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The AFI Catalog is a national filmography documenting the history of American cinema. Cataloging currently covers the years 1893-1974 comprehensively, with additional records covering selected major films from 1975 onwards.

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Black Studies in Video is an award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together documentaries, interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.

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The criterion collection is a series of important classic and contemporary films with high technical quality and award-winning, original supplements.

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Full text, primary sources for studying the history of the music, film and entertainment industries. Includes access to Music Magazine Archive.

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Contains: International index to film/TV periodicals, thesaurus, list of periodicals indexed, and the FIAF databases.

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Full-text and bibliographic coverage from scholarly and popular sources, spanning the entire spectrum of film and television studies.

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Information resource for entertainment films and personalities produced in collaboration with the British Film Institute.

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Access to documentary films by leading filmmakers and film distributors from around the world aimed at an academic audience. Includes many Oscar nominated documentaries and film festival winners.

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Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum, presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

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Streaming educational video.  Covers a wide range of curricular subjects, including history, biology, business and economics, engineering, computer science, technical and trade skills, art and architecture, music and dance, philosophy and religion, geography, environmental science, anthropology, language and literature, mathematics, psychology, sociology, political science, and more.

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Streaming full-length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and Global Lens.

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Digital access to The New Yorker magazine. Includes commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.

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An extensive bibliography compiled by scholars and experts in cinema and media studies

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This collection assembles hundreds of documentary films and series from the history of the Public Broadcasting Service into one online interface.

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Covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast, circus, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more.

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Streaming silent features, serials, and shorts from the 1890s to the 1930s, this database represent the basis of modern cinematic technique and film theory.

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