Films On Demand, an online video database, contains thousands of online educational videos that are professionally closed-captioned. They range from short clips to full-length documentaries.

The Films On Demand database is accessible through the UNG libraries website. 

Use the “Search Databases” tab to locate Films On Demand, click Find Databases, click “F” to find the Films On Demand link. UNG Single Sign-On login is required.

On Demand videos can be easily embedded into an eLearning@UNG (D2L) online class module. Search for On Demand videos using the film’s title or ID number.

Featured Video Topics for January

January is National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Freedom Project series (Item #187224)
• The Trap: The Deadly Sex-Trafficking Cycle in American Prisons (Item #168514)
• Maids: Docile and Invisible—A Story on Domestic Workers (Item #125151)
• Trafficked in America (Item #188600)
• An American Nightmare: Human Trafficking—Dan Rather Reports (Item #114509)
• Sex Trafficking in the USA (Item #93437)
• TEDTalks: Noy Thrupkaew—Human Trafficking Is All Around You. This Is How It Works. (Item #114621)
• Supermarket Slave Trade (Item #149994)
• Trafficker (Item #118399)

If you are in need of assistance and/or information and resources related to the issue of human trafficking, contact the National Human Trafficking Hotline to access their services: (888) 373-7888.

Birthday: Joan of Arc, January 6, 1412

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Joan of Arc: The Maid of Orleans (Item #30260)
• Joan of Arc (Prime Entertainment Group; Item #190234)
• Agents of God: Chivalry and Betrayal—The Hundred Years War (Item #55711)
• Visions of Prophecy, Voices of Power (Item #11057)
• Joan of Arc (Films Sans Frontieres; Item #57125)

Birthday: Zora Neale Hurston, January 7, 1891

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (Item #49796)
• Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy (Item #34681)
• Against the Odds: The Artists of the Harlem Renaissance (Item #44053)
• Tell about the South: Southern Literature, 1915–1940 (Item #43327)
• Southern Renaissance—American Passages: A Literary Survey (Item #113254)
• Prophets and Poets: Southern Literature, 1941–1962 (Item #43328)

Construction Begun on the Aswan High Dam Across the Nile River in Egypt, January 9, 1960

Consider these titles for your classes:

• Modern Marvels: Aswan Dam (Item #42783)
• The Nile (Item #188592)
• The Building of the Aswan Dam, 1964 (Item #46535)
• Testing the Limits of Possibility: Massive Dams and Waterworks (Item #33075)
• The Nile (Item #86558)
• The Nile River: Shared or Monopolized? (Item #40148)
• Egypt’s Modern Pharaohs: Nasser (Item #120519)
• Egypt to Oman: Episode 3—Tropic of Cancer (Item #125005)

Exclusive to Films On Demand

• The Vikings, from Paris to Normandy
• The Power of the Actor: The Chubbuck Technique
• Space Colonies (SERIES) 
• Psychometrics
• The Philosophy of Social Science
• Can You Fix a Brain Like Mine

Recently Added: The Ken Burns Collection

• The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (SERIES) 
• Ken Burns: Jackie Robinson (SERIES) 
• Ken Burns Presents: Cancer—The Emperor of All Maladies (SERIES) 
• Ken Burns: The Roosevelts, An Intimate History (SERIES) 
• Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl (SERIES) 
• Prohibition: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (SERIES) 
• The War: A Ken Burns Film (SERIES) 
• Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson—A Film Directed by Ken Burns (SERIES) 
• Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony—A Film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes (SERIES) 
• The National Parks: America’s Best Idea – A Film by Ken Burns (SERIES) 
• Mark Twain: A Film Directed by Ken Burns (SERIES)