Journalism and Media Studies

Streaming videos in a wide variety of academic areas, including anthropology, art & design, business, criminal justice, diversity studies, education, gender & sexuality, health sciences, history, literature & language, music & performing arts, psychology & counseling, science & engineering, social sciences, and more. The collection includes videos from leading distributors, producers, and filmmakers, such as 60 Minutes /CBS, PBS, BBC, NBC, Intelecom, Insight Media, Microtraining, Filmakers Library, Envision, Inc., Stanley Milgram, Dallas Telecourses, and Davidson Films.

Search C-SPANs extensive video library or browse by category.

Documentaries by producers, distributors, and independent filmmakers from around the world focusing on contemporary social issues in a variety of disciplines, including environmental sciences, political and social sciences, history, health, psychology, and more.

Includes hundreds of films from many regions of the world. The films have various themes, such as language and culture, kinesthetics, body language, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, caste systems and slavery, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, culture and personality, and sex, gender, and family roles.

A joint venture between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org featuring the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors.

"A non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures."

Offers an eclectic array of videos, such as early cartoons, B horror movies dating back to the 1950's, and a collection of ephemeral (trade, educational, advertising) films dating back to the 1920's.

Search the Library of Congress collection of film and video available online.

Thousands of documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works that can be streamed free of charge.

Gathers independent media sources, providing special collections such as the September 11 Television Archive, the Iraq War Collection and G.W. Bush Presidential Speech Archive.

"Online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH."

The center's extensive collection of television and radio programs and advertisements can be viewed on-site at their New York location. The online database offers synopses, along with production credits for the programs.

Search and view clips from millions of shows since 2009.

Includes access to thousands of hours of NBC and CNN news broadcasts.In addition, the database provides indexing for nightly news programs broadcast by the other national television networks including ABC and CBS. Abstracts of each story within a regular news program are fully searchable. Coverage begins in 1968.

Video testimonies in 32 languages (without subtitles) from 56 countries. The Institute interviewed Jewish survivors and other persons with experience of the Holocaust. Produced by USC Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archive.

Images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

Search historic newspaper photos. From the Library of Congress.

For more image sources check out the La Trobe University image collection site.

Includes downloadable episodes as well as related resources.

The center's extensive collection of television and radio programs and advertisements can be viewed on-site at their New York location. The online database offers synopses, along with production credits for the programs.

A collection of digital images of print advertisements published primarily in the United States and Canada between 1911 and 1955. From Duke University Libraries.

Focuses on marketing and media. Most content requires a subscription.

Spans the years from the mid 19th Century to the present day and includes British and American images as well as some French and Spanish magazine art.

"Provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s." From Duke University Libraries.

A "database of over 3,000 advertising items and publications dating from 1850 to 1920, illustrating the rise of consumer culture and the birth of a professionalized advertising industry in the United States." From Duke University Libraries (open access).

Provides a searchable, viewable, and shareable online archive of 2016 political TV ads, married with fact-checking and reporting. A project of the Internet Archive.

"Aims to collect vintage ads from a variety of sources, including comic books, CD-ROMs, websites, APIs, your submissions, book, magazine & comic book scans, and more."

The center's extensive collection of television and radio programs and advertisements can be viewed on-site at their New York location. The online database offers synopses, along with production credits for the programs.