Streaming Videos on and for Media Literacy Education  
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NOTE: additional videos are added regularly

NEW: See these lesson plans, with embedded clips, that I have uploaded to YouTube: 
Buy Me That (toy advertising/media literacy) 
Buy Me That (Food Advertising Tricks) 
Is Seeing Believing (Photojournalism/Digital Manipulation)
Deconstructing A TV Commercial (cell phone ad)

Teaching Advertising with Youtube Videos     Chalkwaves and PowerMediaPlus videos

Topic/Source Google Teacher Tube Media Ed Foundation PBS  United Streaming
aka Discovery Education
(registration required)
YouTube Other
Advertising
(see also
Alcohol;
Commercialism; Product Placement; Tobacco)
  The Beginnings of Advertising (3:32)

 

Hard Times Hard Sell Be Afraid in the 30s
(3:12)

Soap, Sex & Cigarettes: A Cultural History of Advertising (Intro) (6:09)

Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women (4:56)

Consuming Kids (5:23)

Killing Us Softly 3 Advertising's Image of Women (34:00)


Advertising & The End of the World
Hunting For Cool
(Merchants of Cool)(8:23)

Merchants of Cool 
(entire program)

The Persuaders
6 segments
Life Skills 101: Media Wise (15:00)

 
Sell & Spin: A History of Advertising 
(9 parts)

 
Advertising - What psychological tricks do they use? (3:49)

Buy Me That 3 (3 parts)

Century of the Self: The History of Propaganda in Advertising (10:36)



No Logo: Brands, Globalization & Resistance (3:03)

Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession With Thinness (5:10)

The seductive power of television advertising (3:19)

Girls take on advertising

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (4:36)
Admongo

Adbusters (various)

Advertising

Analyzing Women in Advertising

The Art of Rhetoric: Persuasive Techniques in Advertising

Buy Me That, (2:22)

Buy Now  Pay Later
The Impact of TV Advertising on Kids' Diets


Cell Phone_spot (:45)

Creating An Advertising Campaign
(3:53)


Identities for Sale: the phenomenon of teen branding

Purposes of advertising (5:37)

Super Bowl Ads

Teaching Media: Analysing an Advert (UK) (13:56)

Various

Ways of Seeing (Advertising)
Part 1 of 4

Alcohol Ads     Deadly Persuasion:
The Advertising of
Alcohol & Tobacco


Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol
  Ad-Libbing It (22:03) Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco

Spin the Bottle: Sex, Lies & Alcohol

Alcohol Target Marketing: Exposed by youth

Eye See You (9:00)
Big Media OutFOXed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism (1:55)

Jeff Chester on big media conglomerates

Propaganda-Behind Big Media
 

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power
Moyers on America
"The Net at Risk" (3:28)
 
A Generation of Consolidation (3:45)

Big Media Hall of Shame (4:50)

Media in the 21st Century (4:59)

The Corporation selected clips

Rich Media, Poor Democracy (5:27)

Big Media - Shine A Light (1:08)

Mickey Mouse Monopoly: Disney, Childhood & Corporate Power (5:45)

 
The Power of the Media (Part 1)

Media Manipulation: New Game for Big Business

Critical Focus: How Media Ownership Affects Content
Body Image     Slim Hopes:
Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness


Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (7:02)

What A Girl Wants
 
 
Body Image: Prescribing Beauty                               
 
The Photoshop Effect (5:37)

Get Real (10:00)

Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession With Thinness

Wet Dreams & False Images (2:09)
What real looks like

Sex. Lies & Photoshop

Body Image for Boys

Body Image- The Quest for Perfection
 
Career
Education
        Careers for the 21st Century: Media and the Arts Occupations

Carreras para el siglo 21: Ocupaciones en arte y medios de comunicación

Assignment Discovery: Episode 165: Careers in Television

Discovering Art:
Careers In Film
  More Than A Job--Broadcast Journalism
(9:40)

Film, TV, and Media Today
Topic/Source Google Teacher Tube Media Ed Foundation PBS  United Streaming
aka Discovery Education
(registration required)
YouTube Other
Commercialism
(see also
Advertising)
    Consuming Kids

Captive Audience
    Why We Buy - Secrets Of Consumer Education (3:10)

Story of Stuff  (21:16)

Naomi Klein - No Logo (1of4) (10:08) 

Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (4:36)

The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don't Need (3:28)


Why We Buy What We Buy

Hidden Motives Part 1 -
The Quest for Cool
(7:45)

 
Digital Manipulation of Images
(see also Visual Literacy)
         
Seeing Is No Longer Believing - "Changing" History (1:30)

Wet Dreams & False Images (2:09)

Digital Manipulation of Images
(Media Matters, 6:31)


Evolution (Dove, 1:15)

The Hotness Is Pasted On (5:38)
Sex. Lies & Photoshop

 
Digital Storytelling
(see also:
Film/Movie Making;
Media Production;
Visual Literacy)
            History of Chromakey
Documentary             Know TV
Film/Movie Making         LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION!

Moviemaking and Integrating Curriculum (08:08)

Discovering the Arts: Careers in Film
Paul Haggis on Screenwriting

The Cutting Edge - The Magic of Movie Editing
(28:00)


Making Grimm Movies: (various clips)
 

FLIGHT: Anatomy of a Shot (1:31)

Discovering the Short Part I

Film Analysis (15:24)

Moving Pictures as Text

Genre: The Western

AFI (various)

How Movies Work (links to various clips)

Look at film elements

Using Film As a Jumping Off Point to Encourage Student Writing (15:00)

Filmmaking in the Classroom (36:00)

Reading Film: The Story of Movies (5:00)

Storyboarding (Brief explanation)

American Cinema: Film Language

Martin Scorsese: Teaching Visual Literacy

Film Industry

Music for Movies (3:20)
Gender Issues          
Miss Representation
(Extd Trailer) 8:52


Playing Unfair: The Media Image of the Female Athlete (4:45)

What a Girl Wants (5:51)

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (6:16)


Off the Straight & Narrow: Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals & TV (6:48)

Wrestling With Manhood: Boys, Bullying & Battering (4:54)


 
Packaging Girlhood with Sharon Lamb Ed.D

Critical Focus: Gender and Sexuality in the Media

Talking Gender
Health
see also Alcohol, Body Image, Tobacco
      Analyzing mixed messages from the media about drugs in popular culture
 
Skills for Healthy Living: Analyzing Media Influences (27:35)   Advertising, The Media and Your Health (3:39)

 
Information
Literacy
  DISCOVER Information Literacy (8:03)         Information Literacy: The Perils of Online Research (2:17)

Google Search Tips (7:15)
Journalism/
News
      News War
(4 programs)

Local News
  How to report the news (1:59)

What is News? (2:58)

Illusions of news (1:12)

The Ideal Newspaper (1:53)

Ted Koppel on the Information Overload
(3:44)


The World of TV News
(9:59)

The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (5:32)
What is news (2:58)

'Behind the Scenes of a News Room'

News Gathering in the Digital Age (Full length version)

Massaging The Message: Truth, The Media and You


Media Moments

Dan Gillmor on citizen journalism

Media Hype: When News Coverage Goes Too Far

News Writing

Democracy in America
(#10 The Media: Inside Story) 

If You Can't Beat 'Em,
Blog 'em
(2:20)

Feeding the Beast: An Inside Look at the News Media

Hot Off the Press: Inside a Daily Newspaper

TV News: Writing and Editing the Story

Newspaper Industry
Language of Film
(see also FILM)
          Film Terminology And Cinematic Effects  pt 2, pt 4, 

Film Glossary (w/examples)

Lessons in Visual Language (3:00)

A Movie Lover's Guide to Film Language (3:42)
Lights Camera Education (AFI)

The Vocabulary of Film & TV
Magazines          
Photoshop: The Perfect Lie(4:29)
 

Sex. Lies & Photoshop
 
Marshall
McLuhan
          Marshall McLuhan on YouTube (2:15)

Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan Debating 1968
Marshall McLuhan
(1:38)

McLuhan's Wake
Media
(general)
            Media is..a short documentary (7:13)

Media Interrupted: The Dissection of Media in American Culture (3:50)

Massaging the Message: Truth, the Media and You
(4:58)
Media Literacy Media. Deconstructed.(:32)
 
    Living Smart #407: Media Literacy (27 min)
 
Discovering Language Arts: Viewing 
(K-2; 3-5; 6-8;
9-12)

Media Literacy- Creating Media (15:46)

Media Literacy- Audience (24:05)

Media Literacy- Media Ethics (31:16)
 

The Role of Media In Elections- A Media Literacy Workshop (40:54)

Increasing media education and skepticism (2:46)

TV Smarts for Kids (10:31)

TV Smarts, Part 2 (5:30)

Media Literacy, Education & Choice (6:45)

The Future of Media Literacy Part 1 - (15:01)

Differentiated instruction- media literacy (6:21)

Media Literacy: Creating Media

Media Smarts (7:22)

Promoting Health Through Media Education (3:22)

Truth or Consequences:
The Search for
Credibility in an Age of Spin

 
Media Literacy Documentary (2009)

Media Literacy Awareness (7:39)

Intl. Media Literacy Research Forum 2008

Teaching kids media literacy (3:27)

Teaching media literacy: asking questions  Media Literacy At Home(3:22)

Media Literacy and Democracy

Media Literacy, Education & Choice



Assignment Media Literacy:
Level 1: Elementary
Level 2: Middle School
Level 3: High School

Understanding media literacy

Video Introduction to media literacy (3:46)

What is media literacy?

Media literacy is like reading literacy

Critical Thinking
About Media Literacy

(21:00)

Media Literacy for Media Reform: Turning Apathy into Activism

Media Literacy in cyberspace

Media literacy: who needs  it?

Tuning In To Media

Topic/Source Google Teacher Tube Media Ed Foundation PBS  United Streaming
aka Discovery Education
(registration required)
YouTube Other
Media Production         LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION!

Makin' Movies Webinar

Lights, Camera, Language Arts (10:27)

Video Technology and iMovie Productions (04:17)
 


You be the producer

Teaching Media: Media Production in the Classroom
(UK) (14:04)

Creating media can help us become media literate

Media
Violence
   
 
    The Killing Screens: Media & the Culture of Violence (5:59)

Beyond Good & Evil: Children, Media & Violent Times (6:17)

Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (7:02)

Watching TV (4:49)
Mind Over Media:  Helping Kids Get the Message (2:24)

TV Violence and You
Motion Pictures
(see FILM)
             
Music     Hip Hop; Beyond Beats and Rhythms

Money for Nothing

Dreamworlds 2: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video

Dreamworlds 3: Sex, Desire & Power in Music Video
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhythms

Frontline: The Way the Music Died
  Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes (4:52)

Dreamworlds 2: Desire, Sex & Power in Music Video (5:55)


Money For Nothing: Behind the Business of Pop Music (5:51)
Generation M: Misogyny in Media and Culture
New Media          
 
New Media Exemplar Library Overview
Parody
(see also
Tobacco Parody)
          Spaghetti Harvest Spaghetti
Tree
Harvest
Photography
(see also
VISUAL LITERACY)
          Captured light: the invention of still photography

Adventure of Photography

Vision & Photography
(BBC Explorations, Pt1)

 
Politics/
political
Advertising
Political Advertising: Tactics & Campaign Ethics
(26:00)
    Kathleen Hall Jamieson on Political Advertising
 

The 30 Sec. Candidate

Campaign Essentials
(9 video segments)
 
Techniques of Persuasion
(9 video segments)

Mass Media and Presidential Campaigns
(2:25)

The Role of Television Advertising in Presidential Elections (1:10)

The Role of Media In Elections- A Media Literacy Workshop (40:54)
Editing techniques used in political campaign ads
(starts at 2:14)


Sell & Spin
(segment on history of political ads; starts at :46 in)

The Living Room Campaign (9 parts)

Television & The Presidency (13 parts)

Lights, Camera, Politics, 1980

The Making Of The President, 1960 (8 parts)


Media Persuasion Techniques in Presidential Ads  (9:38)


And if I'm Elected: Political Commercials  (6 parts)
Lectures in History: History of Political Campaign Advertising (CSPAN 2011)

Behind a Presidential News Conference

Photographing the President (Bush)(5:04)

The American President
 
Television And Politics (1970) | 59:19

The Living Room Candidate

Photojournalism and the American presidency

The Complexity of Photography

Historical Look At Campaign Commercials

Historic Campaign Ads

View Smart To Vote Smart

Disconnected: Politics, the Press, and the Public

Eisenhower Campaign Spots, 1952 Presidential Campaign

Eisenhower Campaign Spots, 1956 Presidential Campaign

Topic/Source Google Teacher Tube Media Ed Foundation PBS  United Streaming
aka Discovery Education
(registration required)
YouTube Other
Prescription Drug
Advertising
      Frontline: Alternative Fix   Big Bucks, Big Pharma Documentary (4:52)

Big Bucks, Big Pharma Extra: Drug Costs and PR (3:50)
 
Product
Placement
   

Behind The Screens: Hollywood goes Hypercommercial
    Behind the Screens
(5:37)

A Brief History of Conspicuous Product
Placement in Movies
(6:31)

Product Displacement
(2:52)
Propaganda
(see also PR,
Advertising)
Century of the Self
(four parts)
Historical Propaganda - Japanese Internment WWII (9:28) War Made Easy: How Presidents & Pundits Keep Spinning Us To Death
 
  1. America in the 20th Century: World War I: The War in Europe
2. Archives of War: World War Two: The Leaders
3. Men of our Time: Hitler
Edward Bernays: Propaganda Part 1 of 2 Goebbels: Master of Propaganda

Persuasion, Propaganda, and Photography
Public
Relations
    Toxic Sludge Is Good For You     Toxic Sludge is Good for You - (1/5)

Century of the Self: The History of Propaganda in Advertising (10:36)
 
Radio
(see also Music)
          The Secret Life of Machines: Radio (9:47)  

Representation/
Stereotypes
    Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies A People   Racial Stereotypes In The Media (6:28)

Stereotypes in Media (5:07)

Media Stereotypes & Magazines (3:26)
Miss Representation (8:52)

Representation & the Media: Featuring Stuart Hall (5:33)
Sexual
Stereotypes In The Media


Racial Stereotypes in the Media

Sexual and Racial Stereotypes in the Media

Sexual Stereotypes in Media: Superman and the Bride
Technology      

 

     
Television           Television: Window to the World (5 parts)

History of Television - Part One (1957)
03:28
Archives of American TV (Interviews)

Broadcast Television

History of TV In America (6:13)

Television: The Enchanted Mirror (2:42)
Tobacco     Deadly Persuasion:
The Advertising of
Alcohol & Tobacco


Pack of Lies
  Smoking: The Burning Truth (Smoking & Advertising)

Talking About Tobacco
(Tobacco & Advertising)

What About Tobacco
(Tobacco & Advertising)

Ad-Libbing It (22:03)
120000 Lives a Year
(8:59)

How Americans Got Sold on Smoking Cigarettes

Cigarette Ads - Banned in USA (9:58)

Documentary on Tobacco in Indian Movies  (7:23)

Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco (7:18)
 


Tobacco marketing (2:16)

Redefining Liberation
(1:20)

Smoking Out the Truth: Teens and Tobacco

Smoke Screeners
Tobacco
Parody &
Counter
advertising
Slime & Anti-tobacco Magic Wand

History of Tobacco Advertisments

Too smart for Target Marketing
 

        The Truth - Hypnosis TV Ad
(:29)

The Truth - Shredder 2000 TV Ad (:29)

Super Bowl - American Legacy Foundation: Glass Freeze Pops (:29)
Crock Hunters (2:02)

Animaction
Viewing
(see also
Visual Literacy)
        Discovering Language Arts: Viewing 
(K-2; 3-5; 6-8;
9-12)
   
Visual Literacy
(see also Digital Manipulation of Images)
Charles Moore: I Fight With My Camera         Moment of impact: stories of the pulitzer prize photographs (10:59)

Photoshop: The Perfect Lie (4:29)

Photojournalism In The Days Before TV (3:07)


Visual Literacy Across The Curriculum (3:46)

Consuming Images: The Public Mind- Intro
(Postman/Ewan)(10:00)

Consuming Images 2:
The Public Mind (10:00)

The power of images: Marketing as doublethink
(Mark Crispin Miller) (5:15)

The Digital Manipulation of Images (6:30)

Picture's Worth a 1000 Words: Interpreting Visual Information (2:19)

Art With a Message: Protest and Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment (4:18)

Photography As Told By LIFE Magazine photographers

What is Visual Literacy?

The Art of Persuasion (PBS How Art Made the World)

Consuming Images: Visual Literacy and Image Consumption (3:10)

The Photographers
(National Geographic)


Language of Photography

Images in Media

Photography: Making Art and Recording Life

Photographic Storytelling

Truth or Fiction? Photography and Ethics

Ways of Seeing (BBC Berger series)

War & Media

 
War Reporters Part 1
(8:43)
      First Television War:
A Documentary Report 
Capturing Conflict (segment from IFC's Media Project)

BILL MOYERS JOURNAL | Buying the War | Excerpt | PBS

War Made Easy - TRAILER
 
The Iconic Photo of Iwo Jima

War Spin: The Media and the Iraq War

Reporters at War: War, Lies, and Videotape

Critical Focus: Media & War
Writing & Media            
Writing for An Audience: Persuasion

Writing for the Media

News Writing

American Cinema:
Writing & Thinking About Film