Chinese Studies - Electronic Resources: Film and Streaming Video

English-language Film & Video

• Research Guides on Film and Television and Streaming Video (by Nancy E. Friedland, Librarian for Film Studies and Performing Arts)
• China on Film: Twenty Century Sources from British Film Institute (over 130 films of missionaries and footage of social and cultural life, covering Chinese minority peoples and rural and agricultural communities, in black and white and silent with intertitles)
• Socialism on Film: The Cold War and International Propaganda (a collection of documentary, newsreel and feature films from the British Film Institute, ranging from the early 20th century to the 1980s). 

Chinese-language Film & Video

• CathayPlay for Chinese Independent Films (about 1,000 films and updated regularly, including drama, documentary, experimental, animation, and ethnographic studies, covering titles by female directors and on LGBTQIA+, etc., in Mandarin, Cantonese, and other regional dialects)
• Digital Library Collections of Columbia University (covering a big number of films and audio/video recordings from our own special collections at Columbia, of which dozens of films are in public domain)
• World Cinema Video Collection (including a limited number of Chinese film titles of both Golden Age to Cultural Revolution, 1934-1966, and from 1966 to the 1990s).