Research Guides: Africana Studies: Audio/Video/Images

Selected Video Resources

Swank Digital Campus Top 1000
A streaming film collection of one thousand most-requested big box office titles used by academic institutions. The collection includes feature films, documentaries, international films, popular TV shows, many HBO titles, award-winners, and more! It contains content from 95% of Hollywood studios, spanning a wide range of topics and disciplines.

Subscription does NOT include Public Performance Rights (PPR)
Kanopy Streaming Video
An on-demand streaming video service providing access to multidisciplinary documentaries and films.
Films on Demand
Multidisciplinary streaming educational video collection, with large array of topics including many films on African studies, civil rights, history, and sociology.

NOTE: Search results include film segment titles as well as film titles. To search film titles only, use the ALL FORMATS filter.

African Americans Seen Through the Eyes of the Newsreel Cameraman
News camera crews covered the people and events of the country and world. From 1919 to 1963 these journalists aimed their viewfinders at the mundane and the spectacular. A collection at the University of South Carolina. Also, see its other moving images collections.
Black Public Media: Video
Innovative media about the Black experience from the National Black Programming Consortium
Internet Archive: Moving Image
This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
Why Poverty?
The eight documentaries and 34 short films are to get people talking about poverty. Site includes educational materials as well.

Black Public Media: Audio
Innovative media about the Black experience from the National Black Programming Consortium

Naxos Music Library
Comprehensive collection of classical music available online offering over 1,245,600 tracks* of Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music

Voices from the Days of Slavery
Recorded audio interviews of 23 people born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discussing how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, their families, and freedom. - from the Library of Congress
Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South
From Duke U - A selection of 410 recorded oral history interviews chronicling African-American life during the age of legal segregation in the American South, from the 1890s to the 1950s.

African American Literature
This collection contains images of book covers and jackets from books held by the Givens Collection at the University of Minnesota

ARTstor on JSTOR (content and accounts moved to JSTOR)
Is a digital library with over one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present and manage images for research and teaching.

Blues Photograph Collection
From the U of Mississippi: The Blues Archive houses a large number of blues-related photographs. Taken by a variety of photographers, these images help document the blues from the beginnings of its popularity in the 1920s through today.
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
From the U of Virgina - The 1,280 images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public...
EBR African American Cultural Life
The collection contains photographs, posters, and pamphlets selected from the Eugene B. Redmond (EBR) Collection at Lovejoy Library - U of Illinois