Film & Video Collections: Open Access Resources

The UCLA Film & Television Archive worked with the producers of “In the Life,” the longest running LGBT television news magazine, to create a digital portal to all of their television episodes and some contextual materials.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Life & Times in Britain form 1890 - 2011