With more than 800 feature films from the most renowned directors across the globe, this unique collection includes the best of the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, American and European masterpieces from the mid-20th century, award-winning contemporary films featured by Global Lens, and films from Africa and the African diaspora from ArtMattan Productions. The collection shines a light on the history of cinema while also providing a glimpse into the cultures and issues of countries around the world, making it useful beyond film studies departments by bringing value to programs in area studies, political science, history, world languages, and more.
Cinema from around the world – highlights include:
Easy to Use, Easy to Integrate!
A variety of integration options and LMS platform partners make utilizing World Cinema Collection in your classroom easy.
Convenient Segments
Thousands of predefined video clips make it easy to find specific pieces of content quickly. Users can also create their own unique custom segments, which can then be added to a playlist or embedded into a secure website or Learning Management System.
Searchable Transcripts
All of our streaming videos have captioning and searchable, interactive transcripts, ensuring that the widest audience possible has access to the full range of video content in the subscription. The ability to search not just within the interactive transcripts, but across the full transcripts of all the titles in your account, also provides extremely targeted, specific results.
Translations
World Cinema Collection features full language support through Google Translate. All descriptions, transcripts, and navigation can easily be translated into any of 100 world languages—from Afrikaans to Zulu, from Finnish to French—making our videos accessible to users no matter their desired language.
Content Customization Tools
It’s easy to personalize your World Cinema streaming subscription and make it your own. Share, save, and organize videos and custom playlists that you’ve created. Set up a user profile and update your preferences and defaults to your liking. Create your own unique custom segments and add them to a playlist. Tag favourite videos and segments for later use.
Dynamic Citations
Dynamic citations are available in MLA, Chicago, APA, and Harvard formats. Our full integration with EasyBib, NoodleTools, and RefWorks provides users with up-to-date citation creation as well as the ability to export citations directly to EasyBib, NoodleTools, or RefWorks. This allows users to create a bibliography under their EasyBib, NoodleTools, or RefWorks accounts and includes the videos from their World Cinema subscription along with other references being used for a project or paper.
Unlimited Access 24/7
The World Cinema Collection gives students and teachers instant access to outstanding world cinema title from any location with Internet access, anytime they choose. All videos are iPad, PC, Mac, Android, mobile, and interactive whiteboard friendly. World Cinema supports both IP and proxy authentication.
World Cinema Video Collection
With more than 800 feature films from the most renowned directors across the globe, this unique collection includes the best of the silent era, groundbreaking international directors, American and European masterpieces from the mid-20th century, award-winning contemporary films featured by Global Lens, and films from Africa and the African diaspora from ArtMattan Productions.
The collection shines a light on the history of cinema while also providing a glimpse into the cultures and issues of countries around the world, making it useful beyond film studies departments by bringing value to programs in area studies, political science, history, world languages, and more.
Some World Cinema titles contain mature themes or content; viewer discretion is advised.
Collection Highlights:
All foreign language films are accompanied by English subtitles. Using the Custom Segment tool, faculty and students may create customized segments of specific scenes from a film, which can be embedded, shared, and saved. Some World Cinema titles contain mature themes or content; viewer discretion is advised.
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Awards
Reviews
“We use Classroom Video On Demand…Good coverage, many favorable reviews from students and teachers.”
Stephanie Patterson, Teacher Librarian, Southington High School
“Our students and faculty have found Classroom Video On Demand a superb educational tool for research projects big and small. The moment I introduce it to new students, they are excited to see their topic come alive and with such ease!”
Marta Fuchs, Director of Library Services, Drew School
“Our teachers and students find it easy to use and an invaluable reference. We have had other streaming video sites, but none that are as easy to use and contain the quality [of] video…”
Lillian Serafine, Assistant Director, The Taft School Library
“…extremely easy to navigate…Recommended.”
Library Media Connection
“What’s great about Classroom Video on Demand is that such a large variety of topics on the online database. Kids can search anything from photosynthesis to chemical reactions to an American author to a health related topic. Guidance counselors can find a video clip that will help students dealing with depression, you name it…The quality of the videos overall is fantastic.”
Kathleen Moser, Mount Saint Joseph Academy
“…could easily fit into the instructional plan of higher level or AP high school programs…ease of use is a big plus…high-quality…”
School Library Journal
“…useful in the classroom to enhance any lesson…extremely easy to navigate. The videos are high interest for students…Recommended.”
Library Media Connection
“…perfect for high school kids.”
SLJ Teen
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