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

Dance

Within Arts

Still image from: 100 Years of Amalia Hernandez. A Celebration. (Spanish)

Salem, a 13 year old boy with Asperger's syndrome, is dressed in a black leotard and stands in a graceful ballet pose. We can see his reflection in the mirror behind him. He looks up and has a smile on his face.

Woman stands with arms crossed in a dance studio. Group of individuals look on with their backs facing camera while one of them claps.

Still image from: Alma's Way -- My Way: Bomba!

Still image from: Alma's Way -- My Way: Breakdancing!

Still image from: Alma's Way: Alma the B-Girl / Chacho's Birthday

Still image from: Alma's Way: Do the Waltzango / Big Brother Bootcamp

Still image from: Alma's Way: Howard Brings the Beat / Alma's Payday

Still image from: Alma's Way: Piragua Problem / Balloon Blues

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Arab Cultures

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Asian American & Pacific Islander

2 women in traditional Indian dance costumes speak on a city sidewalk. Caption. Over 200,000 Indian-Americans call New York their home.

Row of men wearing red traditional Croatian clothing and a row of men wearing black traditional Croatian clothing perform a dance in front of a seated audience. Caption. "1 of the oldest living traditions is the Moreska dance."

Group of women dancing barefoot in an outdoor pavillion, hands on hips and smiling.

City with lots of orange roofs on buildings. The title text reads, "Dancing in my Italy." Caption. "I've landed in Italy, and I"m heading to my family's hometown."

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Empower NYC

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Flushing, Queens

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Garifuna (Bronx)

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Hip-Hop (The Boogie Down Bronx)

Woman plays bagpipes as another person dressed in kilt stands next to her. Caption. I find 1 more reason to love this country even more.

Man and woman in a dance studio perform a dance together as they look down at their feet. Caption. "You're connected with someone like I've never felt before."

Many small fires in the darkness appear before a large lit screen with Korean writing projected on it. The silhouettes of many heads are slightly visible. Caption. "I'm here to celebrate the Jeju Fire Festival."

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Latinx Communities

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Little Caribbean

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Little Sri Lanka (Staten Island)

4 women in traditional Malaysian clothing gather around a crowned woman wearing a red tunic. Caption. Depicting stories of either myth or of a time long-past.

Woman with crossed hands at her chest speaks to 2 women dressed in red and gold costumes who gesture back. Caption. Thank you so much for letting me dance with you.

Cut-out photo of a multi-story building set onto a white screen. Text on image reads, "Montreal then and now." Caption. Welcome to Montreal, Canada.

Blue sky with puffy clouds and 9 Tennessee flags on flagpoles blowing in the wind. Text on image reads, "Music City." Caption. Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, America's music city.

Still image from: Bare Feet With Mickela Mallozzi: Open Stages

2 Native American people wearing brightly colored traditional Native American clothing with big feathers perform a dance. Caption. "The Lumbee, the Native American tribe indigenous to this region."

Gothic church with multi-colored roof designs in geometric patterns. Caption. Vienna is quite accessible and extremely easy to get around.

Hazy daytime shot of a distant city skyline. Text on photo reads, "Where Europe meets Asia." Caption. Welcome to Turkey, a country that splits 2 continents.

Still image from: Donkey Hodie: Someplace Cold / Purple Polka Dot Party

Still image from: Extraordinary Hobbies: Chucky, Everyone's Favorite (Spanish)

Still image from: Extraordinary Hobbies: Rhythm Beyond Limits (Spanish)

Still image from: Folkloric Ballet of Amalia Hernández (Part 1) (Spanish)

Still image from: Folkloric Ballet of Amalia Hernández (Part 2) (Spanish)

Still image from: Hey Duggee: The Dancing Bug Badge

Two men Capoeira dance as the rest of their dance team watches and claps around them in a school gymnasium.

Screenshot of an Instagram post of a girl dressed in pink roller skating outside.

Still image from: KidLit MTV With Divinity Roxx!

Still image from: Let's Learn: Do You Hear the "oo" in Book?

Still image from: Let's Learn: There’s a Silent “e” in Kite!

Still image from: Let's Speak to the Four Winds (Spanish)

Still image from: Nick News: Afghanistan, Steppers, and Broadway

Still image from: Odd Squad: Odd Way Round / Strictly Odd Dancing

Still image from: Origin of Everything: Why Does the Government Pay for Art?

Still image from: Reframing the Narrative: Blacks in Ballet

Still image from: Sparky and Caramela: A Rock 'n' Roll Christmas

Still image from: Sparky and Caramela: The Lost Toy

Ballerina performing on stage stands on the ball of 1 foot as she raises her other leg slightly off the ground. Her arms are straight and extended down and slightly back. A male dancer stands behind her and in position, ready to lift her.

2 men sit in front of barres and mirrors in a ballet studio. They are turned towards each other smiling, laughing, and speaking. Caption. And best friends with Chris since he choreographed with us.

Multiple photos of young men and soldiers. The photos are standing up on a carpeted floor with sides slightly rolled. They are lined up next to, behind and above each other in front of a camouflage fabric backdrop.

Still image from: The Extraordinary Art of the Dancer (Spanish)

Still image from: The Genius of African-American Dance: African Dance and the Middle Passage

Still image from: The Genius of African-American Dance: Minstrel Shows, Vaudeville, and Broadway

Still image from: The Genius of African-American Dance: R&B, Modern Dance, and Breakdancing

Still image from: The Genius of African-American Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and the Jazz Age

More than a dozen women, wearing flowing yellow pants and sparkling tops, perform in three coordinated columns on a golden stage in front of a flame-edged arched backdrop. The women on the left perch bend to the left with their arms over their heads, while the women on the right do the same in the other direction, and the women in the middle sit up with their arms up at different angles.

Dark stage with dancers dressed in lilac and blue garments in a circular formation, their long blue and lilac sleeves billowing high up in the air.

Line of women wearing white collared shirts underneath black dresses that are ornately adorned with bright neon threads, streamers, pompoms, and beads, and wearing hats decorated with silver and neon baubles and feathers.

Four women stand in a circle looking down to the ground at us. The women wear sloping gold helmet-crowns and festive dresses layered with shiny pink, gold, and green triangle shapes, green bodices, and gold collars.

Woman wearing a long-sleeved red dress with a full skirt spreads her arms wide with her fingers pointed back toward her, as she dances on a vast empty plain underneath a cloudy blue sky.

People wearing traditional garments that feature striped, colorful aprons, wide decorative belts, long billowing sleeves, and pointed headpieces, parade in a circle on the grass below a blue sky.

2 teenage boys in an auditorium setting, 1 holds drumsticks and the other looks down at a drum.