Multimedia Source Material

Thousands of free stock videos, motion graphics, music tracks, and sound effects (Opens a new tab).

Over 1 million+ high quality stock images and videos (Opens a new tab).

A collection of over 1,600 public domain or CC video clips, designed to be used in other videos (Opens a new tab).

Short, stylized, loopable videos, typically used by VJ’s. All videos have a CC license that allows for reuse (Opens a new tab).

Free to Use and Reuse: Public Domain Films from the National Film Registry (Opens a new tab).

Public Domain Movies - Feature Films in the Public Domain (Opens a new tab).

An open media platform that offers online access to audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse
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In the left-hand column, you can Refine your search by the type of CC License (Opens a new tab).

Use the Filter option in YouTube to limit your search to videos with a Creative Commons license (Opens a new tab).

Movies with historical, cultural, and/or educational value chosen to reflect attitudes, perspectives and beliefs of different times. Majority of films are free to download in varying formats (Opens a new tab).

DVIDS makes available real-time broadcast-quality video, still images, and print products as well as immediate interview opportunities with service members, commanders, and subject matter experts (Opens a new tab).

Provides online access to unique and historically important content produced by the public television and radio station WGBH. Open Vault contains video, audio, images, searchable transcripts, and resource management tools available for individual and classroom learning (Opens a new tab).

Consolidates NASA imagery and videos in one searchable location. Users can download content in multiple sizes and resolutions (Opens a new tab).

Millions of artifacts, works of art, specimens, and other open access archival materials held by the Smithsonian Institution (Opens a new tab).

Search for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.

Discover 34,619,208 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States.

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