Subject guides: Indigenous Cultures & Histories: Multimedia, Documentaries & Streaming Video

Multimedia, documentaries and streaming video

Wunungu Awara: Animating Indigenous Knowledges (formerly Monash Country Lines Archive)
Wunungu Awara: Animating Indigenous Knowledges (formerly the Monash Country Lines Archive Project) uses world-class 3D animation to assist in the sharing and preservation of knowledge and stories. Every animation is made in partnership with the Indigenous community who own the narrative and knowledge that is to be animated.
Kanopy: Indigenous Studies
We offer one of the most unique and compelling collections of film on the planet, from documentaries, indie and foreign films, must-see classics and blockbuster movies.
Moving Image Archive: Aboriginal
Search through the Moving Image Archive to find specific or subject-based film titles.
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Ethnographic Collection
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is the world's premier institute for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, past and present.

Informit Edu TV This link opens in a new window
For teaching use only. Informit EduTV is an online TV streaming resource for Australian tertiary institutions. Content includes documentaries, drama and series from free to air TV channels and selected pay TV channels, complemented with study guides, and videos are accessible via computer, tablet or smartphone. There is an archive of programs from 2006, with up to 80 new programs added weekly. Pay TV documentaries are included from The History Channel, National Geographic, NITV, BBC Knowledge and Discovery and more.
Ethnographic video online This link opens in a new window
This database is is intended to be a visual encyclopedia of human behavior and culture, online in streaming video. It contains classic and contemporary documentaries; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films. It includes footage from every continent and hundreds of unique cultures. 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, etc.

Early experiences in Australasia : primary sources and personal narratives, 1788-1901. This link opens in a new window
Database provides a unique and personal view of events in the region from the arrival of the first settlers through to Australian Federation at the close of the nineteenth century. Documents include first-person accounts, letters and diaries, narratives, and other primary source materials.
Empire online (Adam Matthew Digital) This link opens in a new window
This resource brings together manuscript, printed and visual primary source materials for the study of 'Empire' and its theories, practices and consequences. The materials span across the last five centuries and are accompanied by a host of secondary learning resources including scholarly essays, maps and an interactive chronology.

Australian Prints + Printmaking
The focus of the site is prints and printmaking by artists from Australia, Aboriginal Australia, the Torres Strait Islands, Papua New Guinea, Maori and Pakeha Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific region including , New Caledonia, Nuie, Samoa, Kiribati, and the Solomon Islands. The site also includes references to prints and printmaking in China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Digital Images Library Guide
This guide provides links to image databases and resources to help you find, cite, and use digital images in your scholarly work.