Remote Learning with Online Library Resources

Free multi-station archive of a lot of PBS material from years back. Does not include all PBS content.

Contemporary artists in their own words, series illuminates their processes, practice, works, studios, philosophy, and more.

More than 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Works selected by Asian film experts explore themes of modernity, globalization, national identity, female agency, inequalities in opportunity amid social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity—are central to any meaningful discussion of Asian culture.

Sound archive freely available to download over 16,000 sound effects for “personal, educational or research purposes” from animal sounds to rattling window frames. Audio CDs of BBC sound effects are also available in the Flaxman Library.

Includes documentaries on leading artists, writers, musicians, playwrights, and performers. Includes the Hatch-Billops Collection, archive of primary and secondary materials focused on black American art, drama, and literature. Plus the SNCC archives, the NAACP archives, and archives from select Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

**This is a temporary resource. Nearly 3,000 fashion videos from the YOOX-NET-A-PORTER Runway Archive Collections, this documents 1979 to 2003. Trial runs through March 2, 2022.

Playlist of free online experimental films & videos for coping with COVID-19.

Streaming video collection of documentary films from Kartemquin Films, Collective Eye, Fanlight.com, ScorpionTV, Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films and other distributors.

Covers mid-1960s to the present, and is one of the most comprehensive video art collections. The works include pioneering figures, e.g. Nam June Paik, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler, Joan Jonas, to new digital works by emerging artists, e.g. Seth Price, Paper Rad, Cory Arcangel and Takeshi Murata.

Award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

Audiovisual documentation of art events and performance art presented or supported by Franklin Furnace. Open Access.

Tip: Videos play best only in Firefox, Safari, IE, for embedding videos (may not load in Chrome). Curated collection from independent and international producers including selections from Criterion, Michael Blackwood and others.

Video-based tutorials on a wide range of software, including: 3D, video, photography, web design, graphic design, and more; all organized by subject software, and instructor.

Broad range of historical and cultural documents that contribute to education and lifelong learning that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. Majority are freely available as both 5mb MP4 and ProRes 422 MOV downloads.

**This is a temporary resource. A selection of our documentary features and series usually reserved for classroom screening by teachers.

Streaming video collection of approximately 200 full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative, along with some fifty award-winning shorts.

Over 400 original videos examining major worldwide trends and personalities in architecture today. Includes interviews, documentation of buildings and installations, along with supporting materials about the main authors and figures of contemporary architecture.

HD-quality contemporary performance films. Filmed at On the Boards, as well as peer theaters across the country, the performances present a snapshot of the best new works by current leaders in dance, theater and music.

Five hundred hours of important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.

250+ films in streaming video that represent the foundation of modern cinematic technique and film theory, covering silent feature films, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s.

Curated collection of streaming videos including a number of classic and contemporary popular films largely from Hollywood studios and producers.

At this time, VDB has a selection of its collection available on Panopto. If faculty or students need other titles from our collection, please email info@vdb.org outlining your needs, and we will work to add those titles to Panopto. We will start with the most needed titles and will continue to add other requests as soon as possible.

SAIC's Visiting Artists' Program lecture series. Available to SAICers with ARTIC username and password.