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Films On Demand: Fashion Studies Collection

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Fashion Studies Video Collection

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A solid complement to university and community college fashion programs, this collection features entertaining and enlightening programs on the history of fashion, cultural impact of styles, and the careers and works of great designers such as Karl Lagerfeld, Vera Wang, Giorgio Armani, and more. For fashion students who aspire one day to see their works on both the runway and the red carpet, this collection is their first stop for ideas and inspiration.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Career & Technical Education Video Package.

  • The History of Style, Seasons 1–3 – 39 episodes covering a variety of topics in recent fashion history, including men’s fashion, style of the 1990s, footwear, bridal gowns, and controversial moments in runway history.
  • 21st Century Designers, Seasons 1–4 – more than 50 videos showcasing the prolific artistry, signature trademarks, and brilliant minds behind fashion’s most venerated 21st-century designers, including Ralph Lauren, Michael Kors, and Stella McCartney.
  • Videofashion Collections, Seasons 1–13 – more than 300 videos offering a front-row seat to the creative genius of New York, London, Milan, and Paris Fashion Weeks that set the fashion trends for spring/summer and autumn/winter. Videofashion Collections covers each major fashion show, complete with extensive and unparalleled VIP access to and interviews with designers, fashion editors, makeup artists, models, fashion luminaries, and celebrities.
  • Videofashion Monthly (1981–1998) – a fashion magazine on video, covering more than 200 fashion shows a year and reporting from the world’s fashion capitals. Exclusive interviews cover the how-tos of fashion and lifestyle.
  • Designer Marathon, Seasons 1–6 – more than 75 episodes that map out career timelines of influential designers and design houses—including Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, Oscar de la Renta, Vera Wang, Calvin Klein, and Tommy Hilfiger—as they build their far-reaching fashion empires.
  • A Stitch in Time – a 26-part series that looks at the history of 20th-century fashion in a unique way: through different garments and fashion trends that are explored in a tongue-in-cheek, yet informative, manner. With the help of rare archival images, the series shows how political, technological, cultural, and social changes have each affected the way we dress.

Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Environmental Science Collection

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Environmental Science Video Collection

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This rich collection features a wealth of documentaries on some of the most pressing issues in environmental science, including climate change, water shortages, overpopulation, industrial disasters, deforestation, pollution, and more. Students will also have access to titles on research and methods, basic Earth science, and the history of environmental science.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package.

  • Fracking: The New Energy Rush; Gasland, Part II; Meet the Frackers: Energy Independence or Environmental Nightmare?; and Shattered Ground are documentaries on the controversial process of natural gas extraction.
  • How Many People Can Live on Planet Earth? – a BBC special that explores the looming population crisis in practical terms, measuring as accurately as possible our planet’s capacity for human habitation.
  • The Future of Food – traveling through the U.S., Latin America, Europe, Africa, and India, this two-hour BBC series explores the complex global web that brings food from farm to table and studies the very real possibility of a worldwide food crisis.
  • Multiple exclusive titles from The Bill Moyers Collection, including Earth on Edge; Rachel Carson, Nature’s Guardian; Biologist E. O. Wilson; and more.
  • Terra Report: A World of Trouble – a five-part series that reveals the dangers threatening the natural world as well as specific socioeconomic factors entwined with them, showcasing the realities of environmental devastation, species extinction, famine, starvation, and political instability in Africa, Asia, and South America.
  • Nuclear Meltdown DisasterNOVA reveals the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis—the one you know about…and the one you likely don’t.
  • Strange Days on Planet Earth – a six-hour series hosted by Edward Norton that uses remarkable imagery to explore new discoveries about the health of planet Earth and how seemingly distant events are connected to human health and society.
  • Unbreathable: Cities on the Verge of Asphyxiation – investigates the dangers of toxic emissions and looks at measures being taken to reduce air pollution from urban transport systems and industries.
  • Secrets of the Oceans: Climate Control – four stories from around the globe told over 24 hours reveal importance of oceans in regulating our climate.
  • Green Careers – a four-part series revealing the broad application of environmental studies by showing viewers the green side of all 16 of the national career clusters.
  • Is It Closing Time for Zoos? – from captive breeding programs and conservation, to education and welfare, this film evaluates the role zoos have to play in the 21st century.
  • Seeds of Change: A Case Study of Sustainable Development in China – a multiple-award-winning program that follows an attempt to clean up the Yangtze River and its tributaries and the effects it has on the farmers whose lives hang in the balance of these plans.
  • More than 60 titles from Green Planet Films, including Sand Wars; Thin Ice: The Inside Story of Climate Science; and award-winning programs such as Trashed, with Jeremy Irons and Vegucated.
  • How Nature Works – a four-part BBC series that investigates symbiosis in nature and the unexpected and complex relationships between plants and animals.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Public performance rights and no copyright infringement
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Entertainment Collection

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Entertainment Video Collection

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Action! Horror! Comedy! Romance! The Entertainment Video Collection offers hundreds of films ranging from lighthearted popcorn flicks to thought-provoking dramas, providing Films On Demand subscribers access to movies intended to be viewed for pleasure and entertainment. Plus, students looking for entertaining movies while on summer or winter break can enjoy this commercial-free streaming video source from off campus, ensuring steady usage throughout the year.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package. Some Entertainment Video Collection titles contain mature themes or content; viewer discretion is advised.

  • Exciting, thoughtful dramas, including The Illusionist (with Edward Norton); The Lightkeepers (with Richard Dreyfuss, Blythe Danner, and Mamie Gummer); the Academy Award® nominated On Any Sunday; Sundance Award-winner This Is Martin Bonner; The Exonerated (with Brian Dennehy, Danny Glover, and Susan Sarandon); Lovely, Still (with Martin Landau and Ellen Burstyn); Gibsonburg (with Lili Reinhart); Ashanti (with Michael Caine); and the classic Jamaican film The Harder They Come.
  • Horror films both grisly and shocking, including Count Dracula (1970 adaptation with Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski), Nosferatu In Venice, The Uncanny (with Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance), Dark Web, Portmanteau, Chopping Block, Living Dark: The Story of Ted the Caver, andThere’s Something in the Pilliga.
  • Action and adventure films, including The Final Countdown (starting Martin Sheen and Kirk Douglas), Raven (starring Burt Reynolds), Circle of Iron (with David Carradine, Christopher Lee, and Roddy McDowall), Imperfect Quadrant (with Katherine Langford), and Revenge of the Samurai Cop, plus westerns including Apache Rifles (with Audie Murphy) and classic Universal Movie Studios serials including The Red Rider and Lost City of the Jungle.
  • A wide range of comedies, including Black to the Future (with stand-up comedian Lewis Black); No Pay, Nudity (with Gabriel Byrne and Nathan Lane); Mock & Roll; Mortal Fools; and I Am Battle Comic.
  • Plus, mysteries and thrillers, romances, sci-fi and fantasy, LGBTQ+ movies, holiday entertainment, and more!

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings

Films On Demand: English & Language Arts Collection

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English & Language Arts Video Collection

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Comprehensive overviews of literary movements. Scholarly films on the evolution of the English language. Productions of major plays. Documentaries on the world’s most prominent writers. Instructional titles on the fundamentals of language. With more than 2,200 films, this collection covers the vast expanse of topics found in the English curriculum.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package.

  • Shakespeare Uncovered, Series 1–3 – eighteen episodes from PBS that combine history, biography, iconic performances, new analysis, and the personal passion of its celebrated hosts to tell the story behind the stories of Shakespeare’s greatest plays.
  • The Royal Shakespeare Company’s acclaimed 2008 version of Hamlet, starring David Tennant (“the greatest Hamlet of his generation”) and Patrick Stewart.
  • Contemporary film adaptations of Sophocles’s trilogy of Theban plays, including Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—featuring classical British actors.
  • The Story of English and Do You Speak American? – Robert MacNeil’s Emmy Award-winning nine-hour PBS series on linguistics, and its three-hour follow-up (a CINE Golden Eagle Award winner) that focuses on American English and its regional dialects.
  • Harold Bloom: Critic in the Active Voice – the first-ever documentary on the far-reaching contributions to literary criticism by Yale University scholar Harold Bloom.
  • The Great Greek Myths – ancient tales of love, sex, power, and betrayal are retold with a modern blend of animation and art in this dynamic 20-part series.
  • Ten Great Writers of the Modern World – a timeless, CableACE Award-winning 11-part series that blends superbly enacted drama with expert commentary and biography while spotlighting the principal works of ten icons of modern world literature.
  • Romanticism: Imagining Freedom – Telly Award-winning program on the new ways of thinking and seeing that reshaped the humanities in the 18th and 19th centuries.
  • Communication Essentials – the popular four-part series by Films for the Humanities & Sciences, featuring critical skills for listening, writing, speaking, and reading.
  • Exclusive documentaries on the world’s most influential authors, including Chinua Achebe, Alaa Al-Aswany, Isabel Allende, Jane Austen, Geoffrey Chaucer, Kate Chopin, Dante, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Arthur Miller, Flannery O’Connor, Mary Shelley, Wislawa Szymborska, Mark Twain, John Updike, Alice Walker, August Wilson, and many others.
  • English: The Standard Deviants® Core Curriculum – a straight-talking 10-part series on the fundamentals of grammar and usage.
  • Fire & Ink: The Legacy of Latin American Literature – a Telly Award-winning 13-part series that guides viewers chronologically and thematically through the region’s varied genres and narrative styles, with commentary from an impressive array of scholars.
  • The Adventure of English: 500 A.D. to 2000 A.D. – the highly acclaimed eight-hour series on how English became a global language.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Engineering Collection

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Engineering Video Collection

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From massive public projects like the Hoover Dam to the incredibly small science of nanotechnology, this growing collection provides coverage of the widespread and interdisciplinary fields of engineering. Documentary films, scholarly presentations, and instructional videos cover chemical, civil, electrical, and mechanical engineering as well as bioengineering and materials science. This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package.

  • Blueprint Fundamentals – a no-nonsense overview of how to interpret and read blueprints across several disciplines.
  • Nanotechnology: The Power of Small—A Fred Friendly Seminar – a widely acclaimed three-part series, hosted by Peabody Award-winning journalist John Hockenberry, on the social, ethical, and personal implications of advances in nanotechnology.
  • Tomorrow’s World: A Horizon Special – from the entrepreneurs who are driving a new space race to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist leading a nanotech revolution, this BBC special is a tour of the people and ideas delivering the world of tomorrow, today.
  • More than 90 episodes of Modern Marvels, featuring the science and engineering behind the materials, structures, machines, and inventions that make up the modern world.
  • European Inventor Award 2017 – a 15-part series where inventors respond to the challenges of our time as well as contribute to social progress, economic growth, and prosperity with topics such as lab-grown human organs, a super sponge for oil spills, and more.
  • Understanding Electronics – a six-part series that helps develop hands-on knowledge and conceptual understanding in a variety of electronics fields (health care, communications, industry, transportation, environment, and computing) by using case studies, first-rate technical expertise, and high-energy video productions.
  • The Age of Robots – a six-part journey through the state of the art of robotics and artificial intelligence.
  • 2077—10 Seconds to the Future – with the aid of theoretical physicists, pathologists, and geopolitical forecasters, this four-part series connects the present with the past to show us how we can influence the future.
  • Multiple TED Talks focusing on the cutting edge of engineering, with presentations on robotics, artificial intelligence, wireless technology, bioengineering, and more.
  • How to Build… – three-part series that uses extraordinary access to some of the world’s most advanced and closely guarded engineering processes to reveal the beauty, ingenuity, and complexity of building high-performance vehicles.
  • Cyborgs: Human Machines – discusses the humans who are fusing their bodies with technology to increase their abilities and expand their senses: injecting magnets to sense electromagnetic fields, inserting chips under the skin to open doors, and implanting devices to sharpen their senses. Who are these people and what drives them?
  • Seeing Science: Engineering – eight visually spectacular shorts show frontline discoveries in engineering and the people who have helped make them happen.
  • City in the Sky – three-part series that takes viewers around the world to uncover the invisible global networks and complex logistics that make air travel possible. Discover how aircraft are prepared for takeoff, examine what happens in flight, and look at what it takes to bring flights safely back down to earth.
  • When a Bridge Falls – examines how, at the height of rush hour on August 1, 2007, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a bridge carrying eight lanes of I-35W over the Mississippi River suddenly collapsed, sending cars and trucks plunging into the water below.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Education Collection

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Education Video Collection

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This collection addresses basics such as effective teaching methods and classroom management as well as best practices for use of technology, application of standards, overcoming the challenges of special needs students, understanding legal and ethical issues, and more. Ideal for aspiring educators who want to learn not only how to teach a curriculum, but also how to help mold young people into healthy, confident, prepared citizens.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package.

  • School: The Story of American Public Education – a four-hour series narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep that weaves archival footage, rare interviews, and on-site coverage into an unprecedented portrait of public education in America.
  • How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop—Understanding Learning Disabilities – the classic workshop led by learning disabilities expert Richard D. Lavoie, vividly illustrating how LD students face F.A.T.: frustration, anxiety, and tension.
  • Integrating ESL Students into the Classroom – a priceless resource for teachers of any subject that presents concrete information and advice that can be used to better teach—and reach— English-language learners.
  • Teaching Diverse Learners – winner of the Broadcast Education Association Award of Excellence, a two-part series demonstrating how experienced educators have mastered the challenges that come with teaching high-needs students.
  • Multiple titles on Jean Piaget and his theories of cognitive development in children.
  • Internet Research and Information Literacy: Effective Strategies and Cautionary Tales – a three-part media literacy series on the best practices for applying academic standards and scholarly research methods to the rapidly evolving online world—with episodes on basic and advanced search, recognizing propaganda and bias, and plagiarism in the era of Wikipedia.
  • Special Needs Students in Regular Classrooms? Sean’s Story – the classic ABC News production about an eight-year-old boy with Down syndrome who was part of a battle over “inclusion”—placing mentally or physically challenged students in regular classrooms.
  • Why We Drop Out: A Video Bridge Dialogue between Youth, Teachers, and Administrators – outlines a unique process that allows participants on each level of the educational ladder to contribute to a personal and structural understanding of the many factors that derail students from graduating.
  • Indian School: Stories of Survival – combines archival materials with present-day interviews to document the inhumane system of “Indian Schools” that aimed to erase Native American culture and “civilize” the continent’s indigenous people.
  • Class Act: Jay W. Jensen and the Future of Arts Education in America—Educator’s Edition – an award-winning documentary from the executive producers of Super Size Me that examines the deplorable atrophy of arts education in America by contrasting the crisis with the story of one very dedicated, inspiring high school drama teacher: Jay W. Jensen. Celebrity alumni and arts education thought leaders weigh in.
  • A Global Roll Call: The Need for Education Worldwide – a multiple-award-winning three-part series from Wide Angle that examines gaps in educational opportunities that trap children in poverty, deny girls the right to learn, and prevent developing countries from advancing.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Earth Science Collection

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Earth Science Video Collection

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Earthquakes and volcanoes, ice ages and global warming, rainforests and hydrothermal vents. The Earth is as complex as it is beautiful, and this collection is filled with documentaries and educational titles that serve to unravel the complexity while highlighting the beauty. The next best thing to fieldwork, these videos will add context to what is taught in lectures and bring life to what is learned from textbooks.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package.

  • How the Earth Was Made – a mesmerizing 22-part series from A&E on the absolute beginning of Earth’s history, with in-depth looks at famous locales, including Yellowstone, the San Andreas Fault, the Ring of Fire, Death Valley, the Atacama Desert, Loch Ness, Krakatoa, and more.
  • Biomes of the Earth: Core Concepts Video Clip Collection – a comprehensive library of 50 segments—breathtakingly filmed in locations around the world—that will open viewers’ eyes as it covers key biological, environmental, and geological concepts associated with the ecological communities forming the biosphere. Ideal for intermittent classroom use.
  • How Earth Made Us: The Untold Story of History – a breathtaking five-hour BBC series that reveals the powerful influence of geology, geography, and climate on humanity’s development, from the birth of agriculture to the industrial revolution and beyond.
  • Cambridge Core Science Series: GeoBasics – an eight-part series, which made Science Books & Films’ annual “Best Films” list, providing a well-rounded overview of the study of the Earth, its systems, and humankind’s impact. Includes coverage of plate tectonics, rocks and minerals, oceans and seas, geocycles, energy and resources, and more.
  • Forces of Nature – a global tour in four themed episodes from PBS, answering the simplest questions about the complex forces that shape our planet. Discover what lies beneath Earth’s startling beauty as the secrets of our cosmos and the natural forces that govern everything within it are revealed.
  • Fierce Earth, Series 1 & 2 – a 20-part adventure, featuring footage from the BBC and other natural history archives, that examines the power of nature’s fury with jaw-dropping images.
  • The Arctic Circle – filmed in some of the Earth’s most beautiful and desolate locations, a two-part series that marries hard science with dramatic live-action footage and sophisticated computer graphics to tell the story of climate change at the top of the world.
  • Atlantic: Wildest Ocean on Earth – the Atlantic is an ocean everyone thinks they know, but what we see from the shore is only a fraction of the story as uncovered in this three-part series.
  • Voyage of the Continents, Series 1 & 2 – a 10-part look at how massive tectonic forces have sculpted and re-sculpted our world in a never-ending journey.
  • Global Reef Expedition – a six-part series that documents the beauty and fascination of one of Earth’s most critical habitats, giving viewers an unprecedented look at scientists in action and seeking to better understand the intimate workings of these endangered ecosystems.
  • The Once Good Earth: Understanding Soil – a program that takes viewers deep inside that unseen realm, focusing on the chemical and ecological complexity that enriches soil and sustains plant and animal life.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Criminal Justice & Law Collection

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Criminal Justice & Law Video Collection

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With several hundred titles spanning criminal investigation, legal studies, criminology, and the justice system, this collection covers the basics and also digs deep into the intricacies of topics such as forensic science, homeland security, police training, the criminal mind, juvenile justice, cybercrime, human rights, and more.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package.

  • Equal Justice Under Law: Landmark Cases in Supreme Court History – a classic six-part series that investigates the role of the Supreme Court by looking at landmark cases that set major precedents.
  • In the Line of Duty – more than 50 titles from this no-nonsense law enforcement training series. Topics include pat downs, street interrogation techniques, AMBER Alert pursuits, drug-related stops, terror-related scenarios, and much more.
  • Due Process: Understanding the U.S. Criminal Justice System – the essential introductory series that outlines the basics of crime, law, enforcement, evidence, forensics, and the court system.
  • Hours of documentaries on juvenile justice, including The Child Welfare System: In the Child’s Best Interest (Edward R. Murrow Award and multiple Emmys); From the Inside: Personal Challenges for Teens Reentering Society (Telly Award winner); Pendleton Juvenile Prison (three-part series); Cradle to Jail: The Kids of Lake County (11-part series); and more.
  • Death Sentence: The Story of Capital Punishment – a documentary that explores capital punishment through historical examples and interviews with legal scholars.
  • Witness to Execution: Capital Punishment – Emmy Award-winning program led by Ted Koppel.
  • Forensics School: Inside a Criminal Justice Training Center – a five-part series that goes inside the Forensic Science & Criminal Investigation program at the U.K.’s renowned University of Central Lancashire.
  • Scammed – a 13-part series revealing the most prevalent types of scam crimes in operation today, from identity theft and credit card skimming to elder fraud and more.
  • More than 25 contemporary and classic documentaries from HBO, including Homegrown: The Counter-Terror Dilemma; Heroin: Cape Cod, USA; Requiem for the Dead: American Spring 2014; Thought Crimes: The Case of the Cannibal Cop; Three Days of Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Attacks; 5 American Handguns—5 American Kids; The Iceman and the Psychiatrist; and more.
  • Eyewitness: Memory in Criminal Investigation – a three-hour series that reveals the science behind the role of memory in criminal investigation.
  • Cybercrime: World Wide War 3.0 – taking a global approach, this documentary examines several forms of cybercrime and their impact on law enforcement, national security, the corporate world, and society at large.
  • Mapping Murder: Investigative Psychology Meets Geographical Profiling – a six-part series that spotlights renowned investigative psychologist David Canter as he analyzes some of the most notorious crimes on record.
  • The Age of Terror: A Survey of Modern Terrorism – the acclaimed four-part series that provides unprecedented interviews with dozens of bombers, gunmen, hijackers, kidnappers, and radical leaders as it scrutinizes key terror campaigns that changed the course of modern history.
  • Welcome to Warren: Inmates and Guards on Life in Prison – featured at Sundance and winner of the Silverdocs Jury Award, this sobering documentary focuses not just on inmates but on guards as well.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Computer Science & Information Technology Collection

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Computer Science and Information Technology Video Collection

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Want to learn what it takes to develop a game-changing app? Study robots? Navigate the world of Big Data? The Computer Science and Information Technology Video Collection covers all of those things and more, with videos on IT, database management, programming, robots, networking and servers, and web development, including dozens of WatchIT professional education programs. This versatile collection features programs on the history of computers, and on sociological and cultural aspects of computing in addition to new programs that cover the core Computer Science and Information Technology curricula.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Career & Technical Education Video Package.

  • Database Management Systems & IT – learn more about business intelligence and data management with titles including Digital Memory Gatekeepers; Data Mining: Big Data’s Increasing Challenge and Payoff; Data: Ethical Use and Storage; and Joy of Data.
  • Information Technology – the ins and outs of IT, from hardware to security. Titles include Internet Security Specialist and Computer Systems Analyst from the exclusive Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight series; BBC’s Inside the Dark Web; WatchIT’s four-part Internet and Social Software: What You Need to Know series.
  • Programming – videos on developing apps, games, and software, as well as programming languages. Titles include the two-part Creating Mobile Apps series; Getting into Games, which ventures behind the scenes to explore the making of games as well as examining their uses in education and leisure; and Introduction to Programming: Unlocking the Secrets, which examines the basic steps involved in producing any piece of software, from identifying the goal to documentation.
  • Robotics – titles that provide in-depth insights into the future of robotics, including Squeeze Me: Robots in Dementia Therapy; Inside Science’s two-part Artificial Intelligence series; and Living with Robots, which introduces viewers to the world’s most advanced androids that look and talk like us, the world’s deadliest robots that kill for us, and the world’s smartest robots that learn from us.
  • Telecom, Networking & the Internet – find out more about networking, cloud computing, and web development with titles such as Developing a Website; Disconnected: A Month without Computers, and WatchIT’s three-part The Cloud Computing Landscape series.

Titles within the collection are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Communication Collection

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Communication Video Collection

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From rousing speeches and persuasive business proposals to engaging advertisements and heart-wrenching films, the ways in which we communicate—and why—are wide ranging, and every form of communication has its dos and don’ts. This collection covers both basic and advanced techniques of communicating across multiple mediums and varied settings. Instructional videos, documentary films, and expert presentations cover advertising, digital media, film, journalism, interpersonal communication, and more.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package.

  • Communication Essentials – the popular four-part series by Films for the Humanities & Sciences featuring critical skills for listening, writing, speaking, and reading.
  • The CLIOs, 2000–2013 – thirteen years (and counting), totaling more than 35 hours of winning entries across all categories for this prestigious advertising awards program.
  • Barriers to Communication and How to Overcome Them – through expert interviews and creative vignettes, the video offers solutions to overcoming common communication problems.
  • Multiple, EXCLUSIVE titles from The Bill Moyers Collection, including Jon Stewart on Humor and an Informed Public; Media Consolidation and the Erosion of Democracy; Big Media, Big Money, Big Trouble; and more.
  • The Story of English and Do You Speak American? – Robert MacNeil’s Emmy Award-winning nine-hour PBS series on linguistics, and its three-hour follow-up (a CINE Golden Eagle Award winner) that focuses on American English and its regional dialects.
  • Sex, Censorship, and the Silver Screen – a four-hour series that uses film clips spanning the bulk of motion picture history to tell the story of the battle between artistic freedom and the heavy-handed restriction and piousness that risk-taking films have generated.
  • Digital Communication Skills: Dos and Don’ts – offers guidance on email, texting, videoconferencing, and using the phone for business calls or voice mail.
  • Internet Research: What’s Credible? – teaches strategies for narrowing down results and homing in on credible sources of information online.
  • The Public Mind – classic four-hour series that explores “image and reality in America”—or how public opinion is formed through the mingling of fact and fiction in a society saturated with images.
  • How to Make It in Film – extensive series that covers all aspects of the filmmaking process, from script writing to production.
  • Sexual and Racial Stereotypes in the Media – a two-part series from Films for the Humanities & Sciences that scrutinizes the media in order to both expose and understand common sources of bias and the intentions behind them.
  • The 5 Communication Secrets That Swept Obama to the Presidency – instructional program that reveals a set of methods and attitudes at the core of successful communication by studying the skills and tactics of one of its modern-day masters.
  • Mashed Media: The Changing Face of Journalism – a film shot over a two-year period that follows bloggers, hackers, independent publishers, and social media mavericks working at the forefront of digital media innovation.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for classroom use. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Careers & Job Search Collection

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Careers & Job Search Video Collection

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Technology isn’t just changing how work gets done across various industries—it’s also changing the process of searching for and getting a job in the first place. Online portfolios, social networking, webcam interviews—these new realities are not replacing traditional ones such as résumés, cover letters, and a firm handshake; this technology has become an additional aspect of the modern job search to be mastered. This collection covers all the bases, from the tried and true to the cutting edge, while also providing overviews of career fields across the spectrum and insights into the necessary skills for success on the job.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Career & Technical Education Video Package.

  • The Complete Career Clusters – a 16-part series of overviews of jobs in every sector, including health services, information technology, hospitality and tourism, law, marketing, public administration, finance, business management, manufacturing, education, scientific and engineering services, architecture and construction, communications, the arts, and more.
  • Career Advantage: Strategies for Success – multiple-award-winning 26-part series that guides students through the phases of career development, from self-knowledge and values assessment to networking and résumé building, and ultimately to implementation of their determined goals.
  • Breaking Big – a 12-part series from PBS exploring how some of today’s most compelling artists, innovators, athletes, and political leaders pushed, prodded, and cajoled the major opportunities that would make their careers.
  • You’re the Boss: Starting and Running Your Own Business – a comprehensive five-part series that is an invaluable nuts-and-bolts resource for budding entrepreneurs.
  • Professionalism 101: Skills to Succeed and Advance at Work – a three-part series with tips and advice on how to behave in the workplace. Touches on the finer points of professional image, business etiquette, and working with others—including social media and 21st-century technology.
  • More than 200 Career Q&A: Professional Advice and Insight videos – candid interviews with professionals across multiple industries.
  • LinkedIn for Networking and Job Search: Basic and Advanced Techniques – a solid presence on the career networking site LinkedIn is essential for today’s job seekers, and this video provides guidance for both beginners and those who already have a profile.
  • Disabilities at Work: Successful Job Hunting for People with Disabilities – a three-part series on how to overcome the challenges that a disability can bring to the job search process.
  • Communication Essentials – an award-winning four-part series on the cornerstones of communication—listening, speaking, writing, and reading—and how important they are to a successful job search and job performance.
  • Top Careers in Two Years an 11-part series highlighting solid careers that students can pursue with a two-year associate’s degree.
  • Job Interview Mistakes: What NOT to Say or Do – there are no surefire ways to ace an interview, but there are plenty of ways to sabotage it. This video focuses on common pitfalls to avoid.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material

Films On Demand: Business & Economics Collection

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Business & Economics Video Collection

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In a world of bubbles and busts, extreme poverty and astronomical wealth, rapidly emerging worldwide markets and a digital revolution that is transforming practically everything, few video collections are more crucial to keeping up with changing times. Economic theory, basic business education, accounting and finance fundamentals, business ethics and law, management and marketing—it’s all here, in depth.

This collection is available as a single-subject collection or as part of the Films On Demand Master Academic Video Package.

  • WE THE ECONOMY – Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Productions and Morgan Spurlock’s Cinelan partnered with award-winning film directors to create this series of short films in an effort to drive awareness and a better understanding of the U.S. economy. Created with oversight from top economic experts and advisors, this unique collection covers important concepts such as supply and demand, how Wall Street influences the economy, the economic impact of foreign aid, the causes of recession, and other issues central to developing an understanding of economics and society.
  • More than 70 titles from CNBC, including business case studies, investigative looks at the U.S. and global economies, profiles of heads of industry and companies that impact our daily lives, the popular How I Made My Millions series on entrepreneurship, and the Peabody Award-winning The Age of Wal-Mart: Inside America’s Most Powerful Company.
  • The CLIOs, 2000–2013 – 13 years (and counting), totaling more than 35 hours of winning entries across all categories from this prestigious awards program.
  • CEO Exchange: Conversations in Leadership – a 20-hour series of interviews with internationally recognized and respected business leaders, including General Electric’s Jack Welch and CEOs from Boeing, Dow Chemical, Amazon, Saatchi & Saatchi, Merck, Dell, FedEx, and more.
  • Accounting Fundamentals – a four-part series that provides an overview of accounting practices and concepts.
  • Underhand Tactics: Investigating Corporate Culture – an eight-hour series investigating the socioeconomic impact of mega-companies on families, communities, and the environment—locally and across the globe.
  • Ethical Markets – more than 90 episodes from seven seasons of the groundbreaking series that examines major aspects of rapidly accelerating change in today’s interconnected global economy.
  • Inside the Founders: Studies in Business – in 12 short-form videos, company founders share their stories, philosophies, and advice, covering topics such as business planning, marketing, people management, sales, and more.
  • Business Finance Essentials: How to Read a Financial Statement – covers the basics of reading and understanding a business’s ultimate scorecard.
  • Professionalism 101: Skills to Succeed and Advance at Work – a three-part series with advice on how to behave in the workplace—professional image, business etiquette, and working with others, including social media and 21st-century technology.
  • The Deep Dive: One Company’s Secret Weapon for Innovation – a rare behind-the-scenes look at IDEO, one of the most influential product development firms in the world.
  • Globalization: Winners and Losers – a no-nonsense documentary that addresses the pros and cons of doing business in the global marketplace.
  • Fortune Hunters: Turning Trends into Profits – a 19-part series that examines new and emerging trends in business and marketing, and how entrepreneurs are profiting from them.
  • Business Is Blooming: The International Floral Industry – a fascinating case study that’s about way more than flowers, this documentary describes a global market in detail—how supply and demand, seasonal dynamics, global competition, and other issues affect the production and transportation of a fragile, perishable commodity.

All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent use during classroom lectures. For classwork viewing, students can choose to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection are sorted across distinct, browsable subject categories, enabling refined searches for available titles in specific topic areas.

  • Unlimited access from your computer/laptop, tablet, or phone—on campus or off
  • Create and share playlists—use premade clips, full videos, or custom segments to engage students
  • Add a personalized video introduction to any playlist you create
  • Upload the proprietary digital video content you already own and use (like lectures, seminars, etc.) to the platform
  • Captions, interactive transcripts, citations, Google Translate, and more
  • New videos added at no additional cost
  • Videos can be easily added to LibGuides, distance education courses, social media platforms, and LMSs such as D2L, Canvas, Moodle, and others
  • Limited performance rights in educational settings
  • Keyword tags for all content, linking to related material