LibGuides: Film and Video Resources: Streaming: Global Resources

Global Film

See also General Resources page for additional databases that include international films.

Note: Many more films can be found under the DVDs and Videos tab of this guide.

Asian Film Online
Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of nearly 600 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts.

Asian Film Online is an online streaming video collection of nearly 600 narrative feature films, documentaries, and shorts. With Asian voices addressing Asian issues, and through works selected by Asian film experts, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights. Its themes - such as modernity, globalization, national identity, female agency, inequalities in opportunity amid social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity - are central to any meaningful discussion of Asian culture.

Cineteca Nacional de Chile
Chilean films from the Centro Cultural la Moneda.
Culture Unplugged
Freely available documentary films about global issues.
Documentary+
Completely free streaming resource available on the web. Includes short form and feature length documentaries from well-known as well as new creators.
EU Screen
"Free online archive of videos, stills, text and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives."

Kanopy
Current; Kanopy is a video streaming collection of films from a large group of film producers including the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber Edu, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, BBC Active Collection, and many others. Includes much global material, including documentaries from and about Africa.

Current; Kanopy is a video streaming collection of films from a large group of film producers including the Criterion Collection, PBS, Kino Lorber Edu, Documentary Educational Resources Collection, BBC Active Collection, and many others.
Latin America in Video
Latin America in Video gives instructors, students, and researchers of Latin American studies, Spanish, and Portuguese a comprehensive and unique perspective on the region.

Media Burn: Independent Video Archive
"Documentaries with a social justice lens" from a geographically, socially, and economically diverse community of videomakers throughout the world. Freely available.
National Film Board of Canada
Canadian government agency that produces and distributes documentary, animation, alternative drama and digital media productions. Freely available.

Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda
A collection of documentaries, newsreels and features that reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers, early 20th century-1980s

Socialism on Film is a collection of documentaries, newsreels and features that reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, British and Latin American filmmakers. It ranges from the early twentieth century to the 1980s and examines the themes of War & Revolution, News & Current Affairs plus Culture & Society.

UbuWeb
Site dedicated to the Avant-Garde, offering free downloads of films, videos and much more.

V-IDEO.art
A database on Indian art,-presents artist interviews and artwork.

Current; a database on Indian art, V-IDEO-presents the worldviews of artists, critics, and others in the art world. Diverse reflections on art and life create a rich and multifaceted picture of the world. V-IDEO provides seven short videos on every featured artist. Six of them deal with different topics addressed through two or three questions. The second displays twenty artworks of the artist.

Sarah Canbel. Palestinian girls dancing Dabke. 2016. Via Creative Commons license.