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TV News & Newsreels (Streaming Video)
United States (Major Collections)
Academic Video Online: Premium
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AVON includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage in all academic areas. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy, and Peabody winners.
Search US public TV and radio programs from 1940s-2018. Includes TV and radio programs from 100+ public broadcasting stations across the county. (68,000 items are available to watch/listen.)
American History in Video
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Includes contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s as well as early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel.
Searches closed captions from US TV News shows. 2009 - present. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired.
Vanderbilt TV News Archive
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Search TV news from 1968-present. Lets you search news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox networks. (Anyone can search this database; Swarthmore affiliates can also watch video from NBC and CNN.)
University of Virginia's website contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia--WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke. Contains over 230 films.
Search this collection of 6000+ films showing images of life in the British colonies as represented by British government's Colonial Film Unit. Includes Indian News Parade (1943-1946) and other newsreels.
Watch news from Democracy Now, Mosaic (Middle Eastern newscasts), and other collections offering a range of perspectives.
AVON (Academic Video Online)
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Streaming video collection, includes some French, Dutch, and Japanese WWII-era newsreels (no English translation provided).
Transcripts & Summaries (TV, Radio)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
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FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world . The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.
FBIS daily reports, 1941-1974; FBIS daily reports, 1974-1996; FBIS daily report annexes, 1974-1996.
For 1996-2013, use the World News Connection database instead.
Nexis Uni
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Formerly LexisNexis, find newspaper and magazine articles, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials, including Supreme Court cases. Includes the New York Times from 1980-present.
Access World News
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Search radio and TV news transcripts. Includes mostly 2000s-present. (Tip: Limit your results by Type. Good options include Audio and Transcript.)
World News Connection
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Contains hundreds of international news for the period 1995-2013. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.