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Streaming Media - Video Collections

Introduction to Streaming Video on the Internet

A number of freely accessible Internet sites provide access to streaming videos. These sites may host content or merely point to content hosted elsewhere. Advertising supports some of these sites. Others are the official site for a producer, distributor, series, or festival. Searching functions on these sites vary widely, and content can change or be removed without notice.

Disclaimer: Berkeley College Libraries are not responsible for any of the content linked from these sites. We cannot guarantee availability of the content they provide, nor assume responsibility for the functionality of these sites.

Open Access Streaming Video Sites

  • American Indian Film Gallery - University of Arizona resource contains vintage films listed by tribe.
  • American Memory - This project from the Library of Congress provides access to several hundred early motion pictures.
  • American Rhetoric - Features a growing collection of text, audio, and video versions of over 5,000 speeches.
  • Archive of American Television - Hosted by the TV Academy Foundation this archive provides access to hundreds of in-depth video interviews with TV's greatest legends and pioneers. 
  • 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. 
  • Free Movies Online - Over 1,150 quality films that you can watch online. 
  • Hippo Campus - This site was designed as part of Open Education Resources (OER), a worldwide effort to improve access to quality education. Collections include Khan Academy, NROC, PHET and Earth Science Multimedia.
  • Lannan Foundation - Provides access to 15 years of audio and video recordings from live events and interviews with notable authors, scholars, and activists.
  • National Film Board of Canada - Offers documentaries, animated film and more from around the world. They also have channels for topics like history, biography and the arts.
  • RTVE.es A La Carta - RTVE.es is the Spanish public broadcasting company and it provides free online streaming for a wide variety of its films, documentaries and television programming.
  • Thanhouser Films Online - 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.
  • Travel Film Archive - A collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films that show the world the way it was between 1900 through 1970.

Open Access Documentaries

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