Arts &amp; Performing Arts

Criterion Collection

Offers streaming access to more than 400 cinematic classics selected from the Criterion Films catalog.

Qwest TV EDU

A subscription video streaming channel dedicated to jazz, soul, funk, and world music. Features concerts, award-winning documentaries, rare archival footage, and exclusive content with playlists curated by legends such as Chick Corea, Michael League, Quincy Jones, and more.

Naxos Music Library

The most comprehensive classical music streaming platform. Over 200,000 discs and 3 million tracks of classical repertoire, film and TV soundtracks, pop, jazz, and world music.

Naxos Music Library: Jazz

A collection of recorded jazz with over 18,000 historic and recent albums by artists from around the world.

BroadwayHD

Offers filmed performances of selected Broadway plays from the 1960s to the 2010s.

Met Opera on Demand

A collection of live performances, some in video and some audio only, selected from the New York Metropolitan Opera's broadcast archives.

Music Online: Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries

An audible encyclopedia of the world's music and related aural traditions, as documented by recordings from the Smithsonian Folkways catalogue and other sources.

Naxos Music Library World

A comprehensive collection of world music comprising the catalogs of Smithsonian Folkways and a variety of other labels.

Digital Theatre Plus

Offers full-length filmed stage performances of classic and modern plays, along with interviews and workshops with playwrights, directors, designers, actors, musicians, and others involved in the playmaking process.

Medici.tv

A video streaming channel for classical music, including operas, ballets, orchestral and chamber performances, and master classes, featuring an international roster of distinguished artists.

Naxos Video Library

Offers more than 3,400 filmed performances of classical music, opera, ballet, as well as documentaries and master classes.

DRAM (Database of Recorded American Music)

A recorded music collection with a particular focus on the American experimental tradition, with recordings from the catalogs of New World Records, Composers Recordings Inc, Deep Listening, Experimental Intermedia, Lovely Music, Mode, Wandelweiser, and other independent record labels.

Music Online: Performance in Video

Over 3,000 filmed classical, jazz, and world music performances including Carnegie Hall concerts from the 1930s.

Roulette

A digital repository of live audio and video recordings, concert listings, posters, photos, press, and ephemera documenting Roulette's history as a center of avant-garde music and intermedia performance on New York's downtown scene since 1978.

Ethnographic Sound Archives Online

Brings together over 2,000 hours of previously unpublished historic field recordings from around the world, along with supporting field notes and ethnographers' metadata.

Dance Online: Dance in Video

Features filmed productions and documentaries of the choreographic arts, in genres including ballet, modern, tap, jazz, traditional, experimental, and improvisational dance.

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) Educational Streaming

Provides access to full-length streaming videos for selected artists from EAI's full collection. EAI is a nonprofit arts organization whose core program is the distribution and preservation of historical video works by artists, spanning from the mid-1960s to the present.

Video Data Bank

Contains collections of video art and experimental moving image work by contemporary artists. An educational streaming service for one of the largest distributors of video art in the US.

Black Drama, 3rd Edition

Full-text plays by Black playwrights from the 1850s to today

AES E-Library

Audio Engineering Society archive — 30,000+ papers on recording, acoustics & audio tech

Contemporary World Drama

Full-text contemporary plays from around the world