Research Guides: Remote Learning with Online Library Resources: Open Access Streaming Videos

Open Access Streaming Videos

Streaming Video Websites Open to All

Art21 This link opens in a new window
Contemporary artists in their own words, series illuminates their processes, practice, works, studios, philosophy, and more.

British Pathé Newsfilm Collection
Over 85,000 films from 1895 - 1970; complete newsreel items with voice-overs and soundtracks, plus outtakes and unissued items.
Center for Home Movies
e-flux video & film
conversations, lectures, and symposia at e-flux, featuring some of the most interesting artists and thinkers of our times.
Chicago Film Archives
Includes some streaming video.
Internet Archive Free Feature Films
Over 5000 films from television, independent, international and Hollywood producers.
Media Burn Independent Video Archive
The Moving Image Catalog
Online curatorial platform dedicated to the promotion of artists’ moving image culture. We select moving image works that are officially and freely available to watch online.
National Screening Room (Library of Congress)
The majority of movies are freely available as both 5 mb MP4 and ProRes 422 MOV downloads.
OER Commons
Curated collection of Art History, Graphic Arts, Performing Arts, and Visual Arts.
South Side Home Movie Project
UbuWeb: Film & Video
Many avant-garde films & videos presented for educational use.
Video Data Bank: Video Art & Artists' Essays

Visiting Artist Program (VAP on YouTube) This link opens in a new window
SAIC's Visiting Artists Program makes select recordings available to the public via YouTube with the artist's permission.