Open Audiovisual Heritage

Explore 50,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments.

This is a media file repository which gives access to public domain, freely licensed educational media content to anyone in their own language. It contains images, sounds and video clips.

An internet library providing access to moving images, audio, movies, films and videos and also contains software and educational materials. It ranges from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. It is targeted for researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.

It makes Oxford podcasts available as Open Content Resources (OER); content that is available for reuse and redistribution by third parties globally, provided that it is used in a non-commercial way and is attributed to its creator.

Europeana is an internet portal to millions of books, paintings, sound recordings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe.

It gives access to around 2900 historic films related to the First World War and other historical documents preserved in European film archives and cimématheques (photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature, newsreels and other materials. It is targeted at scientific researchers and the interested public alike.

Online photo management and sharing application. To use resources, you must check the license on the ‘License Request’ link on the page of the photo.

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This site provides access to artworks and related materials from the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many of the images can be freely used for Scholarly Content and these are marked with an OASC Open Access for Scholarly Content icon.

A premium repository of educational video clips, streamed on demand. License: use of material found on the INTELECOM Online Resources Network™ requires a subscription and a valid subscriber license agreement

The NFPF is the nonprofit organization created by the U.S. Congress to help save America's film heritage. It preserves American films and improve film access for study, education, and exhibition.The information contained, including images from archival collections, is for noncommercial, personal or research use only.

The NFSA is required by section 11C of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI) to publish a disclosure log on its website. The disclosure log lists and describes documents that have been released in response to FOI access requests received after 1 May 2011.

FOI is the Australian Commonwealth legislation which gives members of the public rights of access to official documents of the Government of the Commonwealth and of its agencies.

The NFSA is required by section 11C of the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (FOI) to publish a disclosure log on its website. The disclosure log lists and describes documents that have been released in response to FOI access requests received after 1 May 2011. FOI is the Australian Commonwealth legislation which gives members of the public rights of access to official documents of the Government of the Commonwealth and of its agencies.

Complete list of documentary heritage inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register.

The Memory of the World Register lists documentary heritage which has been recommended by the International Advisory Committee, and endorsed by the Director-General of UNESCO, as corresponding to the selection criteria regarding world significance and outstanding universal value.

The United Nations maintains this web site for informative purposes only and as a courtesy to those who may choose to access the Site. The information presented here cannot be used for advertising, marketing or in ways which are inconsistent with the Organization's mission but the Fair Use (it applied solely to scholarly, academic, non-profit, or journalistic use of properly credited UN photos) is accepted.

UNESCO produces Televison releases (B-rolls) enabling journalists to edit television items on UNESCO,Video News Releases illustrating UNESCO projects and activities, thematic videos promoting UNESCO programmes.

It contains Unesco audiovisual materials (films and radio collections) that date back to the creation of the organization in 1945. Over the decades, Unesco has participated in film and radio productions to present and promote its activities.

It makes available to the public audio-visual material, such as documentaries, fiction, interviews, speeches and promotional material created by the Organization or related to its history and programme activities.

This a Creative Commons library accessible through YouTube Video Editor, option of this platform (with attribution). It let you be able to use YouTube’s video editor to splice your own video with content that has been uploaded by other users under Creative Commons, and they’ll be able to use your videos if you let them.

A Youtube channel that gives access to a broad set of educational videos that range from academic lectures to inspirational speeches and everything in between: short lessons and full courses from top teachers around the world, professional development material from fellow educators and inspiring videos from global thought leaders.

The official You Tube channel for UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

It is a section of the iTunes Store where users can download free educational course content from many colleges and universities, non-profit educational institutions, and K-12 organizations.The content, which includes course lectures, lab demos, sports items, and campus tours, comes as audio and video files and is free to be downloaded.

Inside the Vaults includes highlights from the National Archives in the Washington, DC, area and from the Presidential libraries and regional archives nationwide. These shorts present behind-the-scenes exclusives and offer surprising stories about the National Archives treasures.

An online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to promoting and celebrating the public domain in all its richness and variety.

This is a sound map of the world to investigate how sounds in our everyday environment make us feel. Sound Around You, created by the Audio and Acoustic Engineering Research Centre at the University of Salford, aims to raise awareness of how our soundscape influences us and could have far reaching implications for professions and social groups ranging from urban planners to house buyers.

The OpenLives project will digitise and publish materials documenting the experiences of Spanish migrants to the UK and returning migrants to Spain, repurposing this data as open educational resources. The project will demonstrate that a set of research data collected for a specific purpose can be used in a range of ways within humanities and social science disciplines. This collection is available at Humbox repository.

It gives public access to thousands of items of film and television clips in nineteen different languages. It brings together clips and programmes about politics, fashion, music, lifestyle, cooking, culture and more from the early 20th century to the present day. The EUscreen portal enables educators, researchers and media professionals to find audiovisual content from across Europe.