LibGuides: Film & Video Resources: Streaming Resources

Streaming Resources (features and documentaries)

Asian Film Online This link opens in a new window
An online streaming video collection of nearly 600 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. Offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection curated by film scholars and critics, viewers can explore the impact of globalization and urbanization on people’s everyday lives throughout the greater Asian region. Twenty-four countries across the region are represented, with a strong concentration on China, India, Iran, South Korea, and Southeast Asia.
Docuseek Complete Collection: 4th Edition This link opens in a new window
1950 - present. Unlimited users.
The Docuseek Complete Collection (4th edition) provides exclusive educational streaming access to over 2000 important documentaries from renowned distribution leaders, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, dGenerate Films, Women Make Movies, GOOD DOCS, Collective Eye Films, First Run Features, National Film Board of Canada, KimStim, European distributors First Hand Films, AndanaFilms, Cinétévé, and new producing and distributing partners 371 Productions, Lightdox, Autlook, Dutch CORE, Ideas Roadshow, and other participating filmmakers and distributors. This collection will include 3000 titles by December 2026.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Dates of coverage vary. Unlimited users.
This streaming service has a catalog of over 30,000 titles covering various educational topics and feature films for some 800 producers including Criterion, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, Media Education, California Newsreel, PBS and others.
Titles streamed by Kanopy are available either directly from the library catalog or from the UT Kanopy interface linked above. Some titles on the UT Kanopy interface are not immediately available to UT community for streaming. Those titles for which we do not hold streaming rights could be requested by filling in a request form. This form would appear on your screen and forwarded to a staff member for consideration. Given our limited funds, we emphasize study and research needs when making purchase decisions.

Please note: The library works with various additional streaming services. You could search their catalogs and request titles for which we do not currently have streaming rights, for purchasing consideration. Please use the Purchase Request form and your request will be distributed to the appropriate library staff person. You could also email your subject liaison or contact the Film & Video Librarian directly. Given our limited funds, we emphasize study and research needs when making purchase decisions. Additional streaming services you could browse are listed below.

New Day Films – documentaries
Swank includes mainly feature films, with some documentaries and TV series. To see to what content we have access in the current semester, go to https://digitalcampus-swankmp-net.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/univtxaustin352936. You would need to identify either as a student or an instructor. As a student, you could see only content to which we currently have access. As an instructor, you could search for and request any film to which we currently do not have access.

If you are a student, and still would like to see the whole Swank catalog, go to https://www.swank.com/digital-campus/movies-tv/ (make sure to search within the “Digital Campus” catalog).

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Subjects: Audio/Visual, Hebrew Studies, Israel Studies, Jewish Studies, Radio-Television-Film, Yiddish