Research Guides: Education: Video & Media

Streaming Services provided by Purdue Libraries

For information on how to access these streaming databases, please view our Library Guide on Streaming Videos at Purdue.

Ambrose Video This link opens in a new window
A continually growing collection of 700+ videos, all closed captioned, and spanning many subject areas, from the BBC Shakespeare Plays to Nature's Microworlds and more.
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window
Exclusive issues-based documentary films focusing on environmental studies and sciences, sociology, anthropology, global studies, area studies, women’s studies, history, political science, criminal justice, health, psychology, the arts, and more, from leading film producers, distributors, and independent filmmakers from around the world.

Full collection of 1800 films is anticipated to be completed in 2020.
JoVE: Journal of Visual Experiments (Video Journal)
JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is the world's first peer reviewed scientific video journal. Established in 2006, JoVE is devoted to publishing scientific research in a visual format to help researchers overcome two of the biggest challenges facing the scientific research community today; poor reproducibility and the time and labor intensive nature of learning new experimental techniques.

Sections included: Biology, Neuroscience, Immunology & Infection, Medicine, Bioengineering, Engineering, and Chemistry.
Kanopy
Kanopy offers one of the largest collections of films in the world with 50,000+ films from thousands of leading producers. These films are all genres - from documentaries to movies and training videos.

American Graduate Documentary Series
American Graduate: Let’s Make it Happen is public media’s long-term commitment to supporting community-based solutions to help keep youth on the track to a high school diploma and beyond. Supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), more than 128 public radio and television stations have joined forces with more than 1,700 partners and at-risk schools across 48 states and one territory.
METX Collection
"The Measures of Effective Teaching Extension (METX) Collection includes classroom footage and scanned lesson artifacts captured during the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 academic years. The METX project enlisted more than 350 teacher volunteers from six school districts, collecting video and other artifacts of everyday classroom activities that document thousands of lessons. This was a large-scale effort to create a rich resource for educators and researchers that will contribute to the improvement of teaching and learning."