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Alexander Street Video Online
A multidisciplinary collection of videos spanning a wide range of subject areas.
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.
Films on Demand: Master Academic Collection
Find documentaries and educational videos on many subjects. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning content.
Films on Demand offers many titles that are not easily discoverable in the Library's catalog. Search the provider's platform for best results.
Public Performance Rights are included with all Films on Demand titles for no charge viewings.
Indigenous Peoples: North America
Gain insight into the cultural, political, and social history of Native Peoples from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.
Kanopy
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 platform. For a list of titles already licensed by Davidson, please see the Kanopy tab within the How to Find Videos Research Guide.
A one-year license is purchased upon the 4th view of a title for 30 seconds or longer, this license is $135. For mediated collections, faculty can request immediate purchase of required films for a course on the Kanopy platform.
Meet the Press
An archive of every episode of the weekly NBC news show "Meet the Press" which features interviews, panels, and debates about politics.
Socialism on Film: Wars and Revolutions
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens.
Note: The Wars and Revolutions sub-collection is owned and accessible in perpetuity by Davidson College.
Coverage includes:
- Lenin and the Russian Revolution
- The Second World War and the rise of fascism
- The Vietnam War and Southeast Asia
- Global tensions and the Cold War
- Nuclear war and peace movements
- The Holocaust and war crimes
- Revolution, war, conflict in China and Korea
- Revolution in Cuba and Latin America
- The Spanish Civil War

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