Video Databases

VIDEO ARCHIVES

• American Memory - A gateway to the Library of Congress’s vast resources of digitized American historical materials.
• American Rhetoric - Includes an Online Speech Bank, the "Top 100 Speeches", and famous speeches from movies. Only some include video.
• American History in Video - "With 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion, this collection allows the analysis of historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries."
• Annenberg Media Collection - Uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools via the broad distribution of educational video programs for the professional development of K-12 teachers.
• Archeaology Channel: Videos - Explore human cultural heritage through educational videos on some of the most famous and substantial archaeological sites from throughout human history.
• Concordia Television Productions - "Campus Events On Demand". Now contains the beginnings of an archive of the Poehler and Heginbotham "Possibilities" Lecture Series.
• Faraday Institute of Science and Religion - The Faraday Institute has a Christian ethos, but encourages engagement with a wide diversity of opinions concerning interactions between science and religion, without engaging in advocacy. It aims to provide accurate information in order to facilitate informed debate.
• Folkstreams - A national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures, focusing on the culture, struggles, and arts of unnoticed Americans from many different regions and communities
• How Stuff Works Video Center - The award-winning source of credible, unbiased, and easy-to-understand explanations of how the world actually works.
• Library of Congress Webcasts - Webcasts on a multitude of topics:  history, current events, education, literature, etc. Includes presentations by authors, ethnographers, and many others.
• Media Burn Independent Video Archive - A collection of over 4,000 hours of independently produced, non-fiction/documentary videos.
• Minnesota Video Vault - Provides access to hundreds of videos and Twin Cities Public Television (TPT) productions, from short clips to lengthy shows.  The "Educators" button allows you to sort by very broad K12 areas.
• National Geographic Video - Categories include Animals, Daily News, Environment, Kids, Music, Science & Space, Specials, and Travel & Culture.
• Open Video Project - The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.
• PBS Video - Online repository of  PBS programs, streaming on demand. Popular titles include Frontline, Nature, NewHour, and Nova.
• Periodic Table of Videos - Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one.
• SnagFilms - Watch full-length documentary films for free, but also a platform that lets you “snag” a film and put it anywhere on the web. Contains a library of nearly 450 films.
• TED: Technology, Entertainment, Design - The best videos from an annual conference which brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers.
• Vega Science Trust - Videos aim to give us a fundamental understanding of principles of nature and the physical world. Outstanding scientists/communicators are directly involved with each video so that they can guide content of the programmes.
• YouTube EDU - Portal for the educational video content of hundreds of universities, including over 20,000 videos and 200 complete courses.

VIDEO TUTORIALS

• Common Craft - How-to videos for current tech and computer applications, "In Plain English".
• Transitioning to College - Videos covering research basics, what to expect, and how to find help when you need it as you transition into college life.