Guides: Streaming Resources for Student Groups: Home

Overview

We have a rich and growing library of streaming media that students may want to use as they participate in co-curricular activities this fall. All of our licensed content is freely available to current students, faculty, and staff. If you do not see what you would like, please contact Sally Bryant, Associate University Librarian for Public Services and Instruction and Liaison for Film Studies, International Studies and Languages, and Screenwriting, sally.bryant@pepperdine.edu.

Swank Digital Campus

Swank Digital Campus

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Watch movies via Swank Digital Campus!

Swank Digital Campus provides colleges and universities with the largest academic streaming collection of its kind. Swank Digital Campus simplifies film distribution by providing faculty and students a legal streaming resource both on and off campus. Access Pepperdine's Swank platform using the link below. Films are licensed for one year and requested by faculty.

Highlights from Pepperdine's Swank Collection

Pepperdine's Swank Digital Campus platform provides access to many popular feature films used in the classroom including:

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Digital Campus by Swank Motion Pictures, Inc.® allows students the flexibility to legally view course-assigned films outside the classroom. Providing digital access to course-related films allows educators to enhance the learning experience without taking up valuable class time. Swank does not currently support Safari on Macs. Swank recommends using the latest version of Chrome or Firefox. Visit this page for up to date browser requirements. To resolve problems, visit this trouble shooting page

Kanopy

Kanopy

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Watch an inspiring film!

The Libraries provide access to Kanopy, a streaming video resource that offers critically-acclaimed movies, inspiring documentaries, award-winning foreign films. Titles are added by request.

Highlights from Pepperdine's Kanopy Collection

Currently streaming on Kanopy are selections from the Criterion Collection including

as well as a selection of documentaries including

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An online streaming video service for universities, Kanopy Streaming offers films, documentaries, and training videos.

Academic Video Online

Academic Video Online

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Discover streaming video!

Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It spans subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Includes thousands of award-winning films, including Academy®, Emmy®, and Peabody® winners. Learn more at ProQuest's Academic Video Online LibGuide.

Highlights from Academic Video Online

The Ken Burns Channel
Selections from Sony Pictures Classics
BBC Literary Adaptations
Planet Earth
PBS Channel

Learn About New Content Added Each Month

Content Updates (Monthly) are available here.

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Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available, delivering almost 70,000 titles spanning subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. More than 14,000 titles are exclusive to Alexander Street.

Digital Theatre + , National Theatre Collection

Digital Theatre +

National Theatre Collection

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Visit the theatre!

Digital Theatre + contains streaming videos of classic, contemporary, and international plays & productions. This resource contains some of the world's finest productions, unique backstage insights, practitioner interviews and written analysis, and includes productions from Donmar Warehouse, BBC Studios, British Council, Royal Shakespeare Company, to name a few.

The National Theatre Collection draws on 10 years of National Theatre Live broadcasts as well as recordings never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive. As a supplement to the filmed productions, exclusive digitized archival materials such as prompt scripts, costume designs, and more are available to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information. Includes:

Literary adaptations, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein adapted by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller
Greek classics such as Medea by Euripides, in a contemporary adaptation by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell with Helen McCrory in the title role
Vibrant modern stagings of Shakespeare, such as Twelfth Night, directed by Simon Godwin, with Tamsin Greig in the role of Malvolia
20th-century classics such as Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs and the Young Vic’s production of Lorca’s Yerma, adapted and directed by Simon Stone with Billie Piper in the title role
Comedies such as She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, directed by Jamie Lloyd with a cast including Cush Jumbo and Katherine Kelly, and One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and featuring James Corden's Tony Award-winning performance.

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Digital Theatre Plus brings live performance into the classroom, accompanied by a range of educational resources for illustration, explanation, and critical reflection. Includes several theatre resources, including over 200 productions, 18 master classes, 27 documentaries, 260 interviews and 62 practical guides.
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The National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering insight into theatre and performance studies. Through a collaboration with the U.K.'s National Theatre, this collection offers a range of digital performance resources never previously seen outside of the National Theatre’s archive.

Medici.tv

Medici.tv

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Gather virtually to watch a classical concert or opera!

Access the resource that The New York Times has hailed as "The closest thing to a classical Netflix." Medici.tv’s library features over 2,000 programs (3,000 original works), including: concerts and archived historical concerts; operas; ballets; documentaries, artist portraits and educational programs; master classes. The site offers live performances as well as videos previously recorded on demand.

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An educational video resource in classical music, opera, and dance, broadcasting more than 100 live events each year, from venues and festivals such as Carnegie Hall, Bolshoi Theater, Opéra National de Paris, NCPA, Glyndebourne Festival, Lucerne Festival, Verbier Festival, Salzburg Festival, International Tchaikovsky Competition, International Chopin Piano Competition and more.