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- ABC Documentaries
- Includes a wide range of topics from ABC Australia
- Academic Earth
- Videos of courses and lectures from all subject areas supplied by some of the outstanding U.S. colleges and universities.
- America at Work, America at Leisure, 1894-1915
- 150 early films depicting everyday life.
- American Experience
- A number of streaming films on American history provided by PBS / WGBH.
- American Field Guide (PBS)
- Over 1400 video clips on the natural sciences.
- American History TV - CSPAN
- Featuring discussions with authors and historians as well as first person accounts of American History.
- American Memory
- A project from the Library of Congress that provides access to early motion pictures.
- Annenberg/CPB
- Annenberg has made many of its telecourses available via "Video on Demand." Subject areas include history, languages, literature, politics, philosophy, and science among others. There are also teacher workshops. Users must complete a free registration.
- The Archaeology Channel
- Audio and video of interest to disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The quality, production dates, and age level vary.
- Arkive.org
- Wildlife video and photos.
- Art Babble
- "ArtBabble was conceived, initiated, designed, built, sculpted, programmed, shot, edited, painted and launched by a cross-departmental collection of individuals at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA). It is intended to showcase video art content in high quality format from a variety of sources and perspectives."
- Australian Screen Archive
- Includes feature films, documentaries, newsreels, etc. from the Australian National Film and Sound Archives.
- BBC Programmes Archive
- Audio recordings on a wide range of subjects covered by the British Broadcasting Service. Also BBC: In Our Time
- BigIdeas
- A Canadian show on important topics of the day. Topics include politics, culture, economics, art, and so on.
- BioEd Online
- Video, audio, and slide sets on a variety of biology subjects. Produced by Baylor College of Medicine. "You are authorized to view, copy, download and print materials on BioEd Online subject to the following terms, conditions and exceptions,the materials are to be used solely for personal, noncommercial, informational and educational purposes. The materials are not to be modified. They are to be distributed in the format provided with the source clearly identified. The copyright information or other proprietary notices may not to be removed, changed, or altered. The site design, layout and individual elements are not to be reproduced, copied or redistributed except as indicated above in item number one."
- C-SPAN Classroom
- Mostly political.
- Digital History
- Covers all periods of U. S. history. Includes recorded speeches, film trailers, historic music, images, primary sources, textbooks, and other resources.
- Discovery News Videos
- Mostly clips. Many subject areas. Can be searched.
- Documentary-Film Network
- ". . . bridges the gap between film makers and their audience. On this site Viewers Can watch films online, in full and at high quality . . . " Many are free. Film makers upload films they have made directly to this site for streaming. There is no search engine on this site; you must browse a list of titles.
- Edge
- Conversations with some respected modern thinkers on a wide variety of subjects. Click on conversations for a list of topics.
- Europa Film Treasures
- European cinema.
- explore
- "explore is a philanthropic community whose mission is to champion the selfless acts of others, to create a portal into the soul of humanity and to inspire lifelong learning. Our dream is to create a destination of trust." - Founder, Charles Annenberg Weingarten
- First Run Icarus Films
- Excerpts from films in almost every subject area. The length of the excerpt varies.
- Folkstreams
- Documentary films about American folk or roots culture. Each "filmmaker has granted Folkstreams permission to stream their work for users to watch free of charge on their home computers. But for other permissions like downloading, using the footage in other projects or videos, or projecting the streams in a classroom, the user should apply to the filmmaker."
- Fooling with Words: The Poets Read
- PBS Bill Moyers program featuring readings by contemporary poets.
- Fora TV
- "FORA.tv is the leading online destination for intelligent video programs on the people, issues, and ideas changing the world. We offer free, paid-membership, and fee-based video viewing of live events, lectures, and debates...."
- Foreign Language Video Instruction
- Foreign Language Video Instruction is a collection of video clips in which native speakers elaborate on a wide variety of topics about their culture, family, daily life, and more. Each video clip is accompanied by a description of its contents, the country of the speaker, and additional grammar and vocabulary notes. These videos are produced by the ViewPoints Project of the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium.
- Forum Network
- Free online lectures from PBS and NPR.
- Free Documentaries Online
- "The goal of Documentary24.com is to collect the best documentary films available on the internet and to present them to you for free. All documentaries can be watched inside the browser without the need of registration or downloading the movies. This page is not for financial profit but for the intellectual education of everybody who watches the movies."
- Frontline
- Online viewing of programs from the PBS Frontline series.
- FSI Language Courses
- These are foreign language courses created by the Foreign Service Institute. Over 30 languages are represented. Audiotapes, when available, may be heard online.
- Global Oneness Project
- "The Global Oneness Project produces films, media and educational materials that explore how the simple notion of interconnectedness can be lived in today's complex world."
- Great Conversations in Music
- You can view videos and read biographies on some of the major composers, performers, and conductors of classical music.
- Great Performances
- "GREAT PERFORMANCES presents a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular song, musical theater, dance, drama, and performance documentaries."
- The History Channel
- Audio and video clips from famous moments in twentieth century American history. Length varies from approximately one to two minutes.
- Internet Archive: Moving Picture Archive or
- Feature Films
- Collections include, The Prelinger Archives, over 1200 advertising, educational, and industrial films produced since 1927. Net Cafe, TV program that discusses web culture. The World at War, short films that comment on war. Feature Films contains classics from the 1920s through 1950's. Consult the Archives for terms of use.
- Lannan Foundation
- Audio recordings of writers' and poets' works.
- Learners TV
- "This site provides free video and audio lectures of whole courses conducted by faculty from reputed universities around the world."
- Link TV
- “Global and national news, uncompromising documentaries, diverse cultural programs, connecting you to the world....”
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Videos and podcasts from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The LACMA collections include European masterpieces, contemporary art, American art from the United States and Latin America, Islamic art , a comprehensive Korean art collection, and the Pavilion for Japanese art.
- Macaulay Library
- A sound and video library from the Cornell University Lab of Ornithology. The library contains more than 160,000 recordings of birds, recordings of insects, fish, frogs, and mammals, and 3,000 species of birds in the video archive.
- Meaning of Life
- Video taped interviews with some of today's top thinkers such as Karen Armstrong, Francis Fukuyama, Huston Smith, among others. Topics relate mostly to philosophy and religion.
- Media that Matters
- Films from the annual film festival. Concerns social issues.
- MIT World
- "...key presentations by the MIT faculty and guest speakers who are shaping the future. These free, on-demand videos, available 24/7 to viewers worldwide, reflect and extend MIT’s educational mission—to provide the best education in science, technology, and related fields—to engaged learners anytime, anywhere."
- Museum of Broadcast Communications
- A collection of documentaries including, Civil Rights (video), World War II: FDR's Fireside Chats (audio), Vietnam War (video), Performing Arts (video), Flashback (audio & video), major events in broadcast history, The Great Debate and Beyond: The History of Televised Presidential Debates, MBC Presents (video), over 120 documentaries in the areas of media, history, and politics.
- National Endowment of the Arts
- Podcasts, webcasts and webinars on a variety of topics.
- National Film Board of Canada Online Screening Room
- More than 700 films are available for free individual screening online. Educational / classroom use requires a subscription.
- National Gallery of Art
- Audio, video, and music podcasts relating to the arts.
- National Geographic Video
- National Geographic provides streaming video related to cultural, environmental, travel, and science-related topics. Most are short clips. Consult the terms of use for permitted educational uses.
- Nature: Online Video Streaming Archive
- Streaming video interviews with scientists for selected Nature articles.
- NPR Music
- Concerts, studio sessions, interviews, columns, among other offerings.
- Open Vault
- "Open Vault provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by public television station WGBH for individual and classroom learning. The ever-expanding site contains video excerpts, searchable transcripts, a select number of complete interviews for purchase, and resource management tools." By registering, you will be able to create your own playlist.
- PBS
- Shows drawn from include Frontline, Nova, Great Performances, American Experience, Masterpiece Theater among others. Most are full length.
- San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art
- Video and audio presentations on modern art and artists.
- Smithsonian Video Archive
- The Smithsonian archive contains streaming videos in the fields of nature and wildlife, people and culture, science and technology, and history. Most are in the sciences at this time.
- SnagFilms
- Documentaries from independent film makers and some well established sources like PBS and National Geographic. Films may be viewed free of charge, although there is some ad content. A broad range of topics is available including the arts, environment, history. health, culture, politics, religion, science, sports, and women's issues.
- Steven Speilberg Film and Video Archive at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Videos on the Holocaust and related aspects of World War II from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive.
- Tate Online
- "Tate’s Online Events Archive provides a growing resource of artist talks, performances and cultural debate. Currently there are over 600 hours of audio and video available."
- Teacher's Domain
- Teacher's Domain includes a nice collection of video clips from public television programming. Subject include arts. English, math, science, and social studies. There is a college level edition, but many of the videos for the high school level are also appropriate. Lesson plans and student activities are also available. They have very generous terms of use which you should read. There are multiple ways of sharing these sources including linking, downloading, placing the items in folders, and in some cases remixing. You will need to read the terms of use because they vary from item to item. Registration is free and gives you unlimited access to all the resources. Some of the categories they use are not intuitive, for example: under social studies / global connections / belief systems you will find a number of clips on world religions.
- TEDTalks
- Videos from the TEDTalks conferences from some of the most fascinating thinkers and doers of our time.
- Trailers of Historically Significant Films
- These trailers are from Digital History (see above). Length of time varies. They range from Broken Blossoms (1919) to Fahrenheit 911 (2004).
- UbuWeb: Film & Video
- "UbuWeb is pleased to present dozens of avant-garde films & videos for your viewing pleasure. However, it is important to us that you realize that what you will see is in no way comparable to the experience of seeing these gems as they were intended to be seen: in a dark room, on a large screen, with a good sound system and, most importantly, with a roomful of warm, like-minded bodies."
- YouTube Education
- Videos from colleges and universities.
October, 2012
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