The Greenwood Library now has access to a collection of 498 digitized PBS videos that were purchased by the VIVA consortium for use by academic libraries in the Commonwealth of Virginia. All of the videos are available through the Library’s online catalog and may be viewed as streaming video with the free QuickTime player by Longwood students, faculty and staff.
Some of the series in the collection are:
- 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs
- America Beyond the Color Line
- America Goes to War
- American Experience
- Art:21
- Baseball
- Civil War
- Empires
- Frontline
- In Search of Shakespeare
- Jazz
- Liberty! The American Revolution
- Matters of Race
- Scientific American Frontiers
- Secret Life of the Brain
See the PBS Streaming Video FAQ for more information, or start viewing some of these films now. An easy way to find them is through a keyword search on “pbs video viva“.