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- Audio Cine Films This link opens in a new windowAudio 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 windowCriterion-on-Demand is a Canadian streaming platform that represents a large number of feature film producers, including: 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, DreamWorks SKG, Mongrel Media, Sony Pictures Classics, Alliance Films, Miramax Films, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Films, etc. Our title selection includes 1920 classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features. Please note: Criterion on Demand (COD) is not affiliated with Criterion Film Collection nor Criterion Channel.
- Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new windowKanopy 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 windowFilms 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.
World Cinema Collection (Films on Demand)
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.
Stream current episodes and past seasons of comedies, dramas and documentaries.
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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.
- Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination This link opens in a new windowBates’ 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 windowBlack 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 windowCurio.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 windowDigital 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
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.
- University of Fashion This link opens in a new windowThe 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 windowOntheBoards.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 windowThe 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 windowFitne 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 windowOnArchitecture 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. - Pidgeon Digital This link opens in a new windowThe online version of The Pidgeon Digital collection of talks by contemporary architects and related designers. The collection comprises over 130 talks by architects and engineers, including Frank Gehry, Balkrishna Doshi, Terry Farrell, Richard MacCormac, Neil Thomas, and Hans Hollein among many others. Pidgeon Digital was founded in 1979 by Monica Pidgeon (long-time editor of the influential magazine Architectural Design) and lectures are continually added.
- Qwest TV This link opens in a new windowStreaming 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. - Theatre in Video This link opens in a new windowTheatre 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.
Royalty Free and Public Domain Music and Sounds
If you are looking for royalty free, public domain, or Creative Commons licensed music or sounds, the following sites have some options. Remember to always confirm the license before using any tracks you've downloaded in your projects and check whether it applies to commercial or non-commercial products.