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Genealogy: Finding the History of Your Last Name: Videos

Videos

American History in Video
provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

Ethnic Studies Video Online
    Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
    Ethnic Studies Video Online includes documentary films on the subject of Native American Studies, Chicano Studies and African American Studies, among others, focusing on issues of social justice in marginalized communities. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.
 
Ethnographic Video Online
    Note: This collection has been consolidated into VAST: Academic Video Online by the publisher. Click here for details.
    This resource provides hundreds of films about human culture and behavior. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more. This resource is part of the VAST: Academic Video Online collection.

Films on Demand
  Their Humanities & Social Sciences Collection offers more than 450 films on anthropology.

VAST: Academic Video Online
  Is a video database that touches on the undergraduate curriculum needs of virtually every department. VAST is growing to more than 20,000 full video titles (not just clips) in 2013 and currently offers well over 9,000 hours of content.

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