LibGuides: History: Film, Audio and Visual Resources

Film, Audio & Visual Resources

Alexander Street Press Video Collection
Access to a large number of videos across a wide range of subject areas. The University does not subscribe to all the content within the collection.
American Film Scripts Online, Volumes I and II
A searchable full-text collection of over 1,500 authorised and copyrighted screenplays from the 1900s onwards, along with biographical information on directors and writers. Volume I contains scripts of the greatest American classics, whilst Volume II consists of more contemporary and international films.
Advanced indexing allows you to filter by director, writer, performer, genre and time period.
Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
A streaming service for UK higher education, containing a searchable archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts dating back to the 1990s. New broadcasts added daily. Record from 75+ channels, create clips, search transcripts, compile playlists and more.
You will need to select log in via UK Federation, then select University of Sussex from the dropdown list. (New users will need to register their Sussex email address.)
British Museum Images
One of the most comprehensive collections of prints and drawings in world culture and history.
Chronicle: BBC Northern Ireland's television news from the 60s and 70s
Contains material digitally transferred from the BBC NI news archive between 1963-1975. Notable events or broadcasts missing from this period have either not yet been digitised, are absent from the original film collection, or may not have been recorded. To access this resource, select your institution in the "where are you from" box then login. The first time you access it, you will need to create an account by selecting "new user".
Fortunoff Video Archive
The Fortunoff Archive and its affiliates recorded the testimonies of willing individuals with first-hand experience of the Nazi persecutions, including those who were in hiding, survivors, bystanders, resistants, and liberators. Collection holds more than 4,400 testimonies, which are comprised of over 12,000 recorded hours of videotape.
JCB's Archive of Early American Images
A collection of 50,000 rare books (printed before c. 1825), manuscripts, and 16,000 reference books and secondary sources (printed after c. 1825) of which 90% is accessible online. Extensive holdings in the literature of European exploration and travel in the Western Hemisphere, from the first Latin edition of the Columbus letter of 1493, through nearly all of the contemporary narratives of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English discovery, exploration, and settlement. These primary materials are supported by a large bibliographical reference collection.
Kanopy (now via Library Search)
You can now look for Kanopy films using Library Search. The benefit of this is that it will also search across our other film collections, to make sure that you don't miss out. Simply enter your search terms and select 'Video' from the drop down list at the end of the Library Search bar.
Make Film History
Contains a new, sustainable model for the creative reuse of archive material for non-commercial use by filmmakers.
You will need to register to use Make Film History
Make Film History IFI Irish Film Archive
Contains an archive of Irish educational films
Requires an additional login to access the full text. Click here for information about logging in.
Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive
Contains a fully streaming video collection of more than 55,000 primary source testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust and other crimes against humanity.
Wellcome Images
Contains one of the world's richest and most unique collections, with themes ranging from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare and biomedical science.