History Resources: Video

A broad, interdisciplinary video database, which includes several history collections (which are listed individually below).

One of the largest collections of videos for the study of American history that can be streamed instantly over the Internet. Historical coverage ranges from earliest history of Native Americans to the 1988 Vincennes Affair in the Persian Gulf.

Includes news footage covering the years leading up to and during the Second World War. United Newsreel provides more than 35 hours of the American weekly newsreel produced by the U.S. Office of War Information from 1942 to 1946, complete with transcripts, while the Universal Newsreel provides more than 200 hours of content with full transcripts from Universal Studios’ biweekly series that ran from 1929 to 1946.

Films from the BBC on history, anthropology, science, religion, health sciences, and art.

Includes more than 4,400 testimonies about the Holocaust comprising 12,000 recorded hours of videotape. Note: First time users of the database will need to create an account to do so.

Includes original language documentaries about Latin American issues such as cultural identity, political history, human rights, popular culture, agribusiness, education, and religion.

Meet the Press provides over 1,500 hours of footage—the full surviving broadcast run to date—available online in one cross-searchable interface.

Cross-searches Gale’s historical newspaper and periodical collections owned by the library. Provides access to more than 2,000 titles and over 10 million digitized facsimile pages.

Includes video from such PBS programs and contributors as NOVA, Nature, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Ken Burns, American Experience, and Frontline.

Includes clips of the CBS television program from 1997-2014.

Collection of documentaries, newsreels, and features that reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British, and Latin American filmmakers. It ranges from the early twentieth century to the 1980s and examines the themes of War & Revolution, News & Current Affairs, and Culture & Society.

Documentaries that allow students and researchers to explore human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century. Covers Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.