Documentary Collections -- Library Subscriptions
- FMG Films On Demand Thousands of streaming documentaries in all subjects from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, & Shopware. Works best with Firefox.
- Dance in Video Dance productions and documentaries by the most influential performers and companies of the 20th century. Selections cover ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, experimental, and improvisational dance, as well as forerunners of the forms and the pioneers of modern concert dance.
- iTunesU at Brockport Access 22 author videos from the Writers Forum.
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eVideos in the Library's Catalog
To limit your search to eVideos, add format:evideo to the end of your search query (e.g. health format:evideo)
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Free Online Classic Movies
- Public Domain Movie TorrentsMovies available in a variety of formats: PDa sized, iPod, PSP/ZUNe, or GoogleVideo. Browse by topic (no Search function).
- Classic Movies"Everything for the fan of classic Hollywood." A-Z list, or Search.
- Movies and Films in The Moving Image ArchiveBrowse by subject, keywords, language, or sub-collections, or Search.
- MovieflixProvides access to 4,000 full-length movies, short films, independent films, documentaries, television shows, and documentary clips. Requires free registration (some programs only available by subscription).
Free Online Documentaries -- Clips Only
- History Channel VideosShort (1-4 min.) clips from their shows and documentaries.
- National Geographic VideoHundreds of short clips (most under 5 min.), plus a handful of longer videos.
- Discovery Channel VideosSearchable, or browse by topic or show. Mostly clips, but a very few full episodes (designated by an FE icon).
- A & E TV10-15 full episodes of many series, including: Case Case Files ; Crime 360 ; The First 48 ; Fugitive Chronicles ; Heavy ; Intervention ; Jacked: Auto Theft Task Force ; Runaway Squad.
- Biography (A&E)Hundreds of short clips, plus 50 full episodes.
Free Online Documentary Collections
- PBS Video
Hundreds of documentaries and show episodes. Programs covered include: Frontline, American Experience, Nature, Nova, Great Performances... Browse by program, topic, or collection, or Search. - National Film Board of Canada Watch thousands of documentaries, animations, alternative dramas, and interactive productions on the web, on your personalized home page, or on your iPhone.
- Moving Image Archive at Internet ArchiveThousands of advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur films, many available for free. Browse by topics (sub-collections), or Search.
- Snag FilmsMore than 2500 award-winning independent titles from some of the greatest names in film, free and on-demand. "We are honored to share so many artists’ films with you, because we believe good films deserve the widest-possible audience. And we’re proud to share our advertising revenue with these filmmakers, and give you in-depth information, including interviews, about the filmmakers and their films." Searchable, or browse by topic.
- National Geographic VideoClick on "Nat Geo TV/Full episodes" in left-hand column. Includes episodes from several series: Alaska State Troopers ; Border Wars ; Dog Whisperer ; Explorer ; Fight Science ; Hard Time ; Locked Up Abroad ; Mysteries of the Bible; Naked Science ; Remembering 9/11 ; Shark Men ; Ultimate Factories ; World's Toughest Fixes.
- Vanderbilt Television News ArchiveSearchable archive of abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present (ABC, CBS, NBC), 1995 to present (CNN), selected content from PBS and FOX News. The world's most extensive and complete archive of television news: recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968.
- Documentary Educational ResourcesFree previews of most of their over 400 film and video titles which include some of the most historically important resources of ethnographic film in the world today, with series on the Kalahari Bushman, the Yanomamo, and Alaskan natives, among others. Some titles can be streamed for free (i.e.: Abstinence in Albuquerque), but these are not identified until you click on the title.
- Hulu Documentary Television ProgramsCurrent News -- Documentary and Biography -- Live Events and Specials -- Politics -- Science and Technology.
- MovieflixProvides access to 4,000 full-length movies, short films, independent films, documentaries (many from the 1940s), television shows, and documentary clips. Requires free registration (some programs only available by subscription).
- FedFlixFeatures the best movies of the United States Government. Sample topics include: training films to historical films, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors. Great 'camp' value!
Sites Collecting (Supposedly) Freely Available Online Documentaries
NOTE: Some of the documentaries on these sites may be there illegally. The links are to embedded documentaries which are assumed to be publicly available, coming from a variety of video hosting servers including, but not limited to, YouTube, YouKu, Mega Video, Google Videos, etc. The listed sites all have a disclaimer such as: "All issues concerning copyright violations should be aimed at the sites hosting the material. We do not own or imply ownership of any of the documentaries. All are assumed to be either in the public domain or uploaded with the consent of their copyright owners."
- Documentary StormAttractive searchable interface for hundreds of documentaries, mainly BBC. Browse by topic, or Search.
- Top Documentary FilmsAttractive searchable interface, with lists by subject.
- Watch DocumentarySearchable interface of over 5100 documentaries, collected into topics.
- Documentary WireThousands of documentaries. Searchable, or browse by topic.
- Documentary HeavenOver 1650 [Oct. 2011] documentaries. Searchable, or browse by topic.
- Free documentaries.orgIncludes documentaries in Spanish, French, as well as closed captioned. Searchable, or browse by topic.
- Documentary24.com: Free Documentaries OnlineSearchable, or browse by topic.
- Google VideoSearchable interface for millions of TV shows, movie clips, music videos, documentaries, personal productions and more from all over the Web.
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