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Open Access Sources
It is impossible to list all the amazing primary audiovisual sources available on the web. Use simple web searches to find oral histories, interviews, historical film footage, etc. available online from repositories throughout the world.
Audiovisual Resources
- Oral History Online This link opens in a new windowProvides in-depth indexing to more than 2,700 collections of Oral History in English from around the world, including many full-text transcripts, audio, and video.
- Associated Press Collection Online This link opens in a new windowProvides photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history.
- Open Vault: WGBH Media Library and Archives This link opens in a new windowOnline access to unique and historically important video content produced by public television station WGBH.
- Library of Congress Digital CollectionsIncludes photographs, video footage, oral histories and audio recordings.
- Association for Diplomatic Studies & TrainingLarge collection of U.S. diplomatic oral histories, plus podcasts, videos, books and publications.
- New York Public Library (NYPL) Digital CollectionsOpen access to over 800,000 images digitized from the The New York Public Library's collections.
- German Federal Archives - Newreel FootageGerman newsreel archives from early 1920s, with some earlier films for WWI era.
- FilmPortal.deVideo clips from the Bundesarchiv, among others, arranged by topical area.
- British PathéBritish newsreel archive spanning the years from 1896 to 1984. Includes Irish revolutionary period, WWI and WWII footage.
- Archive FarmsSpecialized archives collections of historical photos and historical footage.
- UVA/Miller Center: Interviews with the AdministrationOral histories of US Presidential Administrations from 1981 to present.
- Vietnam Center and ArchiveCollects and preserves the documentary record of the Vietnam War at Texas Tech University. Includes many digitized collections.
- Internet ArchiveA non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. There is also a collection of 2.3 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.
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