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Video/Film Collections

• DEFA Film Library (East) German Cinema and Beyond since 1993 - Religion section - list of videos for rent or purchase
• Films for the Humanities and Sciences Website - Religion section links to over 500 films.
• Guide to Religious Studies Movies (Adherents.com)
• Internet Movie Database

Asian Studies

• Center for South Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin Film Collection - list of films available for purchase
• Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire - information for over 6000 films with more than 150 freely available. Search or browse by country, date, subject or keyword
• Digital Himalaya
• Fuer-Haimendorf Collection - ethnographic films taken by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf during his career as an anthropologiest in the Himalayas in the 1930s-1980s
• Pad.ma - films from South Asia, primarily footage and not finished films.
• Tibetan and Himalayan Library - audiovisual recordings - includes the Naga Videodisc (collection of images, video and audio on the Nagas Hill Peoples of Northeast India)

Christianity

• Christian Film Database
- index to films avaialble for purchase - can browse by topic
• Movie Theme Index from The Text this week

Islam

• Bodman Collection of Middle Eastern and Islamic World Films (University of North Carolina Chapel Hill) - searchable listing of films available in this collection
• Diversity and Tolerance in the Islam of West Africa - collection of video interviews, printed material, photographs etc.
• Documentary Films on the Middle East and the Islamic World held by Georgetown University Library - Use library catalogue to search for films - note limit "material type" to Film and video
• Middle Eastern Film Posters Digitzation Initiative (Arabic Movie Posters and Lobby Cards Collection) - Princeton University Library

Judaism

• National Center for Jewish Film - extensive index to over 15,000 films, documentaries, news reels dating from 1903 to the present available for purchase or rental
• Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive- Virtual Cinema - over 600 films are freely available online
• Online Film Database (Yad Vashem) - listing of films available at the Visual Film Center at Yad Vashem

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