Video Streaming Databases
Search for individual titles using the Online Video option in the Library catalogue.
You can also access database collections of videos. The Kanopy and UbuWeb video streaming collections are extensive.The following links will take you to each video streaming database:
- Kanopy (Kanopy)The Kanopy Streaming Service is the leading supplier of streamed videos to global academic institutions. The service utilises sophisticated platform and delivery technology to offer a new world of online engagement that empowers University of Melbourne Library to stream on demand video at optimal quality to their registered staff and students.
Explore the catalogue of over 20,000 videos from the world’s most prominent filmmakers and production houses. Specially curated collections cover a wide range educational disciplines including literacy, mathematics, history and issues in society. Kanopy also offers a hosting service allowing for DVDs to be uploaded and streamed online provided digital rights is obtained. Kanopy offers a large range of Australian content and videos can be searched using the library catalogue.
- EduTVA video streaming service of over 50,000 programs from free-to-air and pay TV channels in Australia. Coverage commences with 2006 and includes content across a wide range of learning areas.
- Digital Theatre PlusDigital Theatre+ collaborates with with world-class theatre companies, industry associations, practitioners and scholars to provide access to a growing collection of full-length theatre productions and educational resources. The database contains recordings of hundreds of live captured performances across theatre, ballet, opera and classical music; interviews with actors, directors, and backstage crew providing an often unseen insight into the workings of a theatre and what it takes to stage a play; study guides accompanying curricula mapped plays, written by leading academics to help students get to grip with dramatic texts; relationship maps, plot summaries, theme and context analysis, glossaries and much, much more.
- Theatre in VideoTheatre 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. This release contains 279 titles, representing hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. The collection aims to begin in the 1930s and will progress through the 20th century with videos covering the work of the Group Theater and Brecht's Berliner Ensemble. Performances from the 40s and 50s will cover works by William Saroyan, Thornton Wilder, Maxwell Anderson etc.
- Drama OnlineDrama Online is a digital library of the most studied, performed and critically acclaimed plays from the last 2,500 years. Developed in partnership by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc and Faber and Faber Ltd, Drama Online features the pre-eminent drama titles from the Methuen Drama, Arden Shakespeare and Faber lists. The collection contains the works of Aeschylus to works of the present day.
- Opera in Video This link opens in a new windowOpera in Video contains the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon.
- Dance in Video (Alexander Street Press)Dance in Video contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of 20th century dance styles. The Library has access to volumes I & II of Dance in Video.
- Classical Music in Video (Alexander Street Press)Classical Music in Video will contain 1,000 hours of classical music performances and masterclasses captured on video—approximately 1,500 performances in all. The collection will contain performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.
- Digital Concert HallHundreds of concert recordings from the Berliner Philharmoniker, including concerts, symphonies and vocal works from all periods. New concerts added weekly. Also features artist interviews, documentaries and concert introductions.
- medici.tvProducing and broadcasting over 100 live concerts each year and 1300 programs, in collaboration with orchestras and concert halls around the world. Includes concerts, archives, operas, ballets, documentaries, master-classes, educational films and artist profiles.
- Internet Archive : Moving Image ArchiveThis library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
- Open Culture - Free Movies OnlineOpen Culture brings together high-quality cultural & educational media for the worldwide lifelong learning community.
- UbuWebLarge educational resource of avant-garde material in the fields of visual, concrete and sound poetry. It also includes film and sound archives.
- AtlasshortsAtlasshorts, formerly Exile Shorts, is a streaming video service offering award-winning short-form, student films and educational audiovisual content. The database includes titles from the Australian Film, Television & Radio School (AFTRS), British Film Institute, American Film Institute, USC Cinematic Arts, National Film Board of Canada, University of Melbourne VCA, and other sources. It includes films that have won major awards at The Academy Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, TIFF, Berlin and more.
- VCA Film and Television Digital ArchiveThe VCA Film and Television Digital Archive provides online access, for the first time, to the audiovisual holdings of Australia's oldest continuing film school. The archive is recognised as a University of Melbourne Cultural Collection because of its social, historical, aesthetic, cultural and research significance.
Archive & Museum Film Collections
- Australian National Film & Sound ArchiveThe nation’s living archive – collecting, preserving and sharing our rich audiovisual heritage. Includes an indigenous collection.
- ACMI Australian Centre for the Moving Image- Collection Data ExplorerThis search tool provides experimental access to what used to be ACMI’s lending collection. It contains roughly 38,000 items dating back to the 1890s across a wide range of styles – feature films, shorts, documentaries, student works, instructional and experimental films.
Find DVDs
The easiest way to find DVDs/Videos in the Library Catalogue is to do a keyword search. You can also search using title, author or subject. Limit to DVD Collections.
Each catalogue record contains information about the DVD/Video. To find similar material, click the links for subject headings, directors or actors etc.
You can also do an Advanced Keyword search to enter more details.
Creative Commons
- Creative CommonsUseful for Copyright reasons - to locate material with licences that enable usage in your work
- Creative Commons searchFind content you can share, use and remix.