Databases
Databases
NFB.ca - National Film Board's online Screening Room
Publication coverage: 1920s to present
This collection of over 1,100 streamed videos from the NFB is freely available for personal use. In addition, Queen's Library has purchased public performance rights for educational use and display at Queen's.Publication coverage: Early 20th century -1980s
Socialism on Film is a collection of digitized films originally produced in communist countries during the 20th century..Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text
Publication coverage: From mid 20th century (with selective earlier coverage) -
A bibliographical database that indexes over 560 journals with more than 160 full-text journals, and 160 full-text books.American Film Scripts Online (AFSO)
Publication coverage: 1903 - excluding latest 3-4 years (ongoing)
Collection of approximately 1,000 film scripts with detailed information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts.Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive
Publication coverage: 1880 - 2015
Full text of entertainment industry trade magazines from the U.S. and Britain, covering film, music, broadcasting, and theatre plus film fan magazines and music press titles.
Audio Cine Films collection offers access to hundreds of titles from the world's most renowned film studios.
An online digital library of feature film titles licensed for Canadian viewing.
An award-winning collection that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the Black experience. The database contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Contains various visual and documentary primary sources, such as official and personal photographs, manuscripts, rare printed material, artwork, objects and film, Secondary sources include interactive maps, scholarly essays, and an illustrated chronology.
This award-winning digital library has been created as a response to the need for a high-quality online research tool for drama and literature students, professors, and teachers. It is the only resource to combine exclusively available playtext content and scholarly publications with filmed live performances, film adaptations, and audio plays.
Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) History
The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History provides a global view of the history of LGBTQ, covering significant figures and events worldwide.Publication coverage: 1779-1930
Victorian Popular Culture is a collection of digitized primary sources depicting popular entertainment in Britain, the United States, and Europe in the 19th century and early 20th centuries.
This encyclopedia offers a foundational space for understanding the cultural life, and imaginative force and power, of crime and punishment.
A selection of media studies dictionaries, companions and other reference works published by Oxford University Press.
The Globe on Screen is a collection of streaming videos of critically acclaimed theatre productions from Shakespeare's Globe in London, England.