Feature Films for Education

Feature Films for Education logoFeature Films for Education offers hundreds of full-length feature films for educational purposes. Brought to you in partnership with Criterion Pictures USA, this collection focuses on both current and hard-to-find titles, including dramas, literary adaptations, blockbusters, classics, science fiction, environmental titles, foreign films, social issues, animation studies, Academy Award® winners, and more.

Helpful Tools:

It is recommended that instructors search the FFE database Links to an external site. first before attempting to embed a film in Canvas. The search engine is a bit clunky and sometimes you need to shorten a title to find it. For example, searching "Guten Tag Ramon" retrieved 0 hits, but just searching Guten or Ramon was successful.  Use Advanced Search or browse by genre or title, find the film you want, then proceed to the steps below to embed.  Please note that you will have to go through this process to add a video every time your course is offered. So, if you teach a particular class every semester, you'll have to go through this process every semester.

 

Embed Instructions:

  • In Settings in your Canvas course, click on the Apps tab and search for 'Feature Films for Education'
  • Choose the Feature Films for Education app and Add App:

Searching for the Feature Films for Educatioin App with an arrow pointing to the app.

 

  • Enter the following codes to add the App to your course:
    • Consumer Key:  98415
    • Shared Secret: ABEE07E1-D739-4E93-A2DE-80026EC2DC28

Adding the consumer key and shared secret to the Add App screen.

 

  • Navigate to the page where you want the video to reside
  • In edit mode, go to Tools>Apps>View All>Feature Films for Education:

directional highlights on how to navigate to Feature Films for Education from the Tools menu.

 

  • Search for your video. Once you have found it, click on the preferred embed size:

Choosing embed size to a particular video.