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Provides easily accessible, meaningful video for all interests—with videos for students; seniors; children; parents; travelers; cooks; history buffs; animal lovers; DIYers; job seekers; entrepreneurs; science enthusiasts; dance, music, and theater lovers; artists; homeschoolers; much more. This resource is provided as a database trial. Sign in with username knoxvilleknox and password facts. Please give your feedback.
Stream and download thousands of movies, TV shows, music albums, and graphic novels with Hoopla. Hoopla works with most smartphones, tablets, and computers as well as Roku, Apple TV, Chromecast, and Fire TV. The library pays per use so patrons are limited to 5 checkouts each month. At the beginning of each month your limit will reset.
Watch over 16,000 films on Kanopy (apps available) including selections from Kino-Lorber, The Great Courses, PBS, and independent and world cinema. The library pays per checkout, so patrons are limited to 5 per month. This limit resets at the start of each month.
Music, spoken word, and natural and human-made sounds for streaming; jazz, classical, American song, world music, sound effects can be sent to your mobile device for 48 hours.
OverDrive (apps available) is a collection of downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, as well as streaming video. Find extensive online help on the OverDrive site.
Downloadable magazines about music and audio/video include Film Comment, Rolling Stone, JazzTimes, Gramophone, and Sound & Vision. There are also past issues of Billboard and Guitar Player.
Covers music, opera, dance, and musical theater. This is a subcollection of Oxford Reference.
Covers various aspects of performing arts including theater, drama, dance, opera, music. This is a subcollection of Oxford Reference.
Reviews movies that are available on DVD or tape. Each review includes title, alternate title, one-bone to four-bone rating, year released, MPAA rating, brief review, length, format, country of origin, cast, technical personnel, awards and made-for-television/cable/video designations. Category lists group films by plot elements, such as alien babes or yuppie nightmares (see also strained suburbia). The Kibbles and Series Index groups films by recurring characters, recurring collaborations, adaptations, and other factors.
Contains musician biographies, discographies, and song listings. It also provides listening recommendations and music reviews.
Includes basic classical repertoire, composer information, reviews, and recommendations for books and scores.
A guide to online sources for digital copies of music scores.
"Sharing the world’s public domain music."
The official source for Broadway theatre information, providing records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.
All of the music on Mutopia may be freely downloaded, printed, copied, distributed, modified, performed and recorded.
All existing Philharmonic printed programs, from the first concert in 1842 to the present, available online. Current printed programs are being added every concert week. Also find scores marked up by the composers, images, and other documents.
Items containing only Blu-Ray discs will have BLU-RAY in the call number, while combo packages offering also DVD will have DVD in the call number.
Search the library catalog by genre for movies.
