The largest, best-value collection of history video, streamed to your desktop

Try it for free now through November 15th!

Experience hundreds of hours, streamed to your desktop and powerfully cross-searchable—for a fraction of what it would cost to buy the videos individually.

Available to libraries via outright purchase or annual subscription. Subscriptions range from $775 to $2,495.


1,265 Titles

350 documentaries, 622 newsreels—and it's growing all the time!

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It's Easy...

A broadband connection and a standard web browser are all you need.

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In-depth Indexing

Use 14 fields to access by date, person, and much more. Speed through hours of video in seconds. Learn more

Searchable Transcripts

Every word in every video is keyword searchable. Enter a word and jump to the relevant section in the video.

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Teaching Tools

Make clips and playlists. Annotate and share them using permanent URLs.
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It's Easy and It's a Great Value...

Streaming is easy. No videos to check in and out, no shelves to stock, no lost or damaged DVDs to deal with. A broadband connection and a standard Web browser are all you need, and the collection works equally well on both PCs and Macs.

And it's easy on your budget. Bring thousands of videos into your library for a fraction of the cost of the DVDs. Subscriptions start at $995—about 75 cents per title, per year.

Your patrons will love being able to access these videos 24/7 without leaving their computers, and you will love saving time, space, and money.

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United News, Release 4, 1942

Newsreels and Archival Films

See history in the making. There are 622 newsreels today and more are being added all the time. The only online source for the entire series of both United News and Universal Newsreel, this collection lets you see events as they happened and as they were packaged and interpreted by commentators of the day.

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Award-Winning Documentaries

Included now in this collection are 350 high-quality documentaries from The History Channel® and other leading video producers. Over the next year, we will add the works of another 500 scholars.

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Searchable Transcripts

Keyword search every video and jump directly to the section you want to see.

Synchronized, scrolling transcripts run alongside the video while you watch. Navigate to a different part of the video, and the transcript follows. Navigate to a different part of the transcript, and the video advances accordingly.


In-Depth Indexing

Browse this collection by title, date discussed, historical era, historical events, people, profession, places, and general subjects.

Go directly from browse results to the relevant video footage.

Easily identify materials for research or teaching.


Teaching Tools

Use playlists that contain your custom-made clips to show in class or assign for at-home viewing.

It's easy to select just a short segment of video—and add notes that help students understand what they're seeing.

Your playlist can even include links to content anywhere on the Web.

Make clips and playlists private, so that only you can see them—or share them with anyone in your institution, or with all authorized users.

All your clips and playlists have permanent URLs, so it's easy to share them.


Classroom Viewing

Show clips or entire videos without worrying about permissions or copyright infrigement—or embed video for watching in your Web site or course management system. You're automatically covered by the terms of your library's subscription.