Film, TV, and radio
An extensive collection of films, documentaries, recorded theatre, and TV programmes, which can be watched online or borrowed free of charge.
TV and radio, on-demand
The Box of Broadcasts (BoB) service allows you to request recordings of upcoming TV and radio programmes and watch archived broadcasts online.
Please note that due to copyright restrictions, you need to be physically located in the UK to use BoB. You will also need to register when accessing for the first time.
- Status of BoB service - Information on the current status of the BoB service and scheduled maintenance.
- Linking to BoB programmes - You can link to BoB programmes from Microsoft Office or Blackboard.
DVD and Blu-ray recordings
Search for movies, documentaries, and training videos - on DVD and Blu-ray.
If you want to browse, movies, documentaries, and TV programmes are usually shelved in the 791 section. Study rooms are generally suitable for group viewings.
Archives and other resources
- Screen Search - Archive of films arranged by theme, e.g. family life, commemoration, rural life, seaside, etc.
Databases
- Bloomsbury Video Library - Formerly known as Artfilms Digital. Bloomsbury Video Library boasts global content from over 200 partners, including independent filmmakers and award-winning production companies. The collection is designed to provide students, teachers, and researchers with access to a rich range of thematic video collections across the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
- Kanopy - Kanopy is a streaming service for educational institutions that provides access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection.
- World Cinema Collection - The World Cinema Collection is an exciting collection of films from award winning directors. Coverage includes films from the silent era through the twentieth century, to contemporary films from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. Content is relevant to film studies students and to students studying, for example, multicultural studies, politics, history, literature and languages.
Bloomsbury Video Library
- Bloomsbury Video Library is home to a rich, growing range of streaming collections for students, teachers and researchers across the arts, humanities and social sciences.
- Featuring content from filmed performances and fiction films to documentaries and instructional videos.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Kanopy
- Access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection.
- NOT included in the main library search.
News on Screen
- Database of 180,000 cinemagazine and newsreel stories linked to production documents and films.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Screenonline
- Online resource of British film and television, featuring hundreds of hours of film and television clips from the vast collections of the BFI National Archive.
- NOT included in the main library search.
Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio
- Shakespeare-related content in film, television, radio and video recordings dating from 1890 to the present day.
- NOT included in the main library search.
This Week programmes from 1956-1992
- Programme information about This Week, the first ITV current affairs series, which ran from January 1956 to December 1992.
- Includes information about the documentation which supports each programme.
- NOT included in the main library search.
TRILT (Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching)
- Descriptions of UK television and radio programmes, including terrestrial, cable, and satellite television; all national and many local radio stations.
- NOT included in the main library search.
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Audio recordings and sound
Audio recordings available from the library, including CDs, spoken word, sound effects, radio on-demand, and more.