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- Link
- https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/search-results
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Archaeology, Architecture, Classics, Drama, Economics, Education, French Studies, German Studies, History, Law, Literature, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Psychology, Social Studies
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The British Academy’s Media Library holds a collection of audio recordings of lectures, discussions, seminars, conversations and other events that have been held at the BA in recent years and streams them for on-demand listening online. As the UK’s national body for for the humanities and social sciences the British Academy hosts an extensive range of lecture series covering areas such as Biblical archaeology, poetry, Shakespeare, philosophy art, history, Celtic studies, law, economics, anthropology, psychology given by eminent people in the field.
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- Link
- http://holocaust.umd.umich.edu
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- German Studies, History
- Medium
- Radio/Sound
- Type of resource
- Streaming/Download
Transcripts and audio recordings of Holocaust survivors, taken from a programme of interviews with over 150 survivors of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews conducted by Dr Sid Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. The transcriptions are available as PDF files, which contains links within them to the audio files (a feature which is not made clear in the introduction to the site). There are short biographies and photographs of each of the interviewees.
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- Link
- http://www.cinegraph.de
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, German Studies, Media Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources
A wide-ranging film history research site, based chiefly on CineGraph paper publications. Text-heavy and in German, with a general site guide in English.
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- http://www.fritz-bauer-institut.de
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- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, German Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Information Sources
The site includes the Cinematography of the Holocaust research project, which hosts a German/English language database of films on the history and impact of the Holocaust. Includes details of over 1000 films - shorts, features, documentaries, and US Signal Corps newsreels.
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- Link
- https://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/en/sta/lon.html
- Category
- Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
- Subject
- Film Studies, German Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Distributors
This is the English language site for the the Goethe Institut in London maintains a 16mm distribution library of German films for cinema hire (distributed via the British Film Institute). The database of available films from the 1910s to the 1990s includes good synopses and critical reviews of the films. The site also has details of current film screenings at the Goethe Institut.
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- Link
- https://www.br.de/fernsehen/ard-alpha/index.html
- Category
- Science and Technology
- Subject
- Astronomy, General Science, German Studies, Media Studies, Physics
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Courses, Streaming/Download
This German-language only site offers over a hundred fifteen-minute introductory lectures by Dr Harald Lesch on various aspects of astronomy and astrophysics. The videos, which are aimed at students and mostly feature Lesch speaking in front of a blackboard, cover such topics as the Big Bang, Asteroids, Pulsars, Quasars, Terraforming and even Star Trek. Large quantities of additional content can now be found in the Mediathek section
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- Link
- http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- German Studies, History
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Information Sources, Streaming/Download
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature. The Virtual Reality section features 360 degree QuickTime panoramas of Auschwitz, Birkenau, Mauthausen, Treblinka and other locations, and the Movie Clips section has archival footage and videos of survivor testimonies. The site also includes a videography - an annoted list of films and videos about the Holocaust, courtesy of the Holocaust Resource Center and Archives, Queensborough Community College of The City University of New York.
Other Online Moving image
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- Link
- http://english.mail-order-kaiser.de/appEN/nav_home.php?language=EN
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- German Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Video Sources
A mail order supplier of DVDs, videos (and books) available in Germany. Titles can be located by title or genre. Will supply programmes worldwide. An English-language version is available, although it is a little perfunctory since only the web navigation tools have been translated, not the descriptions for individual items.
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- Link
- https://www.filmportal.de/en
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Film Studies, German Studies
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Databases, Distributors, Information Sources, Video Sources
Excellent information source on German film. Contains information (including availability information) on around 70,000 German films produced for the cinema since 1895. 7,000 of them are covered in-depth by synopses, reviews, photos or posters. There is a biographical guide to 110,000 names relevant for German film, and a Topics section on aspects of German cinema. The cross-referencing is good, and the site is clearly designed and well-illustrated. The site also includes trailers and clips as well as other audio-visual materials. There is a full English language version for every page.
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- Link
- http://www.wochenschau-archiv.de
- Category
- Arts and Humanities
- Subject
- Current Affairs, German Studies, History, Politics and Government
- Medium
- Film/Video
- Type of resource
- Archives/Museums, Streaming/Download
The Federal Film Archives, Berlin, are digitising the Deutsche Wocheschau newsreel collection of German newsreels from 1949 and making them freely available over the internet. Over 6,000 stories have been issued so far, for lowband (56K) or broadband (250K) connections, using Windows Media Player.. The latter requires registration. Each clips comes with ‘storyboard’ and background information, and searching is by freetext, or by topic, personality, date or location. There are English language and German language versions of the site, but catalogue descriptions are in German only. The commentaries on the newsreels are, of course, in German.
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