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  1. Economist Multimedia Library Streaming

    Link
    http://films.economist.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Science and Technology, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Art, Business Studies, Computing, Current Affairs, Economics, Engineering, Environmental Studies, General Science, Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Podcasting, Streaming/Download

    Audio and videos from The Economist can now be found on The Economist Films and The Economist Radio. Recent series added include The Disrupters, which explores how major industries—from music and cars to hospitality—are currently being disrupted by the latest wave of digital innovation. All the magazine’s videos on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology can be accessed via their YouTube channel.

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  2. International Association for Media and History (Iamhist) Streaming

    Link
    http://iamhist.net/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Film Studies, History, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Radio Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Journals, Organisations, Web Links

    Iamhist is an international organisation of professional film and television broadcasters, scholars, and others interested in film, radio, television and their relations to history. The site includes details of publications (including The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television), conferences, news and a useful collection of web links to film archives around the world.

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  3. RTE Online Streaming

    Link
    http://www.rte.ie
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases, Footage Sources

    Ireland’s national broadcaster has its news database on line, searchable by keyword and news programme title.

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  4. 30 Second Candidate Streaming

    Link
    http://www.pbs.org/30secondcandidate/
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Advertising, American Studies, Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    A history of American political commercials (based on a PBS documentary), which includes a detailed analysis on the 1952 Eisenhower campgain, from research to scripting to filming to broadcast. There a number of Eisenhower commercials available, using RealVideo or QuickTime, as well as supporting documentation such as storyboards, scripts and posters.

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  5. Political Television Streaming

    Link
    http://www.election.demon.co.uk/pt.html
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Current Affairs, Media Studies, Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources

    A basic site that unfortunately has many dead links. However, where it does provide information, it claims to do so in an unbiased way. The site contains UK parliamentary results from 1983 onwards, and had results for European elections from 1994 as well as miscellaneous statistics.

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  6. Iranian Movies Streaming

    Link
    http://www.iranianmovies.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies, Languages, Media Studies, Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download, Video Sources

    This is the online arm of an American retailer which has been based in California since 1996, and which is devoted to Iranian film and music, selling VHS tapes, DVDs and CDs - all prices are in US dollars. It is possible to search for items in a range of broad categories (new and old films, fiction and documentary etc.) though it is also possible to search only for videos and DVDs which have subtitles. Short extracts from many of the items on sale can be viewed online using RealPlayer.

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  7. Contemporary Films Streaming

    Link
    http://www.contemporaryfilms.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Film Studies, Media Studies, Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Distributors

    Contemporary Films (and its sister organisation The Other Cinema) has been distributing films since 1951 and branched out into exhibition in 1967. Its site basically works as an online distribution catalogue, with its holdings divided into various subject categories (e.g. Art, Music, The Holocaust, China etc.) and collections. A facility to buy videos and DVDs online is promised for Autumn 2002.

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  8. History and Politics Out Loud (HPOL) Streaming

    Link
    https://www.wyzant.com/help/history/hpol
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    American Studies, History, Politics and Government
    Medium
    Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Databases, Streaming/Download

    HPOL is a searchable multimedia database of ‘politically significant audio materials’ relevant to American history and politics. It contains over 100 speeches, streamed using RealAudio, from the 1930s to the present day, with accompanying transcripts. The subjects include Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King (including ‘I have a dream...'), Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Earl Warren and Franklin D. Roosevelt, but the majority of speeches are by John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon, with a selection of Watergate recordings. The site is a model of clarity and a good illustration of how to present oral history on the Internet.

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  9. Scottish Parliament Live Streaming

    Link
    https://www.scottish.parliament.uk/newsandmediacentre/3168.aspx/
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    Proceedings of the Scottish parliament are streamed, both committee and main chamber business, using Windows Media Player. The site makes available an archive of the proceedings for the previous four weeks.

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  10. Hunting Bin Laden Streaming

    Link
    https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/
    Category
    Social Sciences
    Subject
    Politics and Government
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Information Sources, Streaming/Download

    This material, supporting an episode of the American TV current affairs series Frontline includes interviews and featured articles on Osama Bin Laden from various perspectives as well as a video interview with him from 1998 which will require RealPlayer. The site gives a fairly balanced and even presentation of the speculation and the facts surrounding the World Trade Center attack of 11 September 2001.

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