San Diego City College Library has over 400 DVD titles on-site in its Media Collection, plus a variety of online streaming video products that you can access from outside the Library. See the collections below!
Other libraries have videos also. As a California resident, you are eligible to be a member of two large public library systems (city and county)-- and it's free to join, so check them out!
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Please first check the SDCC Library collections below for the video title you are interested in to see if it is available. Be sure to check more than one collection: sometimes a title that appears in one collection as just a listing (especially those in Kanopy) will appear in another collection as the actual streaming video.
If you are still unable to find a video after checking SDCC Library collections, try the San Diego Public Library e-Library page under Movies & TV. You will need a public library card/account to use their service.
NOTE: Video purchases and subscriptions are restricted to faculty pending available funds, and it may take months from when we receive a request until a title is actually received and available for viewing. Faculty, please contact your subject area liaison for further information.
Notice to faculty and campus events coordinators: Because the collections below are intended for classroom instructional use, click the "More" link under each description to see requirements regarding captioning and public performance rights outside the classroom. See the Legal Stuff box for a discussion about Zoom live streaming.
(Alexander Street/PQ) Streaming video collection of 400+ titles, curated for academic audiences. Includes selections from prestigious film festivals plus many OSCAR®-nominated and OSCAR®-shortlisted documentaries. Click the red filter button to sort the catalog.
(Infobase Learning) Streaming video collection of over 36,000 full-length videos and 275,000 video clips on a variety of subject areas. Includes documentaries and collections from BBC, California Newsreel, History Channel, HBO, Frontline, Ken Burns, Modern Marvels and many, many more. Find these three videos by title in the search box: California State of Mind, Paywall, and The Pushouts.
(SDCC) Streaming video collection locally curated for SDCC students to show how to navigate the library and the research process. This page links to the SDCC Library Youtube channel.
(Kanopy) This is a curated Kanopy playlist of 16 streaming video documentary films requested by faculty. Follow the red buttons to Log Into SDCity with your school credentials. Then use the search box in Kanopy to find your video by title. (Only some of the videos are shown in the gallery). Titles available: bell hooks || The 400 Blows || The Codes of Gender || Delano Manongs || I Am Not Your Negro || The Illusionists || Jamaica and Tamarindo || A Man Called Bee || The Mask You Live In || No Small Matter || Precious Knowledge || Seven Samurai || Tough Guise 2 || VIncent Who? || Visiones: Latino Art & Culture ||White Like Me
(Alexander Street/PQ) Streaming video collection of 30 plays by the United Kingdom's National Theatre. Includes digitized archival materials such as photographs, scripts, costume designs, and more to provide behind-the-scenes background and contextual information.
(SDCCD) This extensive video library provided by SDCCD Online Learning Pathways provides "a vast collection of diverse topics ranging from Accessibility to Course Design, and Open Education Resources (OER). Dive into a world of distance education on demand and right at your fingertips, with something to learn and innovate your own teaching styles."
(Swank) Streaming video collection of 300 feature films from major Hollywood studios and other producers. NOTE: The following films have restricted access and may not show up in a search of this database. If not, faculty must send a request to citylib@sdccd.edu to get a link for student access: Hocus Pocus, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse, The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
San Diego City College Library has captioned DVDs in its Media Collection, located at the Library Circulation Desk. Use SDCCD Books+ to find media items in that collection. Students, please note that DVDs are for use in the Library only.
Performance Rights for Physical Media
When looking in the library catalog for a DVD, check the record for one of these two statements:
More information on showing films in the classroom on the American Library Association website.
As a California resident, you are eligible to be a member of San Diego Public Library, which has a streaming video in its e-Library Collection: see Kanopy in their collection of Movies & TV.
Faculty and campus events coordinators:
It is your responsibility to check for captioning and performance rights before using a video outside the classroom no matter if the video is from a San Diego City College Library collection or not. Certain vendors have specific public performance rights for use outside the classroom. The SDCC Library does not assume responsibility for interpretation of law regarding performance rights.
The librarians have noted the public performance rights for certain vendors/collections listed on this web page. Classroom rights differ.
Can I live stream a video over Zoom?
Best practice is to link to library resources instead. As with all copyright questions, the answer about live Zoom streaming depends on evaluation of four factors (Purpose, Nature, Amount, and Market). Librarians cannot give legal advice. Please refer to the SDCCD Copyright Guidelines page, and see the article below for a discussion of Fair Use and the four factors as specifically regards Zoom.
Sandra V. Pesce, PhD ~ Electronic Resources Librarian ~ spesce@sdccd.edu
