Video and Media Resources

Poland's cinematic history lives at 35mm.online. Hundreds of free feature films, documentaries, and animations have been restored and digitized by the Polish Film Institute, then mounted online for everybody. All with English subtitles.

TV ads from classic American brands from the 1950s - 1980s. AdViews is a collaborative project between the Duke University Digital Collections Program and the Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History, as well as a number of other groups, at Duke University.

This repository contains over 450 non-fiction films that document Native lifeways from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, with a large concentration on peoples of the Southwest. The films range from a 1922 silent newsreel to recent footage of pow-wows and political meetings in 2011. The majority of the films date to the golden age of U.S. educational and sponsored filmmaking after World War II up to the advent of portable video.

Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable in the Library of Congress American Memory collections.

The archive collects in-depth video interviews with TV's greatest legends and pioneers.

BFA spotlights Black films made from 1915 to 1979 that are available streaming. While many of the films must be rented or require subscriptions, there are notable freebies like Super Fly from1972 and Juke Joint from 1947.

British Movietone’s newsreel archive spanning 1895 to 1986.

Cinema newsreels, cinemagazines, and historic clips from 1902 to 1970.

This site contains almost all C-SPAN programs since 1987.

This collection contains video interviews with people who experienced China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). It also includes interviews with young Chinese people born after the Cultural Revolution, who discuss how they learned of this historical incident.

Cinemargentino is a library of Argentinian films that allows users to stream full movies, documentaries, and shorts for free. Some with subtitles, some without.

Free and universal access to a trove of full-length Chilean films and documentaries collected by Cineteca Nacional de Chile.

Folkstreams is dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures. These documentaries focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different kinds of communities.

An immense, wondrous assortment of film/video delights: classic feature films, daily alternative news broadcasts, cartoons, concerts, ephemera, archival footage, educational and industrial films, classic sports videos, television, and way more. Many of these videos are available for free download. See https://api.gdeltproject.org/api/v2/tvv/tvv for a breakout of news footage from all over the world.

Get your Korean cinema fix with this YouTube channel devoted to selected films produced in South Korea during the past 70 years. The Korean Film Archive maintains this extensive collection. Subtitles in English provided!

Watch U.S. presidential campaign commercials from 1952 to 2024.

Legendary Russian Soviet-era film production company Mosfilm offers their archive as well as a few recent creations.

Documentaries, animation, shorts, and informational films that are, just like Canada, more fascinating than you can imagine. Many films are free, streaming, and some are downloadable.

Netflix makes a few of its educational documentaries available on YouTube for free, notably 13th and Our Planet episodes.

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting hosts this collection of thousands of audiovisual items documenting New Mexico’s social, political, artistic and cultural history between 1963 and 2020. It includes programs by Indigenous producers, Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentaries, bilingual and Spanish language series, Vietnam War protest coverage and more.

Links to more than 1,000 free movies available online collected by non-profit group of educators. Includes film noir, horror, silents, shorts, comedy, drama, and more.

Public Service Broadcasting Trust supports the independent documentary movement in India, producing over 52 films a year--with international accolades, frequent film festival invitations, and awards. You can watch many of them on the PSBT site or on YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/user/PSBTIndia/featured.

Highlights scientific videos featuring leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy.

SFA films document the diverse food cultures of the changing American South. Based at the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture.

Free films and TV shows from major studios, albeit with ads.

Much of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is viewable online. It features thousands of clips pertaining to the Holocaust and World War II.

Discovery Virginia is a project of Virginia Humanities to digitize and preserve the thousands of valuable assets it has produced in its forty year history, including videos on topics ranging from African American heritage in Virginia to history by and about the Monacan People.

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