Sociology
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Academic Video Online This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online delivers almost 80,000 titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.PPR -- Films available in Academic Video Online -- excluding Film Platform titles -- include limited public performance rights, including public screenings if no permission is charged.
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DocuSeek2 Complete Collection™: Second Edition (on the Alexander Street platform) This link opens in a new windowThe Docuseek2 Complete Collection™: Second Edition contains 1800 exclusive documentaries. This rich selection of issues-based documentary film comes from leading film producers and distributors, including Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, the BBC, the National Film Board of Canada, CBC, Television Trust for the Environment, MediaStorm, Terra Nova Films, KimStim, and Scorpion TV, and other independent filmmakers from around the world.PPR -- Screening on campus to a group when no admission is charged and there is no advertising outside the learning community is permitted.
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Docuseek This link opens in a new windowDocuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films. The University of Iowa's collection includes the Docuseek2 Complete Collection™: Second Edition of 1,800 exclusive documentaries, as well as numerous other titles.PPR -- Screening on campus to a group when no admission is charged and there is no advertising outside the learning community is permitted.
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Feature Films for Education Collection This link opens in a new windowIn partnership with Global Eagle, this collection offers hundreds of full-length feature films focusing on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more.
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Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new windowFilmakers Library Online provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.
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Films on Demand This link opens in a new windowThe Films on Demand platform hosts both the World Cinema collection as well as other subscribed titles from Films Media Group.PPR -- "[A]ll programs listed on this website include full protection for public performances. A public performance is a non-theatrical performance of a program, without charge, outside the home to a gathering of people other than family members and or acquaintances."
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Kanopy Streaming This link opens in a new windowCustom online libraries of streaming videos from a variety of studios on a variety of subjects.
UIowa can subscribe to individual titles upon request.
PDA subscriptions include:
* Latin American Studies Collection
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PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new windowThis three-year subscription assembles a core of 245 titles, selected for their high quality and relevance to academic curricula, covers many educational disciplines, including history, science and technology, diversity studies, business, and current events.
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Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new windowStreaming video titles, mostly feature films or television, the University of Iowa has licensed from the Swank Digital Campus collection of videos.PPR -- Swank Digital Campus titles are not intended for use outside of an educational context.
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