LibGuides: Women's History Month: Podcasts, Videos, &amp; Films

Library Databases

These Merced College Library databases provide access to streaming videos.

Films on Demand (Infobase)
Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content. Films Media Group serves the education community through its four brands: Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Films on Demand Newsreels and Archives (Infobase)
Educators count on Cambridge to provide outstanding media resources that support the development of the whole student, both in and out of the classroom. Cambridge programs provide a practical, accurate, and reliable foundation of knowledge that helps students think through opportunities and choices and reach their potential at school, in work, and in life.
Films on Demand Feature Films (Infobase)
Collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles for educational instructional purposes, including literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, Academy Award winners, and more.
New titles added quarterly. More that 20 popular film genres. Mouse-over effect displays brief description and page tools to save, share and embed links. Filter by MPAA rating, genre and copyright.

If you have access to a Merced County Library card, you can access streaming films through Kanopy,

Kanopy
Get free access to thousands of movies with your library card. Simply add your Merced County Library card number and PIN number.Customers may use this streaming video services on computers and mobile devices.

Videos

The History of Women in 3 Minutes (3:27) UN Women

Power of Woman (5:50) by Howard Freeman Motivation

UN Women

What It Takes to Lead (2:09) UN Women's Channel

There are lots of wonderful videos at the UN Women's Channel so please take a few minutes and watch a few. Most are just a few minutes long.

Podcasts

History Chicks
The History Chicks covers real and fictional women and the contributions they've made to women's history in general. According to the site's description, "You want to know how the women are remembered, how their legacies live on and how you can learn more. We can do that!" From Cleopatra to Coco Chanel, you get to learn about all the ways they have helped shape society.
Stuff Mom Never Told You
With new episodes every Wednesday and Friday, Stuff Mom Never Told You gives you the opportunity to learn about feminism and women's history twice a week. The show discusses "what it is to identify as female through research-based discussion around feminism and how it impacts everyday life." You'll hear about women like NASA's hidden computer women and Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Muta Maathai.
HERstory on the Rocks
HERStory on the Rocks sets up a conversation about women in history the same way that two girlfriends would discuss anything over a chilled drink. The discussions are fun and easy-going but super informative. From talks about the Queen of Sheeba and Sojourner Truth to having young girls discuss the impact Disney princesses had on their lives, it's bound to give you a well-rounded take.
Deviant Women
You know that well-known quote, "well-behaved women seldom make history"? Well, that's the basis of Deviant Women. The podcast features women in history who weren't afraid to break the rules no matter how risky it was. One of the podcast's latest episodes features Marie Laveau, a Louisiana Creole practitioner of voodoo who was also a free woman of color in the late 1800s.
Encyclopedia Womannica
In just five minutes a day, Encyclopedia Wommanica will teach you about all the badass women in history that didn't get so much as a sentence in your grade school history books. Seasons are divided into genres like women with courageous stories like Lee Tai-Young, journalists such as Harriet Quimby, and American legends like Lizzie Black Kander.
21 Podcasts That Celebrate Women's History All Year Long
Some these are represented above but there are lots more to listen to at this site!