LibGuides: Film Studies: Streaming films, DVDs and scripts

Film scripts and screenplays

Screenplays and scripts research guide - UCLA
List of places to find screenplays including online and in UCLA's collections.
Finding Screenplays guide - Cornell
Annotated list of links to free online collections of screenplays
Scripts on Screen
Index of scripts available online (some free, some not).

Finding Films and Screenplays from UNLV Libraries

Quick Search searches both online content like streaming videos and physical items like DVDs and books.

To see only films after you run your search, look under Material Type in the top right and choose the Audio Visual option. The search term Streaming videos can also be added if you're looking for online films.

Published screenplays can be found by keyword searching "Motion Picture Plays"

Your search results will include licensed films from the streaming video collections below as well as DVDs and other physical formats. You can log in with your ACE account to save and organize your items and searches and to access your library account.

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Streaming Video Collections

The UNLV Libraries license a number of streaming video collections that provide access to thousands of titles covering all kinds of disciplines and topics. Some offer tools that allow UNLV users to create, save and share video clips and playlists.

UNLV Licensed Streaming Video

Alexander Street Press Videos
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Alexander Street Press provides online access to over 19,000 videos covering a wide variety of disciplines including art and design, history, literature and languages, performing arts, psychology, sciences and the social sciences.
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Users who sign-up for optional personal accounts can create, edit and share playlists and clips.
Ambrose Digital Videos
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Ambrose Video Publishing is a distributor of broadcast-quality documentaries and educational videos to schools, libraries and other institutions.
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UNLV susbcribes to four packages:
-- Ancient History
-- The BBC Shakespeare Plays
-- A History of American Indian Achievement
-- When the Water Tap Runs Dry

Digitalia Film Library This link opens in a new window
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Streaming feature films and documentaries in Spanish, Portuguese, and 34 other languages, all with English subtitles. Includes collections of Latin American, Cuban, Brazilian, European and French cinema as well as early 20th century animation.
Each film's license includes public performance rights.

Docuseek2
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Docuseek2 has exclusive academic streaming for films from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution including, Bullfrog, Icarus and Terra Nova Films, among others.
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Tip: Click on My Movies in the upper right corner of the Docuseek2 homepage to see the titles that are specifically licensed for UNLV.

Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
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Documentary films reflecting diverse cultures and points of view with relevance across the curriculum.
Award-winning documentaries about topics in international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

Films On Demand
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Features thousands of full-length videos covering the humanities & social sciences, science, business & economics, health, archival films & newsreels.
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Tip: Users who create their own optional accounts can make and share playlists from video segments.
Kanopy
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This streaming video service provides access to thousands of titles in such areas as the arts, humanities, business, sciences, media/communications, education and more. Source producers include Media Education Foundation, BBC, PBS, Kino Lorber, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, among others.
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Tip: Users can create playlists and clips from Kanopy's content without registering for an account, but accounts make it easier to manage the clips and playlists you create.

Socialism on Film This link opens in a new window
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1918-1990
Documentaries, newsreels and feature films that reveal the 20th century world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers.
This collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. Covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.

Swank Digital Campus
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This database features 100+ streaming feature films and documentaries, including recent award-winners and classics, dramas, comedies, musicals and more.

Free Online Streaming Archives

Moving Image Archive (from Internet Archive)
This library contains over a million digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Prelinger Archive
Free online repository of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films in the public domain.
Black Film Archive
Black Film Archive lists Black films made between 1915 and 1979 that are currently available online via free or commercial streaming services.

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