Streaming Media

Early motion pictures can be viewed online in the Library of Congress's American Memory collection. Click on a specific film collection and browse the Title or Subject list.

Free educational streaming video on the site. Premium content also offered. Includes topics on world history, art history, world literature and more.

Check out hundreds of free films on the YouTube Channel for the British Film Institute's National Archive - a large and diverse film and TV archive.

Archive of 90,000 British videos covering newsreel, sports footage, social history documentaries, entertainment and music stories from 1896 to 1976. U.S. history, British history, world history.

Free streaming feature films, TV shows, and original content.

An online archive of rare video documenting social performance in the Americas, including a browsable collection of video art and extensive artist profiles in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Includes films from El Teatro Campesino, Guillermo Gómez Peña & La Pocha Nostra, Fortaleza de la Mujer Maya, and others.

Historical treasures and contemporary presentations from the Library of Congress on their YouTube Channel.

Free movies, films, commercials and videos. Thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives. Of historical interest. From the Internet Archive.

Hundreds of streaming documentaries, animations, alternative dramas and interactive productions. Some French feature films.

Some of the world's top directors discuss the art of documentary film making.

Online showcase of New Zealand television, documentaries, film and music video with over 3,000 titles from the beginning of the screen industry to present day. Many shows are complete and free online supplemented with interviews and excerpts.

Watch select movies free online. Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of the greatest actors, actresses and directors.

Digitized film clips, many of historical interest from various sources.

Free streaming service for movies and TV shows.

A rotating selection of independent documentary films from PBS.

TEDTalks are distributed under a Creative Commons (CC) license. This doesn't replace copyright, which remains undivided with TED Conferences LLC, but it makes the terms more flexible.

Free access to a diverse cross-section of 50 films from the Silent Era produced by Thanhouser Films between 1910-1917. Includes comedy, melodrama, morality tales and more.

Free streaming movies and TV shows.

Avant-garde film and video.

Includes footage of historical newsreels, Congressional proceedings, training films from the collections: Fedflix, Metavid, and Report to the Congress: Congressional Hearings Online.

Videos shared by the people who created them. Music videos, experimental film, shorts, animation, educational content... you name it.

Aggregator website that monitors which shows are playing on the different online platforms. Useful when you are trying to find a film online.

Lists films from India, Pakistan and other South Asian countries in a variety of languages currently streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu. Also lists coming films and films leaving the platforms.