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Film and Media library resources

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Databases

Key databases relevant for Film, Television, and Media are listed below. A full list of all our databases can be found on the Databases A-Z page.

  • Art, Design & Architecture features hundreds of journal titles covering Art, Architecture, Design, History, Philosophy, Music, Literature, Theatre and Cultural Studies.
  • Box of Broadcasts – BoB TV and radio streaming service for education. This service allows you to view, record, create clips, and share broadcast programmes from over 60 TV and radio channels. Includes all Freeview channels and Film4, Sky Arts, The Horror Channel, The Smithsonian Channel, and many others. 
  • Broadcast is a resource for the TV & Media industry which provides up-to-the minute industry news, expert analysis and commentary, insider industry information and business critical data
  • Business Source Ultimate contains company profiles, case studies, market research reports and peer-reviewed journals. 
  • Euromonitor Passport provides data and insight on industries, economies and consumers worldwide, which can help you to analyse market context and identify future trends. Make sure you register with your Bath Spa email address.
  • Cite Them Right all the guidance you need to reference resources in your academic work.
  • The Drum provides insights, guidance, inspiration and solutions for the marketing and media industries. To access more content off-campus you’ll need to create a personal account on The Drum’s BSU registration page using your Bath Spa email address.
  • Film and Television Literature Index 115 full-text journals about cinema and television, including both industry magazines and academic titles
  • Gale OneFile: News provides access to full-text newspapers.
  • Image databases: Jstor Images and Bridgeman Education provide good quality images along with reliable information.
  • JSTOR: articles from a wide range of journals on all topics.
  • Kanopy is a streaming service for educational institutions that provides access to over 18,000 films, including major blockbusters, documentaries and the Criterion collection. Note the Transcript feature for reading the script while viewing.
  • LinkedIn Learning allows you to learn software, creative, design, and business skills via video. New courses and videos are added every week.
  • The Listener Historical Archive contains transcripts of radio and television programmes since 1926. This resource chronicles the transformative rise of radio and television
  • The Television and Radio Index for learning and teaching indexes over 350 television and radio stations, including terrestrial, cable and satellite television, local and national radio. Over 3,000 programmes a day are indexed, or over one million a year
  • Screen Studies is a dynamic digital platform taking users from script to screen and beyond - offering a broad range of content from Bloomsbury, Faber & Faber and the British Film Institute to support moving-image studies. It is an essential resource for academics and students engaged in research and learning in film history, theory, and practice.
  • Statista is a statistics platform with forecasts on over 400 industries. It also features many thousands of reports on a wide range of subject areas.

 

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Electronic journals

Here is a selection of relevant e-journals for Film, Television, and Media. If you're looking for a particular e-journal title, use our Journals A-Z 

 

 

 

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Websites of Film, Television, and Media Content
  • BAFTA Guru is a hub for inspirational career advice from the very best in film, games and television
  • BBC Script Library has selection of BBC TV, Radio and Film scripts
  • BFI Film Archive lets you see shorts and features, showing the best from the BFI, national and regional archives – including 120 years of Britain on film
  • Black and White Movies is an almanac of black and white films spanning all classic film genres from the 1910s to 1960s
  • British Pathé Film Archive offers 3,500 hours of film from its digital archives covering news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970. The site offers free preview facilities
  • British Council Film links UK films and filmmakers to new international audiences, profiling the innovation, diversity and excellence of British films around the world. Discover all the latest on industry news, projects, libraries and archives, as well as directories of festivals and directors
  • Documentary Heaven is a website with documentaries from around the web, all in one place
  • EUscreen portal offers free online access to thousands of items of audiovisual heritage. It brings together clips that provide an insight into the social, cultural, political and economic events that have shaped the twentieth and twenty-first centuries
  • Global Social Theory is a free resource for students, teachers, academics, and others interested in social theory and wishing to understand it in global perspective
  • Internet Movie Script Database is a collection of film scripts to read online or download for free
  • KAYS is a complete production resource for the Film and TV Industry, and offers information on hiring equipment, props, costumes and much more
  • National Archives – Public Information Films – view public information films from 1945–2006
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Other useful websites
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