Streaming Digital Videos
Films on Demand
A collection of over 14,000 educational streaming videos.
VAST Academic Videos
A collection of thousands of video titles, incorporating American History in Video, Black Studies in Video, Dance in Video, Dental in Video, Education in Video, Ethnographic Video Online, History in Video, Nursing Education in Video, and more.
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Annenberg Media
A wide variety of educational programs is made available free of charge – math, geology, art, politics, economics, and more. First-time users must register with a valid email address.
Charlie Rose Archive
Charlie Rose interviews guests from diverse fields – art, business, science, technology, sports, health, religion, and entertainment. The archive contains thousands of interviews dating back to the mid-1990s.
Education Portal
Video lessons, each less than ten minutes long, explaining concepts in the fields of Business, Mathematics, Psychology, and more.
FedFlix
Features more than 8,500 films created by the US government over the past 70 years on a range of topics.
Folkstreams: American Folklore Films
“A national preserve of documentary films about American Roots Cultures.” A truly fascinating collection.
Forum Network
Thousands of lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers, and community leaders, available for free.
Frontline
Watch full episodes of the popular PBS series in either QuickTime or Windows Media format.
Library of Congress - American Memory Project
Sixteen film collections are provided ranging from Presidential Inaugurations to the origins of American animation…even ranching culture in Northern Nevada.
NewsHour
Segments from this award winning PBS news show are made available daily, with archives dating back to 2000.
NOVA
Select episodes and episode segments of this popular PBS science program are made available.
NOW
A weekly PBS news program that covers wide ranging events and topics. Watch full episodes, and listen to audio interviews, dating back to 2002.
SnagFilms
SnagFilms is a collection of over 3000 of the world‘s most compelling documentaries, which you can watch for free.
TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
“Riveting talks by remarkable people” – listen to the most creative, innovative thinkers of our time in over 200 streaming video presentations from the archives of the annual TED conference.
The Periodic Table of Videos
A clickable version of the periodic table with a short informative video attached to each element. Produced by the University of Nottingham.
University of California Television - San Diego
A wide variety of health and medicine programs are made available from UCSD.