Open Educational Resources

Free online courses and learning tools, in all subject areas, from notable universities.

The Archaeology Channel provides free access to a large collection of streaming media covering archaeology worldwide.

Search for openly licensed media, which includes images, videos, and audio/music.

Free educational videos from the Annenberg Foundation, a non-profit educational organization.

Features a growing collection of text, audio, and video versions of over 5,000 speeches. The site provides access to "public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, and other recorded media events." Includes sections for Christian rhetoric, "Top 100 Speeches," "Rhetorical Figures in Sound," "Rhetoric of 9-11," and more. Notable is the selection of speeches from movies, arranged alphabetically by title. Not all speeches have accompanying videos. Site supported by advertising, and maintained by a speech communication professor.

The American Memory project from the Library of Congress 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

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

Al Jazeera’s Creative Commons Repository contains broadcast footage that Al Jazeera has released under various Creative Commons licenses.

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

High resolution cryosectional colour images of human anatomy produced by the U.S. National Library of Medicine's Visible Human Project.