Site devoted to the art of oration in America, including a database of and index to 5000+ full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events.
Using the YouTube platform, this channel presents hundreds of oral history interviews with major figures in television history. See also the main Archive of American Television site.
EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.
Digital project from NYU Libraries and NYU's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics that "provides a digital venue for documenting the expression of social and political life through performance."
Free video resource curated by America's longest running dance festival. Click ARTIST, GENRE, or ERA to find dance clips spanning from the 1930s to today.
The Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities.
From the Library of Congress, online video from subject-specific collections, including early Edison films, animation, and rare vaudeville performances.
Online site for recent and historical NBC clips, particularly broadcast news. Although the site itself is free, note that downloading content and licensing for use are fee-based.
Provides short videos on topics related to market research, industry trends analysis, business commentary, and industry statistics on a dedicated YouTube channel.
Provides a selection of full length and short films from the acclaimed PBS documentary film series POV, television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films.
Scientific videos featuring leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy. Using innovative, state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology from IBM Watson, ScienceCinema allows users to search for specific words and phrases spoken within video files.
More than 50 silent films provide a representative cross section of the output produced by the Thanhouser film enterprise based in New Rochelle, New York between 1910 and 1917.
This portion of the Internet Archive collects and preserves television news. The collection contains more than 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired.
Provides online access to historical content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Contains video, audio, images, and searchable transcripts.
Includes primary materials from world cultures, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more.
From film scholar Klaus Kreimeier, this site offers streaming videos and short essays on major directors of silent film, including films by Griffith, Chaplin, Méliès, Guy, and the Lumiére brothers.
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