Streaming Video Resources: Documentaries, Cultural, & Historical Resources

"BBC Archives manages one of the world's largest multimedia archives. Our mission is to preserve content so that it can be re-used. Our vision is to have an open archive, fit for a digital world.

"TDF is an amalgamation of hundreds of documentary films covering a wide variety of topics including history, science, politics, and society. The embedded videos on this site are from Youtube. [T]his site functions as a comprehensive index of Youtube documentaries....**TDF makes no attempt to critically evaluate a title for scholarly content**"

"Annual collection showcasing twelve short films on important topics of the day. Issues covered include Criminal Justice, Economic Justice, Environment, Family & Society, Gay/Lesbian, Gender/Women, Health/Health Advocacy, Human Rights, Immigration, International, Media, Politics/Government, Racial Justice, Religious Freedom, and Youth."

Leading thinkers and creative people weigh in on current issues and big ideas.

Folkstreams is a non-profit dedicated to finding, preserving, contextualizing, and showcasing documentary films on American traditional cultures.

Combines award winning films, photo essays, and articles on interdisciplinary topics including environmental, social and cultural issues, and integrates standards-aligned lesson plans and study guides to promote critical thinking. It can be integrated into Google Classroom.

"The American Indian Film Gallery (AIFG) is an online collection of more than 450 historic films by and about Native peoples of the Americas,"

"One hundred episodes, each @ 2 minutes, in which Metropolitan Museum of Art curators talk about works of art that changed the way they see the world."

"Offers personal perspectives on works of art in the collection by 100 Met staff members, each one addressing a theme such as Motherhood, Magic, Masks, or Water."

'The best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors,"

Discover historic programs of publicly funded radio and television across America.

"All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a Black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage Black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, and to reflect an African-American perspective on world and national events."

"Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures."

Instructional films about mental health, mostly from the 1950s.