Expanding our Digitally Hosted Content
01 Oct 2025
The Library has just added fourteen new films by Documentary Educational Resources to our digitally hosted content on Library Search.
While most of our Streamed Video content is obtained through academic streaming services like Kanopy, Academic Video online, BFI player and Box of Broadcasts, those items may be unexpectedly removed from circulation or need to be licenced a year at a time. Some items are also not available through these services.
In rare cases it is possible to obtain a Digital Site Licence which grants the Library the right to host it ourselves. This can require conversations with content providers like Women Make Movies and Documentary Educational Resources, or direct conversations with the director for more niche films. Each Digital Site Licence from a new company has involved a slightly different process for getting the film.
With Documentary Educational Resources, these films appear on several reading lists from Social Anthropology, Drama and Japanese Studies, and have had consistently high use when on Kanopy or Academic Video Online, but the life of file (permanent) licences can only be obtained directly from the vendor. In essence, we could rent them from Kanopy, but we’ve now been able to directly buy copies, ensuring they will remain available for our staff and students in the future.
Most of our locally hosted films are documentaries such as Shugendō now and !AITSA but we do also have films like Passion of Remembrance and At the Door of the House who will come knocking.
The Documentary Educational Resources Titles
- The Ax Fight
- The Buddha Mummies of North Japan
- Dead Birds
- Duka's Dilemma
- The Feast
- Forest of Bliss
- Meeting Ancestors
- Rivers of Sand
- Shugendô Now
- Kalahari Family Collection
- A Far Country
- End of the Road
- Real Water
- Standing Tall
- Death By Myth
If you would like to know more about library hosted films, or our audio-visual content generally, please get in touch.
Ruth Burns
Modern Collections Team