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Additional Video Collections on the Internet

Film Studies for Free: Links to Free Online Streaming Platforms for Films and Moving Image Work
A crowdsourced list of open access streaming video collections.

AdViews
Digital archive of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s.
American Indian Film Gallery
Online collection of educational shorts, mostly dating from the 1930s to the 1970s. Films are arranged by tribal name.
American Rhetoric
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.
Archive of American Television TVLEGENDS Channel
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.
ARKive
Wildlife photographs and videos preserved and made available for conservation, education and public awareness.
C-SPAN Video Library
Televised footage of many proceedings of the United States federal government, as well as other public affairs programming.
CBS Videos
Contains select video for Daytime, Primetime, Late Night, and full coverage of TV Classics such as Star Trek and The Twilight Zone.
Civil Rights Digital Library: Moving Images
Online films and other recordings related to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
EUscreen
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.
EVIA Digital Archive
Digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.
Folkstreams
Online streaming documentary films on folk and roots cultures, many from the 1960s.
FRONTLINE
Full-length episodes of the PBS documentary series FRONTLINE.
Google Video
Similar to YouTube, with some differences in coverage and searchability.
Hemispheric Institute of the Americas
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."
Internet Archive: Movie Archive
Vast online library of freely available movies and videos, mostly public domain and ephemeral film.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive
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.
Lannan Foundation
Provides access to 15 years of audio and video recordings from live events and interviews with notable authors, scholars, and activists.
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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.
Library of Congress Digital Collections: Motion Pictures
From the Library of Congress, online video from subject-specific collections, including early Edison films, animation, and rare vaudeville performances.
Library of Congress YouTube Channel
Online video from LoC collections and events, including early films from Edison and Westinghouse.
The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials, 1952-2016
From the Museum of the Moving Image, this online exhibition features hundreds of commercials from every American presidential campaign since 1952.
Mosfilm Classics
Using the YouTube platform, this channel presents online videos of classic Soviet and Russian films, including English subtitles.
Movieclips
Using the YouTube platform, this channel presents online movie trailers and clips from major film scenes.
NBC Universal Archives
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.
NOVA
Provides access to selected programs from the acclaimed PBS science series. Programs are divided into chapters and have closed captioning.
NYPL Digital Collections: Jerome Robbins Dance Division Moving Image Archive
Open Culture: Movies
Several collections of 1150 freely available movies online, including titles from Paramount, the Korean Film Archive, and genre films.
Open Video Project
Video clips from a variety of sources, particularly video programs obtained from U.S. government agencies.
PBS Video Online
Selected online video from PBS shows, including Frontline, The News Hour, American Experience, and Art: 21.
Pinewood Dialogues
From the Museum of the Moving Image, streaming audio and transcripts of discussions with major figures in film, television, and digital media.
PlunkettResearch
Provides short videos on topics related to market research, industry trends analysis, business commentary, and industry statistics on a dedicated YouTube channel.
POV
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.
ScienceCinema
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.
SnagFilms
Provides online access to full-length documentary films from established distributors and new filmmakers.
Stanford Health Video Library
Programs featuring prominent doctors presenting the latest health research.
TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design
Hundreds of recorded talks, arranged by subject categories: Technology, Entertainment, Design, Business, Science, and Global Issues.
Thanhouser Films Online
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.
TV.com Videos
Videos, including full length episodes and related footage, of television programs (mostly contemporary).
TVNews Archive
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.
UCLA Preserved Silent Animation
You can view or download any of the 11 preserved animated silent films and read film notes and historical overviews
Veoh
Free online video, including movies, anime, and television shows.
Videoteca
Online Spanish language videos primarily focused on literary topics such as interviews, poetic readings, and theatrical representations.
WGBH Open Vault
Provides online access to historical content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Contains video, audio, images, and searchable transcripts.
World Digital Library
Includes primary materials from world cultures, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more.
The World Film Heritage: 1895-1915
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.
YouTube
The current giant of freely available online video, with the ability to share easily and add comments.

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