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Film Archives

Academy Film Archive
The Academy Film Archive is home to one of the most extensive and diverse motion pictures collections in the world. The hundreds of collections housed at the Archive include Academy Award® nominated films, the annual Oscar® telecasts, documentaries, silent movies, experimental films, film industry-related interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, home movies, and a wide range of international cinema.
Internet Archive - Moving Image Archive
This library contains digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.
Film Archives Online
Film Archives Online provides free and easy access to moving image collections of film archives from all over Europe. Works can be searched for by content, filmographic data, and physical characteristics. Search results provide information on the existence and location of the materials as well as contact details to facilitate access.
BBC Archive
BBC Archives manages one of the world's largest multimedia archives. Our mission is to preserve content so that it can be re-used. Our vision is to have an open archive, fit for a digital world.
IMDb
IMDb is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
Alexander Street - India
Today, Alexander Street publishes more than 80 collections totalling many millions of pages, audio tracks, videos, images, and playlists. They are concentrating on building the best collections they can.
Indian Films 1899-1947
This collection of newly digitised films is part of the BFI's contribution to the UK-India Year of Culture 2017, in partnership with the British Council.
National Film Preservation Foundation
The National Film Preservation Foundation is helping to save America's film heritage. We support activities nationwide that preserve American films and improve film access for study, education, and exhibition.
British Film Institute National Archive
The BFI looks after one of the largest and most important collections of film and television in the world. Its teams of experts ensure that the collection is preserved and developed for future generations and made widely accessible to today’s audiences.
UK National Archives
The UK National Archives are a non-ministerial department, and the official archive and publisher for the UK Government, and for England and Wales.
Deutsche Kinemathek - German Film Archive
The Film Archive of the Deutsche Kinemathek contains works from all eras of German and international filmmaking. This includes examples from all genres of feature and documentary films as well as experimental, ephemeral and amateur films such as home movies, advertising spots and trailers.
CNC Patrimoine - French Film Archive
Includes 17,000 feature films and short films mainly French, including films deposited under the legal deposit since 1977 and also 3,000 documentaries. Collected, inventoried and safeguarded by the Wealth Management of the CNC.
Alexander Street - Asian Studies in Video
Asia Pacific Films combined with Alexander Street Press offers more than 600 streaming videos including more than one hundred shorts, dozens of documentaries, and hundreds of feature-length films in a variety of genres, including action, comedy, drama, experimental, horror, and thriller.
Movie Web
Breaking movie news since the days of dial-up. Est. 1995. MovieWeb is an entertainment news website and video brand.
Film School Rejects
Film School Rejects is an American blog devoted to movie reviews, interviews, film industry news, and feature commentary.
Roger Ebert.com
Welcome to the newly refreshed RogerEbert.com, the world’s preeminent destination for movie criticism, commentary and community. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.
History Collection
History Collection is a website focused on bringing stories from the past in an easy-to-read manner. We are a team of history graduates from around the world that lives and breathes history on our personal every day. Historycollection.com is part of Spike Media which focuses on bringing quality content for history lover around the world.

Television Archives

Television

American Archive of Public Broadcasting
This collection of 40,000 hours contains thousands of high-quality programs that have had a national impact. The vast majority of this initial American Archive content, however, consists of regional and local programs that document American communities during the last half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first.
UCLA Film and Television Archive
The UCLA Film & Television Archive is renowned for its pioneering efforts to rescue, preserve and showcase moving image media, and is dedicated to ensuring that the collective visual memory of our time is explored and enjoyed for generations to come.
ABC Archives - Australia
We collect and preserve the ABC Radio and Television recordings that have documented the cultural life of Australians since the first Radio broadcast in 1932.
Paley Archive
The Paley Center for Media is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that leads the discussion about the cultural, creative, and social significance of television, radio, and emerging platforms, drawing upon its curatorial expertise, an international collection, and close relationships with the media community.
Australian Television Archive
The archive offers a unique footage research and supply service from the many 1,000's of hours of unique film & television material held in the archives.
FIAT / IFTA Archive
A global network of broadcast archives.
The World's leading professional association for those engaged in the preservation and exploitation of broadcast archives
Rakuten Viki - Asian TV shows and Movies
Join the most innovative and passionate community online today! Break down language barriers with us and spread the best of global entertainment to millions of other fans around the world!
SBS TV | SBS Radio : Special Broadcasting Service
The SBS is one of the most diverse broadcasters in the world, presenting programs in 70 languages on radio and more than 60 on television and online.
Australia and New Zealand Newsstream (ProQuest)
Australia & New Zealand Newsstream offers access to leading Australian and New Zealand newspapers. Combining content from Fairfax Australia and Fairfax New Zealand, News Limited, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and AAP Newswire; Australia & New Zealand Newsstream provides the very latest local, regional and national news.

Social Media

Accounts

Facebook Instagram

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Lucas Film IMDb Simon Pegg Jack Black

Youtube Twitter

TV is King - BBC Film Documentary Sound Archives UK Archivetvmusings

Movieclips Trailers US National Archives

Spotify Podcasts

47 Greatest Movie Soundtracks NYFA Podcasts

Hollywood Film Music Orchestra Radio

Creative Commons

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M usic - Film Music

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Hocken Library

Guide to the Hocken Collection

Hocken Collection

Gramophone Dog

Movie Apps

Video Apps

Audio Visual

Audio Visual

Digital Theatre Plus
Provides access to high quality films of leading British theatre productions as well as behind-the-scenes documentaries and interviews.
eTV
Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register.
Kanopy
A streaming service that provides access to video content sourced from leading suppliers.
Alexander Street
Alexander Street are curated, primary-source collections, websites, and streaming media for learning and research.

Sound Archives

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Sound Recordings

Library of Congress
Tens of thousands of recordings made before 1923 have entered the public domain. These audio gems are preserved at the Library of Congress.
British Library Sounds
Listen to a selection from the British Library’s extensive collections of unique sound recordings, which come from all over the world and cover the entire range of recorded sound: music, drama and literature, oral history, wildlife and environmental sounds.
USA National Archives
The Moving Image and Sound holdings in College Park, Maryland, are vast and diverse, spanning more than:
520,400 Film Reels
312,066 Sound Recordings
170,925 Video Recordings
Museo Nazionale Del Cinema Torino
The Museum owns a rich collection of around 3,000 records connected to cinema in several ways, from the heavy 78 rpm to the more classic 33 and 45 rpm. Through the soundtracks of hundreds of films, signed by great composers such as Morricone, Bernstein, Goldsmith, one can explore the history of music for movies.
National Film and Sound Archive Australia
Films, television and radio programs, videos, audiotapes, records, compact discs, phonograph cylinders, and wire recordings.
SoundWorks Collection
The SoundWorks Collection is simple; we are dedicated to profiling the greatest and upcoming sound minds from around the world and highlight their contributions. The SoundWorks Collection is an online destination that takes you behind the scenes and straight to the dub stage for a look into audio post-production for feature films, video game sound design, and original soundtrack composition.