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Sociology: Films/Images

Begin your research with the best resources recommended by the subject librarian for sociology. Here you will find the specialized databases, indexes, and reference works for the scholarly literature in sociology.

Film Resources

The most direct way to find films is a keyword search in our library catalog, restricting to the Video/Film format type.

Many - but not all - of our film catalog records 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 Video/Film format type.

Hint: broaden your search term using the wildcard (asterisk *) in order to find spelling variants
Example: documentary and global* [finds "global", "globalization", etc.]

 

Search WorldCat for items in libraries near you:
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WorldCat - a collective catalog for a huge library network - is a great tool for identifying films & their distributors.  We're often able to borrow films from partner libraries.  Submit a request via interlibrary loan.

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