globe, Gecko Theatre, the Donmar Warehouse, L.A. Theatre Works, the Liverpool Everyman, the Royal Opera House, the Almeida Theatre, the English Touring Theatre, the English National Ballet, and many more.

Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
More than 550 full-length Met performances, including HD videos from the Met's award-winning Live in HD series of movie theater transmissions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1936. All videos contain English subtitles and recent performances include subtitles in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

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OntheBoards.tv This link opens in a new window
Videos of full-length, contemporary performances (dance, theatre, music) from around the world.

TV RAIN [Dozhd] This link opens in a new window
Restricted to on campus access only

Streaming video and article content from the TV Rain network, a Russian independent television channel. Also includes content produced in partnership with the BBC and TED.