Media Centre
Media Centre
The Media Centre is on the 2nd floor of the Reading Room. It completes the National Library’s collections with multimedia documents: feature films and documentaries, audiobooks, music and language teaching aids. The collection holds more than 19,000 audiovisual documents, 2,400 audiobooks and 920 language-learning resources for more than 80 languages.
Online resources
The National Library offers its readers an ever-growing number of digital documents.
Facilities
In the Media Centre are workstations, with and without computers, comfortable chairs, one carrel and three soundproof booths. With your library card, you can also borrow headphones from the machines located at the entrance to the Media Centre.
Staff picks
Every month, our staff pick a selection of titles that are available in the Media Centre.
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The gilded age
written and created by Julian Fellowes ; dir. by Michael Engler ... [et al.]This series by Julian Fellowes, the talented author of Downton Abbey, portrays the American high society of the 1880s, where “old money” New Yorkers are confronted by the brash new tycoons. The two main families shown in the series, epitomize...
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All the beauty and the bloodshed
dir. by Laura PoitrasThis documentary, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival in 2022, is exceptional in that it constitutes a unique collaboration of an artist with a director based on enormous trust. Goldin had already filmed her initial political...
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She said
dir. by Maria Schrader ; screenplay by Rebecca Lenkiewicz ; based on the New York Times investigation by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey and Rebecca Corbett ; based on the book by Jodi Kantor and Megan TwoheyThis film follows the investigation of two New York Times reporters into the systemic sexual harassment happening inside Miramax. Although we know the outcome of the story, the film still grips as it concentrates on how journalists have to follow...
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