LibGuides: Theatre: Streaming Videos

Finding Videos in the Library

The Library specifically purchases thousands of streaming videos to support the classes taught at the College. The best way to find these resources is to use the Summon search box, which searches all the library's resources in one location.

How to search:

Click on the Video/Audio tab
Enter the title or subject term you are researching in the search box
Click SEARCH
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Having trouble with Summon? You can also access the streaming video collections directly using the links provided below. (Off-campus access requires login).

Academic Video Online: Humanities This link opens in a new window
Features resources that illuminate the challenges, triumphs, and issues facing underrepresented, indigenous, and immigrant communities around the world. Hundreds of documentaries, interviews, biographies, performances, and lectures—which draw heavily on late 20th- and early 21st-century archival text and footage—create a rich platform for examining social, racial, and economic inequalities that shape communities at the local and global levels. Content offers opportunities for cross-cultural comparisons and localized, in-depth analyses relevant to Asian studies, black studies, LGBT studies, North American Indian studies, and women's studies.
Academic Video Online: Premium This link opens in a new window
Delivers more than 62,000 video titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners as well as the most frequently used films for classroom instruction, plus newly released films and previously unavailable archival material.
Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Captures the moments before the curtain rises and after the curtain falls, providing valuable insight into the play making process. By revealing the world of the rehearsal room, dressing room, backstage and beyond, our documentaries and interviews introduce theatre as a vibrant, exciting art form through a familiar and accessible medium.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
A digital video delivery service that allows you to view streaming videos from Films Media Group anytime, anywhere, 24/7!
New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts 1990-Present This link opens in a new window
The collection delivers approximately 200 full length feature films from leading independent distributors such as Kino Lorber, First Run Features, Film Movement, MK2, and the Global Films Initiative, along with approximately fifty award-winning shorts.
Theater in Performance Collection This link opens in a new window
Combining the most important video content types used in theatre education (filmed stage performances, master classes, documentaries, and training material) with top-of-the-line teaching tools (playlists, video clips, on-screen transcripts). Contains the full contents of the following collections: Theatre in Video, Volume I, Theatre in Video, Volume II, and Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection.

To access the resources off-campus (remotely) you need the following information:

Students: enter your Owl Link user ID & password.

Faculty & staff: use your network login & password.

Digital Theatre Plus

New Single Sign-On for Digital Theatre Plus Access Effective June 30, 2021

Once you click on the Digital Theatre Plus Link you will be taken to the College's Log-in Screen

Once you sign in you will be directed to the landing page for Digital Theatre Plus.

To verify that you are signed -in correctly you will see this:

Advanced Lighting: Digital Cinema Training
The Advanced Lighting Series introduces key concepts and practical advice for cinema lighting.
Behind the Camera
From animal trainers and makeup artists to computer-generated special effects technicians and film laboratory specialists, this captivating series provides an overview of exciting careers in movie and TV show production. Offering something for everyone, these programs can help students see themselves in the big picture.
The Emergence of the African-American Performing Arts
This video discusses African American performers from the 19th century on and includes a scene from the play "Simply Heavenly".
Great Performances: Present Laughter
Present Laughter follows a self-obsessed actor in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Juggling his considerable talent, ego, and libido, the theater's favorite leading man suddenly finds himself caught between fawning ingénues, crazed playwrights, secret trysts, and unexpected twists.
Stagecraft
This program focuses on what makes that interaction successful, featuring segments on character interpretation, timing, underplaying, movement, positioning, dialects and accents, portraying pain and drunkenness, and other principles and elements of acting.