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- Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online delivers more than 67,000 titles spanning a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. It includes documentaries, films, demonstrations, and other content types. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
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Featured Films & Webcasts
- Frontline: Post Mortem (dvd) Every day, nearly 7,000 people die in America, and the rate of autopsies, the gold standard of death investigation, has plummeted. As a result, not only do murderers go free and innocent people go to jail, but the crisis in death investigation in America is also a threat to public health. FRONTLINE reports the results of a joint investigation with ProPublica, NPR, and the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley.
- Post Mortem: Forensic Science (streaming: Academic Video Online) Post Mortem delves into the world of forensic science, and looks at some of the latest techniques in high-tech sleuthing. Fingerprints, fibers, blood-- forensic investigators turn these elements into compelling evidence, working routinely with police in their efforts to solve crimes.
- Following Antigone: Forensic Anthropology and Human Rights Investigations (streaming, Academic Video Online) This documentary, produced by Equipo Argentino de Anthropologia Forense and WITNESS, discusses a massacre during at El Mozote.
- 60 Minutes: Leave No One Behind (streaming, Academic Video Online) 60 Minutes II reports on teams of investigators on a forensic search for lost war heroes. Vicki Mabrey reports.
- Unearthing Evil (streaming, Academic Video Online) Even in times of war there has to be limits. But sometimes all boundaries are crossed and crimes of war are committed. These constitute crimes against humanity. Unearthing Evil is a confronting program that explores the work of Australian archaeologist Richard Wright, who led the teams that evacuated mass graves in the Ukraine and Bosnia. The evidence was used to reconstruct the chilling events that took place and to support the prosecution of the perpetrators.
- The Woman in the Iron Coffin (streaming, Academic Video Online) In 2011, construction workers were shocked to uncover the remains of a woman in an abandoned lot in Queens, New York. So great was her level of preservation, witnesses first assumed they had stumbled upon a recent homicide. Forensic analysis, however, revealed a remarkably different story. Buried in an elaborate and expensive iron coffin, the body belonged to a young African American woman who died in the first half of the 19th century.
- FBI Marks 20 Years of Training at the 'Body Farm' The Forensic Anthropology Center in Knoxville, Tennessee, has been training FBI Evidence Response Team (ERT) members for 20 years on techniques they can apply at crime scenes.
- TED Talk: How Vultures Can Help Solve Crimes Can a bird that symbolizes death help the living catch criminals? In this informative and accessible talk, forensic anthropologist Lauren Pharr shows us how vultures impact crime scenes -- and the assistance they can provide to detectives investigating murders.
- Secrets of the dead. Jamestown's dark winter (streaming, Academic Video Online) Archaeologists at the site of an early American colony discovered the remains of a young woman, dating back to 1609, buried in the trash layer of a cellar. Now, 400 years later, a cellar excavation has uncovered numerous bone fragments -- all belonging to this adolescent female. With the help of forensic anthropologists, the extraordinary and frightening story of this young woman comes to life.
- Forensic DNA Examiner, FBI (streaming, Academic Video Online) Brandon is a Forensic DNA Examiner with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Working out of Arlington, VA, Brandon is tasked with examining the DNA evidence from cases ranging from counter-terrorism to murders and missing persons. After selecting the relevant evidence for testing, Brandon then decides which evidence will be used in trial cases.
Featured Podcasts
- The Arch & Anthropology Podcast: Forensic Anthropology The Arch and Anth Podcast aims to provides entertaining and educational content about archaeology and anthropology. Hosting the show is Dr Michael B. C. Rivera, an expert in the study of human biology, human behavior and human societies worldwide, from the earliest beginnings to modern times
- StarTalk: Dead Bodies: Bioarchaeology and Forensic Sciences What can the dead teach us? On this episode of StarTalk All-Stars, we tap into your morbid curiosity, as host and primatologist Natalia Reagan sits down with comic co-host Sarah Rose Siskind to investigate bioarchaeology and forensic science with bioarchaeologist Kristina Killgrove and forensic anthropologist Chris Rainwater.
- Coroner Talk: The Story is in the Bones In this episode I talk with Dr.MariaTeresa A. Tersigni-Tarrant about what is forensic anthropology and how it can help you in solving your case or answering the unanswered. We dive into the how-to’s of scene work and the obstacles that come with recovering and packaging skeletal remains.
- Ask a Biologist: Skeleton Secrets Dead men tell no tales, but their bones can. It just takes a particular kind of scientist to read the clues that tell the story. Dr. Biology sits down with guest Tony Falsetti, a forensic anthropologist who knows his way around a skeleton. They talk about the role of forensic anthropology and some of the mysteries of history Tony has helped to solve.
- Forensic Anthropology Companion Podcast A place for authors from the journal Forensic Anthropology to talk a little more in-depth about their articles and also to stimulate research ideas amongst the field at large. Hosted by Dr. Michael Kenyhercz.
