LibGuides: Communication: Locating Videos & Streaming Media

Best Bet Video Databases

HistoryMakers Digital Archive This link opens in a new window
Features over 2800 videos of African American interviews from a broad range of experiences. This resource provides high-quality video content and fully searchable transcripts.
Black Studies in Video This link opens in a new window
An award-winning black studies portfolio that brings together seminal documentaries, powerful interviews, and previously unavailable archival footage surveying the black experience. The collection contains 500 hours of film covering African American history, politics, art and culture, family structure, gender relationships, and social and economic issues.
Education in Video This link opens in a new window
Provides the online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
American History in Video This link opens in a new window
American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion.

American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America.
AP Archive - YouTube Channel
AP Archive is the film and video archive of The Associated Press. View AP Archive’s videos via this channel – the collection offers 1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories, which date back to 1893.
AdViews
AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Internet Archive TV News
View clips from over 2 million shows since 2009.
The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
Records in-depth video conversations with key figures in television, both in front of and behind the camera.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
The John H. Mitchell Television Collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive documents the entire course of broadcast history: it includes the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences/UCLA Collection of Historic Television, donations from the Hallmark Hall of Fame, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Carol Burnett and Loretta Young, and a collection of milestones in the history of television technology.