Ethnographic Video Online provides a comprehensive resource for the study of human culture and behavior, and will contain 1,000 streaming videos at completion (this release includes 687 videos).  The collection includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures, and is particularly rich in its coverage of the developing world.  The work of many of the most influential documentary filmmakers of the 20th century is featured, as are hundreds of the most frequently assigned films in anthropology and other social science courses (browse titles).

The collection will also include a wide range of indigenous media, from early experiments to works from modern-day indigenous film production companies.  Thematic areas include: language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, male and female roles, kinship and families, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.

Features Include:

• Easy streaming and viewing from your computer or mobile device
• Synchronized, searchable transcripts
• Many films are accompanied by Study Guides created by the anthropologists and field workers involved on the original films
• Video clip-making tools
• Annotated playlists—you can make, annotate, and share playlists for course or individual use (Sample playlist with Study Guides).
• The ability to create synchronized annotations and multi-media presentations
• An embeddable video player and playlist for use on a class Web site or an electronic syllabus

See Help for more information on these features.