LibGuides: 21W.022: Reading and Writing Autobiography Section 1: Find Books & Films

Google BookSearch
Searches the full text of books scanned from publisher and library partners. Full text is mostly only available for older books (pre-1922), but TOCs are usually available for all books.

HOLLIS
Harvard's online catalog. MIT students are eligible for borrowing privileges at Harvard College Libraries.

Streaming films

Academic Video Online (AVON)

Streaming video service with documentary, instructional, and feature films from producers such as BBC, Documentary Educational Resources (DER), Icarus, PBS, and Sony Pictures Classics.

DIS (Art Collective)

DIS is a streaming platform for entertainment and education, enlisting leading artists and thinkers to expand the reach of rising key conversations through contemporary art, culture, activism, philosophy, and technology. Every video proposes something -- a solution, a question -- a way to think about our shifting reality. Video pieces are streamed for a limited run of 30 days

Kanopy

Streaming video service with documentary and feature films from producers such as Criterion, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, Media Education, California Newsreel, PBS and others.

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