Humanities

Kanopy Streaming 

Kanopy is a streaming video resource with a broad collection of over 26,000 films on every subject imaginable and from leading producers such as Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, New Day Films, HBO California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, PBS, BBC, First Run Features, The Video Project, Media Education Foundation, Documentary Education Resources.

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Dashboard features

Films on Demand 

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.

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Alexander Street 

Cross-search Alexander Street Press streaming videos across such subjects as anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and theatre. The materials include documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations.

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Digital Theater Plus+

Video of live theatre and opera productions. Includes instruction and discussion of acting, stage production and "behind the stage" work.

National Theatre Collection: Volumes I & II makes available contemporary video productions of the highest quality from award-winning actors and directors—offering equitable access to the stage for students, scholars, and enthusiasts. 

National Theatre Collection: Volume I features 30 high-definition video performances covering a wide range of works regularly studied in secondary and higher education. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitized archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and costume bibles are available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information. 

Highlights of the productions included in Volume I:

• Shakespeare, with vibrant modern stagings, including Twelfth Night, directed by Simon Godwin, with Tamsin Greig in the role of Malvolia
• Greek theatre such as Medea by Euripides, in a contemporary adaptation by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell with Helen McCrory in the title role
• Literary adaptations, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein adapted by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
• 20th-century classics such as Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs and the Young Vic’s production of Lorca’s Yerma, adapted and directed by Simon Stone with Billie Piper in the title role
• Comedies such as One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and featuring James Corden's Tony Award-winning performance
• New writing featuring Consent, Nina Raine’s powerful, painful, funny play that sifts the evidence from every side and puts justice herself in the dock

National Theatre Collection: Volume II builds upon the first volume’s 30 videos with additional 20 high-quality video productions featuring fresh takes on the classics and compelling performances. Exclusive archival content for behind-the-scenes context from the National Theatre Archive will also be added to this volume.

Highlights of the productions* included in Volume II:

• All My Sons (2019): From the Old Vic, Jeremy Herrin directs Sally Field and Bill Pullman in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama.
• Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (2017): Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane join an elite cast in a revival of Tony Kushner’s fantastical epic drama examining the AIDS crisis under a conservative Reagan administration.
• Angels in America Part Two: Perestroika (2017): Part Two picks continues the exploration of the political and ideological complications of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980's in an multi-award-winning production directed by Marianne Elliott.
• Barber Shop Chronicles (2017): A co-production with Fuel and Leeds Playhouse, Barber Shop Chronicles is a heart-warming, hilarious and insightful play that leaps from a barber shop in Peckham (London) to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra.
• Home (2013): Nadia Fall’s vital verbatim play about homeless young people living on the margins of society, featuring performances from Michaela Coel, Antonia Thomas and Kadiff Kirwan.
• Julie (2018): August Strindberg's Miss Julie finds a new home in contemporary London. Carrie Cracknell directs a cast including Vanessa Kirby and Eric Kofi Abrefa.
• Paradise (2021): Playwright Kate Tempest forges an epic new take on Greek legend Philoctetes performed by an all-female company directed by Ian Rickson with Lesley Sharp as Philoctetes.
• Rockets and Blue Lights (2021): Directed by Miranda Cromwell, this astonishing and fiercely political new play by Winsome Pinnock retells British history through the prism of the slave trade.
• Romeo & Juliet (2021): A riveting bold adaptation starring Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, Judy) and Josh O’Connor (The Crown, God’s Own Country).
• The Threepenny Opera (2016): In this vivid and darkly comic new adaptation by award-winning playwright Simon Stephens, Brecht’s book and lyrics meets Kurt Weill’s extraordinary score.
• Three Sisters (2020): Co-produced by Fuel Theatre, Chekhov’s iconic characters are relocated to 1960s Nigeria on the brink of the Biafran Civil War in this bold adaptation by Inua Ellams.