LibGuides: English: Broadcasts and filmed productions

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Filmed productions and broadcasts

Overview

Via these resources you have access to millions of freeview TV and radio programmes, newsreels and screened performances of threatrical works.

BBC Drama Films and Documentaries This link opens in a new window
Film adaptations of classic and contemporary plays.
Film adaptations of classic and contemporary plays.
BFI Player This link opens in a new window
Thousands of independent films from the UK and around the world.

You need to register with your UoB email address via the student URL: https://player.bfi.org.uk/students. Once you have submitted the form, select ‘University of Bristol’ from the Institution dropdown list and login with your UoB credentials when prompted. You can then simply login until with your individual email/password combination via the main BFI link above until 30/09/2024. You'll need to resubscribe each year by following the student link and selecting 'Already have an account? Sign in'. We recommend ticking the student newsletter box.

Please note:
• BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK
• Rentals and festival events are not included in the subscription offer
You need to register with your UoB email address via the student URL: https://player.bfi.org.uk/students. Once you have submitted the form, select ‘University of Bristol’ from the Institution dropdown list and login with your UoB credentials when prompted. You can then simply login until with your individual email/password combination via the main BFI link above until 30/09/2024. You'll need to resubscribe each year by following the student link and selecting 'Already have an account? Sign in'. We recommend ticking the student newsletter box.

Please note:
• BFI Player is unavailable outside the UK
• Rentals and festival events are not included in the subscription offer
Box of Broadcasts (BoB) This link opens in a new window
Allows the recording of programmes from over 75 free-to-air channels; and the searching of an archive of over 2.2 million broadcasts.

Please note: BoB can only be accessed in the UK. It is each user’s responsibility to ensure that the materials made available are used strictly within the terms and conditions of the licence.
Enables staff and students to record and watch freeview broadcasts, create clips from new and archived TV and radio broadcasts, and embed them into Blackboard/ presentations. Please note: it can only be accessed in the UK. It is each user’s responsibility to ensure that the materials made available are used strictly within the terms and conditions of the licence.
Digital Theatre + This link opens in a new window
600 filmed stage productions and hundreds of interviews with actors, performers, composers, writers and directors.
Digital Theatre+ provides powerful ways to connect English and Drama students with dramatic texts, poetry and performance. 600 filmed productions and hundreds of interviews with actors, performers and directors.
Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy on Screen, The (Drama Online) This link opens in a new window
Groundbreaking productions of three plays by William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest, all set in a women's prison.
Groundbreaking productions of three plays by William Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Henry IV and The Tempest, all set in a women's prison.
Ethnographic Video Online, Volumes 1 & 2, second edition This link opens in a new window
Film resources relating to the cultures and customs of peoples from around the world.
Alexander Street is a comprehensive resource for visual anthropology in the world, providing access to over 2,000 hours of film and always growing, from raw field footage to crafted ethnographies and documentaries.
Ethnographic Video Online: Volume 3, Indigenous Voices This link opens in a new window
Documentaries and films made for and by indigenous communities and peoples.
The role of the traditional ethnographer is changing as the perspectives and epistemologies of indigenous peoples have taken on central significance in the discipline, challenging earlier representations and implicit “us versus them” constructs. In order to create a platform for indigenous voices to address issues from indigenous perspectives, the third volume of the ethnographic film series is dedicated to indigenous filmmakers.
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume 4 This link opens in a new window
Award-winning titles from contemporary ethnographic film festivals.
Volume 4 provides a space for visual anthropologists of today to showcase and disseminate their most compelling work. The focus is on curating award-winning titles from contemporary ethnographic film festivals.
Globe on Screen This link opens in a new window
Filmed plays at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Includes the first and second collections comprising 30 films. Mainly works by Shakespeare.
Filmed plays at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
News on Screen This link opens in a new window
News coverage from 1910 to 1983 from the newsreels of organisations such as Pathe News, Gaumont British News and British Movietone News, plus access to films from Roundabout, the COI cinemagazine that promoted Britain to Asia from 1962-1974.
News coverage from 1910 to 1983 from the newsreels of organisations such as Pathe News, Gaumont British News and British Movietone News, plus access to films from Roundabout, the COI cinemagazine that promoted Britain to Asia from 1962-1974.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Films, documentaries, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos from around the world.
Movies, documentaries, foreign films, classic cinema, independent films and educational videos.
National Theatre Collection (Drama Online) This link opens in a new window
30 filmed performances from the National Threatre, including productions of works from antiquity such as Medea, plays by William Shakespeare, adaptations of literary works, and dramas from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings never previously seen outside of the NT’s Archive, the National Theatre Collection contains 30 filmed performances.
RSC Live Collection (Drama Online) This link opens in a new window
Filmed productions of plays performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The RSC Live Collection offers students worldwide their own seat in the renowned Royal Shakespeare Company theatre. It was launched on Drama Online with 17 films of live productions performed between 2013 and 2017. These included the cutting-edge 2016-17 production of The Tempest starring Simon Russell Beale.
A further 9 films of productions performed in 2018 and 2019 have now been added to the collection, including Twelfth Night starring comedy icon Adrian Edmondson.

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