Theater Arts & Dance

20th Century (Restricted to ODU)
These actual original productions, captured and recorded while performed for a live theatre audience, cover a wide range of 20th century theatre history and represent hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors.

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A leading educational platform for the performing arts. Provides access to full-length productions and educational resources.
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20th Century (Restricted to ODU)
Contains dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.

2008 - Present (Restricted to ODU)
The world's leading classical music channel, Medici.tv including Jazz Plus has offered access to the best of classical music to viewers worldwide since 2008. Medici.tv including Jazz Plus features concerts, operas, ballets, documentaries, artist portraits, educational programs, master classes, and the greatest jazz programs of yesterday and today.

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This series is regarded as the canon against which other Shakespeare performances on film are measured and compared. Thirty-seven plays are chaptered by acts and feature some of Britain's most distinguished theatrical talent. These video clips are an ideal choice for libraries, and literature classes.

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Academic Video Online (AVON) spans a range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film and more. AVON includes every kind of video material available with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage.

1898 to Present (Restricted to VIVA/ODU)
Provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.

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Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum - race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

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Provides access to films in the humanities and social sciences, science and mathematics, health and medicine, technical education, and guidance and counseling.

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Provides access to a comprehensive collection of outstanding video programming from the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). The collection contains 311 titles in 498 program segments varying from 30 minutes to 1 hour in length.

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Features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. In partnership with California Newsreel, the database provides unique access to their African American Classics collection, and includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations.

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Kanopy is a streaming service which partners with libraries and universities to provide culturally enriching films and movies. Beginning in summer 2020, all Kanopy film titles require a faculty request for access and approval by ODU Libraries.