Introducing The Docuseek Complete Collection
Docuseek streams essential independent, social-issue and environmental films to colleges, universities and K-12 schools, providing exclusive access to content from renowned leaders in documentary film distribution, including Icarus Films, Women Make Movies, and Kartemquin Films. We have access to the Docuseek Complete Collection that consists of over 2,700 films, including The Five Demands.
THE FIVE DEMANDS tells the story of a student strike that changed the face of higher education forever. In April 1969, a small group of Black and Puerto Rican students shut down the City College of New York, an elite public university located in the heart of Harlem. Through archival footage and modern-day interviews, we follow the students’ struggle against the institutional racism that, for over a century, had shut out people of color from this and other public universities.
Also check out Docuseek’s spring 2024 virtual panel with distinguished faculty from The City College of New York (CCNY), Brown University, and the University of Massachusetts Boston discussing issues related to equity, access, discrimination and race in higher education using The Five Demands.
Revisiting Electronic Arts Intermix Educational Streaming Videos
Last semester we resubscribed to Electronic Arts Intermix Educational Streaming Videos. The EAI collection holds treasures of the emergent video art movement; many of the works are extremely rare.
The artists represented range from influential figures in video art — such as Nam June Paik, Carolee Schneeman, Martha Rosler and Joan Jonas — to emerging multidisciplinary artists, including Paper Rad, Cory Arcangel and Takeshi Murata. The collection speaks to the rich history of single-channel video art, from artists’ earliest analog video experiments of the 1960s to new digital media practices.
The list of artists with streaming videos can be found here, and the whole EAI collection is described in the broader artists catalog which includes items that are not available remotely. Unfortunately, these films are not searchable (yet) in OneSearch, but you can use the links shared here to find films (and of course this resource is also included on our A-Z list of databases and on a few of our research guides).
More about film research and our available collections can be found on our Film Studies guide.
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