MSU Libraries has a number of DVDs (and some earlier formats) about and/or from Africa. Films and television programs can be found by searching the catalog and specifying the Digital and Multimedia Center as the "Location" and/or "Video/Visual" as the material type. Lists of Nollywood and Bongo films will be coming soon on our Many Books (Movies), Many Languages series! Stay tuned!
MSU Libraries has a number of new streaming video options, many of which have growing collections of African related and originated content. To find out more information on streaming video, see the LibGuide.
Cross-searchable portal for streaming video collections from Alexander Street Press.
Alexander Street Anthropology brings together a wide range of streaming video, written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies, covering human behavior the world over. Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography, the database will contain more than 1,800 documentary films and over 100,000 pages of full-text material at completion, including tens of thousands of pages of previously unpublished material from major archives.
Watch over 30,000 Documentaries, Classic and Indie Films.
Use "Student" login link if not registered with a Swank instructor account.
Swank licenses and distributes feature film content to non-theatrical markets including U.S. colleges and universities. 1,000 contemporary and classic movies are available to MSU-affiliated viewers for non-commercial educational and personal streaming video access. Sub-title captioning is available on most films. Titles can be searched, and films are grouped in 17 categories for browsing.