Variations on documentaries, literary or informational issue videos are well suited to the college classroom. Both formats generate a good deal of enthusiasm for familiar knowledge domain or rhetorical literacies.

Literary studies videos work well for explications of poems or discussions of an author, work, motif, genre, etc. Here are a few examples:

"A Blessing"

John Steinbeck

J. D. Salinger (rough draft)

Issue oriented videos lend themselves to both explorations of issues in specific disciplines or to research-oriented projects looking at local, national, and global concerns. Here are some examples:

Family Farm
Aids in Africa
Beauty
The Movement