The following databases have streaming media that you can access through the University of Regina Library's licences. If you experience any technical difficulties, please contact the Library E-Resources Team (eresourc@uregina.ca). Note that some streaming content is only available through Quick Find.
Click on a heading or scroll down for:
Streaming Video: Film/Documentaries
Streaming Audio and Video: Music
Streaming Audio and Video: Theatre
Streaming Video: Medicine/Nursing/Psychology
Includes 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).
Access Note: Use preferred browser: Google Chrome.
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.
The Library's institutional license includes public performance rights on campus.
Legacy CAMPUS Users: All existing CAMPUS accounts remain active and users can continue to access their saved playlists and clips. However, it will no longer be possible to modify or create new clips and playlists.
Naxos Music Library [NML] is the world's largest online classical music library. Currently, it offers streaming access to more than 185,000 CDs with more than 2,850,450 tracks, standard and rare repertoire.
Naxos Music Library can also be accessed via the Naxos app for mobile devices.
Go to Playlists to sign up for an account. You will receive an email with activation request. Once your account it activated you can download the Naxos app and use registered playlist account to access.
Access over 1330 videos. Coverage includes streaming video of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.
Opera in Video contains opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries, and then delivered online through streaming video. Selections represent the world's best performers, conductors, and opera houses and are based on a work’s importance to the operatic canon. This release includes 290 works, equaling 500 hours
Oxford Music Online includes: Grove Music Online, The Oxford Companion to Music and The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition Revised.
Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London, 2001), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, edited by Stanley Sadie (London, 1992), and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition, edited by Barry Kernfeld (London, 2002).
DigitalTheatre Plus showcases live British theatre productions shot in high definition. Featured theatre companies included the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English Touring Theatre, and the Royal Court Theatre. Many productions are complemented by documentaries, interviews, and study guides. Playwrights range from Shakespeare to Sondheim.
Dance in Video includes 766 works, equaling 498 hours of dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance. Included are classic performances from top ballet companies; experimental works from up-and-coming dance troupes; documentaries by and about leading choreographers; videos on dance training; and other items covering a wide range of 20th century dance styles.
When accessing use "Library: Continue as anonymous library user" or create an account with uregina email. The Bates Visual Guide to Physical Examination includes over 8 hours of videos of physical examination techniques for a range of patient types, as well as OSCE clinical reasoning modules.
Searchable database of streaming video files on psychotherapy. Anyone with access to the video library can create clips and store them in the Video Library. Videos are searchable by therapeutic approaches, therapeutic issues, expert therapists, population, and titles. It allows viewers to go straight to the heart of clinical practice as it is done by today's leading practitioners in North America. The database features demonstrations and counseling sessions with participants on a host of therapeutic topics. This is a resource for teaching and training in psychotherapy practice and for education about psychology and related areas in social work.
Ethnographic Video Online provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.
Thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.
Volume IV provides a space for visual anthropologists of today to showcase and disseminate their most compelling work. With a focus on curating award-winning titles from contemporary ethnographic film festivals, this newly released content will capture students’ attention by connecting them with topics familiar to their own time and place.
Additionally, volume IV unlocks access to rich repositories of previously difficult-to-discover content. Visual anthropology programs at over a dozen universities and institutions around the world house repositories of student and faculty field recordings and edited films. These visual records make significant contributions to cultural and scholarly dialogues, but are otherwise difficult to access. Volume IV will bring such resources together in one place.
Volume IV contains the full catalog of anthropology films from Berkeley Media, formerly known as the University of California’s Extension Center for Media. In addition to dozens of award-winning titles released within the last 5 years, the archive also makes the classic ethnographic works of David and Judith MacDougall available for the first time in streaming format, including The Wedding Camels, Lorang’s Way and A Wife Among Wives. This volume also contains the full archive of films created within the last decade at the University of Manchester’s Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, one of the first universities in the world to offer a course of study in visual anthropology.
Academic Video Online is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary video subscription that is available to libraries. It covers a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. The database includes a variety of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, feature films, performances, news programs and newsreels, and demonstrations.