Library: Anthropology and Sociology at Webster University Library: Videos and Images

About videos

For DVDs, VHS, or other physical media, please search the Library Catalog.

For streaming videos, search Digital Content. The platform allows you to search for journals, magazines, newspapers, streaming videos, and ebooks available through the Library.

To find videos in a specific database, browse the video database list.

Search Digital Content Browse Video Databases

Streaming video databases

Academic Video Online (AVON)
Academic Video Online (AVON) includes scholarly video material on a wide variety of topics, and of virtually every video type: documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and demonstrations.
Films on Demand
Full-length videos on a wide variety of topics available for online viewing.
Kanopy (MEF Video Collection)
The digital Media Education Foundation videos through Kanopy encourage critical thinking about the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media with a special focus on representations of gender and race, and the effect these representations have on identity and culture.

Sources of images

OAIster - Open Archives Initiative
A catalog of text, audio, image, and movie digital resources from sources worldwide.
JSTOR (contains Artstor images)
JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. Note that our subscription is for the following collections: Arts & Sciences II and Arts & Sciences III.
Click the Images tab to search Artstor for thousands of images from the arts, architecture, photography, and other disciplines.

Wikimedia Commons
Online free media files with information about how to use an image and give proper credit to the author.