Film, Video, & Streaming Media Collections: Open Access Resources

Al Jazeera’s Creative Commons Repository contains broadcast footage that Al Jazeera has released under various Creative Commons licenses.

The Library of Congress and GBH in Boston have embarked on a project to preserve for posterity the most significant public television and radio programs of the past 60 years

The American Memory project from the Library of Congress provides access to several hundred early motion pictures

Celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. It is an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1915 to 1979 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context.

Life & Times in Britain form 1890 - 2011

Contains all C-SPAN programs since 1987, indexed, abstracted, and cataloged by the C-SPAN Archives staff

Provides access to online films, texts, images, and audio recordings related to the Civil Rights movement in the United States in the 1950's and 1960's.

Scott Spicer's very complete guide to online digital collections.

Collaborative endeavor to create a digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.

The Moving Image Archive within the Internet Archive provides access to nearly a quarter million films.

The Media Burn Archive is a collection of over 6,000 independent, non-corporate tapes that reflect cultural, political and social reality as seen by independent producers, from 1969 to the present.

Watch over 2,000 classic and brand-new NFB titles

In 1981, the Hearst Corporation donated its newsreel collection to the University of California. In cooperation with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Packard Humanities Institute is developing this website as part of a joint project to make the Hearst newsreel collection more easily accessible to the public.

16mm travel films from 1930 - 1970. Part of The UCSD Library collection of Amateur film.

Vimeo is a well known video sharing site specializing in user-generated content, media production howto videos, independent films.

Provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH.

YouTube Movies provides access to thousands of commercial films (mostly Studio) across most popular film genres. Though many films require a rental cost, there are hundreds of free films legally available in this section.