Streaming Resources at High Point University
Streaming media is an accessible and easy tool for research and teaching. Many videos and music can be embedded directly into Blackboard or another course website or through a link via e-reserves. The list below contains streaming media sources available by subscription through the HPU Libraries and through free media websites. Browse all of these lists (including video, music, audio, and televsion) to discover resources in your discipline.
Please email the Media Resource Librarian, Samantha Leonard (sleonard@highpoint.edu) with any questions or concerns about finding and using streaming media online.
For more information about streaming media, please see the HPU Media Services Streaming Tutorial page.
Featured Content:
Watch Kings of Camouflage on PBS. See more from NOVA.
Join NOVA on a voyage beneath the waves, where you'll discover a bizarre, alien-like creature like no other. It's an animal with eight sucker-covered arms growing out of its head, three hearts pumping its blue-green blood, and a doughnut-shaped brain. It has the ability to change its color and shape to blend in with seaweed and rocks, and it has a knack for switching on electrifying light shows that dazzle its prey. Perhaps most surprising of all, this animal is quite intelligent, with a highly complex brain. In this program, underwater cameras capture the extraordinary powers of the cuttlefish.
High Point University Subscriptions: Videos
Films for the Humanities: Films on Demand
As the leading provider of media for higher education, Films for the Humanities and Sciences creates and distributes world-class academic content for discerning educators. Films for the Humanities and Sciences is widely recognized as having the broadest and deepest range of content available. Many of these titles are accessible through searching the High Point University library online catalog.
Ambrose Video and BBC Shakespeare Plays
Featuring some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent these online videos are an ideal choice for libraries, literature classes, and for continuing personal enjoyment. Ambrose Video is to proud to be the exclusive distributor of Shakespeare's plays which are so richly rewarding to our viewers. We have taken as much care as possible to restore the masters (which are over 20 years old) for the best viewing experience possible. Departments and HPU Libraries can also purchase many educational tiles to stream through Ambroses online catalog.
NCLive is an online library, with a video collection that offers access to programs such as American Experience; American Masters; Art21; Cycerchase; Empires; Eyes on the Prize; Frontline; Masterpiece; NOVA; Wilkes County oral history documentaries; Scientific American Frontiers; and the State Archives of North Carolina.
Digital Campus, provided by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc was created for professors and administrators to enhance curriculum by providing students with access to course-related films. Through Digital Campus, students can conveniently view assigned films - freeing up valuable class time and eliminating the time constraints of sharing copies.
Please email the Media Resource Librarian, Samantha Leonard (sleonard@highpoint.edu) with questions and requests for Swank Digital Campus.
Media Education Foundation( (MEF)
The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire cirtical thinking about the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media. All of the films on the website are available for digital rental for a cost, and the streaming will be available for 7 days.
Please email the Media Resource Librarian, Samantha Leonard (sleonard@highpoint.edu) with questions and requests for Media Education Foundation. All rentals must be placed at least 2 days before viewing time.
High Point University Subscriptions: Music
Classical Music Library is the world's largest multi-label database of Classical music recordings for listening and learning in libraries. This ever growing collection includes recordings from the world's greatest labels including Hyperion, Bridge Records, Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, Hänssler Classic, Vox and many more. Coverage includes music written from the earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.
Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive online music resource that cross-searches all of your library's Alexander Street Press music databases.
Naxos Music Library is the world´s largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 80,720 CDs with more than 1,159,600 tracks, standard and rare repertoire. Over 800 new CDs are added to the library every month.
Publicly Available Resources:
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum.
BBC Television includes links to programs from BBC America, BBC Canada, amd BBC World News.
The Civil Rights Digital Library (CRDL) features a collection of unedited news film from the WSB (Atlanta) and WALB (Albany, Ga.) television archives held by the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. The CRDL provides educator resources and contextual materials, including Freedom on Film, relating instructive stories and discussion questions from the Civil Rights Movement in Georgia, and the New Georgia Encyclopedia, delivering engaging online articles and multimedia.
Includes footage and shows about topics such as science, history, space, technology, sharks, and news.
A national preserve of documentary films and streaming essays about the traditions of American roots culture. The site includes transcriptions, study, and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.
Documentary films and thought-provoking journalism.
One of the greatest film archives of European cinema, including fables, folklore, and music.
Great Performances brings the best in the performing arts from across America and around the world to a US television audience. It presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries.
Watch many television shows and movies free online.
Internet Archives is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to books, movies and music, as well as 150 billion archived web pages.
American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
Media That Matters is the premiere showcase for short films on the most important topics of the day. Local and global, online and in communities around the world, Media That Matters engages diverse audiences and inspires them to take action. From gay rights to global warming, the jury-selected collection represents the work of a diverse group of independent filmmakers, many of whom are under 21. The films are equally diverse in style and content, with documentaries, music videos, animations, experimental work and everything else in between. What all the films have in common is that they spark debate and action in 12 minutes or less.
The mission of the Museum of Broadcast Communications (MBC) is to collect, preserve, and present historic and contemporary radio and television content as well as educate, inform, and entertain the public through its archives, public programs, screenings, exhibits, publications and online access to its resources. More than 8,500 digitized television and radio programs are available once again for public viewing in the MBC archives.
NBC Learn has already digitized more than 12,000 stories from the NBC News archives, one of the largest news archives in the world, dating back to the 1920s. In addition, collections are updated with current events every day, Monday through Friday, with stories from such celebrated programs as NBC Nightly News, the TODAY show, Meet the Press, Dateline NBC, as well as the networks of MSNBC, CNBC, and Telemundo.
NOVA is the highest rated science series on television and the most watched documentary series on public television.
Watch award-winning national programming and locally produced shows, with categories such as Masterpiece, NOVA, science and nature, history, and This Old House.
PBS LearningMedia is a website for trusted, classroom-ready, curriculum resources from PBS.
Television's longest-running showcase of independent nonfiction film.
Radio-Locator.com is one of the most comprehensive radio station search engine on the Internet. They have links to over 13,000 radio stations' web pages and over 7300 stations' audio streams from radio stations in the U.S. and around the world.
PBS LearningMedia is a website for trusted, classroom-ready, curriculum resources from PBS.
Television's longest-running showcase of independent nonfiction film.
The Southern Foodways Alliance documents, studies, and celebrates the diverse food cultures of the changing American South.
SnagFilms.com offers the broadest collection of great independent movies you can watch right now, on demand, for free, and share with others – films that entertain and inform, engage and inspire, satisfy every taste, encourage discovery and create community.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Along with two annual conferences, the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer, TED includes the award-winning TED Talks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.
Open Vault is the home of WGBH Media Library and Archives (MLA). They provide online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. The ever-expanding site contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning.
THIRTEEN is one of America’s most respected and innovative public media providers. A member of the WNET family of companies, THIRTEEN is a unique cultural and educational institution that harnesses the power of television and electronic media to inform, enlighten, entertain and inspire.
Foreign Language Television:
Includes Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish TV from various countries
Includes Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Quechua(?), Russian, and Spanish TV from various countries.
Includes Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish TV from various countries.