List of video, audio, and some other online archives

This is a quick list of archives I’ve come across over time. Feel free to suggest other internet archives in the comments section, so that I can try to keep this post as useful and helpful as possible.

The various archives listed contain podcasts, stock film, documentaries, shorts, recited poetry, experimental music and sound, lectures, etc. I tried to include only sites that have archives of materials as opposed to shows I like.

• UbuWeb: an excellent collection of video, audio, etc.
• Internet Archive: stock footage, documentaries, etc.
• Public Moving Image Archives and Research Centers: A listing of archives by region/country, assembled by US Library of Congress.
• LibriVox: audio books, free, from the public domain.
• huffduffer: a podcast aggregator.
• Sound Transit: archive of field recordings from around the world… with phonographic communities are building audio maps of cities.
• Lost and Found Sounds by the Kitchen Sisters: archive of audio clips.
• Backdoor Broadcasting Company: archive of webcast audio.
• Center for Social Theory and Comparative History Seminar Series: audio lectures.
• Resistance Mp3: audio of presentations by speakers from a broad spectrum of ‘the left’.
• UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project – Black Panther Party: source media about the Black Panthers.
• Modernist Journals Project: to produce digital editions of culturally significant English language magazines from around the early 20th century.
• Internet Library of Early Journals: to digitise substantial runs of 18^th and 19^th century journals.
• Project Gutenberg: free ebooks.
• ebooks@Adelaide: free ebooks.
• Planet eBook: free ebooks.
• PDF Planet: free ebooks.
• Europa Film Treasures: a digitized film archive (Europe).
• Open Images: a digitized film archive (Europe).
• National Film Board: a digitized film archive (Canada).
• Video Active: a collection of television programmes and stills from audiovisual archives across Europe.
• London Transit Museum: London transit film collection.
• Russian Archives Online: archive of Russian images, sound, film.
• mosfilm: collection of contemporary Russian films.
• World Digital Library: significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.

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