The BUFVC Moving Image Gateway includes over 1,400 websites relating to video, multimedia and sound materials. These have been subdivided into   over 40 subject areas. To suggest new entries or  amendments, please contact us by email or telephone or visit  the Gateway at  http://bufvc.ac.uk/gateway/

Great Writers Inspire
Hosted by the University of Oxford, and curated by members of the Faculty of English Language and Literature, this site makes available thousands of learning resources, all in the public domain or under a Creative Commons licence. The selection of writers is not comprehensive: just over forty authors are represented, including the mainstays of the Western literary canon: Austen, Dickens, Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Swift, Joyce etc.; but more neglected writers are there too, including 18th century labouring-class poets Stephen Duck and Mary Leapor. What the resource lacks in breadth it makes up for in the richness of resources which are available, including podcasts, videos of talks and lectures, downloadable electronic texts and ebooks, and contextual essays by members of the English Faculty. A selection of different approaches to literature are suggested by a Themes page which covers Notions of Authorship, Genre and Feminist Approaches to Literature among others.

MIT K-12
K-12 refers to the sum of primary and secondary US education: from Kindergarten to 12th grade. This website presents videos made by MIT students, with the aim of engaging young people with science and engineering. Subject areas cover Physics and Engineering, but also Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Biology, Astronomy and Geology. Videos can also be searched according to grade level. Many of the videos are witty and entertaining and communicate an infectious enthusiasm for academic research : a good example being Glaciers with Chocolate which uses chocolate, biscuits and stop motion animation to demonstrate how glaciers move.

One World Media
One World Media is a charitable organisation which promotes media that contribute to global understanding, human rights and development. As part of their Student Programme, the organisation has produced a number of educational resources aimed at students in higher education studying journalism, documentary filmmaking and other media disciplines, with particular focus on reporting the developing world. The resources include case study videos, in which leading journalists, such as Lindsey Hilsum of Channel 4 News, discuss their work, and accompanying exercises, including ethical dilemmas to challenge students, as well as useful links, documents, and templates. The resources are free but users must register to access them, and must be a member of a UK university to do so.

Reel History of Britain
This website accompanies the BBC series of the same name, which was first broadcast in 2011. Using documentary films preserved by the BFI National Archive and other public film archives, the website presents a number of topics which explore aspects of British history, and the history of documentary filmmaking in the 20th century. Each topic is represented by a selection of films which can be seen in full, accompanied by videos presented by curators and archivists from the BFI and other film archives, who put the material in its context and explain the importance of different kinds of film, from travelogues and home movies, to newsreels, propaganda and government films.

TVARK
Describing itself as ‘an online TV museum’, this website archives television idents, interstitials, opening title sequences, closedown sequences, adverts, station clocks, testcards, public information films, regional television histories and other material that relate to the history of British television presentation. The site is non-proft making and clearly a labour of love but the fact that TVARK works with several television companies to archive their material is testimony to the website’s quality and usefulness both as a resource within the industry and for educational purposes. The material is free to view and presented in a way which emphasises, above all, the look and changing style of the way programme have been presented down the years. A wealth of contextual information adds to the site’s usefulness.