Find Videos
- Kanopy This link opens in a new windowStreaming educational & feature films across all disciplines, with films from the BBC, California Newsreel, Criterion, PBS & many others. Create a free Kanopy account on campus, then connect to a Kanopy app and watch on your mobile device or smart TV. See Kanopy Help.
- Browse DVDsBrowse the collection of Smith College Libraries' DVDs, from all four of the Smith campus libraries.
Searching the Catalog (for books and DVDs)
Use the Five College Library Catalog to find books about film, or to search for films:
For information on the history and theory of film genres: Subject begins with: film genres
| For Books About: | Search Under: | Or try: |
| a film | Subject begins with: film's title e.g. Clueless motion picture |
Subject begins with: director's name Keyword anywhere: film title |
| a director | Subject begins with: director's name e.g. Bigelow, Kathryn |
Subject begins with: motion picture producers and directors |
| a genre | Subject begins with: the genre e.g. film noir |
For information on the history and theory of film genres -- Subject begins with: film genres |
| a theme | Subject begins with: the theme e.g. women in motion pictures OR African Americans in motion pictures OR violence in motion pictures |
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| other topics of possible interest |
Subject begins with: film criticism technology in motion pictures motion pictures and literature dance in motion pictures, television, etc. |
NO LUCK? Try looking in Worldcat under these same subjects. Use Interlibrary Loan to request books outside of the Five Colleges. Allow 7-10 days for delivery.
For Films: You can use the Browse DVDs tool highlighted above -- or -- if you would rather use the Five College Library Catalog to search for DVDs, use Advanced Search and limit by format, as shown below.
