Films, DVDs and Videos

Short documentary films made by the British Council during the 1940s, designed to show the world how Britain lived, worked and played.

Archive of vintage film footage from 1897-1970 covering domestic and worldwide themes, events and news.

Historic American Government produced films covering information, news, public affairs and training.

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). This vast digital library collection includes more than 70,000 volumes of digitised texts, 80,000 still images, and 30 hours of sound recordings.

UK Government commissioned Public Information Films from 1945 to 2006
Provides insight into government advice, and societal concerns and events during this period.

On demand service streaming acclaimed, landmark and archive films from across Britain and the world. The collection focuses on British and European independent films, as well as international releases. First time users need to sign up to access all subscription content for free. Returning users need to sign-in. See More.

An international range of content across the visual arts and performing arts, film, history, and more, this collection features exclusive indie films and shorts, avant-garde performances, interviews with renowned writers, artists, choreographers, performers and practitioners, documentaries on an international range of themes, traditions, and historical figures, and much more.

Audiovisual resource. Play over 900 programmes from the BBC’s archive of Shakespeare’s plays, poems and sonnets. UK Usage Only

Live performances of four classic plays by Oscar Wilde.

Filmed productions, documentaries, interviews and criticism.

Harriet Walter leads an all-female cast in these three productions of Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest, all set in a women's prison. This collection also features 40 short videos on the plays and stagecraft behind behind each production.

Full text plays, filmed live performance, interviews, study guides, theatre craft and performance context and criticism. The Core Collection includes Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber and Arden collection of full text plays and associated commentaries. The National Theatre Collection, Screen Online and LA Works collections can be accessed from here.

Search across the Exeter Digital Archives collection. Film and video collection on
contemporary performance practice.

Filmed production of Shakespeare’s most iconic work with gender-blind casting and Maxine Peake as Hamlet.

Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the National Theatre Collection makes this rich body of work available to students in schools, universities and libraries around the world.

OntheBoards.tv delivers full-length contemporary performance films

Collection of RSC Live Shakespeare productions performed in 2018 and 2019.

Award-winning Engineering platform that includes full-text e-books, video demonstrations, interactive data tools and downloadable graphs and tables. Interdisciplinary content spans engineering, computer science and mathematics.

Online videos demonstrating experiments from laboratories at top research institutions.

A wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behaviour. Support research into human culture and behaviour

Anthropology Resource Library provides comprehensive, multimedia resources for the study of anthropology, including the largest collection of ethnographic videos and previously unpublished archival field materials. Access and cross search across all the collections available in the Anthropology Resource Library: Anthropological Fieldwork Online Ethnographic Sound Archives Online Anthropology Online Ethnographic Video Online, Vols. I and II: Foundational Films Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. III: Indigenous Voices Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. IV: Festivals and Archives Ethnographic Video Online, Royal Anthropological Institute Teaching Edition

Focusing on the disabled community and its contributions to society, this collection includes primary sources, supporting materials, and archives, along with 125 hours of video. The archive can be searched or browsed by place, people, publisher, organisation and discipline.

Presenting content from across the globe, this diverse and comprehensive resource features thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera.

Three-dimensional videos of dissected human anatomic specimens.

Access e-books, videos and other content as well as a question bank of thousands of questions in basic science and clinical medicine. Create an account and undertake customised tests focusing on your weak areas of study. To log in, click "log in via institution" and then enter University of Exeter.

Over 16,000 sound effects available for personal, educational or research purposes.

Sound recordings from the British Library collections. Recordings include music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds as well as an interactive sound map of regional accents and dialect.

Brings together previously unpublished historic audio recordings and their supporting field materials, opening new paths for the study of music in its cultural context. The collection brings together 2,000 hours of audio recordings from field expeditions around the world, particularly from the 1960s through the 1980s—the dawn of ethnomusicology as a codified discipline.

Presenting content from across the globe, this diverse and comprehensive resource features thousands of audio field recordings and interviews, educational recordings, film footage, field notebooks, slides, correspondence and ephemera.

Gallica is the digital library of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). This vast digital library collection includes more than 70,000 volumes of digitised texts, 80,000 still images, and 30 hours of sound recordings.

Collection of over 400 audio plays specially recorded by LA Theatre Works. Recordings include plays written in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

Freely available French audiobooks, supporting language acquisition skills.

Digitised reel to reel recordings from the London Broadcasting Company / Independent Radio News audio archive. News and current affairs coverage from 1973 to the mid-1990s.

Uncover the stories of American military personnel and civilians during the Second World War through their oral histories, correspondence, diaries, photographs, artifacts, and military records.

Includes 2,162 authors giving a personal view of what it meant to immigrate to America and Canada between 1800 and 1950. Contains contemporaneous letters and diaries, oral histories, interviews, and other personal narratives. Also includes some audio files with the voices of the immigrants.

The Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection from the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center includes around 700 interview transcriptions with those who were active in the US civil rights movement (1950's-1973).