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New Database Announcement

Title:
World History in Video

Description:
An online collection that contains more than 1,000 hours of streaming
video from 1,750 critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers
worldwide. This collection provides a global survey of human history
from the earliest civilizations to the 21st century.
The videos incorporate a wide variety of primary sources, including
archival images, artifacts, documents, and in the modern era also
interviews with key participants. Users can browse by historical eras,
time periods, historical events, places, political or cultural groups,
people, themes and topics.

Access:
http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/whiv.pl

Library Home Page (http://library.ust.hk/) > Databases > Alphabetical
Listing > World History in Video

If you have any questions, please email LBONLINE or call ext. 6760 to
speak with a reference librarian.

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