LibGuides: Explore Textbook Alternatives for IU Southeast Courses: Video Sources

Library Subscription Sources for Videos

The IU Southeast Library subscribes to several collections of videos you can use in your courses. The full list of collections that contain video sources is available using our Article & Database Search (limiting to streaming video as the Database Type). Below are our largest collections of videos, from Alexander Street Press and Films on Demand.

Alexander Street Press Videos This link opens in a new window
Cross-searchable platform for all Alexander Street Press video collections, including Art and Architecture in Video, Dance in Video, Meet the Press Online, Opera in Video, Rehabilitation Therapy in Video, Theatre in Video, and World Newsreels Online.
Video guides to using Alexander Street Press Videos are available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfzf6oZUIGs&list=PLg5n78WMYe9uEc1X3LgrlTdUl_40Ho382&index=2.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Provides access to more than 8,000 high-quality educational streaming videos, including documentaries, archival primary source materials, broadcast journalism features, and curriculum-focused videos.
This resource works best with the Google Chrome browser.

Web Video Sites

60 Minutes
Segments from the 60 Minutes television program.
Academic Earth
This site offers free video lecture courses.
After Skool
Short animated videos about "interesting science, ideas, stories, education and more." Some might be used as a warm up to a lecture.
AnatomyZone
A searchable database of anatomy videos. Site also offers flashcards, a 3D atlas of human anatomy, 3D anatomy tutorials, and a question bank including over 700 questions on all topics of anatomy and physiology.
Annenberg Online Videos
Annenberg classroom resources include numerous free online educational videos, both short clips and full programs, on a wide range of topics--arts, history, psychology, math, science, social sciences, etc. Both k-12 and college level.
Bloggingheads.tv
Online "split-screen video dialogues about politics and ideas," which strives to present a diversity of views. Includes many professors, researchers, and well known authors talking about a wide range of topics including politics, economics, psychology, science, philosophy & religion, popular culture, international affairs, social issues, . . . Archived programs searchable by keywords.
BookTV
Interviews with authors of books on many topics.
Edge
"To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves."
Films for Action
This site catalogs social change related documentaries that can be viewed free online.
Game Theory Online
"Game Theory Online is a joint project by Matt Jackson (Stanford University), Kevin Leyton-Brown (University of British Columbia) and Yoav Shoham (Stanford University) to bring free, high-quality information about game theory to the world."
Khan Academy
Brief basic video lectures.
Moyers & Company
Thoughtful video segments on many topics.
PBS Frontline Documentaries
Many available free online.
PBS Learning Media
Online video and more, covers K-16 levels.
TED
Free online videos of short talks on a wide array of topics.
THNKR
A YouTube channel with short videos on ideas from authors, thought leaders, speakers, and young prodigies. To search THNKR (not all of YouTube), click on the magnifying glass icon to the right of the About link.
Top Documentary Films
This site links to many full documentary films available free online.
Visual Guide to Human Dissection
Dissection videos from Jefferson Medical College - not streaming, must be downloaded.
The Economics of Seinfeld*
Seinfeld clips that can be used to illustrate economics concepts.
New York Times Video*
Inequality Media*
Tip: Instead of using the big YouTube search, you can use the search just above the videos to search only the videos in this channel. Founded by Robert Reich these videos explain topics related to inequality in U.S., covering topics such as "universal basic income, the student debt crisis, free trade, the racial wealth gap, gerrymandering, infrastructure, corporate inversions, border adjustment tax, Medicare for all, and the role of the media in a democracy, among many others."