Streaming Video

A digital collection of vintage television commercials from the ad agency D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B). This database is hosted by the Duke University Libraries Digital Collections Program in partnership with the Hartman Center.

Television adaptations of all 37 Shakespeare plays, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985. These have become standard productions for educational purpose.

This 6 part streaming video series examines the origins of Christianity and delves into what it means to be a Christian. The series uncovers how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world. The series includes subjects from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. The series is a BBC co-production with the Open University and Jerusalem Productions.

Television News Archive is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news, recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968. The Archive's collection includes news coverage of significant events broadcast outside the scope of the regular evening news programs. This part of the collection focuses on the U.S. presidential politics, including political conventions, election coverage, and speeches and press conferences of the President currently in office. The Special Reports collection also includes coverage of major national and world events and major military conflicts involving the U.S. An icon of a video camera identifies entries that include streaming video. Streaming videos have a one week embargo before they are available to stream.