Streaming Videos on and for Media Literacy Education
NOTE: this page is under construction; links to additional videos will be added regularly

NEW: See these four video clips, and accompanying lesson plans, 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
Commercialism)
Century of the Self
(four parts)
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)

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)

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

Buy Me That 3
(3 parts)



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)
Adbusters (various)

Advertising

Analyzing Women in Advertising

Buy Me That, (2:22)

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


Creating An Advertising Campaign
(3:53)


Identities for Sale: the phenomenon of teen branding

Cell Phone_spot (:45)

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

Super Bowl Ads


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
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)
 
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                               
 
Get Real (10:00)

Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession With Thinness

Wet Dreams & False Images (2:09)
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
    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           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

 
Documentary             Know TV
Film/Movie Making         LIGHTS, CAMERA, EDUCATION!

Moviemaking and Integrating Curriculum (08:08)

Discovering the Arts: Careers in Film
Making Grimm Movies: (various clips)
 

FLIGHT: Anatomy of a Shot (1:31)

Discovering the Short Part I

AFI (various)

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

Lights Camera Education (AFI)


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

The Vocabulary of Film & TV


Music for Movies (3:20)
Gender Issues           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
  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)

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
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 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)
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

 


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, Education & Choice



Assignment Media Literacy:

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
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           Spaghetti Harvest Spaghetti
Tree
Harvest
Photography
(see
VISUAL LITERACY)
             
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)
Media Persuasion Techniques in Presidential Ads
(9:38)
Behind a Presidential News Conference

Photographing the President (Bush)(5:04)
 
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)
Product Displacement
(2:52)
Propaganda 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
  Goebbels: Master of Propaganda

Persuasion, Propaganda, and Photography
Public
Relations
Century of the Self
(four parts)
  Toxic Sludge Is Good For You     Toxic Sludge is Good for You - (1/5)
 
 
Radio
(see also Music)
          The Secret Life of Machines: Radio (9:47)  
Stereotypes
(Gender/
Representation)
    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)
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
Television           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)


Cigarette Ads - Banned in USA (9:58)

Documentary on Tobacco in Indian Movies  (7:23)

Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco (7:18)
 
Crock Hunters (2:02)

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)
Animaction
Viewing
(see also
Visual Literacy)
        Discovering Language Arts: Viewing 
(K-2; 3-5; 6-8;
9-12)
   
Visual Literacy           Photoshop: The Perfect Lie (4:29)

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)




What is Visual Literacy?


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
 
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