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  5. Find Films/Images

Anthropology: Find Films/Images

Start your research using the best resources recommended by the subject librarian for anthropology. Here you’ll find the key indexes to the academic literature, full-text databases, and documentary film collections.
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Film Resources

  • Dartmouth's films in the library catalog
  • Streaming Video databases
  • Film related journals & reviews
  • Additional tools

The most direct way to find films is a keyword search in our library catalog, restricting to the "Videos & DVDs" category.

Most films receive a subject heading indicating genre. There are a few documentary-related headings: “Documentary films”, “Documentary television programs”, and “Documentary-style films”.

So -- to search the catalog for documentary films on a particular topic, try a keyword search for:

documentary and [your search term], limited to the Videos & DVDs category.

Hint: broaden your search term using the wildcard (asterisk *) in order to find spelling variants
Example: documentary and global


  • Dartmouth Libraries Catalog - Advanced Search
  • Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Includes selected content from almost every Alexander Street Press individual video collection, and also many other videos not in those collections. The database covers the following subject areas and more: art, architecture, business, counseling and therapy, dance, economics, education, ethnic studies, ethnography, gay and lesbian studies, health, history, humanities, law and public safety, literature, opera, philosophy, political science, rehabilitation and sports medicine, feature films (including contemporary world cinema and silent films), psychology, religion, science, theatre, musical performance, and women's studies.
  • Digitalia Film Library This link opens in a new window
    • Video
    • On Campus or VPN
    • Database
    Digitalia Film Library (streaming video) is a multilingual collection of films & documentaries from Spain, France and other European countries, North American Classic films, and Latin American films from South America, Central America and Caribbean including Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and others.
  • Kanopy Streaming
    • On Campus or VPN
    Call Number: Streaming service
    Streaming service with extensive collection of dramatic, documentary, and educational/training films, including titles from ArtMattan Films, HBO, Frameline, BBC, National Film Board of Canada, First Run Features, PBS, New Day Films, and more...
  • American Anthropologist
  • Visual Anthropology
  • Visual Anthropology Review
  • Studies in Documentary Film
    • On Campus or VPN
  • Educational Media Reviews Onlines
  • Screen Studies Collection
    British and American Film Institutes' catalogs
  • Folkstreams
    Streaming video archive of documentary films about American folk cultures. Hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill.
  • Google Video's Advanced Search
  • Internet Archive - Moving Image Archive
    Sub-collections include "Cultural & Academic Films"
  • Internet movie database This link opens in a new window
    • Open Access Icon
    • Database
    The Internet movie database covers more than 100,000 movies and contains over a million and half filmography listings for actors, producers, directors and others associated with film making. It contains plot summaries, character names, movie ratings, years of release, movie trivia, quotes, goofs, soundtracks, production companies, distributors, special effects companies, languages, reviews, Academy Award information, plus loads of other information relating to the motion picture industry.
  • RAI: ethnographic film catalogue
    The Royal Anthropological Institute's Film Library & Archive. Includes brief descriptions of films (no streaming content)

Images

  • Finding Images for Research & Presentations
    Art Librarian Laura Graveline's guide suggests additional image resources
  • AP images This link opens in a new window
    Photo archive of the Associated Press
  • JSTOR Image Search This link opens in a new window
    Search the Artstor Image Library including Dartmouth Collections & content from museums, collections & archives around the world. View & analyze images through features such as zooming. Save both image files & citations.
  • Library of Congress Prints & Photo catalog
  • Library of Congress' Digital Collections
  • New York Public Library - Digital Image collections
  • Smithsonian Institution's Online Virtual Archives
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  • Last Updated: May 1, 2025 4:43 PM
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