American Memory

A gateway to more than 7 million digital items from more than 100 historical collections relating to the history and culture of the United States.

ARKive

A not-for-profit initiative of The Wildscreen Trust, ARKIVE is the Noah's Ark for the internet era - the world's centralised digital library of films, photographs and associated recordings of endangered species, accessible to all via the worldwide web.

Arts on Film Archive

A complete database and an on-line video streaming of all 450 films made by the film department of Arts Council England between 1953 and 1998 and several films produced till 2003 by the dance Department of ACE.

Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA)

The largest non-profit professional membership association for individuals and institutions concerned with the preservation of moving images, AMIA fosters co-operation among those concerned with the acquisition, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials.

BBC iPlayer

Watch and/or download BBC programmes from the last seven days.

BBC's Nation on Film

A major film archive and history resource, which allows members of the public to contribute their own memories and reminiscences.

BBC Radio Player (Radio on Demand)

Listen to a selection of the best radio shows, any time, up to seven days after broadcast.

BFI screenonline

The British Film Institute's screenonline web site brings to life Britain's big and small screen histories from the 1890s to the present. Access to video and audio material is limited to users in registered UK schools, colleges and libraries. All other material is available to all.

The British Library Sound Archive

one of the largest sound archives in the world.

British Pathe

The entire 3,500-hour British Pathe Film Archive (1896-1970), covering news, sport, social history and entertainment, together with 12 million still images. The news stories and still images are downloadable for free at low-resolution; at higher resolution they are available for free in UK maintained schools (under licence) or for a fee for commercial use.

British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND)

Data on British cinema newsreels for academic study, including British Paramount News, Gaumont British News and Universal News.

BUFVC Find DVDs

a database of media materials available throughout the world, detailing some 30,000 titles either currently or once in distribution. The website can be searched by title, participant, distributor, producer or keyword.

BUFVC Moving Image Gateway

Links to websites that relate to moving images and sound and their use in higher and further education. The sites are classified by academic discipline, within the four main categories of Arts & Humanities, Bio-Medical, Social Sciences and Science & Technology.

Creative Archive Licence Group

The Creative Archive Licence Group was set up by the BBC, the bfi, Channel 4 and the Open University "to make their archive content available for download under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence - a single, shared user licence scheme for the downloading of moving images, audio and stills."

The Film Archive Forum

Represents all of the public sector film and television archives which care for the UK's moving image heritage and acts as the advisory body on national moving image archive policy.

FindAnyFilm.com

UK Film Council search engine

French Association for Research on the History of Cinema (Association Française de Recherche sur l'histoire du Cinéma)

Non-profit organization whose membership includes most of the French film historians and some international scholars.

Getty Images

the world-famous Getty archive of still and moving images.

Historical Voices

A major US digital repository of spoken word audio collections.

Imperial War Museum Collections

The gateway to the IWM's huge archives of film, video, photographs and sound. Highlights of the archives are viewable at IWM Collections On-Line.

International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF)

A collaborative association of the world's leading film archives whose purpose is to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures.

Internet Movie Archive

This US-based resource offers free and mostly unrestricted online access to an interesting set of films and videos.

JISC Digital Media

Still images, moving images and sound advice.

Magnum Photos

The internationally renowned Magnum photography archive.

Moving Image Collections (MIC)

US based portal incorporating a Union Catalogue of collections.

Open Video Project

A US repository of digitized video content for the digital video, multimedia retrieval, digital library, and other research communities.

Oyez

A vast multimedia relational database on the US Supreme Court, containing abstracts for all leading constitutional decisions of the Court, authoritative oral arguments in streamed media format and a virtual reality tour of the Supreme Court building.

PictureAustralia

A substantial image portal offering access to images of Australiana held in numerous collections in Australia and elsewhere.

Public Information Films at the National Archives

A selection of some of the most memorable and influential public information films from the Central Office of Information.

The Researcher's Guide to Screen Heritage

A comprehensive directory of the publicly accessible sources of material related to the history of moving images and sound in the United Kingdom.

SCRAN

A history and culture website that contains over 1 million records from museums, galleries and archives and provides instant access to images, sounds, movies and learning resources.

Spoken Word project

The project aims to transform undergraduate learning and teaching through integrating the rich media resources of digital audio repositories into undergraduate courses in history, political science and cognate disciplines in the UK and US. Project partners are Michigan State University, in collaboration with Northwestern University and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and Glasgow Caledonian University, in collaboration with the BBC - Information & Archives.

Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching (TRILT)

Listings for more than 300 TV and radio channels with data from 1995 onwards (available to BUFVC members only).

VADS

VADS supports learning teaching and research by providing access to digital visual arts resources for users within UK Further and Higher Education.