Film & Media Studies Research Guide

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• Internet Archive

  A non-profit library of books, movies, software, music, websites, and more

• Creative Commons Free Music Archive
  Royalty free and public domain music.
• Experimental Television Center Video History Project
• AP Images (Royalty free)
  Contemporary and historical news and culture photographs from Associated Press. Also available are audio files from the 1920s to the present, Associated Press news stories from 1997 forward, and a collection of maps, charts/graphs, logos, illustrations)
• Creative Commons Free Music Archive
  Royalty free and public domain music
• Public Domain Review's media collections
  Audio from the Public Domain Review, a journal dedicated to works in the public domain
• Open Culture
  Free cultural and educational media, including special collections of Oscar-winning movies, and films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Charlie Chaplin, and others
• Moving Image Archive
  Online archive of films, documentaries, educational films, industrial films, home movies, news reels, advertisements and more
  
• European Film Gateway
  Access to film and film-related treasures collected and preserved by 16 European film archives, including photos, posters, programs, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials
• Duke Digital Collections
  American advertising from the 1850s through the 1950s.
• Pictorial Media Archaeology Museum
  Online Media Museum of “intriguing and mostly forgotten Early Vintage Visual Media.”
• Prelinger film archives
  Public domain films from Prelinger Archives for downloading and reuse