Interested in discovering what films you can get your hands on at Princeton? Consult this guide to find films using the library catalog. If PUL doesn't own a film, suggest a purchase or write to me directly.
Princeton also subscribes to a handful of video streaming resources: do a search for video at the DATABASES search.
Many databases index book reviews, including Articles+ and many subject databases that index the literature in/for a particular field. A lengthy book review can be a good source for learning enough about a particular title to warrant tracking it down or not as well as point to other authors and/or books on a similar theme.
To search for book reviews in Articles+, do a search, entering as many keywords as you'd like contained in the book title in question, and select Book Review under Content Type on the left-hand side.
Some general sources for book reviews:
Guide to book reviews that includes more than 6.7 million reviews on more than 2.5 million titles. 1965+
There are other places to look for reviews, like the London Review of Books, New York Review of Books, New York Times Book, and H-Net Revies, all of which can be found under Databases on the library website. There's also the New York Times Book Review published on Sundays.