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  1. World Media Rights Streaming

    Link
    https://worldmediarights.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    History, Media Studies, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Distributors, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download

    World Media Rights is a UK-based independent producer of historical documentaries for television that are broadcast on AETN and Discovery in the UK and USA, as well as other channels around the world. The website currently offers over 400 hours of programming for sale via download, allowing each programme to be downloaded three times for the price listed and retained permanently. The collection is particularly strong on titles relating to World War 2, but there are also series on extraordinary women, the science of crime, and natural disasters. Sale.

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  2. YourWorldView Streaming

    Link
    http://www.worldview.org.uk/about-us/yourworldview/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Current Affairs, Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Geography, History, Media Studies, Politics and Government, Social Studies, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Festivals, Organisations, Streaming/Download

    YourWorldView is the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association’s interactive online space for new and emerging filmmakers to showcase their short films and other multimedia content that will stimulate discussion about the portrayal of international issues. YourWorldView partners with film festivals and the BFI to provide masterclasses, screenings and opportunities for wider discussion. The website also features articles, reviews and events listings.

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  3. Oxygen.com Streaming

    Link
    https://www.oxygen.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Biology, Crafts, Drama, Media Studies, Medicine, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Discussion Lists, Streaming/Download, Update

    Part of the now defunct ThriveOnline Organic Food Video Library was incorporated into a sister site, Oxygen.com. Oxygen is also a channel on American TV aimed at women, and the video gallery on the site includes streamed extracts from the channel’s programmes using QuickTime. Some of the clips come from British comedies, such as Nighty Night, Absolutely Fabulous and Suburban Shootout, but most of the extracts are from American shows, including Xena: Warrior Princess, Roseanne, Birth Stories, Drastic Plastic Surgery and many more.

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  4. Films From the Home Front Streaming

    Link
    http://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/homefront/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    History, Social Welfare, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    This resource brings together a collection of unique moving images illustrating what life was like for ordinary people in Britain during the Second World War, as seen through amateur documentaries, newsreels, government films, and home movies. The clips can be browsed by such themes as Children in wartime, displaced people, home & family life, victory celebrations and others or though a simple timeline, from 1936 to 1963. It showcases moving images from seven regional screen archives and collections based around the UK. Many of the films are in colour and offer excellent supporting and contextual essays and assorted bits of information as well as detailed synopses. Windows Media Player or QuickTime are required.

    Also of interest is On The Home Front a joint project between Screen Archive South East and Whitehawk Primary School, in which primary school children learned about World War II through the use of archive film and working with local people who remember life on the Home Front.

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  5. Women Make Movies Streaming

    Link
    http://www.wmm.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Film Studies, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Distributors, Streaming/Download, Web Links

    Women Make Movies is a multicultural, multiracial, non-profit media arts organization which facilitates the production, promotion, distribution and exhibition of independent films and videotapes by and about women, and is the largest distributor of women’s media in North America. The site includes its film and video catalogue of almost 500 titles, with synopses, critical comments, filmmaker biographies, and a few (elusive) press kits, study guides and video clip previews. There is a good links section on various aspects of women and film.

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  6. Jeanette Winterson Streaming

    Link
    http://www.jeanettewinterson.com
    Category
    Arts and Humanities
    Subject
    Art, Literature, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video, Radio/Sound
    Type of resource
    Streaming/Download

    The homepage of this British writer contains graphics and audio clips available through Flash. The site also features a monthly column, book recommendations and some of her most recent journalism, as well as a link to a the webcast of a talk she gave at the Tate in January 2002 which can be viewed with Real.

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  7. tve (Television for the Environment) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.tve.org
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Development Studies, Environmental Studies, Media Studies, Nature, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Databases, Festivals, Organisations, Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download, Video Sources

    tve is an independent, non-profit organisation, which has been making, co-producing, or partnering in the production of films since the 1980s. Their aim is to produce films and enable others to produce films, about the environment, development, human rights and health. A significant archive can now be accessed via their website or their You Tube Channel. Films are organised under 23 categories including: climate change; energy and fuel; food fishing and farming; football; forests and trees; health; human rights; migration; oceans, rivers and seas; people and communities; protest; reusing and recycling; science and technology; trade and economics; transport; urban and rural; war and conflict; and women and equality.
    tve is also responsible for the tvebiomovies initiative- a film competition for young people around the world.

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  8. Insight News TV (inactive) Streaming

    Link
    http://www.insightnewstv.com/
    Category
    Arts and Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences
    Subject
    Current Affairs, Development Studies, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethnology, Politics and Government, Social Welfare, Women’s Studies
    Medium
    Film/Video
    Type of resource
    Producers/Broadcasters, Streaming/Download

    This London-based independent news organisation not only offers short courses on factual film-making but also supplies international video coverage to such major organisations as CNN, Channel Four, the BBC and many others. The website offers some two dozen streamed stories (requiring Windows Media Player) from around the globe, adequately encoded and lasting on average between ten and fifteen minutes each. Half a dozen full-length titles are also offered for sale on DVD. The subjects covered include famine in Ethiopia, unrest in Sierra Leone as well as the fortunes of West African migrants as well as reports from Burma, Bangladesh, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel and several other countries.
    This site is no longer active, but the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine offers a capture of the website as it appeared on 14/08/2014. This does not include access to the moving images.

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