List of selected freely available online video collections, which contain mostly open access/freely available streaming video. This list is not comprehensive, nor intended as an advertisement for specific vendors.
Discovery tool for collections of U.S. public radio and television content from 1950s-present. Contains thousands of original PBS and NPR broadcasts from the mid-20th century to the present.
Another Gaze's streaming platform, featuring week-long programs of films by women across modes of production and geographies, with new writing and translations about these works.
Using the YouTube platform, this channel presents hundreds of oral history interviews with major figures in television history. See also the main Archive of American Television site.
Curated by Maya Cade, Black Film Archive lists every Black film made between 1915 and 1979 that is currently streaming with descriptions and contextual information.
A freely available ad-supported video streaming platform (originally named Grouper). Features films and TV shows, primarily from Sony Pictures and its subsidiaries.
EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s until today.
From the CSRC’s collection of eleven films Farmersville Film Project, funded by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, which produced short documentaries in 1968 about conditions for Mexican American farmworkers in Farmersville, a town in California’s Central Valley.
From the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), this page lists outlets and platforms that offer free access to the holdings of FIAF affiliates online and are run or to a great extent maintained by the archives themselves.
Connected to The Met's 150th Anniversary, From the Vault will release one new film produced by the Met's Office of Cinema Works each Friday during 2020. More information on this page.
Digital project from NYU Libraries and NYU's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics that "provides a digital venue for documenting the expression of social and political life through performance."
Free video resource curated by America's longest running dance festival. Click ARTIST, GENRE, or ERA to find dance clips spanning from the 1930s to today.
The National Screening Room showcases the Library’s vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies freely accessible and downloadable.
Moving image collection with over 4000 hours of local newsfilm, and covering sixty years of social history and cultural revolution in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of the collection must be viewed on site, but some content is available for viewing online.
A digital portal with conversations and 60 in-depth portraits of directors, actors, writers, and producers who were celebrated in the Walker Cinema at pivotal moments in their careers.
A freely available ad-supported streaming service owned by Fox Corporation, including movies and television content from Paramount, Lionsgate, MGM, and other studios.
You can view or download any of the 11 preserved animated silent films and read film notes and historical overviews here http://animation.library.ucla.edu/.
Provides online access to historical content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Contains video, audio, images, and searchable transcripts.
Includes primary materials from world cultures, including manuscripts, maps, rare books, musical scores, recordings, films, prints, photographs, architectural drawings, and more.
From film scholar Klaus Kreimeier, this site offers streaming videos and short essays on major directors of silent film, including films by Griffith, Chaplin, Méliès, Guy, and the Lumiére brothers.