Images, Music, and Video – Best Bets
- African American Communities
Presents multiple aspects of the African American community, focusing predominantly on Atlanta, Chicago, St. Louis, New York, and towns and cities in North Carolina. More info - Alexander Street Collections
Online collections and videos for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Includes American History in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video, Dance in Video, and Music Online. More info - American History in Video
More than 7,000 videos including commercial and governmental news, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. More info - American History, 1493-1945
Sourced from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, this collection of primary source documents brings to life American history from the times of the earliest settlers until the end of World War II. More info - Anatomy.TV
Derived from real human data, this range of software provides thousands of 3D anatomical structures, clinical slides, dissections, animations and much more. More info - Appalachian State University Digital Collections
Rare and historic material digitized by Appalachian State University Libraries. More info - Artstor
More than two million art images for non-profit educational use from numerous art, architecture, and anthropology collections. See More Info for a collection list. More info - Berg Fashion Library
Cross-searchable access to Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion and other fashion-related e-books, reference works, images, and more. More info - British Library Digital Collections
Temporarily unavailable (see https://bl.libguides.com/currently-available). Collections range from digitized manuscripts (Beowulf and Leonardo da Vinci’s Notebook) and illuminated manuscripts, to an extensive collection of maps from around the world. More info - Classical Music in Video (Music Online)
A rich collection of influential performances and documentaries spanning eras and demonstrating classical music’s dynamic evolution. More info - Counseling and Therapy in Video
Provides access to actual therapy sessions, re-enacted therapy sessions, and scripted sessions designed by counseling professionals to illustrate common issues and scenarios. More info - Dance in Video
Contains five hundred hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. More info - Digital Public Library of America
Brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. More info - Digital Theatre Plus
Gives access to over 600 award-winning productions and a wealth of related study materials. More info - DigitalNC
Digital versions of primary sources from cultural heritage institutions around North Carolina. More info - Docuseek2
Provides exclusive educational streaming access to documentary and social issues films. More info - Empire Online
Contains primary source documents that span five centuries, charting the story of the rise and fall of empires. More info - Films On Demand
Provides over 21,000 high quality streaming videos on a wide variety of topics, including award-winning documentaries, interviews, and instructional and vocational training videos. More info - Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration & Cultural Exchange
Brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of global commodities in world history. More info - JSTOR
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads. More info - Just for Kids Streaming Collection
A kid-safe, advertisement-free media platform with over 9,000 titles and 12,000 segments from producers like PBS and Reading Rainbow. More info - Kanopy
Click red button to "Visit the App State Collection" and then "Log in to App State." Kanopy provides educational streaming access to over 27,000 documentaries and critically acclaimed films. More info - Market Research and American Business, 1935-1965
Insight into the American consumer boom of the mid-20th century through access to market research reports and supporting documents. More info - Met Opera on Demand
Metropolitan Opera On Demand includes more than 800 full-length Met performances. More info - Music & Performing Arts
Combines music, audio, and video that spans all time periods, and includes hundreds of thousands of seminal artists. More info - National Geographic Magazine Archive (1888-1994)
Complete archive of the magazine to the mid-1990s, including every page and every photograph. More info - Naxos Music Library
Limited to 10 simultaneous users. Comprehensive collection of classical music, contemporary jazz, world, folk, adult contemporary, Chinese, pop, and rock music. More info - Naxos Video Library
Limited to 5 simultaneous users. Extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries. More info - Open Video Project
Videos include documentaries, historical events, educational and ephermeral topics, and lectures. More info - Opera in Video (Music Online)
Contains five hundred hours of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. More info - Organ Cinema
An ever-expanding filmed encyclopedia of the organ and its history and repertoire, created by Fugue State Films and the Royal College of Organists. More info - PBS Video Collection
Streaming video documentaries and series from PBS. From science to history, art to Shakespeare, diversity to business and economics, and more. More info - Swank
Streaming library of feature films, documentaries, and foreign films from the largest movie studios. We usually have over 100 films available each semester, chosen for classes at faculty request. More info