Research Guides: Art & Art History: Find Media

Find Film & Video

Kanopy Base
Kanopy is a video streaming service that offers thousands of videos including theatrical releases, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos.
Library of Congress Digital Collections
View maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.

DVDs available for checkout:

Art:21 (DVDs)
Call Number: VIDEO NK 6512 .A742 (Seasons 1-6 available)
The life and times of Frida Kahlo (DVD)
Call Number: VIDEO ND 259 .K33 L54 2005
Marina Abramović : the artist is present (DVD)
Call Number: VIDEO N6811.5.A27M38 2012
Nevelson: Awareness in the fourth dimension (DVD)
Call Number: VIDEO NB 237 .N43 N487 2008

The Museum of Modern Art YouTube Channel
The Museum of Modern Art is home to over 200,000 artworks, comprised of painting and sculpture, drawings and prints, photography, architecture, design, media and performance.

Our goal is to introduce you to as many artists and artworks of our time as possible to make the case—as the Museum’s founders believed in 1929—that the art of our time rivals in its greatness to that of any previous era

ARTstor (now on JSTOR)
Access to approximately 300 collections composed of over 2 million images (and growing), scholars can examine wide-ranging material such as Native American art from the Smithsonian, treasures from the Louvre, and panoramic, 360-degree views of the Hagia Sophia in a single, easy-to-use resource.
Visual Arts Data Service
Over 140,000 images from over 300 art and design collections in the UK, free for use in education.

Art Images for College Teaching
Art Images for College Teaching (AICT) began as a personal project dedicated to the principle of free exchange of image resources for and among members of the educational community.
Smithsonian's Collections Search Center
The Smithsonian Collections Search Center is an online catalog containing most of Smithsonian major collections from our museums, archives, libraries, and research units.

The William Blake Archive
Over the course of two centuries, respect for the prints, paintings, and poems of William Blake (1757-1827) has increased to a degree that would have astonished his contemporaries. Today both his poetry and visual art in several media are admired by a global audience. In the broadest terms, the William Blake Archive is a contemporary response to the needs of this dispersed and various audience of readers and viewers and to the corresponding needs of the collections where Blake's original works are currently held.
Archive of Digital Art
s a pioneer in the field of Media Arts research, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) has documented the rapidly evolving field of digital art since 1999. This research-oriented overview of works at the intersection of art, science, and technology has been developed in cooperation with international media artists, researchers and institutions as a collective project.