Walker Library: *History: United States: Videos

Selected Online Collections

Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs and contemporary studies covering human behavior the world over.
Ethnographic Video Online contains more than 500 hours of classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films.
Title List (Excel file) (MTSU offers Volume I titles)
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
33 full length videos for the study of literature, history, religion and theater.
Create a personal account to customize playlists, create clips, and access other features.
Films on Demand Tools & Features
Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Watch streaming films, documentaries, and training videos from Criterion Collection, Women Make Movies, First Run Features, and other leading producers. The library owns some titles on this platform, but most content is leased solely for classroom use; see https://library.mtsu.edu/mediaresources/policy
Kanopy Troubleshooting Guide
Kanopy Accessibility Statement
Creating playlists and/or clips (Must first create a Kanopy account)

World History in Video This link opens in a new window
Critically acclaimed documentaries ranging in history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century.
Video coverage includes Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.
Title List (Library Catalog search)
Title List (Excel file)

More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931: Program 1 by (National Film Preservation Foundation)
An anthology of films from American film archives. In addition to rare silent-era features, includes cartoons and animation, documentaries and newsreels, earliest American movies, pioneering sound and color experiments, serial episodes, trailers for lost films, advertisements, avant-garde shorts, ethnographic footage, films of ethnic communities, and other film types invented during the first four decades of the motion picture.
More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931: Program 2
More treasures from American film archives, 1894-1931: Program 3