LibGuides: Streaming Video Resources: All Streaming Video Resources

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AdViews
Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s. Browse by company or product category.
Amazon Instant Video
Popular movies and television shows available for pay-per-view rental or purchase.
American Experience
View complete episodes of select films from the acclaimed PBS documentary series.
American Indian Film Gallery
Vintage motion pictures offering rich perspectives on the American Indian experience.

The site organizes titles by tribes, linking to films for more than 100 tribes. A text box to describe each film is nonfunctioning, providing only "lorum ipsum dolor" filler text as a place holder. Apart from what displays in the film itself, no additional information (publication date, running time, etc.) is provided.

These archival films are not perfect. Some were educational shorts used in American schools from the 1930s to the 1970s. Several have abbreviated titles or missing endings. Some are spliced or scratched; others have faded color. These films are windows into the human past, stunning documents with much to tell us about our New World story.
American Memory Collection
The American Memory project from the Library of Congress provides access to several hundred early motion pictures, organized into 11 discrete collections. Click the blue i button, above, for direct links to each collection.

America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916
Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982
Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904
Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901
Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906
Origins of American Animation
Prosperity and Thrift: the Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929
Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
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America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915

American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916

Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982

Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904

Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901

Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906

Origins of American Animation

Prosperity and Thrift: the Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929

Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures

Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
American Rhetoric
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.
Annenberg Learner
Part of the Annenberg Foundation, Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. The Learner.org web site provides access to many of the exceptional educational video programs developed with grant money as telecourses, including series on algebra, art, chemistry, economics, film, history, poetry, and foreign languages, among others.
The Archaeology Channel
From the Archaeological Legacy Institute, a collection of videos on a wide range of archaeological topics. Videos can be browsed by title or location on a world map, and come accompanied with a descriptive summary.
Archive of American Television
From the TV Academy Foundation, the Archive collects in-depth video interviews with TV's greatest legends and pioneers. Browse the interviews by person, show, topic or profession. New interviews and indexes are added regularly.
Associated Press Archive
YouTube Channel. Current and archival news footage back to 1895.

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BBC - Video Nation
Short videos contributed by BBC viewers. Archived and no longer updated, looks at society 2010-2012
BBC's A History of the World in 100 Objects
Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programa that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made. Each episode consists of an image of the item discussed, and a radio naration lasting about 15 minutes.
British Council Film Collection
Dating from 1940 to 1950, a collection of 120 short documentary films on subjects related to British culture.
British Film Institute
YouTube channel: Screen Talks and Filmmaker Q&As from London's BFI Southbank cinema venue, access to one of the world's best moving picture archives, film trailers, highlights from our Film Festivals and original video content from new filmmaking talent.
British Pathé
One of the oldest media companies in the world, they produced cinema newsreels from 1910-1070. All of this material can be previewed for free, but professional use would need to be licensed.

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CBC Digital Archives
Selected videos from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Available video can be browsed by topic or program name. Keyword searching is also available.
Charlie Rose
Full length episodes of the PBS news and interview program.
Classic Cinema Online
Compilation of classic film and television from around the web.
Crackle
TV and Movie content from Sony Pictures.
C-SPAN Video Library
Contains all C-SPAN programs since 1987, indexed, abstracted, and cataloged by the C-SPAN Archives staff.

Programs are indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location. The congressional sessions and committee hearings are indexed by person with full-text.
Civil Rights Digital Library
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 is a partnership among librarians, technologists, archivists, educators, scholars, academic publishers, and public broadcasters. The initiative receives support through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

The site provides both simple keyword searching and advanced searching. Content also can be browsed by Events, Places, People, Topics, Media Types (including print, government records, correspondences, etc.)

Other features of the site include numerous instructional materials, including lesson plans, quizzes, slide shows, study guides, and worksheets.

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Dailymotion
The most popular video platform in Europe, Dailymotion provides access to user-uploaded content, live event streams, and free or pay-per-view movies, series, and original content.

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European Film Gateway
Quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques
EUscreen
A project made up of 28 partners from 20 different countries, it " encourages the exploration of Europe's rich and diverse cultural history and European television history in particular." The focus is largely historic topics and virtual exhibitions. Search by broad topics and narrow by language or decade.
EVIA Digital Archive Project - Ethnographic Video for Instruction and Analysis
Collaborative endeavor to create a digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.

Funded since 2001 by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with significant contributions from Indiana University and the University of Michigan, the Project has been developed through the joint efforts of ethnographic scholars, archivists, librarians, technologists, and legal experts.

Beyond the primary mission of digitally preserving ethnographic field video, the EVIA Project has also invested significantly in the creation of software and systems for the annotation, discovery, playback, peer review, and scholarly publication of video and accompanying descriptions.

Viewing videos requires registering for an account and agreeing to the end-user license agreement.
Explore.org
Mostly livecams and some short documentaries. "a wide range of topics—from animal rights, health and human services, and poverty to the environment, education, and spirituality. Delivered in short, digestible bites, explore films appeal to viewers of all ages, from children learning about other cultures for the first time to adults looking for a fresh perspective on the world around them."

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Field of Vision
a filmmaker-driven documentary unit that commissions, creates and supports original short-form and feature-length nonfiction films and episodic series about developing and ongoing stories around the globe.
Flickr: Explore Video!
Member uploaded video. Some may be available for reuse under Creative Commons licenses.
Folkstreams
Provides streaming access to a large collection of documentary films about American folk, or roots, cultures. Includes essays about the traditions and filmmakes, transcriptions, study and teaching guides, suggested readings, and links to related websites.

Site provides simple keyword and advanced searching, as well as ability to brose by subjects, regions, titles, filmmakers, and other categories. Video displays include links to additional, related films.
Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies
For more than three decades its mission has stayed the same: to record and project the stories of those who were there.
Forum Network
Free video and audio lectures provided by WGBH public broadcasting.
FRONTLINE
View complete episodes of a large selection of films from the acclaimed PBS public affairs series.

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Google Play - Movies & TV
Google's Play store offers a selection of popular movies and TV episodes to rent or purchase.

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Harvard Unversity's Justice with Michael Sandel
A 12 part lecture series based on the popular Justice course at Harvard University. Professor Michael Sandel lectures on topics related to justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship.
Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library
A partnership between the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics at New York University and NYU Libraries, this collection provides free access to videos related to performance practices in the Americas.
HippoCampus
A project of the Monterey Institute for Technology and Education (MITE), 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

The site was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education. Colleges and universities develop the content and contributes it to the National Repository of Online Courses (NROC), another MITE project. Both HippoCampus and NROC are supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

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IMF Videos
Provides more than 1,000 short-form videos, generally under 5 minutes, produced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Search options permit searching by a combination of elements: Category, Country, Year, Language, and Keyword. Categories include: Countires and Regions, Economic Outlook, Speeches and Interviews, Topics and Issues, among others.
Internet Archive : Community Video
These thousands of videos were contributed by Archive users and community members. These videos are available for free download.
Internet Archive : Cultural & Academic Films
This library of academic and cultural films features collections from the Academic Film Archive and the Media Burn Independent Film Archive, as well as a selection of documentaries created by Dorothy Fadiman. In addition, films from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology are presented including those by Watson Kintner who used film to document his world travels, and the popular television show from the 1950s: “What in the World?”
Internet Archive : Moving Image Archive
The Moving Image Archive within the Internet Archive provides access to nearly a quarter million films, uploaded by Archive users, and ranging from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons, and US Government films.

Videos in the Archive are organized into 15 broad sub-categories: Animation and Cartoons, Arts & Music, Computers & Technology, Cultural & Academic Films, Ephemeral Films, Home Movies, Movies, News & Public Affairs, Open Source Movies, Spirituality & Religion, Sports Videos, Video Games, Vlogs, and Youth Media.

The Archive also contains the Prelinger Archive, the most complete and varied collection of ephemeral films (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) in existence.
Internet Archive : News & Public Affairs
An analysis of news and public affairs independent from traditional corporate media is available from this diverse video library. Including Universal Newsreels, Democracy Now, to Mosaic’s timely clips of Middle East newscasts, to UCSF's Tobacco Industry Videos: These collections offer an alternative way to view and interpret current news and public affairs. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Internet Archive : Television
Collections of items recorded from television, including commercials, old television shows, government proceedings, and more.
Internet Archive : TV News
The collection now contains 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are also being added. All clips are in 30 second intervals, click on the show name at top of clip to see other clips from same show and date.
iTunes
Apple's iTunes offers streams or downloads of movies, TV shows, and music videos for purchase. Additionally, lectures and course video from a number of colleges and universities are available for free via iTunes U. Purchase or download requires an iTunes account, and videos must be acquired using the iTunes platform or an Apple device.

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JoVE videos This link opens in a new window
Publishes videos of scientific experiments from the top laboratories around the globe. NOTE: we have access to the biology collection under Research and Education.

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Kanopy This link opens in a new window
A collection of unique and compelling films and documentaries. Films range from documentaries, indie, foreign films, must-see classics, and feature films.
- Due to how this product is funded, please restrict your use of this resource to teaching, research, or presentation needs. Every 4th view triggers a one year subscription to that film, and when the funds allocated for the year are used, no unsubscribed films can be viewed. Please use wisely.
- At times, Kanopy may enter mediation. This means only films which have triggered can be viewed. If there is an instructional need for a film which is not available, you will need to reach out to the Library Technical Services Coordinator. Generally, mediation only occurs over long breaks and during the summer. However, due to budget constraints mediation may have to be applied during the semester.

Current Kanopy Title List
This link takes Otterbein users to a list of currently licensed Kanopy titles which is updated monthly. Titles on the most current list can always be accessed, even during planned down times. Note: Authentication may be required. Kanopy access will be restricted to only those currently-licensed titles for the duration of the period Monday, May 10, 2021 - Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. For questions, email the Technical Services Coordinator (libts@otterbein.edu).
Knowledge Stream
Online archive of free, video-on-demand multimedia resources for the public and for educators. A particular focus on the Toledo Ohio region.

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Lannan Foundation
The Lannan Foundation is a family foundation 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.

The site provides access to 15 years of audio and video recordings from live events and interviews with notable authors, scholars, and activists. The site also provides @450 brief biographies.

There are separate search interfaces for biographies, audio files, and videos. More recordings are included on the foundations podcast site, which is available for subscription via iTunes.
Link TV
Link TV is a non-commercial television station broadcast locally in California and nationally via satellite TV providers. Programming includes original entertainment, news, and documentary programming, with many full length documentaries available for streaming on the site.
The Living Room Candidate
U.S. Presidential campaign commercials, 1952-2020.

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Media Burn
collection of videos were created by a geographically, socially, and economically diverse community of videomakers throughout the world.
MedlinePlus: Videos
From the U.S. National Library and the National Institutes of Health. Resources include Interactive Health Tutorials, Anatomy Videos, and Surgery Videos.
Metavid - Open Video Archive of the U.S. Congress
Metavid is a community driven archive of legislative video from both houses of the U.S. Congress, spanning from early 2006 to the present. This archive is searchable by speaker name, spoken text, date, metadata we've scraped from outside sources and user contributions.

The Metavid homepage is currently down, but the archive's contents can be found on the Internet Archive, linked here.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Connections
Offers personal perspectives on works of art in the collection by 100 Met staff members, each one addressing a theme such as Motherhood, Magic, Masks, or Water.
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Presents the Met’s collection via a chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of global art history. Targeted at students and scholars of art history, it is an invaluable reference, research, and teaching tool. Authored by the Met’s experts—predominantly made up of curators but also of conservators, scientists, and educators—the Timeline comprises 300 timelines, 930 essays, close to 7,000 objects, and a robust index, and is regularly updated and enriched to provide new scholarship and insights on the collection.
The Mike Wallace Interview
Video of 65 interviews from the television series hosted by the late Mike Wallace from 1957 and 1958. Provided by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Each program includes a text transcript. Available interviewees include Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank Lloyd Wright, Margaret Sanger, and Salvador Dali among other notables of the time.
MIT Global Shakespeares
A video archive of Shakespeare performances from around the world.
Moving Image Research Collections | Digital Video Repository
From the University of South Carolina, an open access repository of digital video. Collections available include newsreels, regional film, Chinese films, and science and nature films.

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NASA | Multimedia
Among the video resources available through NASA's multimedia page are a selection of most recent videos, direct links to NASA's YouTube channels, and NASA VODcasts, or video podcasts.
National Film Board of Canada
Enjoy documentaries, animations, alternative dramas and interactive productions on the web.
New Day Films
New Day Films, a member-owned distribution cooperative offering quality, compelling social issue films provides streaming access to over 90 documentary films.

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Open Culture
Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films
Open Memory Box
Home movies from East Germany filmed between 1947 and 1990. Very interesting grouping and design of the site.
The Open Video Project
Open collection of documentary and historical films from a variety of sources.

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PBS LearningMedia
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 and with home-schoolers.

Content aligns with Common Core State Standards for preK-16 classrooms. This collection contains more that than 114,000 research-based instructional resources – including videos, interactives, images, audio files, mobile apps, lesson plans, and worksheets.

Requires personal registration on the site.
PBS Video
Provides access to selected programs from selected PBS series (such as Nature, American Experience, Nova, and Frontline, among others.) Users can browse by Programs, Topics, or Collections. Individual programs are subdivided into smaller segments. Most videos will require Passport or access.
POV Video
Provides a selection of full length films, short films, and lesson plan based clips from the acclaimed PBS documentary film series POV.

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ScienceCinema
Contains multimedia videos highlighting the U.S. Department of Energy's scientific research. State-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology allows the user to search for specific words and phrases spoken by the presenter in these video files. Simply enter a term and the results list will point to the precise snippets of the video where the term was spoken.
splendAd - Advertising database
Database of current television advertising, including a list of songs used in ads. Last updated 2017
Stanford Health Video Library
The Stanford Health Library provides a collection of online videos covering various health topics, including health and society, cancer support, and women's health.

Videos may be viewable online through Stanford University iUniversity (iTunes interface) or QuickTime, or available for purchase on DVD. Not all videos are available for online viewing.
Super Bowl Commercial Archive
Watch commercial aired during the Super Bowl since 1980.

Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
This streaming platform provides non-theatrical title-by-title showings of content to students or other members of Otterbein. These films have been selected by faculty for specific class needs. Films may not be viewed in a group setting outside of class.

Films are only licensed for one year.

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TED: Ideas worth spreading
Makes available the best talks and performances from TED and partners. More than 500 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week. All of the talks feature closed captions in English, and many feature subtitles in various languages. Videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted.

Talks are organized under broad subject categories: Technology, Entertainment, Design, Business, Science, and Global Issues.

tellyAds
Current and vintage television commercials from the United Kingdom.
Texas Archive of the Moving Image
A non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and providing access to Texas' film heritage. " TAMI’s ever-growing online collection includes home movies, amateur films, advertisements, local television, industrial and corporate productions, as well as Hollywood and internationally produced moving images of Texas."
Thanhouser Video Collection
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.

The films were assembled over the past 25 years with the cooperation of archives around the world, including The Library of Congress in Washington, DC, The British Film Institute in London, England, George Eastman House in Rochester, New York, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, New York, the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles, California, the EYE Film Institute Netherlands in Amsterdam, Holland, and from the Thanhouser collection.

Each film includes a summary and analysis written by film historian Victor Graf. Andrew Crow, Raymond A. Brubacher and Ben Model composed and performed original musical accompaniment commissioned exclusively for this collection.
Travel Film Archive
Archival footage from travelogues, industrial, and educational films shot between 1900 and 1970. All films can be viewed in full on the site, though professional use would require licensing.
Tribesourcing Film
This project tribesources mid-20th century educational and sponsored films about Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest and Southern California by recording Native narrations and contextual information for film content from the Native communities they represent. Scroll down for audio commentary.
TV News
This portion of the Internet Archive collects and preserves television news. The collection contains more than 350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are also being added. Use the index of searchable text and short, streamed clips to find programs to borrow on DVD-ROM or view at the Internet Archive’s library in San Francisco. Fees apply for borrowing.

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UbuWeb Film & Video
A collection of avant-garde film and video. Films are organized alphabetically by the name of the author or subject, and include musicians, artists, and writers in addition to filmmakers.

UCLA Film and Television Archive
Mix of programs on UCLA, silent films, animation, etc.
United Nations YouTube Channel

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Video Data Bank TV
Vimeo
User-uploaded content, as well as free and on-demand films, documentaries, and original series. Vimeo focuses on user-created content, and some video may be available for use under Creative Commons licences.
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Check Vimeo's Creative Commons page for details on Creative Commons videos and terms of use.
Vudu
Service offering popular movies and TV series episodes for rental or purchase. Paid and free

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WGBH Open Vault
Provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. The ever-expanding site contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools, all of which are available for individual and classroom learning.

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YouTube
Perhaps the best known of all steaming video sites, YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, Inc . The site displays a wide variety of user-uploaded video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos.

Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, but some media corporations (including CBS, the BBC), universities (including Harvard, Yale, and MIT), and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program. Pay-per-view streams of feature films are also available via YouTube Movies.

Due to the 10 minute limit on YouTube uploads (partners can load longer videos), many programs on the site are divided into several parts.

YouTube can be a source of last resort for out-of-print and hard-to-find content.