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Elections: Films On Demand
Posted on January 27th, 2021
This year’s contentious Presidential election had the greatest voter turnout in history. With so much conflicting information flying around our 24 hour news cycle and so many claims of “fake news,” it is nice to know there are sites like Booth Library’s streaming video resource Films On Demand, to show us some historical context. Films On Demand allows you to explore hundreds of films dedicated to elections, government and political topics. Many of these films showcase historical elections and the lead-up to current elections such as 2012 and 2016, featuring political rallies, candidate interviews, the community reactions, polls, and outcomes. There are even some very historical elections such as 1860, 1800, and the public’s reactions to them at the time.
You can also preview the video you are watching before opening up a new tab when watching. Within each of these videos, you can august settings for subtitles, share it, add it to a playlist, or cite it if you are using it as a source for your research. Along with every video, there is a sidebar to the right to help navigate segments of the video or follow the audio in the video transcript. Segments are similar to a table pf contents that connects with timestamps for specific moments. They can be clicked on to move to that place in the film. The transcripts have a search fear to help find terms used in the video. Transcripts can also be downloaded.
