Search Omni - Media
Online Streaming Resources
- Audio Cine Films This link opens in a new window
This link opens in a new window
This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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.
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.
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.
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 window
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- 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 window
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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
- This link opens in a new window
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. - Pidgeon Digital This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
The 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 window
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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. - Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
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.
Digital Image Resources
Guides on how to use the ArtStor database are available for instructors and students.
- BNF Gallica image search
Gallica, from the Bibliothèque nationale de Franc is one of the major digital libraries available for free via the Internet. It provides access to any type of document: printed documents (books, press and magazines) in image and text mode, manuscripts, sound and iconographic documents, maps and plans. - Europeana
A digital platform for European heritage that brings together digitized collections materials from over 3000 archives, libraries and museums throughout Europe. - Getty Search Gateway
The Getty makes digital images (about 90,000) to which it holds the rights or that are in the public domain freely available online. You can browse all Open Content images or use the search on the Getty Search Gateway and download images identified with a download link. Images used should be credited as follows: "Digital Image courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program" - Google Arts and Culture - Photographs
Google Arts & Culture is a non-profit initiative. We work with cultural institutions and artists around the world. Together, our mission is to preserve and bring the world’s art and culture online so it’s accessible to anyone, anywhere. - JStor Open Community Collections
The JStor platform provides free access to a variety of institutional special collections to researchers, faculty, and students. Collections include: Albright College
Nicaragua Revolution: David Schwartz Collection, Carleton College Haldore Hanson’s China Collection (1937-1938), Chatham University Archives & Special Collections The Minor Bird Chatham University’s archive of their student-led undergraduate literary magazine, Eden Hall Architectural Plants and Drawings, Central Methodist University Archives, Notre Dame University- Louaize, Heinz Gaube Lebanese Architectural Photographs Collection, Lebanese Research Center for Migration and Diaspora Studies (LERC), Roanoke College Digital Collections, Salve Regina University Archives & Special Collections: South Kingstown Colonial Records... - Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA)
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has made nearly 20,000 images of their collections materials free to search and download without restriction. Users can browse the collection or search the by date, curatorial area, object type, artist or artwork name. Highlights of the image collection include 20th century fashion, Art of Africa, Contemporary Islamic Art, and photography. - Metropolitan Museum of Art
On May 16, 2014 the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that 400,000 high resolution digital images of public domain works could be downloaded from the Museum's website for non-commercial use. You do not need to seek permission for use of these images nor is there an associated fee. This initiative is called Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) and works covered by this initiative are identified by the acronym OASC. - Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam makes over 125,000 images from the collection available, free of charge. To use them you will need to create a free Rijkstudio account to get started.
The account lets you create your own galleries and download images for your own use. The museum encourages you to create your own masterpieces from the images that you download and has examples of objects, images and videos created from its art works. - Smithsonian Open Access
Download, share, and reuse more than 4.4 million 2D and 3D digital items from the Smithsonian collections. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. - Tate Gallery
Search the Tate collection online. Tate holds the national collection of British art form 1500 to the present day, and international modern and contemporary art. Its mission is to increase the public’s enjoyment and understanding of British art from the 16th century to the present day and of international modern and contemporary art. - Web Gallery of Art
The Web Gallery of Art is a searchable database of European fine art from the medieval ages to the impressionist period (1000-1900). All materials are free to use for noncommercial purposes.
- LUNA Commons This link opens in a new window
- This link opens in a new window
Explore the many powerful features in the LUNA browser:
- Create, Media Groups, slide shows, dynamic presentations, annotations and web widgets.
- Easily link to specific content.
- Search and add Flickr content to your Media Groups.
- Upload your own content — images, audio, video, etc.
- Seamlessly access high resolution details.
- Learn, create, share, and EXPLORE...
- NEW - upload files directly from your desktop with the My Uploads feature.
