Media Resources @ Warner Library: Free Video on the Web

A collection of online video course from the likes of Stanford, Yale, UCLA, etc.

AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s.

"Al Jazeera started out over twelve years ago as the first independent Arabic news channel in the world dedicated to providing comprehensive television news and live debate for the Arab world."--cc.aljazeera.net/

"TVs most-watched history series."--pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience

American Film Institute offers video segments on their site.

" [A] gallery of vintage motion pictures offers rich perspectives on the American Indian experience. [...] presented here free of charge for viewing and downloading for educational purposes."

Several hundred early motion pictures are viewable in the Library's American Memory collections.

"Features a growing collection of text, audio, and video versions of over 5,000 speeches. The site provides access to "public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events." Includes sections for Christian rhetoric, "Top 100 Speeches," "Rhetorical Figures in Sound," "Rhetoric of 9-11," and more. Notable is the selection of speeches from movies, arranged alphabetically by title. Not all speeches have accompanying videos. Site supported by advertising, and maintained by a speech communication professor."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

Teacher Professional Development and Teacher Resources by Annenberg Media

"The Archaeology Channel provides free access to a large collection of streaming media covering archaeology worldwide."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"Founded in 1997, the Television Academy Foundation’s Archive of American Television has conducted over 700 oral history interviews (over 3000 hours) with the legends of television."--emmytvlegends.org

"The ARKive project has unique access to the very best of the world's wildlife films and photographs, with more than 3,500 of the world's leading filmmakers and photographers actively contributing to the project, and giving ARKive unprecedented access to their materials."--arkive.org

"Created by P.B.S., this Web site is patterned after a nationally broadcast series on contemporary art, artists, and ideas. Among other things, this site has an online lesson library, teacher materials and discussions. Full episodes are available in the PBS video portal."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"Take a trip through our collective past with the BBC archives and discover themed collections of radio and TV programmes, documents and photographs from as far back as the 1930s."--bbc.co.uk/archive/

Over 10,000 movie clips from the archives of the British Broadcasting Corporation and CBS News.

A digital news archive that allows users to preview items from the entire 3500 hour British Pathe Film Archive which covers news, sport, social history and entertainment from 1896 to 1970.

"The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 170,000 hours, is contained in the C-SPAN Archives and immediately accessible through the database and electronic archival systems developed and maintained by the C-SPAN Archives."--C-Spanvideo.org

"Web visitors can now view or download videos on a variety of health, safety and preparedness topics. The library of videos will expand to include single-topic presentations as well as different video series focused on children, parents, and public health professionals."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"The Center for Early Childhood Education is committed to sharing useful resources with early childhood teachers, administrators, researchers, trainers, and policymakers. The Center is developing a large archive of video footage young children, early childhood professionals engaged in teaching, and interviews with experts that can be used for specific research or training uses."--easternct.edu

"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."--crdl.usg.edu/?Welcome

"Professors post clips media analysis through the use of film clips."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

Discovery Channel videos that feature clips about science, technology, news, mythbusters, dirty jobs and more.

EASE History is a rich online environment that supports the learning and teaching of US History. Hundreds of historical videos and photographs are currently available in EASE History.

"YouTube EDU brings learners and educators together in a global video classroom. On YouTube EDU, you have access to a broad set of educational videos that range from academic lectures to inspirational speeches and everything in between."--youtube.com/t/education

"Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner offers 2000 free videos and podcasts, featuring entrepreneurship and innovation thought leaders. Start exploring now."--ecorner.stanford.edu

"A collection of 6 million digital images of paintings, music, films and books from Europe's galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Included are images, texts, sounds and videos."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"a collaborative endeavor to create a digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors."--eviada.org

"A National Preserve of Documentary Films about American Roots Cultures streamed with essays about the traditions and filmmaking. The site includes transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites."--folkstreams.net

Watch full videos from PBS' popular FRONTLINE series. Videos available dating back to 1983.

"GloPAD (Global Performing Arts Database) records include authoritative, detailed, multilingual descriptions of digital images, texts, video clips, sound recordings, and complex media objects related to the performing arts around the world, plus information about related pieces, productions, performers, and creators."--glopad.org

"HippoCampus provides high-quality, multimedia content on general education subjects to high school and college students. Content is organized by broad disciplines: Algebra, American Government, Biology, Calculus, Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, US History."--connect.ala.org/node/183711#toc154410

View History Channel programs.

Watch free videos and full episodes of current primetime TV shows online, as well as sports videos, video clips from movies, and full-length films as well.

Internet Movie Database offers videos of full-length movies, full-length TV episodes, movie trailers & clips, and indie films & shorts

"With over 3,100 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace."--khanacademy.org

Website streams live broadcasts over the Internet. Interviews, sports, entertainment, news, and more.

1952 - 2004 An archive of historic and current political advertisements from television and the internet. Most clips include transcripts.

"The Media Burn Independent Video Archive collects more than 6,000 documentary videotapes produced by independent videographers outside of corporate contexts. The tapes chronicle four decades of 20th and 21st century life, including politics, arts and culture, community life, urban issues, ethnic identities, and more."--mediaburn.org

MIT World is a free, open streaming media web site of the most significant public events at MIT.

"Provides more than 12,000 short clips from feature films licensed from Fox, MGM, Paramount, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of 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 NFB website provides information on over 13,000 Canadian Film Board sponsored films, and includes free access to over 2,000 films, excerpts, trailers, and interactive works for online screening."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

View free videos from National Geographic, featuring animal videos, science and space videos, shark videos, lion videos and other popular video content.

"This webpage provides links to public domain video of some of those sites, including national parks, monuments, battlefields, historic sites and related areas. This content is great for remixing, reuse in projects and publication."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

A great website full of science videos. Discover the fascinating science of the world around us with over 300 video clips. Browse the categories, or enter a question or a keyword in the search box.

NOVA is the highest rated science series on television and the most watched documentary series on public television. Watch video dating from 2004 to present.

"A University of North Carolina project to create free repository of archival, documentary and educational video."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"Developed by PBS, WNET, and KET, and 31 other PBS stations. Content contributed from publicly funded organizations, including the National Archives, the Library of Congress and NPR, NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Education, delivers thousands of resources for use in the classroom."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

Watch award-winning national programming and locally produced shows.

"Classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"Provides a selection of full length films, short films, and lesson plan based clips from the acclaimed PBS documentary film series POV."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"Videos of global tech innovators."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"Contains multimedia videos highlighting the U.S. Department of Energy's scientific research."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"The Library's multimedia archive includes more than 2,500 hours of secret White House recordings, hundreds of presidential oral history interviews, audio and video recordings of Miller Center Forums, and documents related to the executive branch of American government."-millercenter.org/scripps

"Southern Foodways Alliance produces several films in concert with the University of Mississippi's Center for Documentary Projects."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

Smithsonian Channel brings you original documentaries and videos exploring history, air and space, science, nature, and culture.

"Provides access to full-length documentary films from established distributors and first-time filmmakers. The Snag Films library includes more than 850 films."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"A video library for K - 12 foreign language teachers; 28 half-hour and 2 one-hour video programs, library guide, and Web site."--learner.org

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design.

"More than 50 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."--http://connect.ala.org/node/183711

"The USDA YouTube channel contains over 300 videos of video features, training videos and speeches related to the U.S. Department of Agriculture."--http://connect.ala.org/node/183711

"A collection online video and audio recordings of notable lectures, events, and readings held at University of California, Berkeley."--http://connect.ala.org/node/183711

"University of California Television (UCTV) is a public-serving media outlet featuring programming from throughout the University of California, the nation's premier research university made of ten campuses, three national labs and affiliated institutions."--uctv.tv/about/

"UCTV Prime is a lively place to find new ideas, spark the imagination and discover diverse voices on every subject. With documentary mini-series, interviews, analysis and video shorts each week, UCTV Prime brings to light the innovations, trends, issues and personalities that shape our world."--youtube.com/user/UCTVPrime

"Academic seminars, conferences and colloquia from the University of California."--youtube.com/uctvseminars

A partial online catalog of the Fox Movietonews newsreel collection (Century Fox Film Corporation) at the University of South Carolina. The Newsfilm Library includes all Movietonews reels from 1919-1934, as well as the complete newsreels and all associated outtakes from September 1942 through August 1944.

"View the various food safety and inspection streaming videos and audio files available from the Food Safety and Inspection Service."--fsis.usda.gov

"Online collection of moving images on 20th-century healthcare and medicine."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"Categorized stock video clips from WGBH TV, this collection contains tons of rights-free archival footage perfect for creating mashups or short videos."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

"Provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH."--connect.ala.org/node/183711

Founded in February 2005, YouTube is the world's most popular online video community, allowing millions of people to discover, watch and share originally-created videos.

"The best free cultural & educational media on the web." Contains audio books, ebooks, online courses, MOOCs, and Movies.

"This web site includes over 4,400 testimonies in 22 languages from witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. This site is used for elementary to post-doctoral level research." -- CHOICE

Videvo is run by a small team in Oxford, UK. As well as a whole host of free footage filmed all over the world, we provide production elements and motion graphics, sound effects and music. We create and curate the majority of our content in-house for use in films and video projects, web design, sound design, theatrical productions, educational exercises and demonstrations and more.