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Streaming Video

Library Subscriptions

Kanopy

Nearly 10,000 titles are available as part of our Kanopy BASE subscription and can be viewed by anyone with a Lake Forest College email for free. Licensing a film not part of the BASE collection costs $150 for a single year, so please talk with a librarian about options for your class.

Feature Films for Education

Rotating selection of over 700 feature films available to anyone with a Lake Forest College login.

Swank

Streaming feature films available to anyone with a Lake Forest College login. Swank films do not appear in a Primo search and may only be available for a single semester or year. It can take several days of lead time to license a new Swank film.

Alexander Street

Thousands of individual streaming videos covering multiple subject areas ranging in length from short excepts to full-length documentaries. Content includes primary sources like news forage and speeches. Find a breakdown of specific Alexander Street collections below.

Other sources

Find other streaming video (and video from the subscriptions above) through the library by searching our catalog and filtering for videos available online. If you are looking for a specific video please contact a librarian. We may have access to other streaming media not listed here through one of our subscriptions (e.g. old episodes of The Weekly via the New York Times).

Outside the Library

Lake Forest Library (public)

The Lake Forest Library has generously agreed to allow Lake Forest College students to register for a library card and use their materials including their streaming video services, Hoopla and Kanopy. This can be a good way for students to stream films the college cannot provide.

Internet Archive

Free archive of over 10 million streaming videos including more than 10,000 feature films. Caution: while many of the archived films and clips are in the public domain, some films may have been illegally uploaded.

National Film Registry

Public domain selections from the National Film Registry available to stream from the Library of Congress website.

Tubi

Free streaming platform supported by ads with thousands of movies and television shows. Many films on Tubi are only available in lower resolution (720p) and the content changes so links may not be stable from semester to semester.

Alexander Street Collections

American History in Video

Over 7,000 videos covering significant people and moments in American history. A mix of primary source footage and documentary clips.

Art and Architecture in Video

Over 600 documentary films and videos covering significant significant art, artists, and architecture.

Ethnographic Video Online

Over 3000 videos covering topics in anthropology from raw field footage to documentaries.

LGBT Studies in Video

Over 400 documentaries, interviews, and feature films exploring LGBT+ history and culture.

New World Cinema, 1990 - present

Over 150 independent feature films and shorts.

World Newsreels Online, 1929-1966

Over 5000 newsreel clips from around the world.