LibGuides: Economics: Media &amp; Video

Video

Below are the video collections that include business-related contents, as well as having the major feature film and documentary collections. For the complete list of what's available through the Library, see the Film, Video and Streaming Collections Guide.

Kanopy Streaming Video
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Kanopy contains a variety of on-demand content, including 500+ videos that cover finance & accounting topics, marketing, leadership, business communications, ethics, economics, & case studies. Some videos are introductory, others advanced, and several feature interviews with key leaders. Use the subject menu on the landing page to navigate to topics you'd like to browse, or use this shortcut to go right to the business offerings.. Kanopy also includes feature films and documentaries.

Note: if you have a device like AppleTV, Roku, etc., you can set Kanopy up to stream from there. First you need to sign up for an account within Kanopy's website, then complete set up on your streaming device.
Docuseek2 Complete Collection
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Discover, access, license, stream and share over 1500 documentary and social issues films and videos. This database provides educational streaming access to content from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, MediaStorm, the National Film Board of Canada, Scorpion TV, Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films. Topics covered include business and economics, health care, humanities, performing arts, and social sciences. Docuseek2 supports the ability to create clips, playlists, and save searches of the films and videos available through this website.
Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection
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Digital video streaming service which offers access to educational videos from a variety of producers including A&E, PBS, the BBC, National Geographic, HBO Documentary Films, Bill Moyers, Films for the Humanities & Sciences, and more. The Master Academic Collection brings together over 25,000 videos from many areas of study, including health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, science & mathematics, business & economics, as well as archival films & newsreels.
Films on Demand - World Cinema Collection
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This unique collection includes the best of the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, masterpieces from the mid-20th century, and contemporary films from around the world, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and North America.
American History in Video
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Coverage of historical events through documentaries, commercial and government newsreels, and archival and public affairs footage.
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AHV is one of the largest and richest collections of video available online for the study of American history, and its collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

World History in Video
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Online collection of streaming video, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. Upon completion the collection will include more than 1750 documentaries that offer a survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall. World history in video covers Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.
March of Time
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From 1935-1967, American theatergoers and television watchers were witness to Time Inc.'s unique and controversial film series, The March of Time. This series is now available in online streaming video in a single, cross-searchable collection designed specifically to meet the needs of researchers, teaching faculty, and students.
Vanderbilt Television news archive
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1968-present. Browse or search summaries of evening network news programs for ABC, CBS and NBC from 1968, CNN from 1995, Fox News from 2004. Streaming video for CNN and NBC only. The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. From the videotape archives maintained by Vanderbilt University.
World Newsreels Online 1929-1966
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A collection of streaming videos that features full runs of many of the key international newsreels produced during the first half of the twentieth century. The collection is semantically indexed, allowing users to search by subject, year, historical era, historical event, people, and places 546 English, French or Japanese with English transcripts.

Images

Below is a selection of the image collections that could be useful for business-related research. For the complete list of what's available through the Library, see the full Images Collections and Copyright Guide, which has a special section with links to medical and science images, and art/architectural images. There are also more image collections listed on the U.S. History Guide.

Robert Mosher UC San Diego Image Collection
The Robert Mosher collection includes photographs of the interior and exterior of architectural structures as well as plans, drawings, elevations, models, studies, and materials samples of UC San Diego buildings and spaces.
Stuart Collection Photographs
Included here are selections of photographs of all the works currently in the collection as well as documentation of the construction process, installations and re-installations, models and maquettes, proposed and design drawings, photos of artists, in-studio images, site-planning and sites before construction, details, restorations, people interacting with artworks, and events incorporating artworks.
Agricultual Research Service (ARS) Image Gallery
This database has 6500+ high-quality, digital images from the U.S. ARS Office of Communications. They are copyright-free, public domain images unless otherwise noted. Broad categories of coverage are people, plants, animals, insects, crops, natural resources, food , field research and photographic illustrations.

AP Newsroom
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With millions of images dating back more than 150 years, this is one of the world's largest archives of historical & current imagery. Updated every minute. Includes news, entertainment, arts, business, and sports coverage from AP and selected partners. The content includes top news stories, photos, audio clips and print graphics.
ARTstor
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Library of over 2.5 million digital images and their corresponding metadata. Covers many time periods and cultures, and documents the fields of architecture, painting, sculpture, photography, decorative arts, design, anthropology, ethnographic and women's studies, as well as many other forms of visual culture. The a href="https://ucsd.libguides.com/artstor" target="_blank">full guide to Artstor answers questions about copyright, downloading to PowerPoint and more.
Images of America: a History of American Life in Images and Texts
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This collection features images and texts assembled by local community experts that attempts to portray everyday people, places and events in American local history. Drawn from the award-winning print series by Arcadia Publishing.

Getty Images
Stock photos
Library of Congress Digital Collections
Written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. Includes a browse by subject option.

Making of the Modern World
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Online primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world. Full-text searching across 12 million pages of works published 1450-1914. Great starting place for primary source material from this period.
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels
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Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels is a scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels.

San Diego History Center Photographs
Images that document the rise and decline of the California fishing industry. These historical photographs from the 1870s to the 1980s represent the work of many important San Diego photographers.1880-1980
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
The Los Angeles Public Library visual collections include both local history collections and other historical collections.