Major Sources Of Free Online Content

Annenberg Media
has been in the forefront of distributing video content over the internet. Their extensive website provides video on demand of hundreds of their educational programs. These streaming video programs are provided free of charge. After creating an account, users can watch full-length programming on their desktop. Many of the programs are multi-part series which cover several hours.

Annenberg distributes programming on an extremely wide range of topics. Media Services has almost 300 Annenberg/CPB productions in its collection. When a title is available, the record in ALADIN will direct users to the specific streaming video on the Annenberg website.

YouTube Educational

This recent addition to the most popular video site brings reknowned lecturers from all over the world into your home or classroom free of charge.  View lectures from Harvard, MIT, the Khan Academy, Stanford, and more.

Folkstreams
Called a "national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures". In 1999, filmmaker Tom Davenport realized that the internet could provide exposure for documentary films that didn't fit into mainstream programming constraints - films with uncommon running times or with subjects who didn't speak "broadcast English". The website has become a treasure house of American cultural richness - documentaries on topics as varied as Florida shrimpers, New England stone carvers, schoolyard games, immigrant life, rural life, music, dance, and food.

Folkstreams films are cataloged in ALADIN and can be searched by title or subject keyword. For a complete list search keyword = folkstreams.

Hulu

Vimeo

Thirty-four universities have "channels" on Vimeo.

MUBI
Hundreds of classics, independent films, and documentaries. Includes discussion boards and news. Un Chien Andalou, Betty Blue, 24 City. Luis Buñuel, Wong Kar-wai, Abbas Kiarostami. Pay structure: free to $3.

National Film Board of Canada

Viewers will need to create a free account in order to view this newly re-vamped site from our Canadian neighbors to the North.

PBS
Many PBS programs have extensive internet resources that supplement their broadcast. In addition, the Frontline website includes complete streaming versions of over fifty titles from the last four years as well as Frontline "classics".

Snag Films
At present there are a reported 850 films available. The list includes work from ITVS, PBS, National Geographic, and several notable independents including Icarus Films and Kartemquin Films. Titles that might be familiar include: The American Ruling Class, Biggie and Tupac, Cosmos, Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins, The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg, The Times of Harvey Milk, Trembling Before G-D, and T-shirt Travels.

Others:

Academic Earth
Videos of lectures by top scholars in subjects that range from Astronomy to Entrepreneurship to Religion, and come from universities as celebrated as MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, and Stanford. Visitors must register to view the lectures, but registration is free. There are over 1500 video lectures available, with more being added everyday. Visitors can even keep a playlist or download their favorite lectures.

Europa Film Treasures 

Global Shakespeares
An archive of Shakespeare productions from around the world. The archive currently includes a catalogue of more than 296 productions, 75 video clips, and online videos of over 30 full productions.

Joseph McCarthy: Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
A collection of excerpts from the public speeches of the Wisconsin Senator during his campaign to expose communists and communist sympathizers. The archive was created and is hosted at Marquette University.

Library of Congress YouTube Channel

Middlebury Speech and Lecture Archives
An index of streamed public speeches, lectures, panels and debates from Middlebury College as well as other schools and organizations. The archive is maintained by Middlebury College Library.

The Mike Wallace Interview
An archive created by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas and contains 65 interviews from the ABC show, The Mike Wallace Interview, conducted in 1957 and 1958. At a time when ABC News was virtually non-existent (most of its news footage was provided by Telenews, the newsreel unit of MGM), Wallace independently produced the program - live - through his Newsmakers Productions, Inc. The earliest interview in the collection, broadcast on April 28, 1957, features Gloria Swanson, the silent-movie actress who made a sensational comeback in the 1950 classic Sunset Boulevard. The interviews, many of them featuring Wallace's trademarked confrontational approach, were originally "kinescoped" (a movie camera captured the image on the TV screen), then, in later years, transferred to videotape and eventually digitized.

www.newslook.com
Provides direct access to visual news stories and analysis of the current issues, selected from the web by journalists and documentarians. Sources include (among many others): ABC, CBS, Fox News, NBC, PBS, Associated Press, Al Jezeera, C-Span, Time, Washington Post.

NJVid New Jersey's Digital Video Repository

A video portal and repository for the State of New Jersey. Participants include William Patterson University, NJEDge.Net, Rutgers University, and The Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Univ. of California Berkeley Online Media Collection

Video Portals
Clicker
Movieclips
Veoh

This list was compiled by American University.