Streaming in Class: Best Practices
Emory subscribes to or purchases many streaming films and documentaries. You can find most titles in Library Search or browse our academic streaming sites.
Contact Kristan for a permalink if it is not available.
Subject Guide
Kristan Majors
Contact:
Woodruff Library
phone: 404-727-8932
email: kmajors@emory.edu
I assist students and faculty with research and class projects. Feel free to contact me for an appointment.
Website
phone: 404-727-8932
email: kmajors@emory.edu
I assist students and faculty with research and class projects. Feel free to contact me for an appointment.
New Documentaries from Emory Libraries
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Red Fever"Why have Indigenous cultures been revered, romanticized, and appropriated for so long? The film highlights the tragic ironies of this and uncovers the fascinating truths and history. Red Fever concludes by considering land stewardship and the Native traditions that offer a path forward towards living responsibility on the planet."
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War of the Woods"Follows a new generation’s campaign to protect Vancouver Island's old growth forests against logging. Exploring new land use visions and models of Indigenous-led conservation, including phasing out old growth logging altogether, but communities struggle to balance environmental stewardship with meeting their economic needs."
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To Use a Mountain"Locals discuss their feelings on the 6 candidate sites selected in the 1980s for a nuclear waste repository by the U.S. Department of Energy, including Yucca Mountain (Nevada), Utah, Texas, Washington, Mississppi and Louisiana. Includes archives, interviews, and government records."
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Demon MineralExplores the historic and current public health and environmental impacts of uranium mining on Navajo lands for decades. "Demon Mineral is a damning indictment of the U.S. government's negligence and violence toward Indigenous communities and serves as a strong companion piece to last year's Oppenheimer."
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Requiem for a RiverDocuments a stretch of the Rio Grande in New Mexico's desert where farmers, indigenous communities, and others discuss water rights, culture, history, and justice. A succinct and well-balanced documentary.
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Farming While Black"The film examines the history of Black farmers in the United States and the rising generation. The film chronicles Leah Penniman and two other Black farmers' efforts to reclaim their agricultural heritage in New York, Maryland and the Bronx. Collectively, their work has a major impact, as each is a leader in sustainable agriculture and food justice movements." An award winning film.
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Native Seeds"Native Seeds: Supplying Restoration explores the native seed supply chain. Includes footage of seed collectors, farmers, researchers, and land managers working to scale up the supply of native seeds to meet the growing ecosystem restoration demand."
Tips for Faculty & Students
Documentaries & films are available in 2 formats:
1. If in DVD they can be requested from the Woodruff Library Service Desk on the main floor (2nd floor). You should request in advance so no waiting required. To request, Login to Library Search and Request the title. To ask for us to purchase a DVD, you can complete this online form or email Kristan.
2. If streaming, most are included in our Library Search. You can explore our many streaming options. For the library to purchase a streaming documentary, complete this online form or email Kristan.
Faculty/Instructors
- Faculty borrowing of visual media include extra time for previewing films.
- You can check-out a DVD player for your classroom from the Library Service Desk too.
- Faculty can arrange for a student assistant or staff person to check out films for them. Complete this proxy form to assign permissions.
- You and your class can view a DVD or VHS in the Music Library's Group Viewing Room 423. It seats 20. You can book this room. Advise the students to take the front stairs or front elevators to the Music Library on the 4th floor.
Students
- Student borrowing policies vary; some DVD's can be viewed out of the library whereas other films must remain in the library.
- DVDs can be viewed on the 4th floor Music & Media Library. Bring your own headphones. Or, you can check-out a drive/player for your laptop or headphones for use in the Music & Media Library.