Streaming Videos

• Academic Video Online (AVON)
  Delivers more than 63,000 (and growing) scholarly videos for virtually every discipline.
• Audio Cine Films (ACF)
  Hundreds of popular movies and classics in multiple languages. The majority of new releases are added within 1-2 days of being released in Blu-ray and DVD. Public Performance Rights
• Can-Core AV
  Canadian streaming educational and documentary film collection. Includes indigenous and BC content.
• Criterion on Demand
  A streaming feature film collection of over 1,500 English titles, more than 1,100 French titles, over 100 documentary features, and approximately 135 foreign language films with English subtitles. Public Performance Rights
• Curio
  Streaming audio and video content from CBC and Radio-Canada. Provides access to thousands of programs and documentaries with English and French-language content.
• Films on Demand
  Multi-disciplinary collections of over 10,000 films available in streaming format; Provides access to thousands of programs and documentaries with English and French-language content. Searchable in OneSearch or by individual collection including Archival Films & Newsreels, Entertainment Canada, and the Veterinary Video Collection.
• Kanopy
  Streaming video collection which includes thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases.
• National Film Board
  Offers a range of documentaries, dramas and historical films, with a Canadian emphasis. Additional features include the ability to create personal play lists and access to study guides.
• O'Reilly
  Streaming videos, interactive tutorials, audio books, and other materials on topics ranging from IT to project management to graphic design to business strategy.
• Psychotherapy.net
  Features high quality training videos in the field of counseling, psychotherapy, and addiction. 
• Sage Video
  Offers information in many areas of academic study.
• Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
  A virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. Includes folk, popular, classical and world music, speeches, and oral histories.
• Theatre Performance & Design Collection
  An international collection that covers all aspects of theatre from production and design to performance, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more.

Audio Cine Films (ACF)

Hundreds of popular movies and classics in multiple languages. The majority of new releases are added within 1-2 days of being released in Blu-ray and DVD.

Criterion On Demand

Provides access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions. The selection includes classics, new releases, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.

For more information, click on the Criterion on Demand guide. 

Films On Demand: Entertainment Canada

Over 600 videos featuring Canadian films and TV shows.

For more information, click on the QuickStart Guide

Academic Video Online (AVON)

Academic Video Online (AVON) is an online streaming media service that delivers more than 60,000 video titles.
Subject: All subject areas.

For more information, click on the Academic Video Online guide.

Films on Demand

Collection of over 10,000 films available in streaming format.
Subject: Anthropology, Biology, Business, Criminology, Geography, Health & Medicine, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and more.

For more information, click on the QuickStart Guide.

Sage Video

Offers information in many areas of academic study including, business, counseling & psychotherapy, criminology, education, media, politics & international relations, psychology, sociology and research methods.

For more information, click on the Sage Video guide.

Can-Core AV

Canadian streaming educational and documentary film collection. Includes indigenous and BC content.

Curio

Streaming audio and video content from CBC and Radio-Canada. Provides access to thousands of programs and documentaries with English and French-language content. *Due to licensing restrictions some Curio content may be unavailable outside of Canada.

Subject: All subject areas including art, business, current events, law, education, health, history, sciences etc.

National Film Board (NFB)

Offers a range of documentaries, dramas and historical films, with a Canadian emphasis.

Subject: General.

Psychotherapy.net

Streaming videos for teaching, training, self-study and continuing education in psychotherapy, psychology and addictions.

Sage Video

Offers information in many areas of academic study including, business, counseling & psychotherapy, criminology, education, media, politics & international relations, psychology, sociology and research methods.

For more information, click on the Sage Video guide.

Films on Demand; Allied Health

Over 300 videos focusing on various aspects of healthcare professions and practices. 

For more information, click on the QuickStart Guide.

Theatre Performance & Design Collection

The Theatre Performance & Design Collection is an international collection that covers all aspects of theater from production and design to performance, from the 17th century through to the present day, including, set design, lighting design, sound design, costume design, makeup, and more. It includes the National Theatre Collection, the Royal Shakespeare Company Collection, and other collections.

* To search a specific collection, use the My Collections drop down menu.

For more information, click on the Academic Video Online guide.

Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

For more information, see the Academic Video Online guide.

Playing and copying videos, films and streaming media

• Use legally acquired or posted streaming videos, films and media for educational purposes.
• Check out the Douglas College library's streaming video collection for material to support your instruction. 

Streaming video cannot be copied or downloaded and stored in Blackboard or any other course management site without permission from the copyright holder as per Article 29.5 the Copyright Act.

Please note: Personal "on demand" subscriptions (iTunes, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc.) cannot be screened in class due to licensing restrictions. If the terms of the agreement state that use is limited to “personal” or “household”, then classroom use is not permitted.

Consider the following questions before using an online video in class:

•  Was the video posted online by the copyright owner?

For example, you cannot show a PBS documentary, posted on YouTube by someone called EnthusiasticFan000345.

• Does the site’s Terms of Use allow you to stream their videos for educational use?

This should be explicitly stated if it is not a streaming site available through Douglas College Library.

• Does the video contain uncredited, copyrighted information from another source (for example, music, pictures, or charts)?
•  Is the video allowed to be shown in Canada? (there will be a message if it is not).

Links to streaming videos can be included on Blackboard course pages, in email messages, or Word documents; on PowerPoint slides and on web pages. Our Permalinks Guide provides detailed instructions on how to create a permalink for most of our streaming platforms.