Streaming Audio and Visual Resources

An on-demand video streaming service for libraries and other educational institutions, specializing in feature-length films and documentaries.
For faculty who would like to assign a film for their class: Not every film listed on the Kanopy web site is available in every region; for those films in Kanopy that are available in our region and that you would like to show or assign to a class, please email Kevin Engel (engelk@grinnell.edu) or fill out the request form within Kanopy. After a film is ordered, It generally takes 1-4 hours for a film to be licensed during the business day Monday to Friday. Films requested and ordered over the weekend usually become available the next Monday.

Streaming video for thousands of full-length videos and video clips in subject areas including anthropology, art & architecture, communications, education, English & language arts, history, music, philosophy & religion, political science, psychology, sociology, and world languages.

Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

Feature films from many countries whose copyright protection is believed to have expired. Available for streaming or download.