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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.

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Audio Cine Films

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Streaming versions of feature films from major Hollywood and international distributors.

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Criterion On Demand

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Over 2000 streamed feature films including classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.

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FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals

Indexes over 500,000 articles from more than 345 academic and popular film journals periodicals, dating from 1972 onward.

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Film and Television Literature Index

Provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 300 publications, and selected coverage of 300 more.

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Global Environmental Justice Collection

Documentaries related to Asian, Indigenous and environmental studies, geography, film making, journalism, anthropology, conservation biology, forestry, soil sciences, religion, gender studies and the humanities.

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Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective, 1907-1984

Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective offers the ability to search a wide range of important journals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1907

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Kanopy

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Kanopy provides online video streaming to more than 26,000 titles.

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NFB Education (National Film Board)

NFB Campus has now become NFB Education. More information here - https://help.nfb.ca/knowledge-base/nfb-campus-is-becoming-nfb-education/

Provides access to online viewing of films produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).

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Routledge Performance Archive

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Streaming audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance.

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World Cinema Collection

Films produced in the silent era to contemporary times from around the world

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