LibGuides: Art & Humanities Subject Guide: Updated for Remote Teaching: Music, Art, Homes, Museums!

Streaming Video Services

Academic Video Online (AVON) This link opens in a new window
Over 70,000 streaming video titles spanning a wide range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window
Includes hundreds of full-length feature films of both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, and award winners.
Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Curriculum-focused, streaming video titles from producers such as Films for the Humanities and Sciences, A&E, History, ABCNews, BBC, NBC News, Biography, National Geographic and others.
FMG Archival Films & Newsreels Collection This link opens in a new window
A streaming video service offering thousands of award-winning documentaries, training films and theatrical releases across diverse subjects and disciplines.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
On-demand streaming of classic cinema, indie films, and top documentaries. Films remain available for 72 hours. Students and staff are required to create a Kanopy user account in order to access this database.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Collection of feature films useful to all academic areas.

Finding videos in HACC's catalog

You can find videos on any topic in HACC's library catalog.

Use the catalog search below by putting a keyword in the search box (e.g. Renaissance Art). Then, click search.

In order to limit your results to only videos, make sure that Streaming Video and/or DVD are checked on the left size of your results page. Then, to update your results, click Include.

Resources for Remote Instructions

African & Asian Visual Arts Archive
Aavaa had grown to become the most comprehensive slide archive of contemporary visual art by artists of African and Asian descent working in the UK since the post-war period.
ArtCyclopedia
Searchable website that explains art & art history terms and includes images of famous artworks from various time periods
Art History Resources on the Web
Website offering links to various art history resources online
Art Institute of Chicago
The Digital Concert Hall - Berlin, Germany
Faces of Frida
The Getty: Open Content Program
The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs.
Historic House Virtual Tours
Met Opera
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is committed to making a broad range of digital images of artworks in the public domain widely and freely available for scholarly and academic publication. To assist in navigating the vast image content on this website, the Museum has implemented Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC). Through OASC, artworks in the Collection section of the website which the Museum believes to be in the public domain and free of other known restrictions have been identified by an icon, Open Access for Scholarly Content (OASC) Icon;
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin
Publications on Art History
Musée d'Orsay Tour
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by Congress, from a gift of Andrew W. Mellon. During the 1920s, Mr. Mellon began collecting with the intention of forming a gallery of art for the nation in Washington.
National Museum of African-American History & Culture
Explore, learn and engage with the National Museum of African American History and Culture through our numerous digital resources.
National Portrait Gallery
The National Portrait Gallery is dedicated to the exhibition and study of portraits
of people who have made significant contribution to American history
Paris Museums
Playbill 15 Broadway Plays
Seattle Symphony Live!
Smithsonian
Founded in 1846, the Smithsonian is the world's largest museum and research complex, consisting of 19 museums and galleries, the National Zoological Park and nine research facilities.
The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources, E-Learning, and Online Collections
World Images Database
"The internationally recognized WorldImages database provides access to the California State University IMAGE Project. It contains approximately 80,000 images, is global in coverage and includes all areas of visual imagery."
You Can Still Visit These DC Museums Without Leaving Your House