Video, Image, and Sound Effects Guide

A searchable film index of over 300,000 films, compiled by Alan Goble. Particularly strong with foreign language and short films.

The Film Literature Index (FLI) annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The periodicals range from the scholarly to the popular. More than 2,000 subject headings provide detailed analysis of the articles.

The FLI Online contains approximately 700,000 citations to articles, film reviews and book reviews published between 1976-2001. For additional years, see the print index, Ref PN1994 .F45 (1973 - 2004).

This selective bibliography, intended for librarians, provides access to and information about university and other web sites in the United States offering online, on-demand public lectures.  Created Aug. 18, 2008.

Helpful guide that explains fair use for using video, film clips, etc. and best practices for documentary film makers, among other topics.

This section of the Internet Archive offers free movies, films, and videos, and contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users, ranging from classic full-length films to daily alternative news broadcasts to cartoons and concerts. Many are available for free download. The Internet Archive is a library founded to provide access to historical collections that exist in digital format including texts, audio, and video.

Large collection of digitized material from the Library of Congress covering a wide variety of subjects.

OAIster is a union catalog of open access digital resources. It provides access to digital resources by 'harvesting' their descriptive metadata using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), and includes records for audio, image, video, digitized text, and dataset content.  OAIster does not provide digitized content directly, but includes metadata with links to content hosted elsewhere.

A nonprofit media and technology organization that connects a global audience with the research and academic institutions whose developments, insights and discoveries affect our lives and futures.

The catalog of the UCLA Film and Television Archive, one of the largest collections of media materials in the United States, second only to the Library of Congress. This is a catalog to content available in the Archive; most content is not directly available over the web.