Browse Media Learn More

Free Membership - Access to more than just media

Families and school personnel (including those in training) who have at least one student with a disability can sign up for free membership.

Accessible Media

Standards-aligned videos with high-quality captions and audio description.

Teaching Tools

Create lessons and assign videos to managed Student Accounts.

Training Videos

Educator and sign language training videos for school personnel and families.
Learning Center

Find resources for providing equal access in the classroom, making media accessible, and maximizing your use of DCMP's free services.
Visit Learning Center

Accessibility Information

DCMP's Learning Center provides hundreds of articles on topics such as remote learning, transition, blindness, ASL, topic playlists, and topics for parents.

See All

Accessibility Guidelines

DCMP offers the only guidelines developed for captioning and describing educational media, used worldwide.
Captioning Key
Description Key

Help Center

Learn how to apply for membership, find and view accessible media, and use DCMP’s teaching tools.
Help Center
Continuing Education and Professional Development

DCMP offers several online courses, including many that offer RID and ACVREP credit. Courses for students are also available.
See All eLearning Resources

QuickClasses

Asynchronous, online classes for professionals working with students who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind, low vision, or deaf-blind.

See QuickClasses

Workshops

For interpreters, audio describers, parents, and educators working with students who are hard of hearing, low vision, and deaf-blind.
See Workshops

Modules

Modules are self-paced, online trainings designed for professionals, open to eLearners and full members.
See Modules

Students

These self-paced, online learning modules cover the topics of transition, note-taking, and learning about audio description.

See Student Courses
Make your educational content accessible and broadly available.

DCMP can add captions, audio description, and sign language interpretation to your educational videos and E/I programming.
Learn More

Accessibility

Captions are essential for viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing, and audio description makes visual content accessible for the blind and visually impaired.

Distribution

DCMP can ensure that your content is always accessible and always available to children with disabilities through our secure streaming platforms.

Meet our partners

DCMP partners with top creators and distributors of educational content. Take a look
About the Described and Captioned Media Program

The DCMP provides services designed to support and improve the academic achievement of students with disabilities. We partner with top educational and television content creators and distributors to make media accessible and available to these students.
Contact Us
Services

Captioning, audio description, and ASL services

Professional training for school personnel

Distribution of fully accessible streaming media

Projects

Media Center

Television Access

We Describe the World

YouTube Audio Description

Privacy and TOS

Privacy Statement

Terms of Service

Accessibility Policy

Mission and Funding

Read More

What Is Christmas?

9 minutes 47 seconds

Apply for Free Membership

Videos are generally available for preview to non-members as short clips. Limited full-length titles are also available. Log In to view the full length title.

Browse Full-length Non-member Titles

Slide shows circles of light glow behind figurines of Santa and a snowman sitting back-to-back on a circular table. Text reads, "What is Christmas?"

This video covers the religious and secular aspects of Christmas. Christmas was traditionally a Christian festival celebrating the birth of Jesus, but in the early 20th century, it also became a secular family holiday, observed by Christians and non-Christians alike.

Media Details

Runtime: 9 minutes 47 seconds

Topic: Education, Social Science
Subtopic: Christmas, General Education, Holidays
Grade/Interest Level: 3 - 6
Standards:

Release Year: 2019
Producer/Distributor: Learn Bright
Report a Problem

Old-fashioned radio rests on a wooden ledge next to a plate of Christmas tree and smiley faces cookies.

Still image from: Bluey Christmas Eve With Veranda Santa

Woman and man wearing Santa hats use sign language. Woman makes a claw shape with 1 hand towards a cookie she's holding in the other. Text below reads, Cookie.

Book cover shows an illustration of a duck in a Santa hat standing on a porch decorated with Christmas lights on a snowy winter night. Text reads, “Click, Clack, Ho! Ho! Ho! By Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin.”

Color illustration of a red fox standing at the bank of a pond filled with fish. Caption. And he had a terrible thought.

Man faces camera, holding his closed fists up and out on either side of his face. Caption. in February, we have President's Day.

Still image from: How to Catch an Elf

Aerial closeup of a person's hands drawing on a piece of paper. 1 hand holds a black pen and traces over a pencil drawing of striped bubble letters that read, "Happy holidays."

Black and white sketch of a decorated Christmas tree with a shining star on top and presents underneath. Title card reads, "How to Draw and Paint." Text below reads, "How to Draw a Christmas Tree. Art Lesson by Michael Thoenes."

Aerial closeup of a hand using a black pen to trace over a pencil sketch of reindeer pulling Santa Claus in his sleigh.