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Artfilm.ch
Swiss VOD platform reserved for BCUL users. Discover Swiss feature films, documentaries and shorts on streaming! Simply log in with your Renouvaud reader’s card number and password.

Kanopy
American VOD platform. Thousands of fiction and documentary films available for streaming. This product is under site license and requires activation of Pulse Secure (VPN).

Click on BROWSE to select your areas of interest, for example “Film Studies”.
You are responsible for triggering purchases; after 4 viewings of more than 30 seconds, the library automatically acquires the title for a period of one to 3 years. It is possible to create clips in playlists that can be consulted from the platform (no downloads). You need to create an account to save them.

  • European Film Gateway – Hundreds of thousands of videos (features and shorts), posters, photos and specialized documents from 40 European film libraries and archives.
  • EUSCREEN – Portal dedicated to Europe’s television heritage. Videos, photographs and texts from 18 European audiovisual archives
  • INA – The Institut national de l’audiovisuel provides access to thousands of archived programs, spanning more than half a century of television. Free streaming for some. Downloads are not free.
  • Climage – Free access to some of the Lausanne collective’s films
  • La Cinémathèque française – Discover film lessons, lectures, round tables, dialogues and other events at the Cinémathèque française
  • Notre Histoire – Interactive platform presenting a panorama of French-speaking Switzerland in images and sound
  • Plans-Fixes – A living memory of our times, all the filmed portraits of personalities from French-speaking Switzerland shot since 1977.
  • RTS film archives
  • British Film Institute – English-language films made between 1895 and 1901
  • Open Culture – Access to 700 free streaming films: classics, indies, film noirs, westerns, etc.
  • Library of Congress – Free movies and videos
  • Pathé Baby Collection – Films shot with the Pathé-Baby, an amateur cinema system created in 1922 by Charles Pathé.
  • Internet Archive – Streaming access to thousands of digitized films and videos covering all genres and periods (from the worst to the best!).
  • UbuWeb: Film & Video – Site dedicated to the different currents of the avant-garde. Many experimental films in streaming
  • Russian films – Dozens of great Soviet films, some in OV with English subtitles
  • Animation World Network – Access by content type, genre, technical style

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