Online Streaming Resources
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Audio Cine Films Inc. offers exclusive access to studios such as: Walt Disney Pictures, Disney Nature, Hollywood Pictures, Touchstone Pictures, Buena Vista Pictures Distribution, Pixar Animated Studios, Orion Pictures, United Artists, MGM Studios, Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Universal (MCA) Studios among many others. PLEASE NOTE: ACF works best in Google Chrome. Other browsers may experience a delay in accessing content. - Criterion on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Criterion-on-Demand represents a large number of feature film producers, including, but not limited to: Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, DreamWorks SKG, Mongrel Media, Sony Pictures Classics, Alliance Films, Miramax Films, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Films, The Weinstein Company, as well as a smaller number of independent producers. Our title selection includes 1920 classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features. - Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new window
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Kanopy is a streaming service that provides the platform to a host of educational video productions covering a wide range of subjects, from arts, humanities, health, business, education and more. The collection has over 800 video titles from various producers.
The majority of the videos are closed captioned and clip-making is allowed. - Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
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Films On Demand is a Web-based digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos. Toronto Metropolitan has access to Master Academic Collection and World Cinema Collection. Master Academic Collection is a video collection of 39K titles, with many well-known producers, such as A&E, PBS,National Geographic, TED, and HBO Documentary Films. World Cinema has 1000+ foreign language films.
Asian Film Online offers a view of Asian culture as seen through the lens of the independent Asian filmmaker. Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia.
This streaming collection includes the best of the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, American and European masterpieces from the mid-20th century, award-winning contemporary films from Global Lens, and films from Africa and the African diaspora from ArtMattan Productions. The collection shines a light on the history of cinema while also providing a glimpse into the cultures and issues of countries around the world—making it useful beyond film studies departments by bringing value to programs in area studies, political science, history, world languages, and more.
Watch Hot Docs at Home on CBC, a multi platform festival-at-home experience providing Canadians with front-row access to select titles from the 2020 Hot Docs Festival premiering Thursday nights starting April 16.
Stream current episodes and past seasons of comedies, dramas and documentaries.
Encore+ features over one thousand iconic and award-winning titles, restored, digitized and yours to enjoy at home or on the go.
Stream thought-provoking full length Canadian documentaries.
Netflix YouTube Channel - Original Educational Documentaries
Netflix allows instructors to screen some original Netflix documentaries in their classrooms: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/57695
A selection of their films are now featured on Netflix's YouTube channel.
Kino Lorber Youtube Channel - Free Films Online
Kino Lorber Puts Online 50 Free Films: Watch Classics by Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Taika Waititi & Other Major Filmmakers
List of Video Streaming databases: https://learn.library.torontomu.ca/az.php?q=video
- National Film Board of Canada
Canada’s public producer and distributor, the National Film Board of Canada creates interactive works, social-issue documentaries, auteur animation and alternative dramas that provide the world with a unique Canadian perspective. The collection includes documentaries, animations, experimental films and fiction. NFB showcase films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians: stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more. The University Libraries subscription to NFB education gives you access to 500 films not available to the general public.
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Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content. Also includes OSCE Clinical Skills Videos which are designed to help you prepare for Objective Structured Clinical Examinations, or OSCEs, by testing your clinical reasoning skills. In each video you will observe a clinical encounter and be given the opportunity to develop an assessment, or differential diagnosis, and provide an appropriate diagnostic workup. - Black Studies Center This link opens in a new window
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Black Studies Center brings together essential historical and current material for researching the past, present and future of African Americans, the wider African Diaspora, and Africa itself. It is comprised of several cross-searchable, component databases, which include: - Curio This link opens in a new window
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Curio.ca includes news reports, documentaries, and archival material, as well as programs like The Nature of Things with David Suzuki, Doc Zone with Ann-Marie MacDonald, and Enquête with Alain Gravel. The portal has seven main subject categories – Arts, Business, Education, History and Geography, Health, Science, and Social Sciences.
Curio - News in Review is now available through Toronto Metropolitan's Curio subscription. Access Curio - News in Review. - Digital Theatre+ This link opens in a new window
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Digital Theatre+ is the world’s leading educational platform for the performing arts. DT+ is constantly evolving and growing, with more filmed productions and interviews as well as superb written content being added every month. - Drama Online Core Collection This link opens in a new window
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The Core Collection forms the heart of Drama Online. This collection is truly the foundation of the platform and offers a diverse and rich catalogue of plays by the world's leading dramatists.
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The University of Fashion is the first and largest online fashion design video library in the world. This site has many hundreds of step-by-step video lessons teaching all aspects of fashion design. University of Fashion teaches all the major fashion disciplines, e.g. draping, pattern making, fashion art, product development, CAD fashion art, sewing, CAD pattern making, fashion business, knits, accessories, lectures and much more. Their lessons are organized by Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. - On the Boards This link opens in a new window
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OntheBoards.tv is a portal for viewing full-length, high-quality performance films on your TV, desktop, or laptop. It functions as a streaming subscription service and an archive for ground-breaking artistic projects and contemporary performances.
The films featured on the website include international and US-based contemporary artists, some of whom are rarely seen live stateside, with works that might not be performed again. - Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
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The Naxos Video Library brings you an extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. It includes the Naxos DVD label, Opus Arte, Arthaus, Dacapo, EuroArts, among others and is continuously updated to offer the best selection of performing arts videos.
An online search engine, allows users to search by composer, production, artist, venue, role or genre. - Nursing Theorists This link opens in a new window
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Fitne offers the Nurse Theorists Series for your education needs. These videos are designed to show nursing students how theories are applied in practice. They also provide examples for administrators to see how implementing certain theories can save money and increase efficiency of institutions. Each video presents information on a theory, gives case study examples to show the application of a theory and concludes with a discussion summarizing and synthesizing the theory and application. - OnArchitecture This link opens in a new window
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OnArchitecture is an online audiovisual service providing a synthetic, deep and detailed panorama of the world's main authors, works, experiences and problematics related to the field of architecture.
OnArchitecture's collection features original videos, such as interviews, buildings and installations, all of this enriched with a selection of complementary material -documents and audiovisuals- about the main authors and figures of contemporary architecture.
As of 2022, a further 200 videos available - interviews and buildings. - Qwest TV This link opens in a new window
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Streaming video service created by Quincy Jones. It features documentaries, concerts, archives and other content as they relate to “jazz and beyond.”
Co-founded by music legend Quincy Jones and jazz impresario and producer Reza Ackbaraly, Qwest TV features a diverse collection of hundreds of concerts and documentaries, with a focus on Jazz, Soul, Funk, Blues, African music, Latin music, Indian music and more.
*Please click on the Access hotlink to link to the site. This resource should then open in a new tab. Please note that if your browser uses pop-up or ad blockers you may get prompted to access the resource in a new tab. - Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
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Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world‘s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.