Research Guides: THTR 217: Performance Historiography: Streaming Video Databases

Academic Video Online (Streaming Videos)

Academic Video Online
A database that provides videos with curricular relevance: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, and more. Includes numerous videos about Theatre performance, techniques, and productions of plays.
History of Theatrical Lighting
Explores the history of theatrical lighting, tracing the development of lighting technology from the Greek and Roman eras through the era of electricity.
Medieval Weaponry, in Combat for the Stage & Screen, Segment 1
Teaches stage combat techniques and shows how to produce safe, exciting fight sequences. The set covers unarmed combat, medieval weaponry, and Elizabethan weaponry.
Everyman
This program presents a production of the morality play Everyman staged in period costume.

BBC Shakespeare Plays
Provides streaming access to the 37 Shakespeare plays that the BBC produced. Also included on this site are five other programs dealing with theatre and film: The Great Directors: The Making of 21st Century Hollywood; A History of Great Playwrights; Hollywood's Greatest Directors; Shakespeare in Italy; and, Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.

Kanopy
Provides access to thousands of award-winning films, thought-provoking documentaries, latest festival hits, classic films, television series, and more. The collection of films support a wide variety of subject areas including the Arts, Media Studies, Politics, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, LBGTQAI+, Psychology, Business, Sciences, Health, Education, and History.
Performing Arts Videos in Kanopy
Includes videos about Theatre Performance, Behind the Scenes, Spotlight on Actors, Opera, Shakespeare, Youth Theatre, Performance Art

Digital Theatre Plus
Provides streamed videos in: recent British theatrical productions (Shakespeare, Classics, new writing, musicals, dance, and opera); making theater (creative, productive, and techinical teams; the acting company' theater management; and filmed interviews with practitioners); study guides, teaching support; and collections (performances from the Gran Teatre de Liceu; Royal Opera House, Shakespeare's Globe, Broadway Digital Archive, and the National Jewish Theater).