Research Guides: THEA225: Databases with streaming content

Libraries databases with streaming plays

Digital Theatre Plus This link opens in a new window
Digital Theatre Plus offers high-quality streaming video of leading British theatre productions, as well as collections from the Royal Opera House, the Broadway Digital Archive, and the National Jewish Theatre.
Theatre in Video This link opens in a new window
Definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with film documentaries, online in hundreds of hours of streaming video. UNC has access to volumes 1 and 2.
National Theatre Collection This link opens in a new window
National Theatre Collection brings the stage to life through access to high definition streaming video of world-class productions and unique archival material offering significant 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.
Royal Shakespeare Company Collection This link opens in a new window
The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection brings The Tempest, King Lear, Hamlet and other famous performances filmed at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Stratford-upon-Avon theater to classrooms around the world.

Libraries databases with streaming films

Major motion pictures are often not licensed to libraries without special agreements. Kanopy has more specialized and documentaries that major motion pictures, but there are some of that type of film available. Swank contains the films that are accessible to UNC while being licensed for a specific class.

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy provides streaming access to thousands of online documentaries and films. UNC does not have access to all Kanopy content.

Swank