Video Databases
- Academic Video Online Premium (AVON) This link opens in a new windowAcademic Video Online (AVON) is a multidisciplinary collection of videos that touches on the curriculum needs of virtually every department allowing students and researchers alike to analyze unique and valuable content from over 500 producers and distributors around the world.
- Ethnographic Videos Online (Anthropology) This link opens in a new windowThe Alexander Street Anthropology collections offer comprehensive, multimedia resources for the study of anthropology, including the largest collection of ethnographic videos and previously unpublished archival field materials. Content is presented on a multimedia platform that reflects the integrated methods of field research, through linking and cross-searchability of text, audiovisual and archival primary sources. Our resources work in tandem to bring the fieldwork process to life by juxtaposing original fieldwork with subsequent published ethnographies, as well as follow up studies and visual ethnographies that span a century. Provided by Alexander Street.
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowA streaming service that provides access to videos on a wide variety of subjects inclduing Popular Films; Education; Global Studies & Languages; Health; Media & Communication; and Social Sciences.
- SAGE Knowledge Video - Psychology This link opens in a new windowThis collection features 134 hours across 426 videos including Lifespan and Developmental Psychology.
Films
- Contextual Influences on the Transition to AdulthoodDr. Bernadette Sanchez discusses emerging adulthood in the context of urban low-income Latino adolescence. She discusses the role of social and economic context and how family obligation attitudes affect emerging adults. Sanchez compares her study to the studies done on white middle class college populations.
- Late Adulthood: A Collection6 videos on Late Adulthood, including:
Retirement & Options for Living
The Social Convoy
Death and Dying
In Their Own Words: The Social Convoy
In Their Own Words: Retirement
In Their Own Words: Integrity and Despair - Learning Seed: Infant Series3 films, including:
Physical Development
Social & Emotional Development
Cognitive Development - Learning Seed: Middle AdulthoodExamine the research on intimate relationships during middle adulthood and discuss how they adapt and change during the years when many couples become "empty nesters."
- The Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of Our NationThe series' Signature Hour interweaves discoveries from neuroscience with the stories of families and communities struggling to provide the nurturing environments all babies and young children need to thrive--while too often hindered by social conditions that put their children on low developmental paths. It reveals how stressors on parents - for time, money, and resources - can drip down on their infants and young children, literally altering the wiring of their developing brains with enduring effects. Why are so many children faring so poorly in the richest nation on the planet? How might we do better?
- The Secret Life of the Brain: SeriesA startling new map of the human brain has emerged during the past decade of neuroscience research, contradicting much of what was previously believed. Narrated by Blair Brown and directed by David Grubin, this series tells stories through a mix of personal histories, expert commentary, and cutting-edge animation. Viewers learn startling new truths about the brain as they journey inside about this complicated organ.