Where can I stream it now?
Useful apps for Cinema & Media Studies
● IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, for filmographies, casts, credits, showtimes, reviews, and watchlists for film and TV.
● Letterboxd, a social network for film people with watchlists and reviews.
● JustWatch, streaming search and watchlists.
Not available to stream? It happens.
Search for the DVD in Van Pelt
Search Franklin for films and TV, streaming or as a DVD. Sometimes, even in the present day with access to many streaming services, for rights reasons, a DVD may be your fastest, or only, option.
Streaming Collections
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KanopyStreaming collection of films and documentaries covering many subjects: pop culture, social policy, politics, education, and gender studies. You can access films on Kanopy on your mobile devices and smart TV through the Kanopy app.
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Criterion Collection on KanopyStream acclaimed and historic films from the Criterion Collection on Kanopy. Note: this is a subset of the Criterion Collection, not the full catalog of the streaming service The Criterion Channel. Here you will find access to 500+ films, but due to streaming licensing, not all Criterion Collection films are available.
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Swank Digital CampusSelected streaming full-length feature films and documentaries.
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Academic Video Online (AVON)Large, wide-ranging collection of feature film, documentaries, news footage, historical newsreels, and a range of primary source content. Includes film from the Criterion Collection, PBS, BBC, and Academy, Emmy, Peabody award winners, as well as silent films, serials, and early cinema shorts, including Buster Keaton, Fritz Lang, Chaplin, Murnau, and Lubitsch. Also includes documentary and international films from Film Platform.
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Projectr EDUStreaming platform for independent, international, and documentary films from Grasshopper Film, Canyon Cinema, and MTV Documentary Films.
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DocuseekDocumentary films from Bullfrog Films, Icarus Films, Good Docs, Women Make Movies, Collective Eye, Fanlight, dGenerate, and Kartemquin films.
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Independent World Cinema: Classic and Contemporary FilmThis is a collection from indie film distributors—Milestone, Zeitgeist, Pragda, and Oscilloscope. These films support disciplines such as cultural history, psychology, gender studies, anthropology, African-American studies, and more.
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New World Cinema: Independent Features & Shorts, 1990-PresentFull-length feature films and award-winning shorts from leading independent distributors.
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Socialism on FilmCollection of documentary, newsreel and feature films reveals the world as seen by Soviet, Chinese, Vietnamese, East European, and Latin American filmmakers, from the early 20th century to the 1980s.
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Penn Video Network - PVN Movie ServiceSelected streaming full-length feature films from Resident Select or Criterion on Demand, licensed for on-campus viewing only by Penn Video Network, a unit of Penn ISC. Line-up changes monthly. These films do not appear in Franklin, the Penn Libraries catalog. Note: You can only use PVN Movie Service while on the Penn campus, using a Penn IP address. PVN Movie Service films may change monthly, while streaming films on other platforms through the Penn Libraries remain available for a full calendar year, multiple years, or in some cases, do not expire after activation.
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Ethnographic Video OnlineClassic ethnographic films, films about cultural change over time, and films made by and for indigenous communities. Browse by geography or cultural groups. Some films include study guides.
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Artfilms-DigitalArtfilms-Digital is the video streaming service of Contemporary Arts Media, Australia, including works for arts education and artists that are relevant to the performing arts, music, electronic media, visual arts, photography, fashion, philosophy, religion, gastronomy, history, politics, and psychology.
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Netflix Media CenterEducational documentaries available for course use
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Films on DemandSelected streaming films from Films Media Group.
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Independent Documentary Filmmakers from China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan Web ArchiveIndependent documentary and ephemeral primary sources archives which includes websites, blogs, and video feed belonging to notable filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, all made available for future research and access. Chinese independent filmmakers from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong have long been crucial to bringing attention to social and political developments in their areas, but due to the sensitive nature of their work, their web presences are at risk of disappearing. This project, part of the Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation's Web Collecting Program, is an initiative of the Confederation's Collection Development Group.
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Russian Film HubRussian and Soviet movies with English subtitles. Users can filter by genre, decade, director, and more. Created by Penn alumnus Richard Wess C'16.
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March of Time, 1935-1967Newsreel and television series which ran in U.S. movie theaters until 1951 and on television until 1967, blending confrontational journalism and docudrama
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USC Shoah Foundation Visual History ArchiveDigital library of video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust.
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DIS.artStreaming art film platform (formerly a magazine) focusing on studio art, historic preservation and art history
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On the Boards TVOntheBoards.tv delivers full-length, high-quality contemporary performance films.
Subject Guide
German Film
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EUscreen "The EUscreen project aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe's rich and diverse cultural history." Its aim is provide unified access to a collection of TV programming, sources, and articles for the academic study of the history of television, and to provide access to all digitized European cultural heritage materials by 2025. The core collection includes materials on twentieth-century Europe (70% of content), virtual exhibitions, and content provided by program partners. Partners include British Universities Film & Video Council; Česka Televize, Czech Republic; Cinecitta Luce, Italy; Danmarks Radio, Denmark; Deutsche Welle; Hellenic National Audiovisal Archive; Institut National de l'Audiovisuel, France; Kungliga Biblioteket, Sweden; Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid; Oesterreichische Rundfunk, Austria; TAIK, Finland; Telewizja Polska, Poland, among others.
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Film Index International An unmatched reference work for entertainment films and biographical information about directors, producers, actors and more, made in collaboration with the British Film Institute (BFI), it is based on the Summary of Film and Television (SIFT) database collated by the BFI over the past 70 years. Includes bibliographies that, unlike freely available resources such as the Internet Movie Database (IMDb), include scholarly and academic work in Cinema Studies. Entries include full cast and crew lists, searchable plot synopses, filmographies, biographical details, important dates, awards and prizes, and thorough bibliographies, with citations for original reviews from the time of a film's release as well as interviews, historical surveys and obituaries. Includes works of film from blockbusters to arthouse films from the present day back to the era early cinema and silent film. With more comprehensive coverage of international films--European, Asian, Latin American, African--than any other comparable index. Includes over 125,000 film records and over 800,000 person records.
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Filmlink.de "Online-Informationsressourcen der Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft"