Audio recordings, CDs, DVDs and audio recordings are located in the Brotherton Library.

View AV resources at the Libraries

Three viewing stations (one region free DVD player and screen, one VHS player and screen and one Blu-ray player and screen) are available to use in the Brotherton Library.

Online audio-visual resources

BFI Player
BFI Player provides access to streamed versions of films and documentaries. You will need to create a BFI Player account using your university credentials and the following applies:

• content on BFI Player is not available to view outside the UK
• you can log on with up to 4 devices, this can be managed within your BFI Player account
• when you create your account you agree to the BFI terms of use.

Individual titles within the BFI Player subscription are also discoverable on Library Search.

Bloomsbury National Theatre Collection

National Theatre Collection 1 
Drawing on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts, alongside high-quality archive recordings never previously seen outside of the NT's Archive, the National Theatre Collection 1 offers 30 filmed performances. Audio-described versions and British Sign Language versions of some films are available.

National Theatre Collection 2 
This second National Theatre collection offers 20 more performances, ranging from Greek legend and Shakespeare to a wealth of contemporary plays including musical theatre. Audio-described versions of some films are available.

National Theatre Collection 3
This third National Theatre collection offers 20 performances, from Greek tragedy, a medieval morality play, and Shakespeare, to plays about Generation Z. Audio-described versions of some films are available.

Bridgeman Education
A complete visual resource offering over one million digital images of art, history and culture from global museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists, all copyright cleared for educational use. Due to technical limitations, Bridgeman Education is only available on campus, or through Desktop Anywhere.

Box of broadcasts
BoB is an off-air recording and media archive service. This TV scheduling service allows you to record TV and radio programmes that are scheduled to be broadcast over the next seven days. It will also retrieve programmes from the last seven days from a selected list of recorded channels. This content is only available in the United Kingdom.

To use this resource:

• select ‘sign in’ on the homepage 
• type ‘University of Leeds’ into the institution textbox
• on your first visit, register with your University credentials and verify your account via email.

Chinese Film and Newsreel Scripts from the Cultural Revolution
A collection of around 1,750 film advertisements and transcripts of Chinese documentary films and newsreels. It spans the years 1946 to 1985, although the bulk of the items in the collection are transcripts for the documentary films and newsreels from the Cultural Revolution, 1966–1976. All documents in the collection are in Chinese.

Dance Online: Dance in Video, Volume 1
Streamed dance videos from 1974 onwards featuring works and productions by many of the major players in western dance.

Henry Stewart Talks: biomedical and life sciences collection
Seminar style presentations by many of the world's leading authorities on biomedicine.

Henry Stewart Talks: business and management collection
Over 1,400 lectures, case studies and interviews.

JoVE (Journal of Visualised Education)
We currently have access to Video Journals for: Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Biology, Medicine and Neuroscience and Science Education.

Kanopy
Kanopy provides streamed versions of films and documentaries. All Kanopy titles licensed for our region are available to access and are discoverable with Library Search or by logging into Kanopy using your university credentials.

Naxos Music Library
Search for and listen to over 160,000 works of music, including classical music, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music. Full text notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists are available. This database is updated monthly. 

Socialism on Film

Sourced from the British Film Institute (BFI), Socialism on Film documents the communist world, from the Russian Revolution to the end of the Cold War. This unique collection of documentary films, features and newsreels reveals all aspects of life behind the Iron Curtain, as seen by filmmakers from the USSR, Vietnam, Cuba, China, East Germany, Eastern Europe and more.

Module I Wars and Revolutions
This module explores many of the conflicts, tensions and uprisings of the twentieth century from the unique perspective of socialist filmmakers around the globe.

Module III Culture and Society
Module III touches on themes including the arts, sport, work and youth and education, providing Western audiences with an unparalleled insight into life behind the Iron Curtain.

These propaganda films encompass a broad range of content, which focus on healthcare and tourism, women’s work, environmentalism and education. Module highlights include footage shot in the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, documentaries on the Space Race and films which aim to present Soviet power as a modernising force for women’s rights.

An AM Digital resource.