BME 637

Find videos on American historical events including newsreels, documentaries, interviews from Pre-Columbian America to present.

News footage covering the years leading up to and during the Second World War. United Newsreel provides more than 35 hours of the American weekly newsreel produced by the U.S. Office of War Information from 1942 to 1946, complete with transcripts, while the Universal Newsreel provides more than 200 hours of content with full transcripts from Universal Studios’ biweekly series that ran from 1929 to 1946.

Find BBC documentaries on topics that span multiple subjects, such as history, anthropology, science, religion, health sciences, art, and more.

Find research-based professional development video resources including teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. Volume II expands upon Volume I to focus on contemporary subjects and emerging teaching approaches, emphasizing special needs, English as a second language, and the US Common Core standards.

Find streaming online videos of classic and contemporary documentaries, previously unpublished footage from anthropologists and ethnographers, field recordings, select feature films, and indigenous media.

Primary documentaries for specific NAU classes, these streaming video titles are available to all NAU affiliates. If you have trouble accessing these videos, please refer to this document.

Watch documentaries from Latin America about issues such as human rights, violence, immigration, literacy, popular culture, and political history.

Find the top 1000 feature films and documentaries for use in a curricular setting.
Notes: Most desktop/laptop computers require Chrome or Firefox to view films. Mobile devices require Swank Media Player app.
Other than classroom viewing on campus by enrolled NAU students, public performance of these films is not permitted.

Find streaming video that gives users access to critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. This collection includes documentaries on human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall.