Over 46,000 streaming videos with nearly 343,000 video clips; the titles are educational in nature and cover a wide variety of topics in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels. Public Performance Rights are included with all Films on Demand titles for no charge viewings.
Films on Demand offers 1000+ titles that include audio description, defined as "the verbal depiction of key visual elements in media and live productions." Audio descriptions provide context that isn't obvious from only hearing dialogue and music. To find titles that include this, do an advanced search with the filter "Only show videos with audio description."
Videos spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Captions are available for all videos with transcripts. Audio descriptions are available for a select number of titles. Search "audio description" for a full list of available titles.
All films include limited public performance rights, which includes permission for classroom showings, as well as public screenings, as long as no admission is being charged.
Kanopy streaming service offers movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic, and Independent films. Davidson College students, faculty, and staff have unmediated access to certain collections within the Kanopy service.
A one-year license is purchased upon the 4th view of a title for 30 seconds or longer, this license is $135. For a list of titles already licensed by Davidson, please see the Kanopy tab within the Video Research Guide. For mediated collections, faculty can request immediate purchase of required films for a course on the Kanopy platform.
Davidson Library Catalog: Video Search
Start your search for videos here! The library catalog lists most of our DVD and streaming video titles.
You can also find videos that may be available through interlibrary loan; just change the drop-down menu to "Libraries Worldwide."
