Research Guides: French Language & Literature: Find Websites & DVDs

Find French Websites

Hypotheses
Academic French blogs.
OpenEdition
Open access journals and other scholarly communication media in French.
Villa Albertine
Villa Albertine, hosted by the French Embassy in the United States, is a cultural institution that supports exchanges in arts and ideas between the United States, France, and beyond. Features a magazine and lists events, grants and other learning opportunities by city.

World Factbook This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Explore this reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) about countries around the world.
Content type: Country information, maps, data and statistics, reference materials
Coverage dates: Current year
Includes information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Language: English

Find French DVDs

Pomona Foreign Language Resource Center Media Library

Collection of foreign language films that students can view in the resource center and faculty may check out. For more information, please see the Foreign Language Resource Center website.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Explore a variety of videos across a breadth of subject areas, including international films, documentaries, archival films, educational titles, and performances.
Content type: Documentaries, performances, interviews, newsreels, primary sources
Includes the Mater Academic Collection and the World Cinema Collection.
Language: English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
Fox Feature Films for Education This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Watch feature films from a variety of genres, such as dramas, comedies, science fiction, documentaries, and literary adaptions.
Content type: Videos
Language: English
Independent World Cinema: Classic and Contemporary Film This link opens in a new window
Why search here? Good for finding streaming videos of independent U.S. and international documentary and feature films.
Content type: Documentary films, feature films
Coverage dates: 1915-present
Language: English, French, Russian, Spanish, German, Italian, Arabic, Portuguese

The Claremont Colleges Library circulates many videos.including those in French. To find these videos search the library catalog :

by name of director or actor as AUTHOR, i.e., Truffaut, Francois, or
by TITLE of work, i. e., Les parapluies de Cherbourq, or
by SUBJECT for works about a particular person or subject, i. e. Weill, Simone

THEN limit FORMAT to DVD Video and LOCATION to Claremont Colleges Libraries. This will limit your search to only Claremont owned videos. You can also limit your search by language.

Claremont College users can request videos that the library does not own from other libraries through Resource Sharing.