Area Studies Streaming Video Collection
Includes:
African Studies
Asia & The Pacific
Latin American Studies
24,300
video Clips
1,500 full-length Videos and growing!
In an increasingly flat world, an understanding of the histories,
politics, cultures, and economies of different countries and regions of
the globe is becoming essential to more professions than ever before.
This large collection contains critically acclaimed documentaries
and feature programming on some of the world’s fastest-growing
countries, such as China, India, Russia, and Brazil, as well as major
regions including Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and more.
• Conveniently segmented for lecture
and in-class use
• Unlimited access from any location—
on campus or off
• More than 1,100 hours of educational
videos, lectures, and documentaries
from top producers
• Captions, interactive transcripts,
citations, Google Translate, and more
• New videos added at no additional cost
• Easily embed videos into Blackboard,
Moodle, or other CMS
• Tablet- and mobile-friendly
Use the powerful search and browse
tools to find the perfect titles and clips
for lectures and assignments.
Once you find the clips you need, use the custom playlist
tool or embed code to provide instant access for students
through your online course management system.
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24,300 video clips, 1,500 full-length videos—
and growing. Ask your librarian for a FREE TRIAL!
Area Studies Streaming Video Collection
All titles are segmented into short, pedagogical clips, ideal for intermittent
use during classroom lectures. For homework viewing, students can choose
to watch an entire film without interruption. Titles within the collection
are sorted across 14 browsable subject categories (e.g., Sub-Saharan Africa,
Middle East, China & Tibet, South America), enabling refined searches for
available titles in specific topic areas.
Here’s a sampling of the collection highlights:
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More than 40 hours of programming
from WNET’s Wide Angle series,
including award winners such as:
1-800-INDIA: Importing a White-Collar
Economy; An Honest Citizen: Cocaine and
Corruption in Colombia; To Have and
Have Not: Wealth and Poverty in the New
China; The Empty ATM: Inside Argentina’s
Broken Economy; Exclusive to al-Jazeera:
Media and Democracy in the Middle East;
The Saudi Question: What Fate Awaits the
World’s Top Oil Exporter?; and more.
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Fighting the Tide:
Developing
Nations and
Globalization
A 14-part series that
documents how the
consumption and
spending habits of Western civilization
affects people thousands of miles away,
with each episode focusing on a
different country.
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A South American Journey, with
Jonathan Dimbleby and An African
Journey, with Jonathan Dimbleby:
Two highly acclaimed BBC series, totaling six hours, featuring distinguished
broadcaster and cultural ambassador
Jonathan Dimbleby as he tours two of
the world’s least understood continents.
China on China
An eight-part series offering a wide
range of perspectives from inside
China as it looks at culture, politics,
and daily life.
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The First Australians:
The Untold Story
The landmark, multiple-award-winning
six-and-a-half-hour documentary
series chronicling the history of
Australia from the perspective of
the Aboriginal people.
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The Call of Africa:
The Voice of a Continent
13-hour ethnographic series on
modern-day Africa.
Multiple titles from
National Geographic documenting:
How societies in different parts of the
world approach common issues such as
death, the role of the family, the role of
women, body image, justice, and more.
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Dishonorable Killings:
Punishing the Innocent:
Documentary on the practice of
“honor killing” that still prevails in
many Middle Eastern and Central
Asian countries.
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Lost Children:
Uganda’s Youngest Soldiers
A powerful, award-winning documentary that examines the tragic stories of
two boys and two girls between the
ages of eight and 14 who escaped their
forced participation in the murderous
Lord’s Resistance Army.
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What Are We Doing Here? Why
Western Aid Hasn’t Helped Africa
A multiple-award-winning documentary that follows four young Americans
as they experience firsthand the scope
and intractability of Africa’s suffering,
while aid workers, government officials,
and ordinary individuals explore why
providing aid is no panacea.
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Flowers of Rwanda:
Making Peace with Genocide
Winner of multiple film festival awards,
this documentary looks at Rwanda 12
years post-genocide and asks whether
killers and survivors can coexist.
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Approach of Dawn:
Forging Peace in Guatemala
Award-winning documentary that
profiles three Mayan women and their
efforts on behalf of peace in the wake
of the 36-year civil war that devastated
Guatemalan families and culture.
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China: Triumph and Turmoil
A three-part series in which Harvard
University history professor Niall
Ferguson contemplates the future of
a country where a fifth of humanity
lives under a Communist government
with a capitalist economy.
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