The Library

Providing a collection of archival film footage from the past 120 years which has been collected by the British Film Institute. These include collections on comedy, female filmmakers, LGBT Britain, animation and lots more.

Accessibility statement for BFI Player.

Online TV and radio recording service. You can choose and record any broadcast programme from over 65 TV and radio channels. These channels include BBC 1, BBC 2, ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5, BBC 4, Film 4 and radio channels including Radio 4 and lots more. The recorded programmes are then kept indefinitely and added to a growing media archive of at over 2 million programmes.

Logging into BoB

Please visit the Box of Broadcasts help pages for support.

Available in the UK. If you are in a non-EU country, the licence and associated exceptions in law do not apply and you may not access BoB content, even if you are an authorised user in the UK.

Accessibility statement for Box of Broadcasts.

Listen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.

To access this resource, click on log in where it says Please log in via your home organisation, choose Leeds Beckett University from the drop down list and click on Select.

Provides award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum—race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. It presents points of view and historical and current experiences from diverse cultures and traditions world-wide.

Accessibility statement for Filmakers Library Online.

Kanopy is a film streaming service that gives us access to thousands of titles, including theatrical releases, training videos and documentaries.

Accessibility statement for Kanopy.

On-demand media recording service for Leeds Beckett staff. Content includes recordings of recent and historic film and television broadcasts, as well as in-house content such as inaugural lectures and graduation ceremonies.

LeedsBeckett TV is available on and off-campus (but not outside the UK). You can ignore the security warning when accessing this database. To access the database, please click advanced then accept.

Accessibility statement for Leeds Beckett TV.

A fully searchable library of more than 350,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, 344 full text literature journals, and other key criticism and reference resources.

Please visit the Literature Online help pages for support.

Accessibility statement for Literature Online.

A developing resource produced in partnership with Digital Theatre, providing access to a wide range of audio-visual material from past and present practitioners of performance.

Included within the archive are interviews with key figures in theatre history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with specialist actor trainers from around the world; unique footage direct from the legendary practitioners themselves; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions; and documentaries previously unavailable to global audiences.

The video material spans more than fifty years of documented work direct from renowned practitioners and specialists, and ranges across the entire spectrum of theatre topics. The content is updated and added to every three months.

Accessibility statement for Routledge Performance Archive.