Kapiʻolani CC Library LibGuides: STEM Resources in the Library: Featured Videos

Featured Films on Demand Videos

10 Things to Know About: Biodiversity (FilmsOnDemand)
"Biological diversity has made our planet habitable for billions of years, and now more than ever we’re realizing we need to understand, manage, and protect our species, habitats, and ecosystems to keep it that way. This episode visits the National Botanic Gardens in Ireland to see how centuries-old plant samples can provide clues to changes in our biodiversity. It introduces researchers who are using plants, trees, and even insect and birdsong recordings to measure and monitor environmental and climate change by combining field data with the latest satellite imaging. It also looks at the critical role of the bumblebee in pollination and biodiversity and considers how a seemingly innocuous imbalance in biodiversity can have lethal consequences."
Born Wild: The Next Generation (streaming video - Films on Demand)
A celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, this documentary presents stories of hope and gives viewers a revealing look at our planet’s next generation of baby animals and their ecosystems, which face daunting environmental changes. A National Geographic Production. Chris Hemsworth also makes an appearance.

Zero to Infinity (Films on Demand)
"Zero and infinity. These seemingly opposite, obvious and indispensable concepts are relatively recent human inventions. Discover the surprising story of how these key concepts that revolutionized mathematics came to be—not just once, but over and over again as different cultures invented and re-invented them across thousands of years. Distributed by PBS Distribution."

Mission to the Sun (streaming video - Films on Demand)
Ninety million miles from Earth, a tiny spacecraft the size of a small car hurtles toward the sun at dizzying speed, defying the extreme heat and radiation of the mind-bogglingly powerful and enormous star on which life on Earth depends. This is the Parker Solar Probe, NASA's remarkable mission to study the sun and gather data of potentially catastrophic solar storms. A National Geographic Production.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
The Films on Demand Master Academic Collection is a user-friendly online streaming media system including more than 5,000 high-quality educational video titles covering Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Science, and Health. All programming includes public performance rights.
Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a streaming video service with over 26,000 films. Titles range from documentaries, indie and foreign films, to must-see classics and award-winning movies. Touching on all topics, featured producers in Kanopy's collection include Criterion Collection, PBS, HBO Documentaries, The Video Project, New Day Films, The Great Courses, California Newsreel, Kino Lorber, Media Education Foundation, First Run Features, BBC, and many more. Films can be watched from anywhere, anytime by all staff and students.
Ethnographic Video Online: Volume III, Indigenous Voices This link opens in a new window
This online video collection offers teachers, researchers, and students a rare look inside the cultures of Oceania through the lens of indigenous peoples. More than 180 hours of documentaries, shorts, and narrative feature films explore the stories, dances, art, history, and contemporary issues of Indigenous Australians, Maoris and Pacific Islanders.