50 Intelligent Video Sites

≡ Category: Video - Arts & Culture |4 Comments

Back in June, we first posted a handy list of web sites where you will find free intelligent videos — documentaries, classic films, public television programs, university courses & lectures, interviews with big thinkers, etc. The collection has now grown to 50 sites. Below, you can find the first ten sites on the list, and you [...]

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Fora.TV Goes Mobile

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Yesterday, YouTube EDU went international, and FORA.TV went mobile. FORA is an excellent resource for smart video (you’ll find it in our collection of Top Intelligent Video Sites), and now it has launched its new mobile web site. Just point your mobile browser to m.fora.tv, and you can start watching smart video on the move. The [...]

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Every TED Talk Under the Sun

≡ Category: TED Talks, Video - Arts & Culture, Video - Science |2 Comments

If you regularly visit Open Culture, then you’re probably familiar with TED Talks — the series of 15 minute “riveting talks by remarkable people” that TED produces and makes free to the world. We’ve included TED in our collection, Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites, and it’s one of the best sources [...]

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Big Ideas

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A new addition to our popular and still growing collection: Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites … (The list now has close to 50 intelligent video sites.)
Big Ideas, a program that comes out of Canada, features a “variety of thought-provoking topics which range across politics, culture, economics, art history, science…. The program has introduced [...]

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Streaming Movies Online: The Future is Almost Now

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According to Netflix’s CEO, the DVD is done, and the future is all about streaming movies online. (Read the Wall Street Journal piece on that.) This segues nicely to a list that we have compiled that contains 1) over 100 high quality films that you can watch online for free, and 2) 35 web sites [...]

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Videos from the Open Video Conference

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The Open Video Conference, which promotes free expression and innovation in online video (learn more about the mission here), went down on June 19 & 20 in NYC. And, Peter Kaufman reports, 700 people attended and it was all “nuts and wonderful.” You can find video goodness from the conference here.
For those interested in more video [...]

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Exploring the Spiritual Side of Tibet

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The film above takes you inside the spiritual walls of Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, which hosts the Potala Palace, “the traditional winter home of the Dalai Lama and a pilgrimage destination for thousands of Buddhists.” The video runs 9+ minutes, and it’s one of many films produced by Explore.org, a web site supported by the Annenberg Foundation that combines [...]

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Intelligent Video: The Top Cultural & Educational Video Sites

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Looking for great cultural and educational video? Then you’ve come to the right place. Below, we have compiled a list of 46 sites that feature intelligent videos. This list was produced with the help of our faithful readers, and it will grow over time. If you find it useful, please share it as widely as [...]

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Where Do You Go for Intelligent Video?

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Folks, it’s time for a new group project. Last year, I asked you to tell us about your Life-Changing Books, and we pulled together an excellent list that many readers have enjoyed. Now we want to know: where do you go for intelligent video? If you list the sites that you like best — TED, [...]

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John Lennon and The Rolling Stones Sing Buddy Holly

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This week marks the 50th anniversary of “the day the music died.” That’s Don McLean’s way of talking about the 1959 airplane crash that cut short the budding lives and careers of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson. In ‘59, Buddy Holly’s musical career was just getting started, but his influence [...]

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Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Arturo Toscanini, 1952

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Here’s a nice vintage clip that comes out of a YouTube Channel called The Great Performers, which we’ve added to our page: Best YouTube Collections. The video features Arturo Toscanini conducting Beethoven’s 5th at Carnegie Hall in 1952. You can find the second movement here.
For more classical music see:
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Beethoven’s Symphony No. [...]

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Salvador Dali (and Other VIPs) on “What’s My Line?”

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What’s My Line? aired on CBS from 1950 to 1967, making it the longest-running game show in American television history. During its eighteen seasons, the show featured hundreds of celebrities & VIPs. Above, you can watch Salvador Dali in action. You can also rewind the video tape and check out Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Lloyd Wright, [...]

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Slacker, the Film, on YouTube

≡ Category: Film, Video - Arts & Culture |5 Comments

Slacker was shot in Austin, Texas in 1991. Its budget? A mere $23,000. But that didn’t stop it from becoming a cult hit and an overall important indie film. Here you have it free on YouTube, all 100 minutes of it…
Update: it appears that YouTube has placed some geographical restrictions on who can see this [...]

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Visit the Prado Art Collection with Google Earth

≡ Category: Art, Google, Video - Arts & Culture |7 Comments

Thankfully, it’s not all bad news here in Silicon Valley. Yesterday, Google and the Prado (the major art museum in Madrid) announced that you can launch Google Earth from wherever you live, travel virtually to Spain, and then take a close look at fourteen of the museum’s finest paintings. And, by “close,” I mean close. [...]

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When “Stand By Me” Travels Around the World

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What happens when you take Ben King’s 1961 hit, Stand By Me, and then travel around the world, having different international artists offer their own interpretations, and finally you stitch them all together in one seamless tune?  The clip below starts in California, moves to New Orleans, then heads off to Amsterdam, France, Brazil, Moscow, [...]

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The 10 Best American Movies (With Videos)

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Over at his Think Again blog, Stanley Fish, the eminent literary critic, has listed his all-time favorite American films. The list is a good one, so we figured why not add some video clips to the mix, and give you a little taste of each classic. See the full list after the jump. And if [...]

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Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 – Karajan or Muppet Style

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A couple of big blogs recently highlighted a clip of the Muppets doing Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s Ninth. It’s cute, and I was hardly surprised that the video logged 3.6 million views on YouTube.
Not far behind, at 3.2 million views, is a long video showing Herbert Von Karajan leading a live performance of Beethoven’s Ninth. [...]

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T.S. Eliot on YouTube

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Michael Gough (I believe) reads the poem that launched T.S. Eliot’s career in 1917, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (get the full text of the poem here)
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Vintage Nabokov

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Taken from a French television program, this vintage clip features Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) reading from Lolita and revealing his list of the most important novels of the 20th century, among other things. Nabokov speaks in English here. So don’t let the initial French throw you off. We’ve added this gem to our YouTube playlist.
Lolita, light [...]

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A Brief Guide to Online Video Lectures

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The Boston Herald ran a piece this weekend highlighting different web sites that feature free educational video collections. If you give it a read, you’ll see that it features some familiar and not so familiar sites –Meaningoflife.tv, Fora.tv, Bigthink.com, TED Talks, Bloggingheads.tv, and Edge.org. All are worth a look. So give them a go. But you may also [...]

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