LibGuides: Videos in the Classroom: Open Access Videos

Selected Open Access Video Resources and Search Engines

Bing Video Search
Use Bing to search the web for videos. To search just videos, limit search results by 'Videos'. If you are interested in only free videos, click the 'Filter' button and limit search results by 'Price: Free'
Google Video Search
A free video hosting service launched by Google on 2005. Click on the 'Tools' button to filter results by time, duration, quality, etc.
Internet Archive : Movie Archive
This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Commons Wikimedia: browse by video category
To find just videos, go to 'Switch to special search' and click on 'Video'. You may limit your search results by License such as: No restriction, Use with attribution and other.
YouTube Video Search
A popular video platform. To Limit your search results to Creative Commons Licenses, go to Filters tab, and under Features choose Creative Commons.

Documentary 24: Free Documentaries Online
Index to free videos
Documentary Network
Offers free and legal film streaming of documentaries from all around the world without regional and technical limitations.
Documentary Heaven
Open Access. All media is embedded from other sites such as Vimeo and YouTube.
Documentary Tube
Full-Length Documentaries Online for Free.
Educated Earth
Educated Earth is one of the world's largest Educational Media websites. Currently broadcasting 2421 video clips.
Watch Documentaries
An online library collection of free documentaries.
Top Documentary Films
Includes more than 3,000 documentaries organized in 25 different categories.

Al Jazeera English
CBC.Ca
Associated Press : Videos
Internet Archive : News and Public Affairs
An analysis of news and public affairs independent from traditional corporate media is available from this diverse video library. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Internet Archive : TV News
Link TV broadcasts programs
Global and national news, uncompromising documentaries and diverse cultural programs...."
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With an archive of Mosaic: World News from the Middle East , which "features selections from daily TV news programs produced by national and regional broadcasters throughout the Middle East. The reports are presented unedited and translated, when necessary, into English. Mosaic includes news from Egypt, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, the Palestinian Authority, and Iran, among others..."
Open Vault
Provide online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station GBH.
BBC Motion Gallery
The collection is spanning from the first BBC broadcast in 1922 to the present day.

National Film Board of Canada (NFB) Screening Room
Films on this site can be streamed free of charge
Internet Archive : Feature Films
Feature films, shorts, silent films and trailers are available for viewing and downloading.
Internet Archive : Television
Collections of items recorded from television, including commercials, old television shows, and more.
Open Culture
4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, Documentaries & More
VoleFlix
Dozens of free public domain movies