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Find Films & Video Oral Histories
- 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.
- HistoryMakers: African American Video Oral History Collection This link opens in a new window HistoryMakers is a collection of video oral history interviews with historically significant African Americans. Transcripts are included with the interviews.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new window Kanopy is a provider of documentaries, training films, and theatrical releases available as streaming video. Clips from the videos can be embedded in presentations or shown in class. Films in the Boston University Libraries catalog are licensed to Boston University for educational and research use only, for BU students, faculty, and staff.
- Penn Program on Documentaries & the Law, University of Pennsylvania Documentary films increasingly influence what people know and think about law. At the same time, the law affects the stories professional filmmakers tell. Apart from contract law, no documentary filmmaker today can ignore copyright, defamation, invasion of privacy, or informed consent. As a result, lawyers who understand both the law and the creative process play an integral part in documentary film production.
- The Sociological Cinema The Sociological Cinema is a resource for using video and pop culture to teach and learn sociology. We started as a database of annotated video clips, and have since expanded into other forms of media to engage students in teaching and learning.
- Sherman Grinberg Film Library The Sherman Grinberg Film Library, located in Los Angeles, California, is the world’s oldest and biggest privately held film archive with over 40 moving image libraries, serving Hollywood and the world film community for more than 75 years.
- BU Libraries Search (BULS) This link opens in a new window BU Libraries Search provides a single place to search for a wide variety of academic material provided by the library. The material covered by the search includes books, journals, scores, video and audio recordings, and other physical items held by the library. The search also covers ebooks and ejournals owned by the library, as well as online material provided by the library from a variety of sources.
Featured Films
- Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (streaming, Academic Video Online) In March 1931, two white women stepped off a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama, with a shocking accusation of gang rape, by nine black teenagers on the train. So began the Scottsboro case, one of the 20th century's fieriest legal battles. The youths' trial generated the sharpest regional conflict since the Civil War, led to momentous Supreme Court decisions, and helped give birth to the civil rights movement.
- Supreme Court decisions that changed the nation. Gideon vs. Wainwright and Miranda vs. Arizona (streaming, Academic Video Online) In examining these two key Supreme Court decisions, this program explores an issue that remains a subject of controversy today: balancing the fight of the accused with those of society.
Featured Podcasts
- Life of the Law (series) Life of the Law’s team of investigative journalists, audio producers, editors, and scholars work as partners in cities around the country to produce bi-weekly feature episodes — investigative reports, in-studio discussions about all things law, and live storytelling.
