Online video and film

Video@McGill 

• CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture Series

  • Access recordings of the CIRMMT Distinguished Lecture series, as well as of Keynote talks and some Seminars

• Research Alive

  • Schulich School of Music's Research Alive series seeks to bring alive research in music theory, music history and musicology, performance and composition, music education, sound recording, and music technology
  • Access archived video recordings of past Research Alive presentations from 2015 to the present day

• Schulich School of Music - Concert Recordings

  VPN connection required off-campus.

  See also the Schulich School of Music YouTube channel for selected video recording performances.

Music videos 

• Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall

  NB: Users must create an account over an McGill IP address (on-campus or via VPN) when accessing this resource for the first time.

  • Live broadcasts of Berlin Philharmonic concerts and an extensive archive of concert videos from past decades
  • Includes portrait and documentary films, educational events, and interviews with members of the Berlin Phil, conductors, and soloists
  • Note: This database has a limited number of simultaneous users. If you have trouble accessing or receive an error message, please try again later.

• Medici.tv

  • Over 1,800 music programs including concerts, operas, documentaries, and ballets
  • Majority of films are accessible in HD quality

• Met Opera on Demand: Student Access

  • Video-streaming archive of the New York Metropolitan Opera
  • Provides access to more than 700 full-length opera performances
  • Note: This database has a limited number of simultaneous users. If you have trouble accessing or receive an error message, please try again later.

• Music Online: Classical Performance in Video (Alexander Street)

  • Access videos of over 2000 performances, including operas, dance titles, masterclasses, documentaries, and interviews
  • Includes titles from music publishers and performing houses such as C Major Entertainment, EuroArts, Opus Arte, Arthaus Musik, CLC Productions, and the BBC

• Music Online: Opera in Video (Alexander Street)

  • Video streaming resource
  • Provides access to more than 200 videos of canonical operas, in addition to interviews and documentaries

• Naxos Video Library

  • Streaming video library
  • Includes full-length classical music performances, opera, ballets, live concerts, and documentaries
  • Note: This database has a limited number of simultaneous users. If you have trouble accessing or receive an error message, please try again later.

• Qwest.tv

  • Dedicated to jazz, soul, funk, and world music
  • Catalogue features over 500 concerts, documentaries, and rare archival footage
  • Most videos are subtitled in English or French 

Film 

• Academic Video Online (Alexander Street)

  • Multidisciplinary video platform that includes a substantial component of Music & Performing Arts content (e.g. documentaries, performances, interviews, instructional material)
  • Filter videos by subject area, including anthropology, health, history, psychology, and more

• Can-Core

  • Streaming video library created for use in Canadian schools
  • Contains Canadian-produced content from a wide range of subject areas, including music
  • Resources relevant to First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Studies are available, with an option to limit the search to Indigenous content only

• Criterion on Demand

  • Online digital library of feature film titles licensed for Canadian viewing
  • Criterion-on-Demand represents many feature film producers and several independent producers
  • Title selection includes 1920 classics, new releases, foreign films, literary adaptations, documentaries, animated titles, and independent features
  • *Requires McGill VPN for off-campus access
  • NB: Not to be confused with the "Criterion Collection" of remastered films. To view "Criterion Collection" films, please consult the video streaming service Kanopy.

• Films on Demand

  • Streaming video of selected educational programs
  • Thousands of titles covering a wide range of topics, with content related to music appreciation and history, world music, dance, education, psychology, technology, health, and more
  • Videos have captioning and transcripts are searchable
  • Create and share playlists using premade clips, full videos, or custom segments

• Kanopy

  • On-demand streaming video service for educational institutions that specializes in independent, arthouse, classic cinema, and documentaries across diverse subjects and disciplines
  • Collections include titles from the Criterion Collection/Janus Films, A&E, History channel, PBS, and many others
  • Can be streamed on various mobile devices

• National Film Board

  • Collection includes animation, documentaries, experimental films and alternative dramas
  • Showcases films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians - stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more
  • Films can be streamed free of charge or downloaded for personal use for a small fee

• McGill users only
• Open access resource
• Free resource
• In-library use
• Catalogue record