Subject Guides: Music: FILM & VIDEO

DVD Collection

We have a large browsing collection of DVDs located on the first floor. We also loan portable DVD players at the Circulation Desk. DVDs and DVD players can be borrowed for 5 days.

Film Resources

MDOCS DocLab
(Library, Room 113)
DocLab offers a Mac Pro computer lab, sound recording booth, and more.
Media Viewing Room
(Library, Room 129)
Students can reserve this room to screen films up to 24 hours in advance using the touchscreen next to the room.

Streaming Music Video Databases

Music online: Classical music in video
The collection contains performances of all forms of classical music, including major orchestral performances by leading orchestras, plus chamber music, oratorio, and solo performances, along with masterclasses and interviews with master teachers from around the world.
Music & Performing Arts in Video
Music & performing arts in video combines audio and video that spans all time periods, hundreds of thousands of seminal artists, composers, choreographers, and ensembles.

Naxos Video Library This link opens in a new window
Streaming video library of classical music performances - operas, ballets, concerts, dances, documentaries and more.
Met Opera on Demand This link opens in a new window
More than 450 Met performances. Dozens of Live in HD productions, classic telecasts from the 1970s, '80s, '90s, and '00s, and hundreds of radio broadcasts dating back to 1936.
OntheBoards.tv This link opens in a new window
Offers videos of full-length performances by some of today's most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.

Streaming Multidisciplinary Video Databases

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
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.
Docuseek This link opens in a new window
Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution.

Filmakers Library Online
Provides award-winning documentaries. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions.

HistoryMakers This link opens in a new window
Access interviews, biographies, videos, archival photography, and more for over 3,300 African Americans known and unknown.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Find movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos.
OntheBoards.tv This link opens in a new window
Offers videos of full-length performances by some of today's most provocative artists working in dance, theater, music and other forms that defy categorization.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Provides over 30,000 films, documentaries and TV shows.

Lucy Scribner Library

Music: FILM & VIDEO

Finding Film and Video

Search the library catalog by title to find a specific film or video. If searching by topic, narrow search to "Video" or "DVD" under Format.