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Film & Sound Online
The service provides access to the following collections:
Amber Films
Documentaries and feature films from a remarkable film-making collective established in the north-east of England in 1968. Of interest to students, teachers and researchers in the fields of media studies and of UK political and social history in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Anglia Television Library
Two series: “Who Were the British?” (1965) and “The Lost Centuries” (1968): The first covers the history and impact of the Romans in Britain. The second covers the Post-Roman rise of Christianity and the later influence of the Islamic Empires through to the Renaissance.
Biochemical Society
A substantial selection of films from the Biochemical Society Archive, charting the development of biochemistry in the later 20th century through the experiences of some of the subject’s most celebrated practitioners.
Culverhouse Classical Music
Over 50 hours of copyright-free classical music and associated scores, covering much of the core repertoire plus rarer pieces from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Adaptation and manipulation permitted.
Digital Himalaya
One of the finest ethnographic film collections documenting Himalayan cultures, also including footage from other parts of the world. A selection of about 50 hours.
Educational and Television Films Ltd, the ETV Collection
100 hours of films from the political Left from around the world, including the USSR, China, Eastern Europe, Chile and Cuba.
Films of Scotland
Documentary films on all aspects of Scotland. A selection of 50 hours.
Healthcare Productions
Material in the field of health education for students, nurses, medical practitioners, and the public. A selection of 25 hours.
Imperial War Museum
A substantial selection of films from one of the most important moving image resources for the study of the major conflicts in which Britain was involved in the 20th Century. A selection of 50 hours.
IWF Knowledge and Media GmbH
A wide selection of material from one of the leading science film institutes in the world, based in Germany. A series of highlight extracts from the collection’s complete films is available, each one complete in itself and showing a single process or phenomenon, together with a growing list of complete films from the collection.
Logic Lane
A series of films tracing the development of philosophy at Oxford University from the 1930s to the early 1970s, featuring eminent figures such as Sir Alfred Ayer, Bernard Williams, Iris Murdoch and Sir Isaiah Berlin. A collection of 6 titles amounting to just under six hours.
Performance Shakespeare
A collection of 11 productions and documentaries from Channel 4 Learning that will complement, inform and support the study of English literature, media, theatre, the performing arts and creative industries.
Royal Mail Film Classics
One of the finest British collections of documentary, public information, animation and industrial film, covering subjects ranging across transport and communications in Britain and abroad, the Home Front during the Second World War, British industries from fishing to mining, the nation’s health – and developments in the Post Office service itself. A selection of 16 hours.
St George’s Hospital Medical School Collection
These films reflect the production and teaching needs of one of the leading medical schools in the UK. A selection of nine hours.
Sheffield University Learning Media Unit Collection
Medicine, statistics, law, chemistry, archaeology, and the performing arts. A selection of 47 hours.
The Trials of Alger Hiss (1980)
An account of the espionage and perjury case that resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of Alger Hiss. A single film.
Wellcome Film
450+ titles dating from 1912 onwards, covering all aspects of medicine, healthcare provision and practice in the UK from the Moving Image and Sound Collection in the Wellcome Library.
Catherine Ure
Subject Librarian
Posted by Catherine Ure 
