Guides and databases: Anthropology: Audio visual resources

Streaming services

The library subscribes to video streaming services, including Kanopy, which includes award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases; Academic Video Online, which includes documentary films from Film Platform and the BBC Landmark video series; BFI Player, which includes subscribed feature films; and BoB National (Box of Broadcasts), a searchable database of TV and Radio broadcasts (including films).

Academic Video Online Academic Video online delivers more than 66,000 titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Accessibility statement for Academic Video Online.
BFI Player Access for UCL students and staff only. To set up access to your BFI Player subscription follow these steps: 1. Go to BFI Player and create an account OR sign in if you already have one by selecting 'Already have an account? Sign in' 2. Select University College London from the dropdown list 3. Login using your UCL username and password. Once you've set up your subscription, you can login on BFI Player for the remainder of this academic year; BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK; it is to be used by UCL students and staff for academic purposes only and access is limited to the subscription content
Bloomsbury Video Library: Arts and Humanities Collection Previously called ArtFilms. Featuring international content across the visual arts and performing arts, film, history this collection features exclusive indie films and shorts, avant-garde performances, interviews with renowned writers, artists, choreographers, performers and practitioners, documentaries and more
BoB (Box of Broadcasts) Access for UCL students and staff only. Access to BoB is only permitted within the United Kingdom. Requires login with UCL username and password. BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education allowing users to record programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels, access over 2.2 million broadcasts dating back to the 1970s, create playlists, clips and clip compilations; search programme transcripts and subtitles; embed content in VLEs and share on social media
Kanopy Providing video streaming to over 26,000 films including thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases. The collection includes a number of leading producers, such as the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, BBC and hundreds more. Accessibility statement for Kanopy.
World Cinema Collection : Films on Demand Streaming films from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, from the silent era, the mid-20th century, as well as award-winning contemporary works.

Other streaming platforms

In addition to the resources listed above, the following are also available:

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI): Educational Streaming Site
EAI's Educational Streaming Site, contains full-length streaming videos for the featured artists.
Klassiki
Stream and explore films from Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.On initial use Sign in with UCL username and password to create a user account. UCL email must to be used to create the account. Subsequent access via Klassiki.

The Internet Archive
This has a database of over 4 million videos, including TV programmes. The Internet Archive is freely searchable but you might have to set up your own account in order to view audio visual content.
The Self-Access Centre (SAC) at the UCL Centre for Languages and International Education (CLIE)
This offers streaming access to off-air recordings (films, documentaries, lectures) particularly relevant for languages.

Video Data Bank (VDB) Streaming
Offering access to a collection of video art and experimental moving image work by and about contemporary artists. The VDB’s collection includes the work of more than 600 artists and 6,000 video art titles.

Ethnographic audio visual resources

Ethnographic Video Online
UCL has access to Vols. I and II: Foundational Films and Vol. III: Indigenous Voices.
Ethnographic Sound Archives Online
Includes over 2,000 hours of audio recordings from field expeditions around the world, particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s—the dawn of ethnomusicology as a codified discipline.

DVD collections

UCL library collections include DVDs, which can be borrowed and watched at home or in the library. You can search for a film in our DVD collection in Explore. Type your search term, for example: the title of the film or the name of the director, plus the word "DVD".

SSEES Library's Bain Graffy Film Collection

The Library’s Bain Graffy Film Collection focuses on Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European and Central Asian films. It covers feature films, animations and documentaries from across the region.

The collection comprises more than 6,000 DVDs and hundreds of recorded discs with programmes recorded from television. It is one of the biggest collections of its kind in the UK.

The collection is available to UCL staff and students only. The items cannot be borrowed, but they can be watched on site in the Library in the Multimedia Room.

The Bain Graffy Film Collection

Search the BFI Player

BFI Player
Access for UCL students and staff only. To set up access to your BFI Player subscription follow these steps:
1. Go to BFI Player and create an account OR sign in if you already have one by selecting 'Already have an account? Sign in'
2. Select University College London from the dropdown list
3. Login using your UCL username and password.
Once you've set up your subscription, you can login on BFI Player for the remainder of this academic year; BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK; it is to be used by UCL students and staff for academic purposes only and access is limited to the subscription content

Search BOB National

BoB (Box of Broadcasts)
Access for UCL students and staff only. Access to BoB is only permitted within the United Kingdom. Requires login with UCL username and password. BoB is Learning on Screen’s on demand TV and radio service for education allowing users to record programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels, access over 2.2 million broadcasts dating back to the 1970s, create playlists, clips and clip compilations; search programme transcripts and subtitles; embed content in VLEs and share on social media

Search Kanopy

Source: Kanopy, Inc

Kanopy
Providing video streaming to over 26,000 films including thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases. The collection includes a number of leading producers, such as the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, BBC and hundreds more. Accessibility statement for Kanopy.

Images

Bridgeman Education
Access to over 390,000 images. To download iPhone app click here and enter username/password.
Britannica Image Quest
Britannica Image Quest is an online image library which contains images from the worlds best providers including National Geographic, Getty Images, National History Museum and many more. This easy-to-use online portal provides quick access to rights-cleared high-quality images.