PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Gate, by Marie Howe
Explore themes of death and birth in this autobiographical poem by Marie Howe. In this video segment, Howe reads her poem "The Gate," written after her brother's death.
Favorite Poem Project
The Favorite Poem Project: Walt Whitman From "Song of Myself"
In this video episode [5:36] from The Favorite Poem Project, John Doherty, a construction worker from Boston, describes himself and explains why Walt Whitman's poem entitled "Song of Myself" is an inspiration to his life. Then Doherty...
NPR: National Public Radio
Npr: A Streetcar Named Desire
National Public Radio presents a feature on Tennessee Williams' famous play.
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature 210: To Kill a Mockingbird Part I
Crash Course Literature 210: To Kill a Mockingbird is a short video that discusses cultural, social aspects of the south as wells as character, plot and symbolism in an entertaining format.
Nobel Media AB
The Nobel Prize: William Faulkner Banquet Speech
The Nobel Prize site offers a transcript of the speech William Faulkner gave after accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
Crash Course
Crash Course Literature #406: The Parable of the Sower
In this episode, John talks about the near-future dystopia in Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower. Parable of the Sower tells the story of Lauren Oya Olamina, and her life growing up in a post-climate change, semi-lawless America. It's...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Literature: Video: Frederick Douglass
This is a video lecture on Frederick Douglass and his biography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. It features discussions of Frederick Douglass's 1845 Narrative as well as John Locke's Second Treatises of Government (1690);...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Romanticism: Video: American Gothic (I)
Use the video American Gothic (I) [1:05:50] to identify and understand American Gothic as a part of American Romanticism. It features discussions of the transition from Neoclassicism to Romanticism; Alexander Pope's "Windsor-Forest";...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Romanticism: Video: American Transcendentalism (I)
This video is a video lecture [1:15:55] entitled American Transcendentalism (I). It features discussions of Ralph Waldo Emerson; ontological individualism and the state of nature; Alexis de Tocqueville; Immanuel Kant; philosophical...
Shmoop University
Shmoop: The Giver
This resource provides a short video about the literary classic, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry. [2:19]
Shmoop University
Shmoop: To Kill a Mockingbird: Boo Radley
This resource provides a short video about the character, Boo Radley, from the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird. [2:31]