Music and films

The National Library’s collections are completed with multimedia documents: feature films and documentaries and music. While CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray and cassette tapes are available in the Media Centre, readers can also use music and video streaming platforms.

Music streaming

Naxos Music Library

Naxos Music Library is the world’s largest online classical music library. The library contains the catalogues of more than 50 classical, jazz (Naxos Music Library JAZZ) and world music (Naxos Music Library WORLD) labels and provides access to over 3 million titles.

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Video streaming

Naxos Video Library

Naxos Video Library consists of an extensive selection of on-demand videos about classical music: operas, ballets, concerts, dances, documentaries and much more.

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Filmfriend

The Filmfriend platform, based in Germany, offers a variety of audiovisual media (fiction films, children’s films, Luxembourgish films) in several languages and with unlimited access.

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Kanopy

This platform, which is based in the United States, offers audiovisual media (documentaries, fiction films, children’s films) in English and allows viewing at a frequency of five films per month or unlimited for children’s content (Kanopy Kids) and for documentary series (The Great Courses).

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Tënk

This platform is based in France and offers documentary films.

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Médiathèque numérique du Luxembourg

The Médiathèque numérique du Luxembourg (MéNuLu) is a service launched in collaboration with the Cité Bibliothèque and the Centre national de l’audiovisuel. Five additional libraries joined MéNuLu in 2024. Thanks to partnerships with the platforms Filmfriend, Kanopy and diMusic/tënk, users can access an extensive media library of documentaries, series, fiction films, children’s films and music.