Subject Guides: Asian Studies: Video/Images

Streaming Video Resources

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online: Premium brings together on a single cross-searchable platform a completely integrated online repository of Alexander Street Press video titles. Includes newsreels, award-winning documentaries, field recordings, interviews, lectures, training videos, and exclusive primary footage.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window Unavailable films can be requested ONLY by faculty for their course-wide assignments. Faculty, please fill out the request form below the film. Kanopy is an on-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that works directly with filmmakers and film distribution companies to offer thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with the largest academic streaming collection of its kind. Swank Digital Campus simplifies film distribution by providing faculty and students a legal streaming resource both on and off campus.

Artstor on JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Artstor features millions of high-quality images and media from some of the world’s top photo archives, museums, libraries, scholars, and artists, including rare materials not available anywhere else. Artstor’s collections also include Open Access collections from partner museums freely available to all.
AP Newsroom This link opens in a new window
Access over 180 years of the photographs, sound bites, and graphics from the archives of the Associated Press.

Digital Public Library of America
DPLA connects people to the riches held within America’s libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA—photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and so much more—are free and immediately available in digital format.
The New York Public Library Digital Collection
Explore 901,407 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections.
Wikipedia Commons
This site allows you to find images in the public domain and with Creative Commons licensing.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
A multimedia Website of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress

For a more complete list, try our Finding Images guide page.

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Subjects: Asian Studies