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Ethnographic Video Online provides the largest, most comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior – more than 750 hours and 1,000 films at completion. The collection covers every region of the world and features the work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century, including interviews, previously unreleased raw footage, field notes, study guides, and more.

Some of the key advantages our streaming video provides include • Searchable, synchronised transcripts which allow direct access into the exact second of video you would like to view.
• Ability to create clips and playlists, and embed these into your course management software and play in class.
• Ability to send links to watch video on your mobile device.

In our most recent content updates, we have included over 200 new titles, including works by important filmmakers like Jacqueline Veuve, Nina Hasin, John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Jayasinhji Jhala, Anne Zeller, and David Plath.
The films span from the 1973 up to the present day, and cover every corner of the world, from Cypres to Brazil, India to Mexico, Papua New Guinea to Bolivia, Cuba to the Sudan, Burma to Serbia.

The new additions include:
* Karl Heider's early film, Tikal (Guatemala).
* John Bishop's important film, Rhesus Play.
* Karen Kramer's film important film on Haiti, To Serve the Gods.
* Born into Struggle
* Cubanos: Life and Death of a Revolution
* Moon Children
* Makiko’s New World
* Imagining Indians
* The Last Rites of the Honourable Mr. Rai
* Dancing With Miklos
* Three Island Women
* Material from the Video in the Villages project (http://www.der.org/films/vitv-collection.html), including Agenda 31, Our Languages, and Video Cannibalism.
* Additional films from the John Marshall Catalogue: Vermont Kids, Inside Station Nine and Three Domestics
* More than a dozen new titles from the BBC catalog.
Also included are three of John Marshall’s films on the Pittsburgh Police force from the 1970’s, and Lindsey Merrison’s series on The Art of Documentary Filmmaking.

Many of these additions came from suggestions by faculty worldwide - we are always interested in any suggested material or areas of the globe you would most like us to source.

You can explore Ethnographic Video Online here:
http://anth.alexanderstreet.com

For further enquiries, please contact Mr. Mishack Modiba: modibamm@tut.ac.za