Documentaries

1. In the Search Engine

From the advanced search screen in the first drop-down write documental.  In the second drop-down select "Subject" and write in Catalan the specific subject you are looking for. As a type of material, choose "Video DVD".

In the image you can see how to look for documentaries about women:

Look at what library the documentary is and its call number, that will allow you to find it on the shelves. If the result is unsatisfactory, eliminate the term documental from the search and the system will return you television programs and other videos and DVDs on the subject you are looking for.

The UAB libraries have subscribed to Academic Video Online, a streaming educational video platform with more than 70,000 titles. It includes channels like  Documentary, Documentary Educational Resources (ethnographic films), The Art of Documentary Filmmaking, The Art of Documentary Editing, etc.

2. At the Library

The documentaries on DVD are on the 2nd floor (zone G of this map), organised by subject, according to the CDU. We show you below the most common subjects and their call numbers:

 

Subject	Call number	Exemple
Biography	92	DVD 92(Oli) Mai: Mai és tan fosc
Applied Science . TV	6	DVD 656.08 Nau: Náufragos
Natural Sciences	5	DVD 599.5 Bla: Blackfish
Social Sciences *	3	DVD 328.185 Cit: Citizenfour
Cinema	791.43-44	DVD 791.44 Sid: Side by side
Geography	91	DVD 914.30 Ber: Berlin
Sports	796	DVD 796 Oly: Olympia
Photography	77	DVD 77.04 Sma: Smash his camera
History of Spain	946	DVD 946 Not: Noticias de una guerra
History of Catalonia	946.71	DVD 946.71 Cas: La Casita blanca
World history	930-940	DVD 940 Fra: Francisco Boix...
Media	654	DVD 654.191 Día: 50 años de TVE
Music	78	DVD 78 Shi : Shine a light
Psychology	159.97	DVD 159.97 Uno: 1% esquizofrenia
Religion	2	DVD 271 Gro: El Gran silencio

* Includes sociology (301), politics (32), economics (33), law (34), education (37), women (396), etc.

3. Internet

• Somos documentales. By the RTVE
• DocumaniaTV. You can search documentaries or browse by categories and channels
• Filmoteca Española Online. Page from the RTVE and the Spanish Film Archive that allows you to consult the entire  NO-DO news archive (1943-1981), the magazines Imágenes, Imágenes del Deporte, the historical archive and the Alfonso XIII royal archive, as well as other documentaries, films and short films.
• Audiovisual archives. In the section Internet you will find web pages with documentaries