Streaming Video Databases
The library subscribes to several film databases that give students free online access to hundreds of feature films, documentaries, and stage performances.
- Audio Cine FilmsIncludes hundreds titles from the following studios:
Universal Studios Canada (DreamWorks, Focus Features and Illumination),
Walt Disney Studios (Marvel Studios, Pixar Animated Studios, Lucas Film),
MGM Studios (United Artists),
Sony Pictures Entertainment (Sony Animation),
VVS Films, and
Lionsgate Film (Summit Entertainment).
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- Criterion on Demand
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Criterion-on-Demand represents a large number of feature film producers, including, but not limited to: 20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight, Paramount Pictures, Paramount Vantage, DreamWorks SKG, Mongrel Media, Sony Pictures Classics, Alliance Films, Miramax Films, Warner Brothers, Lionsgate Films, The Weinstein Company, as well as a smaller number of independent producers. Our title selection includes 1920 classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features.
Access Note: Fox Collection titles will be available for off-campus access on a continuing basis for all Criterion On Demand subscribers. You may see a restriction message in the title description, but you will not be prevented from accessing and playing the film.
- Films on Demand (Canada)
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Producers include Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, BBC, PBS, ABC News, NBC News, CNBC, CBC, Wide Angle, Bill Moyers Journal, and more.
Films on Demand can also be accessed via the Android or Apple app for mobile devices. Users have to creation account from the “Your Profile” feature on the web version. - National Film Board of Canada Campus
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Access over 720 full-length National Film Board (NFB) of Canada films, trailers and clips. The Library's institutional license includes public performance rights on campus. NFB collections include animation, documentaries, experimental films and alternative dramas. The NFB showcases "films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians" stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more. Works that push the boundaries, give a voice to the underrepresented, and build bridges between cultures.
If you are a faculty member and your would like to create a playlist for your class please contact eresourc@uregina.ca. - Theatre and Drama Premium
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Theatre and Drama Premium is the world's first and largest, integrated resource for teaching and studying theatre arts and dramatic writing.
Bringing together over 13,500 written plays; 150,000 pages of original designs, reference material, and ephemera; 300 audio plays; and 750 hours of filmed stage performances, documentaries, and video training materials, Theatre and Drama Premium serves both practical and scholarly purposes for theatre arts and literature programs.
Streaming Media Guide
For a comprehensive look at the options for streaming films and other forms of media, please see our LibGuide on How to Access Streaming Media.