Video, Image, and Sound Effects Guide

A user-friendly educational 'ecosystem' featuring full video courses and lectures from the world’s leading scholars.

A database of 5000+ full-text, audio and streaming video versions of public speeches, lectures, debates, interviews, and speeches in movies. This award-winning site is maintained by Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D. Contains a number of audio excerpts from 9/11.

Features lectures on issues related to sustainable development, environmental decision-making, and climate change

Audio and video streaming of public lectures and panel discussions from venues around Boston, including Wheaton, Wellesley, MIT, Harvard and UMass. The archive covers a broad range of topic categories, including art, politics, economics and sports.

A searchable media library featuring nearly 1,300 John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum events, Q&A sessions, and student produced pieces on politics, policy, culture, and academic life.

Collection of university and topical lecture archives; includes both audio and video.

Close to 1,000 lectures, many with transcriptions, from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. 65% of the content is in English. Many of the speakers focus on international and theoretical economics.

Archived lectures from 1998 to the present, on a wide range of topics.

Includes more than 450 TEDTalks from annual TED conferences in Long Beach, Calif., and Oxford, England, all of which are only 18 minutes or shorter.  The talks include closed captions in English, and many have subtitles in various languages. These videos are released under a Creative Commons license, so they can be freely shared and reposted. TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It began in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technolody, Entertainment, and Design, but the scope has since broadened.

Free on-demand educational video lectures from world's leading and prominent scientists, research institutions, EU research projects.

This site, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, offers a large video archive of mathematics lectures, available for download or streaming.  includes lecture notes and other associated documents.

Archives from American Public Media's Word for Word program, which ran from 2006-2008 and featured speeches and conversations with policymakers and opinion leaders.  Speeches were drawn from venues such as the National Press Club, the Chautauqua Institution, and the Aspen Institute.