Streaming Media

An ever-growing collection of dance videos filmed at Jacob’s Pillow from the 1930s to today, plus multi-media essays and a related podcast.

From exhibition previews to curator talks and performances, this collection contains over 1,000 videos covering the collection at The Met.

Thanhouser Company Film Preservation, Inc. is a non-profit organization involved in the research, acquisition, preservation and publication of educational materials related to the early silent motion picture era, with a specific focus on the Thanhouser film enterprise that was based in New Rochelle, New York between 1910 and 1917.

A digital collection that provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s.

Provides more than 1,000 short-form videos, generally under 5 minutes, produced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Categories of videos include: Countries and Regions, Economic Outlook, Speeches and Interviews, Topics and Issues, among others.

Contains more than 300 television commercials from every election year since 1952, when the first campaign TV ads aired.

AIFG 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 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.

An archive of short- and long-form documentaries and films with a socio-cultural focus. This archive consists of films produced by film-makers from all regions of the world. The archive’s purpose is to help individuals, groups or institutions with mission to facilitate a shift in global consciousness via the medium of films.

Lannan Foundation is dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity and creativity through projects which support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, as well as inspired Native activists in rural indigenous communities.

A playlist of educational documentaries from Netflix.

Folkstreams' mission is to find, preserve, contextualize, and stream documentary films on American folklife.

Features a collection of 8,000+ videos from a geographically, socially, and economically diverse community of videomakers from around the world. The collection’s roots are in the “guerrilla television” movement of the 1960s and 1970.

Provides thousands of free videos in 13 different subject areas for high school and college students. Subjects include: Algebra, American Government, Biology, Calculus, Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, US History

Provides a wide variety of videos of NASA's that help you explore the universe and discover Earth.

A multimedia search tool provided by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Contains video and audio files produced by DOE National Laboratories, other DOE research facilities, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).

A collection of first-person interviews of those involved in the birth and growth of the American television industry. These interviews are produced in the interest of preserving the history of television and to be used as primary source material for future generations.

A global newsreel archive containing many of the world’s enduring images and is rich in coverage of news events, celebrities, sports, music, social history, science, lifestyle and quirky happenings. These newsreel archives are spanning the period of 1895-1986.

Features a collection of 8,000+ videos from a geographically, socially, and economically diverse community of videomakers from around the world. The collection’s roots are in the “guerrilla television” movement of the 1960s and 1970.

The mission of The Academic Film Archive of North America (AFA) is to acquire, preserve, document, and promote academic film by providing an archive, resource, and forum for continuing scholarly advancement and public exhibition. The AFA defines academic film as any film in the broad subject areas of the Humanities and Sciences which were sold into secondary school, university, and public libraries. These films were made by educational film companies, television networks, non-profit...

A Library of Congress digital collection containing several hundred early motion pictures.

A collection of interviews from those who experienced the Great Depression. These interviews are part of the Henry Hampton Collection housed at the Film & Media Archive at Washington University Libraries.

The National Film Preservation Foundation, the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage, has helped to preserve 2,620 films in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

The National Screening Room is a project of the Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. It showcases the riches of the Library's vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, accessible to the viewers worldwide. The majority of titles in the National Screening Room are freely available as both 5 mb MP4 and ProRes 422 MOV/Quicktime downloads.

Contains much of the Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive of interviews with Holocaust survivors. Features thousands of clips pertaining to the Holocaust and World War II.