Ramsey Library at UNC Asheville: Native American Studies: Film, Audio, and Images

Artstor

ARTstor
Collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use. It includes architecture, painting, photography, prints, drawings, sculpture, decorative arts and design, as well as archeological and anthropological objects.

PBS Video Collection
Over 400 streaming videos from PBS
Films on Demand
Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.

We Shall Remain: America through Native Eyes
A five-part television series from PBS that represents a collaboration of Native and non-Native filmmakers and a variety of scholars. The series explores the history of Native American resistance to the extinction of their culture.
The Way West
A PBS series available online that follows the history of westward expansion in America from the Gold Rush (1848) through Wounded Knee (1893).
English Settlement: 1607-1691
This is part of a video series about American history that is geared towards college and high school students. Topics covered in this segment include the interactions between early English settlers and Native Americans. This video is available online, as well as others in the series that address additional pertinent topics such as westward expansion.
The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy
Documentary produced by the Cherokee Nation and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians which covers their forced removal to Indian Territory.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
This National Geographic special is based on the book by the same title. It explores the reasons why the conquistadors were able to defeat the natives of South America.
The Internet Archive's Moving Image Archive
This archive has thousands of moving images, including videos, digital movies and films. Most are available for download.

Oral Histories of the American South
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill's "Documenting the American South" digital collection features 500 oral history interviews available from this website. Locate those related to Native American Studies by entering "Native Americans" in the search box.
Omaha Indian Music
Available online from the Library of Congress, this collection consists of traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s, as well as some speeches, interviews, photographs, and field notes from select events.
Totemic flute chants
An audio cd of Native American flute music.
American roots music
This is the soundtrack to the documentary of the same name, and features four discs of traditional American music (including some Native American selections).

Naxos Music Library
Streaming access to almost 2 million tracks of Classical, Contemporary Jazz, World, Folk, Adult Contemporary, Chinese music, Pop and Rock music. Includes biographical information on composers and artists.

Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Library of Congress - Online Film and Video Collections
The Library of Congress makes a wide variety of films and videos available online, encompassing all eras of film history from the 1800s to modern day. Please check copyright information for individual resources.
Internet Archive - Culture and Academic Films
Folkstreams.net
American Film Institute Film Database
TED Talks
Lectures and presentations from experts in a variety of fields.
All Movie
Duke University Libraries Digital Collections
Distinctive digital collections that provide access to Duke's unique library and archival materials for teaching, learning, and research at Duke and worldwide.
North Carolina Digital Heritage Center
A statewide digitization and digital publishing program housed in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Documenting the American South Collections
Sixteen thematic collections of primary sources for the study of southern history, literature, and culture.
The Internet Archive: Audio
Contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users.
The Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive
Contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.

PBS Video Collection
Over 400 streaming videos from PBS
Films on Demand
Thousands of high quality videos on business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics, as well as travel and fitness programming, home and how-to videos, indie films, and popular music performances. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.

Library Catalog Video/DVD Search
WorldCat
Search for holdings beyond our library network. Request selected titles via Interlibrary Loan.

LinkedIn Learning
Residents of Buncombe County with a valid public library card may now access LinkedIn Learning (formerly Lynda.com) via the Buncombe County Public Library.