Films on Demand now available
September 13, 2010 – 2:27 PMLooking for ways to enliven a class presentation or add content to your eLC course site? Films on Demand, the Libraries’ new database from GALILEO, offers streaming video for over 7,000 educational films. Films are broken into segments for easy linking and viewing. Producers include Films for the Humanities & Sciences, PBS, the BBC, major U.S. commercial networks, Cambridge Educational, The Film Board of Canada, Open University, the Clio Awards, and many more. Also included is a collection of 260 United Newsreels.
Films on Demand covers a wide range of topics and disciplines. Just a sampling includes:
- Sacred Sounds: Music of the World, Songs of the Soul
- Building Tomorrow’s Company: Leadership (Hewlett Packard)
- Biotechnology on the Farm and in the Factory: Agricultural and Industrial Applications
- Asylum: A History of the Mental Institution in America
- Battle of the Bag: Deconstructing a Consumer Culture Icon
- Borderless: The Lives of Undocumented Workers
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Understanding a Classic
- The Chemistry of Life: Milestones in Genetics
- Universal Newsreels: As World Watched — Spaceman Hailed after U.S. Triumph (Alan Shepard)
Films on Demand is available on campus or off campus with the GALILEO password.
