200+ short audio and video clips illustrating stylistic figures of speech ranging from alliteration to synecdoche. Clips are taken from speeches, movies, sermons, and sensational media events and delivered by politicians, actors, preachers, athletes, and other notable personalities.
Films Media Group is the leading source of high-quality video and multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills content.
Films on Demand consists of 15,500 video titles (77,000 segments) in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health, and Science. Also included is the new collection of United Newsreels which includes an additional 260 titles (1,250 segments).
USG institutions currently have access via GALILEO to the Films on Demand Master Academic Collection, while Technical Colleges have access to the Nursing Video Collection.
Some GALILEO institutions subscribe to additional collections from Films on Demand covering other subject areas.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics — from science to business to global issues — in more than 100 languages.
