Library Guides: Dissertations: Film, TV and music

Film, TV and music

The Library provide access to a range of audio-visual and musical resources. These resources can be useful to discover film, documentary, podcast and radio programmes to support your dissertation.

Film, TV and radio sources

Box of Broadcasts (BoB)
Media archive service for education, providing access to over 75 free-to-air channels and an archive of over 2 million broadcasts.
Britain on Film
Collection of films from the British Film Institute (BFI) archives which are available to view online via the BFI Player.
European Film Gateway
Film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.
Kanopy
Film streaming service for universities, giving you access to thousands of films including Hollywood classics, documentaries, anime and world cinema.
Prelinger Archives
An online archive of "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films.
International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)
Index of scholarly articles, and details of unique archival holdings, on film and television studies.

Music and sound sources

Irish Traditional Music Archive
Recordings of Irish Traditional Music.

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