Film Footage / Video Clips

The Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division (MBRS) In 1942, recognizing the importance of motion pictures and the need to preserve them as a historical record, the Library began the collection of the films themselves. From 1949 on these included films made for television. Today the MBRS has responsibility for the acquisition, cataloging and preservation of the motion picture and television collections. The Division operates the Motion Picture and Television Reading Room to provide access and information services to an international community of film and television professionals, archivists, scholars and researchers - [Read more]

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.The Official website of the Annual Academy Awards - [Read more]

A broadband TV channel for environmental films bringing together films from a range of environmental organisations and independant filmakers and make them available to anyone anywhere - [Read more]

The Imperial War Museum Film & Video : There are over 22,000 catalogue records of film & video material in the Collections Online database. This represents approximately 40% of the films held in the Film & Video Archive of the Imperial War Museum. Some subject areas are fully covered by the online database, for example the First World War, while for others the information currently available covers only a small proportion of the films held, such as the campaign in Italy in the Second World War. Information on other material held by the Film & Video Archive can be found on other sources (such as card indexes) held in the Archive together with associated documentation. This information may be researched by prior appointment - [Read more]

WGBH Boston. One of the leading producers of programs for public television, the extensive archive dates back to the 1950's. Categories include : Adventure, Exploration, Animals, Animation, Culture & Society, Health & Medicine, Industry & Business, Locations, Nature, Science & Technology - [Read more]

Festival de Cannes: Festival in pictures and clips of the day. Look back through the Archives over the past sixty years, celebrating the many photographers who have captured moments from the Festival de Cannes - [Read more]

The National Film Board of Canada: Over 700 films, clips and trailers. From entertaining shorts and cartoons, to deeply moving or disturbing documentaries - [Read more]

BBC Wildlife Finder:Allows you to browse and search through BBC natural history content from the past 30 years so that you can enjoy the natural world, its animals, their habitats and behaviour as and when you wish. Darwins Church - [Read more]

BBC Motion Gallery offers media professionals in advertising, commercials, television, film, interactive and corporate video production access to the world’s most comprehensive collection of high-quality motion imagery for licensing and royalty-free usage worldwide. BBC Motion Gallery is the exclusive global representative of the CBS News Archive, and has global distribution arrangements with NHK, Japan’s national broadcaster and ABC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation - [Read more]

Corbis Motion offers a very comprehensive selection of moving images category subjects include : People, Lifestyles, Business & Technology, Nature & Wildlife, Travel, Time lapse, CGI & Sports. Vintage footage of the famous and not-so-famous, Including iconic moments and people of history, legends of cinema and television, yesteryear's sports heroes in action, and everyday people from generations past living their lives to the fullest. Our collection includes imagery from such high-profile providers as Paramount Pictures®, ESPN®, Hearst Entertainment, Oxford Scientific Films, and U.S. Soccer, as well as exceptional conceptual scenes created by leading independent directors and producers - [Read more]

Historic Films owns or represents over 45,000 hours of 1895-1990 Vintage Film Footage. The special collections libraries consist of all genres of motion picture films including Musical Short Subjects in Comedy Film, Feature Films, Silent Films, Movie Slapstick, Classic Television Commercials and Shows, Beauty Shots, Nature and Wildlife, Historical Newsreels including Pathe News & Television News, Home Movies, Outtakes, Industrial Films, Sales Films, and Cartoons. The specialized musical film collections cover American roots music, including the Roots of Blues, Country, Southern Gospel, American Folk Music and Rock and Roll. Good selection of Online Comp Reels - [Read more]

Images of Empire from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum is one of the largest dedicated online resource of still and moving images on the British colonial period. The digitised material is part of the museum's holding of over one million still images and 400 hours of film footage, dating from circa 1860 to the present day. Key themes include colonial life, indigenous cultures, political and royal events, wars and conflicts, notable personalities, ceremonial and sporting occasions.... - [Read more]

ITN Source is the gateway to over 800,000 hours of iconic footage and inspirational motion imagery captured over three centuries. Whatever the creative project or production you are working on, we have the content you need Our Stock Footage archive has a vast array of creative and individual clips covering a wide variety of genres and themes - [Read more]

The National Geographic moving images of the world : Wildlife, Adventure & Exploration, People & Cultures, Cities & Landmarks, Sports & Recreation, Natural Phenomena, Human Origins, Science & Technology are the treasure inside the National Geographic Film Library. More than 250,000 hours of dramatic footage - from National Geographic videos, films, and their production outtakes, as well as from the partner libraries - are available for licensing - [Read more]

NBC News earned its reputation as America's broadcasting news leader with national and international coverage stretching back to the infancy of the medium. NBC News Archives provides instant access to decades of history, lifestyles and topical news and introduces you to newsmakers, athletes, and entertainers through in-depth interviews. Since 1952, a window on the world that focuses on life's full spectrum, including human interest stories, wars and battles, scientific discoveries, fashion trends, athletic achievements, medical breakthroughs, and more - [Read more]

In 1995 the International Olympic Committee (IOC) established the Olympic Television Archive Bureau (OTAB) to manage and market the IOC's extensive Olympic Games Archive, provide rapid fulfilment of Olympic footage clips, as well as administer all related licensing procedures. The Archive now contains over 20,000 hours of film, television and newsreel material dating back to the turn of the 20th century, with additional Olympic Games material being researched, restored and added regularly to the Archive - [Read more]

The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive holds over 3,000 titles on film and video, constituting the largest collection of Jewish documentary film footage in the world - [Read more]

The WPA Film Library, founded by independent producers in 1987, began as a repository of archival and contemporary stock footage for documentaries. In 1989, the company merged with the MPI Media Group, one of the country’s oldest independent home video labels and the producer of hundreds of documentaries. Since its inception, the WPA Film Library has grown into one of the world’s leading footage sources, offering tens of thousands of hours of high quality, vintage and contemporary images, and a leading online stock footage resource - [Read more]

Royalty Free stock footage. Clips subject catgories include ; Aerials, Air Travel, Americana, Business, Call 911, Children, Chem Lab, Concepts, Families, Fitness, Landscapes, Lifestyle, Mature Living, Medical, Take Flight, Sweater Weather, Table For Two, Technology, Textures, Under Your Hood - [Read more]

WITNESS Media Archive is the repository for over 2000 hours of video in assorted formats representing original raw footage from human rights NGOs around the world, as well as original documentary productions. The subject matter covers a broad range of human rights issues on almost every continent, including indigenous rights, war crimes and genocide, refugees and internally displaced persons, globalization, child soldiers, human trafficking, and more - [Read more]