LibGuides: CTVA 100: Introduction to Mass Communication: Films

Streaming Video Collections at CSUN

Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Over 30,000 hours of streaming videos covering a wide range of subjects.
African Diaspora, 1860-Present This link opens in a new window Primary source documents, including personal papers, organizational papers, journals, newsletters, court documents, letters, and ephemera about migrations of people of African descent to countries around the world, from the 19th century to present day.
Asian Film Online This link opens in a new window Through a selection of over 1,000 narrative feature films, documentaries and shorts curated by film scholars and critics, the collection offers highly relevant perspectives and insights onto themes relevant across Asia, including modernity, globalization, female agency, social and political unrest, and cultural and sexual identity.
BBC Shakespeare in Perspective This link opens in a new window
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window Streaming video database with over 500 hours of documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States.
Border and Migration Studies Online This link opens in a new window
C-SPAN Video Library This link opens in a new window A searchable library of over 200,000 hours of videos from all three C-SPAN networks covering federal politics in the United States.
Counseling and Therapy in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection This link opens in a new window The only collection of curated primary and secondary full-text materials to support informed performance, pedagogy, and scholarship in dance. Dance Online: Dance Studies Collection presents the historical context of 20th and 21st century dance through 150,000 pages of exclusive photographs, correspondence, magazines, dance notation, and reference material that dissolve the distance between archive and scholar and draw dance students into the library
Disability in the Modern World This link opens in a new window
Docuseek2 This link opens in a new window Docuseek2 provides access to hundreds of streaming education videos from a variety of producers and distributors. You can search for a specific title or keyword, or browse videos by theme or title.
Education in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Environmental Studies in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Ethnographic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Filmakers Online This link opens in a new window 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. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.
Film Platform This link opens in a new window Over 600 documentary films distributed by Roco Films
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window Multidisciplinary streaming video service providing access to digital educational films. Current access includes over 700 videos in many subject areas.
Great Speeches Video Series This link opens in a new window
Health and Society in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Human Rights Studies Online This link opens in a new window A research and learning database providing comprehensive, comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide. The collection is growing to include 75,000 pages of text and 150 hours of video that give voice to the countless victims of human rights crimes in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy offers a number of videos that may be viewed online, through an app, or using Roku or Apple TV. Please note that the first time you use Kanopy via CSUN, you need to log in at csun.kanopy.com.
Latin America in Video This link opens in a new window
LGBT Studies in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
Music Online: Opera in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new window Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers high definition streaming video of productions and unique archival material offering significant insight into theatre and performance studies.
PBS Video Collection This link opens in a new window This collection of more than 1,200 streaming videos provides an exceptional range of content with the most valuable video documentaries and series from PBS.
Shoah Foundation Institute Visual History Archive This link opens in a new window Users must create an individual account in order to use this resource. A fully streaming video collection of more than 53,000 primary source testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity, including the Nanjing Massacre, the Guatemalan Genocide, the Armenian Genocide, and the Tutsi Genocide.
Sony Pictures Classics This link opens in a new window More than 300 Sony Pictures Classics films from 1992 to 2015. Their catalog offers world cinema titles, and includes a strong emphasis on documentary, including works by filmmakers such as Louis Malle, Wim Wenders, Francis Ford Coppola, Ang Lee, Mike Leigh, Asghar Farhadi, Roman Polanski, Michael Haneke, David Cronenberg, Eric Rohmer, Terry Gilliam, Ismail Merchant, Errol Morris, Ingmar Bergman, Pedro Almodovar, and others.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window Swank is the world's largest non-theatrical distributor of motion pictures for public performance and the acknowledged leader in the field.

Swank (in OneSearch)
This link will show you all 1,000 titles in Swank available at CSUN, easily accessible using OneSearch.

Theatre in Video (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window

Find screenplays and scripts

To search for a script or screenplay, use the library catalog and search by author of the writer, or name of the film. The University Library has a fraction of the scripts available through the CTVA department due to copyright and publishing restrictions.

Film Scripts Online (Alexander Street Press) This link opens in a new window
American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays. Most of the scripts have never been published before, and nowhere else are they available online.

Scripts in print and online
All scripts available at the library, whether through a database or in print.
Script library (Manzanita)
Motion Picture Scripts Database
This database details the film script holdings of eight Los Angeles area collections: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; the American Film Institute; the Frances Howard Goldwyn Hollywood Regional Library; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of Southern California; the Writers Guild of America, West; the Warner Bros. Archives at University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts; and the California Institute of the Arts Library. Note that these scripts are not available electronically and that some libraries require appointments in advance.

Finding videos

Use OneSearch to find streaming videos (or DVDs/Blu-Rays). You can search by title, director, actor, etc. For example, to find Ben Affleck's streaming titles available at CSUN, search his name, limit to Video, and then Available Online at CSUN:

For titles that only appear as DVDs or Blu-rays, we are unable to stream these titles to a classroom, Zoom, or Canvas. We are also not able to rent or purchase titles from iTunes, Hulu, Netflix, Prime Video, etc. We may not add titles to Swank: our package is set at 1,000 titles, and will expire on June 30, 2023.