Subject Guide
This searches only physical films and video collections. You can learn more about our digital content by going to Streaming Videos.
About the Collection
The Pratt Institute Libraries make available to faculty, students, and staff an extensive film and video collection of over 6,000 unique titles to support teaching and learning through the Visual and Multimedia Resources (VMR) department. The collection of DVDs, VHS tapes, 16mm films, and other assorted formats are available for circulation and viewing on the Lower Level of the Library. Screening rooms are also available through VMR. The collection can be searched in PrattCat, the Library's online catalog. VMR circulates DVD drives for seven days at a time from the DVD circulation desk. Borrow one and make it a movie night! The physical collection is supplemented by a streaming video subscriptions through Docuseek, Electronic Arts Intermix, Alexander Street Press and Kanopy.
Faculty can request films be placed on reserve for one-time screenings by filling out the online form.
New To the Streaming Collection
Portrait of a Lady on Fire by
Call Number: A Kanopy Streaming VideoPublication Date: 2019Marianne is hired to paint the wedding portrait of Heloise. As the women orbit each other, intimacy and attraction grow as they share Heloise's first moments of freedom.
Gretel and Hansel by Call Number: A Swank Streaming VideoPublication Date: 2020Deep in the country, a starving girl recruits her younger brother to comb the unsettling nearby forest for food. The siblings hope to find new opportunities in the woods, but instead find a sinister force lying in wait amongst the trees.Teach Us All by
Call Number: A Kanopy Streaming VideoPublication Date: 2017Sixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced mobs of racially charged hatred and became cornerstones of the Civil Rights movement, TEACH US ALL examines how the present day United States education system fails to live up to that promise of desegregation as it slides back into a re-segregation of its modern schools.
Suggest a Purchase
The Libraries collect films and videos relevant to the Pratt community’s academic needs, but when possible also to promote the relaxation and intellectual and artistic development of the student body. Members of the Pratt community are encouraged to suggest new titles by emailing video.library@pratt.edu or submitting a request through our online Material Request Form. Preference is given to titles that will be used regularly in classes.