This streaming video database includes documentaries, lectures, training, demonstrations, feature films, tutorials, performances, TV programs, and news from publishers such as BBC, Sony Picture Classics, and Royal Shakespeare Company.
Videos are all accessible, so there is no need for the library to take purchase requests from you. Your students can access them immediately with the link you provide.
Here are some of the documentaries featured in AVON:
AVON also offers select feature films from Sony Picture Classics. Here are a few examples:
AVON features a rich collection of Ken Burns documentaries exploring American history and culture, including The U.S. and the Holocaust, Baseball, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, The Central Park Five, The War, Hemingway, Mark Twain, America, and Jazz.
Explore three of his landmark series below, or browse his broader collection of works.
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