Archer Library: Streaming Media Access: Additional Streaming Services

Non-Library Streaming Services

If you want to access streaming media that the Library is not able to provide, there are numerous options available in Canada (other geographic regions will have different options).

This page includes resources for tracking down which service can provide the media you are seeking, and links to streaming services providing relatively stable collections of media that are available in Canada.

Finding Where a Movie or TV show Can Be Streamed

There are so many different streaming services with so much overlap between them, it can be overwhelming to figure out where you should check to find a particular piece of media. If you have already tried searching QuickFind for streaming media with no luck, you can also check commercially available streaming services.

Try starting your search with one of these tools to narrow down where you should be looking:

Watch In Canada
Search for the title of the item, and it will return a list of streaming services (ie/ Netflix, Prime, Disney+) or purchasing platforms (ie/ YouTube, Google Play, iTunes) where you can access the item.
Just Watch
Search for a movie or tv show and it will return a list of services where it can be streamed while from Canada

Free Streaming Services in Canada

APTN
Shows
BNN
Business
CBC Gem
TV Shows
The Comedy Network
TV Shows
CPAC
Politics
CTV
TV Shows and clips
CTV Life
TV Shows
Food Network
TV Shows
Global News
News
HGTV
TV Shows
Kanopy
Available through most Public Libraries
MUCH
TV Shows
OMNI
Omni Television is a Canadian television system and specialty channel of Canada's conventional multicultural television stations.
The Shopping Channel
Shopping
Slice
TV Shows
Tubi
TV Shows
TVOKids
TV Shows for school aged children
VICE
Original Programming
VisionTV
TV Shows

[This list was adapted from the information provided by techdaily.ca]

University of Regina's Library Streaming Services

Audio Cine Films
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.
Audio Drama
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Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection delivers, for the first time online, more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation's premiere radio theatre company. The plays - which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries - are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.
Bates' Visual Guide To Physical Examination
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The Fifth Edition of Bates’ Visual Guide delivers head-to-toe and systems-based physical examination techniques for the (Advanced) Assessment or Introduction to Clinical Medicine course. The site features more than 8 hours of video content.
Classical Music Library
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Classical Music Library is the music listening service for libraries. The collection of 1,000,000-plus tracks for listening and searching is supplemented by extensive reference materials.Classical Music Library features recordings from 26 labels including EMI Classics, sourced from 21 different label groups. Licenses include EMI Classics , Hyperion, Bridge Records (contemporary composers), Sanctuary Classics, Artemis-Vanguard, H
Music files are not available for downloading.

Selected free music downloads from the Classical Music Library are made freely available for download. Select the format you would like (either MP3 or WMA) and download the DRM-free tracks, which you can share as much as you would like. Check Weekly Free Music Downloads.
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.
Curio.ca
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Curio.ca provides streaming access to educational content from CBC and Radio-Canada, including documentaries from television and radio, news reports, archival material, stock shots and more — over 5,000 programs and resources. It is a one-stop destination for outstanding Canadian educational content.
Includes English and French language content. Programs include The Nature of Things, Doc Zone, Dragons' Den, The Fifth Estate, The Passionate Eye, Monster Math Squad, The Current, News in Review, Marketplace and George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight.
Dance in video
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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.
Digital Theatre Plus
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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.
Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. I and Vol. II: Foundational Films
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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.
Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. III: Indigenous Voices
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The role of the traditional ethnographer is changing as the perspectives and epistemologies of indigenous peoples have taken on central significance in the discipline, challenging earlier representations and implicit “us versus them” constructs. In order to create a platform for indigenous voices to address issues from indigenous perspectives, we have dedicated the third volume of the ethnographic film series to indigenous filmmakers.
This is the only academic collection in the world to offer such a comprehensive resource of documentaries, feature films and shorts made by and for indigenous people and communities. Topics are simultaneously local and global, with particular emphasis on the human effects of climate change, sustainability, indigenous and local ways of interpreting history, cultural change, and traditional knowledge and storytelling.
Content partners include: preeminent artists like Hopi filmmaker Victor Masayesva, Samoan ethnographer Galumalemana Steven Percival, native Hawaiian director Eddie Kamae, and First Nations filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin; distributors such as Vision Maker Media; and organizations like the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, the Indigenous Film Archive of Nepal, the Mexican Film Institute, and the National Film Board of Canada.
Ethnographic Video Online, Vol. IV: Festivals and Archives
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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.
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.
After connecting to the database, users have an additional option to create a login to access advanced features such as playlists and favorites.
Licensed for non-theatrical public performance.
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
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The Garland encyclopedia of world music online is an extensive resource devoted to music cultures of the world's peoples. It contains the full text of the nine-volume print encyclopedia focusing on specific continents and regions, and a tenth volume on general perspectives and references. Browse by places, cultural groups, subjects, instruments or genres.
Music and Dance Online
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The multimedia resource covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.
Music Online: Listening contains Classical Music and Smithsonian Global Sound as well as these other collections:
• Classical Music: All major genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.
• Smithsonian Global Sound: More than 40,000 tracks, the entire output of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Jazz Music: All major genres including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, big band, modern jazz, and more.
• Contemporary World: Music from more than 160 countries and more than 1,000 cultural groups.
• American Music: Country, folk, jazz, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, R&B, and shape note singing.
• Popular Music: Wide range of popular music from around the world
Music and Dance Online
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The multimedia resource covers hundreds of genres from alternative to zydeco and from alternative dance to operatic arias, and encompasses a wide range of content formats - including scores, reference, and high definition audio and video.
Music Online: Listening contains Classical Music and Smithsonian Global Sound as well as these other collections:
• Classical Music: All major genres and time periods from medieval to contemporary, from choral works to symphonies, operas, and the avant-garde.
• Smithsonian Global Sound: More than 40,000 tracks, the entire output of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
• Jazz Music: All major genres including vocal jazz, bebop, acid jazz, big band, modern jazz, and more.
• Contemporary World: Music from more than 160 countries and more than 1,000 cultural groups.
• American Music: Country, folk, jazz, bluegrass, Western, old time, American Indian, blues, gospel, R&B, and shape note singing.
• Popular Music: Wide range of popular music from around the world
National Film Board of Canada Education
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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
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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.
Naxos Music Library Jazz
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Naxos Music Library Jazz offers a wide range of jazz music, from jazz legends to contemporary jazz.
Naxos Music Library Jazz 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.
Naxos Video Library
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Access over 1330 videos. Coverage includes streaming video of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries.
Opera in Video
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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
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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).
Psychotherapy.net
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.
Smithsonian Global Sound
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Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world's musical and aural traditions. The collection provides educators, students, and interested listeners with an unprecedented variety of online resources that support the creation, continuity, and preservation of diverse musical forms. Includes more than 40,000 tracks, the entire output of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.
Theatre in Context
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Theatre from Alexander Street features performances of works by American, European, Asian, and other worldwide dramatists from the past several centuries. In addition to performances, Theatre also features dozens of documentaries and interviews about theatre, discussing the history of theatre, acting methods, pioneering dramatists and actors, and much more.
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.
Provides searchable and browsable access to a variety of theatre arts related materials including all aspects of theatre and performance. Includes access to full-text plays, audio plays, filmed stage performances, documentaries, and other video content, contextualizing materials (designs, reference, and ephemera) including recent Broadway productions and previously unpublished plays. Covers key writers, creators, and performers. Includes full content of the following collections: Drama Texts Collection Contemporary World Drama Black Drama: Third Edition Twentieth Century Drama: Second Edition Theatre in Performance Collection The BroadwayHD Collection The Royal Shakespeare Company Collection Theatre in Context Collection Performance Design Archive Online.
Theatre in Video
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Theatre in Video contains more than 250 definitive performances of the world's leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries, online in streaming video - more than 500 hours in all.