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MIT Global Shakespeares is a video and performance archive presenting productions of Shakespeare plays from around the world, including featured and recently added productions. The site also links to related Shakespeare Studies websites, an online course teaching Shakespeare through performance, an educational module on Brazilian performances, and an open-access online textbook with interactive learning modules.
NASA+ preserves and presents historical films, classic productions, and moving-image collections online.
Internet Archive collection preserving advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films from the Prelinger Archives.
The Internet Archive is a digital library offering free access to borrowable texts, movies, music, and the Wayback Machine internet archive, with this page focused on its movie and film collection.
The National Film Preservation Foundation is a film preservation organization. It provides preservation grants, a screening room of preserved films, and publications such as the Film Preservation Guide. Its site lists grants awarded to institutions and silent films premiering online.
Chicago Film Archives collects, preserves and provides access to films representing the Midwest. It holds thousands of films, videos and audio recordings, many of which can be watched online. Its collections include home movies and films by regional filmmakers.
Huntley Film Archives is a film library described as one of the largest in Europe, specializing in rare and hard-to-find footage. The site offers curated collections and browsing by category and decade, with silent and sound options and colour and black-and-white film. Users can register, save favourites and projects, and contact the archive with research requests. A help centre provides tutorials on ordering.
The Film and Video Archive of Texas is an archive of Texas film and video from across the decades. It offers access to the growing collection and resources for education and preservation.
The Classic Movies preserves and presents historical films, television recordings, and moving-image collections online.
WikiFlix is a browsable catalogue of freely available films linked from Wikimedia projects.
The Library of Congress provides online access to archival films, classic productions, and historical media collections.
The European Film Gateway is a single access point for films, images and texts from selected collections of 40 film archives across Europe. It features collections on World War I and post-World War II reconstruction, hosts virtual exhibitions, and supports multiple languages.
Historic Films is a stock footage archive whose collection spans 1895 to 2010 and consists of over 50,000 hours of footage. It licenses stock, musical performance and entertainment footage, and offers researcher assistance through professional librarians.
National Film Archive of Japan provides online access to archival films, classic productions, and historical media collections.
The Travel Film Archive is a collection of travelogues and educational and industrial films, many in color, showing the world between 1900 and 1970. Its holdings include archives of travel filmmakers Burton Holmes, Andre de la Varre, and James A. FitzPatrick, plus footage by other itinerant cameramen. Footage is available for licensing from Getty Images and an agent network.
Wikimedia Commons Videos provides openly licensed and public-domain video collections for browsing and reuse.
FilmPolski provides online access to archival films, classic productions, and historical media collections.
Platfo Filmo preserves and presents historical films, television recordings, and moving-image collections online.
Cinemata is an open-source video platform focused on social and environmental films about the Asia-Pacific region. It highlights underreported, essential stories to expand filmmakers' reach, increase audience engagement, and boost the impact of their work.
FootageFarm is an award-winning public domain film archive and historical stock footage library that has operated since 2001. Its core aim is to provide filmmakers with access to high-quality material at affordable prices, and it offers account creation and sign-in functionality for users.
IndianCine is an annotated online archive of Indian film. It is intended to serve as a shared resource for film scholars and enthusiasts both within India and in other regions globally.
Movingimage preserves and presents historical films, classic productions, and moving-image collections online.
NFSA offers online access to archival films, television recordings, and preserved media collections.
Nukkard is a free streaming platform for public domain classic films. It offers vintage cinema from the Golden Age with no membership requirements, providing access to classic films for all users.
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