Research Guides: Anthropology: Video

Blu-Ray, DVD & VHS

Askwith Media Library
Over 35,000 videos available for viewing, check-out and reserve. All videos are included Library Catalog Search.
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Use the online reservation system to be sure a video is available to pick up on the day you need it.

TAC: The Archaeology Channel
Streaming video and audio news, documentaries, and interviews on archaeology and world cultures. TAC also hosts an annual film festival.

Ethnographic Video Online This link opens in a new window
Over 1800 ethnographic documentaries and interviews of anthropologists. Each film includes a transcript. Clips and play-lists can be created, saved and shared. Send a video to your phone or tablet to watch later! Access for U-M affiliates only

Filmakers Library Online
Over 900 documentaries on a variety of topics, including anthropology, education, politics, sociology and health. Send a video to your phone or tablet to watch later!
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Access for U-M affiliates only
Evia Digital Archive Project
Digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.
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Created by the University of Indiana and the University of Michigan, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Digital Library of the Caribbean: Vodou Archive
The Vodou Archive includes streaming video clips of documentaries on Vodou religion and culture in Haiti. Search on type 'video' to bring up just the video clips in the catalog.

Kanopy Streaming Video This link opens in a new window
Offers over 9,000 documentary and feature films from an array of producers and distributors, accessible by unlimited users.

Docuseek2
Docuseek2 provides streaming access to over 750 documentary and social issue films covering a wide variety of subjects. Content providers include Bullfrog Films, Collective Eye Films (including The Fanlight Collection and dGenerate Films), Kartemquin Films, National Film Board of Canada, Scorpion TV, Sincerely Films, Terra Nova Films and Villon Films.

Last Updated: Feb 26, 2025 10:40 AM

Subjects: Social Sciences