Film Research: Streaming Video

Streaming video from large and small production companies covering a wide range of subjects to enhance college courses. These videos include public performance rights that allow them to be used in the educational setting.

The films in the Media Education Foundation (MEF) Collection encourage critical thinking about the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media. With a special focus on representations of gender and race, and the affect these representations have on identity and culture, MEF films are especially well-suited for use in Women's Studies, Sociology, Race Studies,Communication, Anthropology, Education, and Psychology courses.

Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® founded in 1937, is the major non-theatrical movie distributor, online CE/CME education distributor and public performance licensing agent in venues where feature movies are shown publicly.

Using clips from more than 300 of the greatest movies ever made, this series explores film history and American culture through the eyes of over 150 Hollywood insiders, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, and Michael Eisner. In-depth treatments present film as a powerful economic force, potent twentieth-century art form, and viable career option. American Cinema connects subjects such as history, business, and English with other studies.

As they assume greater prominence on the global stage, the nations of Asia are developing some of the world’s most fertile movie industries. This four-part series investigates thriving hubs of film production in China, Korea, India, and Iran, giving students an informative tour of Asian cinema and its alternatives to—or emulation of—Western aesthetic conventions. Offering a rich mix of film clips and interviews with industry leaders and observers, each episode provides a window into an astonishing artistic milieu and a rarely seen cultural dynamic. Several film excerpts are included in each program. Portions are in other languages with English subtitles. 4-part series, 51 minutes each.

In spite of competition by other media, movies have remained a perennial favorite of American viewing audiences. But what is it like to make them? This program analyzes the film industry from a variety of technical, financial, legal, and business perspectives. Topics explored include marketing and merchandising, financial influences on content, special effects and Hollywood action movies, the domestic versus international marketplace, the role of film critics, and the film business in the new media environment. (28 minutes)

Hollywood's Top Directors offers 13 video profiles: Richard Donner, Joel Schumacher, Andrew Davis, Jan de Bont, William Friedkin, Ivan Reitman, Adrian Lyne, Barry Levinson, Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Rob Reiner, Barry Sonnenfeld, and Roger Donaldson.