Walker Library: MALA 6050, GEOG 4360, and GS 3040: Contemporary Immigration &amp; Migration Studies: Videos & Films

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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)
Alexander Street Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
The AVON (Academic Videos Online) streaming platform provides on-demand access to over 60,000 streaming videos. Content providers include PBS, BBC, Sony Picture Classics, CNN, BBC, and more.
Detailed description of available AVON collections at https://video-alexanderstreet-com.ezproxy.mtsu.edu/collections.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
Streaming documentary films from a number of sources, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, and the National Film Board of Canada. Many films in this collection focus on social and environmental issues.
Docuseek Help Wiki
Instructors can register a personal account in order to create clips and playlists.
60 Minutes: 1997-2014 This link opens in a new window
250 hours of streaming video from the CBS News show, 60 Minutes.
Title list (.xls)
World Book Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of online World Book encyclopedias for different user levels.
Audience: Children, Elementary School, Middle School, High School, College/Research, Educators, Public, Genealogy
Vanderbilt Television News Archive This link opens in a new window
Archive of regularly scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News, August 1968 to present. Users must visit the archive in person or pay for a loan in order to view broadcasts described in the archive.
Archive of regularly scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News. Special news reports are recorded in addition to these newscasts, including material from other networks. We record broadcasts as they are televised, provide the widest access allowable within copyright for scholarship and research, and preserve the content for future generations. The database currently includes 1,099,338 records, including abstracts at the story level of regular evening newscasts and catalog records for each special news report.

Streaming Music
Large variety of genres.
Streaming Videos
Lists of both library-subscribed videos and free website videos.
TIMES VIDEO
Short videos about current issues. Indexed by channels (broad subjects). Use your free New York Times subscription for full access.
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Videos and News Media -- Emphasis on Nashville

Little Kurdistan, USA -- [Next Door Neighbors]
Looks at Nashville’s Kurdish population, which is the largest in North America. Includes segment explaining Nashville as a destination city for immigrant populations.
Touring a Kurdish Capital in the US (BBC News)
New Beginnings -- [Next Door Neighbors]
Explores why refugees left their native countries behind and set out to make a new beginning in Nashville.
Egyptians -- [Next Door Neighbors]
Discusses how Nashville's Egyptian population arrives via the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, also known as the DV Lottery. Unlike Nashville’s many refugee communities, Egyptian lottery recipients choose to come to the US, leaving their former lives for the hope of better opportunities for themselves and future generations.
Sudanese -- [Next Door Neighbors]
Explores what happens for refugees when there is a chance to return home.
Bhutanese -- [Next Door Neighbors]
The Bhutanese are Nashville’s newest refugee community. Shows the process of initial refugee resettlement and the isolation, shock and sacrifice all refugees experience in the first two years of resettlement.
Hablamos Espanol -- [Next Door Neighbors]
Profiles Nashville's Hispanic community.
Somali -- [Next Door Neighbors]
While many Somalis were resettled directly to Nashville, others migrated here from cities. For most, life in Nashville is about work, sending money back home and trying to balance Somali traditions and cultures while adjusting to life in the US.
Storytellers -- [Next Door Neighbors]
Stories produced by Nashville immigrants and refugees
Community -- [Next Door Neighbors]
Highlights a few important non-profit organizations that help Nashville's immigrant/refugees communities.
Nashville's New Faces Collection [Nashville Public Library]
Audio recordings. Series of interviews conducted with recent immigrants and first generation Americans in Nashville. Part of StoryCorps.
Taste of Home [Next Door Neighbors]
how Nashville’s Venezuelan, Ethiopian and Palestinian communities use food to nurture a sense of identity and tradition, as well as to establish connections with their neighbors
Between Two Worlds [Next Door Neighbors]
Meet individuals from three of the United States’ largest migration source countries: India, China and The Philippines. Discover what motivated their journeys to the U.S. and what animates their lives in Middle Tennessee.
Belonging [Next Door Neighbors]
Examine the lives of several Middle Tennesseans who grapple with what it means to belong, to be foreign-born and still fit into American culture. Shares the experiences of immigrants in a world where rules and attitudes are constantly changing.

Streaming Videos & DVDs -- Documentaries & Feature Films

Here are a few examples of streaming videos and DVDs from library's collection.

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MALA 6050, GEOG 4360, and GS 3040: Contemporary Immigration & Migration Studies: Videos & Films

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Videos and News Media -- Emphasis on Nashville

Streaming Videos & DVDs -- Documentaries & Feature Films