You can choose from over 26,000 films from hundreds of popular producers such as The Criterion Collection, The Great Courses, The Media Education Foundation, and PBS, as well as thousands of independent filmmakers - on every topic imaginable.
Swank is a service that provides streaming access to feature films for use by faculty in their courses. Almost all major studios are covered in Swank. Films available through Swank must be requested by faculty via our request form. Faculty should only request titles they are requiring all students in their course view outside of class time.
Sample Search: The Silence of the Lambs
Starting on the Library's main page, click on the 'books' link
Search the library catalog just as you would for a book, DVD, etc.
You can see in the results that the library owns the DVD of the film but doesn't show a streaming video option in the results.
After the title is requested by the faculty member and the item is purchased by the library it will be added to the catalog as a separate item. Here is the catalog results list after our film was purchased.
Click on the link for the streaming video option to see the catalog record.
The link in the center of the record links directly to the film. You can right-click on the link and copy it to paste into Canvas. If you want to embed the video in your course site you will need to contact your subject liaison.
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