Streaming Video

Created to serve as an online resource for researchers, educators, students, archive and library professionals, and other interested parties. The main feature of the website is the Black Home Movie index, an aggregate of African American movie collections from the early 1920s through the mid-1980s.

The Amateur Movie Database was developed to learn more about the world of amateur cinema. It assembles information about amateur films, filmmakers and clubs. Currently over 100 films are streaming on this site. This project helps archivists, researchers, and anyone interested in amateur filmmaking to learn more about this alternative world of filmmaking.

You can stream anime on this platform thanks to embeds provided to the public by various legal anime streaming services.

A growing library of three-minute streaming videos, each of which features a different expert recruited from cinema and media studies faculty across the world explaining a specific critical media studies term and illustrating how it can be applied to analyze selected film, television, and media examples. Hosted by the University of Michigan.

Part of the Lesbian herstory Archives: These cassettes were donated to the Archives by different individuals and were recorded at public events including the 1979 march on Washington for gay and lesbian civil rights, a 1982 poetry reading, women's writing conferences in the late '70s and early '80s, and more.

BBC Archives manages one of the world's largest multimedia archives. Our mission is to preserve content so that it can be re-used. Our vision is to have an open archive fit for a digital world.

The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.

Small collection of materials being made available on Google Arts and Culture to allow access during the COVID-19 crisis.

Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Council on Library and Information Resources, this collaboration between the Boston Public Library, Cambridge Community television, Northeast Historic Film and WGBH Educational Foundation aims to bring to life local news stories produced in and about Boston from the early 1960s to 2000.

Bilingual (French-English) site: Educational, sponsored, and industrial film has been by far the most active area of filmmaking in Canada. It was, and continues to be, a thriving cultural and industrial sector for private film concerns. Many of these films circulated to international markets, and the audiences, though difficult to measure, often matched or surpassed those for theatrical film.

A curated collection of Public Domain films, all streaming via links from the Internet Archive. There are adds on this page asking you to download viewers, apps, etc.--DO NOT! Just select the "+view" option under the image of the film you want to watch, and stream away.

Colonial Film: Moving images of the British Empire. This website holds detailed information on over 6,000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online.

DPLA connects people to the riches held within America's libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage institutions. All of the materials found through DPLA--photographs, books, maps, news footage, oral histories, personal letters, museum objects, artwork, government documents, and more--are free and immediately available in digital format. The cultural institutions participating in DPLA represent the richness and diversity of America itself, from the smallest local history museum to our nation's largest cultural institutions.

At Europeana we work with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education, and research. Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks, and more with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you're looking for.

Film Quarterly Journal offers a small selection of interviews and other edited videos on its filmquarterly.org website. These are sometimes linked to content featured in the printed journal, but there are also stand-alone pieces.

Flow is an online journal of television and media studies launched in October 2004, and since then, we have published 1400+ columns by over 700 authors from around the U.S. and the world. Flow‘s mission is to provide a critical forum where scholars, teachers, students, and the general public can read about and discuss the changing landscape of contemporary media at the speed that media moves.Flow is a project of the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Flow is coordinated and edited by graduate students in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and is published monthly.

From the website, in their own words: In your country, city or your village, there are some musicians who play folk music of their area. Maybe they are famous or maybe they are not! Let's introduce them to the world. We are not looking for folk-pop, folk-jazz or folk-rock. We are looking for pure folk and classical/ traditional from each region. You can send their songs here and give us information about their music and their works. It can be an old farmer or a dedicated musician. Currently it’s hard to find information about folk / traditional music of all countries in one place. We want to achieve this goal with your help.This project is focused on original folk and traditional music of the different countries, nations and ethnic groups of the world. Definition of “folk” and “traditional” music in different cultures changes, and generally it's hard to give a universal definition.These music are accepted here: indigenous music, aboriginal music, ethnic music, regional music, rural music, root music, traditional ritual music, arranged folk music, recreated folk music.

Folkstreams' mission is to find, preserve, contextualize, and stream documentary films on American folklife. The films on Folkstreams were produced by independent filmmakers. These documentaries focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different kinds of communities. The filmmakers were driven more by sheer engagement with the people and their traditions than by commercial hopes. Their films have unusual subjects, odd lengths, and talkers who do not speak "broadcast English."

In the Netherlands 300 are streaming free, outside the Netherlans, about 200 free titles

Film, photos, videos, audio, documents spanning 1917 to present. The museum's focus is on conflicts from WWI on

The Internet archive holds books, music, films, videos, stock footage collections, and more. You can limit searches by media type and specific collections. I will also list some of the most useful of their film collections on this sheet by the invididual collection names and URLs, esp those that can be used for found footage filmmaking

Launched in September 2012, this research library service is intended to enhance the capabilities of journalists, scholars, teachers, librarians, civic organizations and other engaged citizens. It repurposes closed captioning to enable users to search, quote and borrow U.S. TV news programs. Available at no charge, the public can use the index of searchable text and short streamed clips to explore TV news, discover important resources, understand context, evaluate assertions of fact, engage with others and share insights.

Launched in September 2016, the IFI Player is a virtual viewing room where audiences from across the globe can instantly access the rich collections housed in the IFI Irish Film Archive. The IFI Irish Film Archive collection spans 1897 to the present day, and the most important social, political and historical events of the last century are represented, enabling us to explore our cultural identity and connect with the past.

Includes moving images, photos, documents, and other paper records, anything digitized is free to view online, but licensing or getting higher resolution materials is at a fee

Media Burn Archive is a 501(c)3 nonprofit in Chicago that collects, restores, and distributes documentary video created by artists, activists and community groups. Our mission is to use archival media to deepen context and encourage critical thought through a social justice lens. More than 4,000 hours of content is streaming for free

This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.

The University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) preserves films and videos produced outside the American feature film industry to make them available to present and future audiences.The University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC) preserves films and videos produced outside the American feature film industry to make them available to present and future audiences.

A selection of Canadian films and videos produced between 1917 and 2020, all are free to stream online without any sign-in, each page also has the option to buy that film, but no purchase required to stream

Over 4000 titles available of Canadian productions in all genres, and spanning multiple decades

Regional archive in Bucksport, ME featuring small guage and amatuer films, and more. Selected collections are streaming online

Photography, Design Collections, and much more: explore over 899,000 items digitized by NYPL

Public Domain Movies shares feature films in a variety of genres that are in the public domain. The site is organized according to some basic genres: Comedy, Drama & Romance, Sci-Fi/Horror, Cartoons

HSFA (Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution) is devoted to preserving and providing access to moving images that document the world's cultures and landscapes, from the beginnings of motion picture film to the present. The Smithsonian may archive materials posted on this website pursuant to its document retention policies. By posting content, you are giving the Smithsonian and those authorized by the Smithsonian permission to use or modify it for any educational, promotional, or other standard museum purpose, in media of all kinds whether now known or later developed.

This is the general search page for all Smithsonian institutions. Some of the smaller collections within these vast holdings are highlighted elswhere on this list

Umbra Search celebrates the vital efforts of the individuals and institutions that have helped to preserve and make accessible online hundreds of thousands of pieces of African American history and culture, and we pay homage to the Umbra Society of the early 1960s, a renegade group of Black writers and poets who helped create the Black Arts Movement.

This collection includes primarily content produced by UNESCO in the course of its work, or materials collected by UNESCO, there are documents, photos, streaming videos (from film and video originals), magazines and other publications of UNESCO, and more, most of the digitized content can be directly downloaded without requesting access from an archivist

Features horror movies from the 1930s-1960s, over 200 titles available to stream via their YouTube channel

"A journey from international shortwave to digital broadcast, the Music Time in Africa Archive takes audiences through an on-line experience of vintage Voice of America radio programs broadcast from 1966. The collaborative project with the University of Michigan digitized nearly 900 audio recordings and associated scripts of the weekly radio program. The archive now features 691 radio programs with a combination of program script and broadcast audio, with an additional 120 radio programs coming soon. Music Time in Africa is VOA’s longest running radio broadcast to the African continent. The program continues to feature traditional and contemporary music from musicians throughout Africa.

This collaboration between Northeast Historic Film, the Chicago Film Archives, and the Lesbian Home Movie Project aims to bring to life home movies and amateur film and video made by women in the 20th century, and to make this material accessible online and to researchers.