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Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these films present the opportunity to pose thought-provoking questions for students, and introduce new ideas, perspectives, and primary sources.

AdViews is a digital archive of thousands of vintage television commercials dating from the 1950s to the 1980s from Duke University.

The Al Jazeera Creative Commons Repository hosts select broadcast quality media that Al Jazeera has released under various Creative Commons licenses.

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting is a "collection of 40,000 hours contains thousands of high quality programs that have had national impact. The vast majority of this initial American Archive content, however, consists of regional and local programs that document American communities during the last half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first."

View complete episodes of select films from the acclaimed PBS documentary series.

Vintage motion pictures offering rich perspectives on the American Indian experience. The site organizes titles by tribes, linking to films for more than 100 tribes.

Provides access to several hundred early motion pictures, organized into 11 discrete collections: America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915 American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920 Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco, 1897-1916 Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904 Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition, 1901 Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1898-1906 Origins of American Animation Prosperity and Thrift: the Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film.

A selection of Netflix's documentary features and series that are available on their YouTube channel for educational use.

Attend Shakespeare productions online, and discover other video projects, digital downloads and resources from the Globe theatre.

Digital movies uploaded by IA users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts.

Clips from TV news shows, from 2009 to yesterday.

From the AP Archive.

cultureunplugged.com presents short length + feature length documentary / film content from independent film-makers and grassroot productions to a global audience, to not only promote the art of film-making, but above all to spread awareness and promote the collective contemplation over global/local challenges.

Khan Academy's mission is to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

National heritage centre dedicated to collecting, preserving and celebrating the histories of African and Caribbean people in Britain.

Free cultural and educational media on the web.

A wide variety of interactive learning experiences.

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