Research Guides: English Resources: Streaming Video

Streaming Video

BBC Shakespeare Plays This link opens in a new window
Streaming access to 37 BBC Shakespeare plays.
User Limit: Unlimited.

Bloomsbury Drama Online Shakespeare's Globe on Screen (2008-2015)
21 plays recorded live on the Globe stage from leading actors including Mark Rylance, Stephen Fry, and Roger Allam’s Olivier Award-winning Falstaff in Henry IV. Inspired and informed by the unique historic playing conditions of two beautiful iconic theatres, Shakespeare’s Globe’s diverse programme of work harnesses the power of performance, cultivates intellectual curiosity, and excites learning to make Shakespeare accessible for all.

Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of current, leading British theatre productions. Includes behind-the-scenes documentaries as well as teaching and learning resources to facilitate a deeper understanding of the productions and texts.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Streaming performances of the world's leading plays and film documentaries representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. Full text of plays, history of performance, production background, reference materials and ephemera. Plays are predominately 20th century and Shakespeare productions.
User Limit: Unlimited.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Includes films from The Criterion Collection, DEFA film library, Film Movement, First Run Features, Kino Lorber, Women Make Movies, and Zeitgeist films.
Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
This collection includes documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, demonstrations, and raw footage. The content is from leading distributors, producers and filmmakers such as PBS, BBC, CNN, Wall Street Journal, 60 Minutes/ CBS, A+E Networks’ HISTORY®, Sony Pictures Classics, and CA Newsreel. In addition, many award-winning films including Academy® and Emmy® winners.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
This collection contains documentary and environmental and social issue films from a variety of distributors, including CBC, Bullfrog, Collective Eye, and Icarus Films.