FDU LibGuides: Video and Streaming Video Collections Database Guide: Streaming Video Websites

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A number of openly accessible Internet sites provide access to streaming videos. These sites may host content or merely point to content hosted elsewhere. For additional information or to connect to any of these sites, click on the site name. Disclaimer: The FDU Library is 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.

Streaming Video Websites

American Experience
American Indian Film Gallery An online collection of more than 450 historic films by and about Native peoples of the Americas, compiled and digitized by historian J. Fred MacDonald.
American Memory
American Rhetoric provides access to full text, audio and video versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events including movie speeches, Obama speeches, GWBush speeches, rhetoric of 9-11, and more.
Annenberg Learner uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. The website provides educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers.
Archive of American Television provides hundreds of oral history interviews (over 4000 hours) with the legends of television. The collection covers a variety of professions, genres, and topics in electronic media history.
ARKive A 'virtual' conservation which gathers films, photographs, and audio recordings of the world's species, prioritizing those most at risk of extinction, and building them into comprehensive multimedia digital profiles.
ARTE offers videos and books in French, German, English, Polish, and Spanish building up on the on-air programmes about art, history, society, literature, cinema, philosophy, and environment.
C-Span Video Library contains programming that has aired on C-SPAN since 1987 (200,000 hours). Many programs aired since 2003 have searchable text transcripts of the program’s closed captioning.
Canadian Films Online includes documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works. Films are in both French and English.
CRACKLE Delivers popular, award-winning TV, movies and originals.
European Film Gateway gives access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.
EVIA Digital Archive Project - Ethnographic Video for Instruction & Analysis A digital archive of ethnographic field video for use by scholars and instructors.
Folkstreams Films are often produced by independent filmmakers and focus on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different regions and communities.
Frontline
HealthLibrary Online Sponsored by Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Stanford Health Library provides scientifically-based medical information to help people make informed decisions about their health and health care. All of services are free .
HippoCampus A free, core academic web site that contains videos, animations, and simulations on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge. Subjects include math, natural science, social science, and humanities.
International Monetary Fund Provides IMF videos in different languages.
Internet Archive
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Khan Academy Offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard to learners from kindergarten to calculus in math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.
Lannan Foundation Has 20 years of audio and video recordings from live events and interviews of over 1,350 writers, poets, artists, and cultural thinkers..
Metropolitan Museum of Art - Connect to Connections The Metropolitan Museum of Art staff offers their personal perspectives on works of art in the Museum's vast collection. Their voices range from the authoritative to the highly subjective, and touch upon any number of themes and concepts. Connections was a year-long series from 2011 comprising of 100 episodes, and inspires fresh ways to approach art.
Movieclips Has the biggest and baddest collection of official trailers, clips, and original videos.
Moving Image Archive Contains 3 million videos including Television News programs, movies, videogame videos, sports videos, and more. Anyone with a free account can upload media to the Internet Archive.
Nova
PBS Learning Media Offers teachers more than 100,000 videos, images, interactives, lesson plans and articles drawn from critically acclaimed PBS programs such as NOVA, FRONTLINE, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, and SID THE SCIENCE KID, and from expert content contributors like The National Archives and NASA.
PBS Video Provides access to selected programs from selected PBS series including Nature, American Experience, Nova, and Frontline, and more.
POV Digital More than 100 films were available for free streaming. It includes an archive of feature-length films, online-only shorts, extended filmmaker interviews, and video-based lesson plans for use in the classroom.
ScienceCinema Highlights scientific videos featuring leading-edge research from the U.S. Department of Energy. Using innovative, state-of-the-art audio indexing and speech recognition technology from Microsoft Research, ScienceCinema allows users to search for specific words and phrases spoken within video files.
Selections from the National Film Registry A list of movies deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" that are earmarked for preservation by the Library of Congress. The Librarian of Congress makes the annual selections to the Registry after reviewing hundreds of titles nominated by the public and conferring with Library film curators and the distinguished members of the National Film Preservation Board.
SnagFilms Has over 2,000 movies, TV show episodes, documentaries and original comedy shorts.
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Virtual Cinema Contains films documenting an array of subjects such as life in the British mandate before the foundation of Israel, Jewish communities around the world and a plethora of other subjects as they were seen through the eye of the camera lens. The virtual cinema is constantly being updated, with new films being added to the collection for public view. Over the past few years the archive has uploaded over 600 films
TED-Ed videos TED's education initiative makes short video lessons worth sharing, aimed at educators and students. Within TED-Ed’s growing library of lessons, you will find carefully curated educational videos, many of which are collaborations between educators and animators nominated through the TED-Ed platform.
TED Talks TED Talks are videos that present a great idea in 18 minutes or less. They’re filmed at flagship TED conferences, independent TEDx events, and other programs. Their goal is to share Ideas Worth Spreading — in fields like science, technology, business, culture, art and design — around the world.
Top Documentary Films There are more than 3,000 documentaries published on TDF (most of them are full length docs), organized in 25 different categories, searchable by keywords, sortable by rating, comments, and titles and most importantly open for discussion. It provides new documentary every other day and most of the time we publish independent films.
TVNews contains more than 1,563,000 news programs since 2009. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired. Older materials are also being added.
Veoh
YouTube

Video and Streaming Video Collections Database Guide: Streaming Video Websites

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Streaming Video Websites

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