- Center for Motion Picture Study - http://www.oscars.org/cmps/
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - the Oscars - film archive and Margaret Herrick Library. Located in Los Angeles. Free admission.
- Media Archive for Central England - http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/mace/
The moving image archive for the English Midlands. News, contact details, and a map of the region represented.
- National Center for Jewish Film - http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/
Dedicated to preserving and sharing Jewish heritage. The collection includes features, documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and home movies. Distributes restored versions of rare Yiddish-language features.
- Cinemedia - http://www.cinemedia.net/
Supports the growth and diversification of screen culture in Australia. Search for titles in the Cinemedia collection.
- Footage.net - http://www.footage.net/
Stock, archival, and news footage network. Instantly search the footage trade's best databases.
- Filmmakers Library - http://www.filmakers.com/
Collects, distributes, sells and leases documentary films and videos primarily for educational use. Subjects include psychology, sociology, anthropology and multicultural issues.
- Harvard Film Archive - http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/
Collects and screens fine foreign, art, historical, and other films.
- UCLA Film and Television Archive - http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/
California-based museum, containing over 220,000 films and television programs and newsreel footage. Items are available to the public via screenings, research facilities, and licensing as stock footage.
- ScreenSound Australia - http://www.screensound.gov.au/
Seeks to collect, preserve and share Australia's audio visual heritage.
- Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive - http://www.digitalfilmarchive.net
Collection contains 55 hours of moving images about Northern Ireland from 1897-2000, including drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreels, and amateur films.
- Association of Moving Image Archivists - http://www.amianet.org/
Organization devoted to advancing the field of moving image archiving. Includes information on membership, conferences, publications, awards, and interest groups.
- Association of Cinema and Video Laboratories - http://www.acvl.org/
Organization comprised of motion picture laboratories, post production facilities and support companies, that is dedicated to the open exchange of technical information affecting filmmakers.
- San Francisco Media Archive - http://www.sfm.org/
Collection of historically important films. General information including donation guidelines.
- Prelinger Archives - http://www.prelinger.com
Collection of advertising, amateur, educational and industrial films that date from 1903 to 1990. Site includes historical and bibliographical resources on these genres.
- The New Zealand Film Archive - http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/
The Archive collects, protects and projects New Zealand's film and television history. Hosts nation-wide and online exhibitions, screenings and education programmes. Has research libraries in Auckland and Wellington.
- National Film Preservation Board - http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/
A public-private partnership to benefit the film preservation efforts of American film archives, historical societies and similar institutions.
- The Film Reference Library - http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/cinematheque/library.htm
Located in Toronto, Ontario, collects and preserves materials for film education, research and production. Entrance charge.
- American Film Institute - http://www.AFI.com/
Silver Theatre and Louis B Mayer Library. Free admission to library, with booking advised for specific research.
- National Archive of Film Shorts - http://www.nafs.co.uk/
A free depository for film and video shorts lasting 30 minutes or less produced by UK based independent film makers.
- The National Film Archive of Thailand - http://people.cornell.edu/pages/ter3/thaifilm/nfa.html
Collection of television newsreels, documentary and feature films, as well as film ephemera related to Thailand.
- Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies - http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/
A collection of over 3,800 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Admission by appointment during term time. Housed at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
- BBC Learning Studies - http://www.bbcstudies.com
Video resources from the world's largest educational TV archive, incorporating a full licence to use in education and training.
- Out Of Sight - http://www.broadway.org.uk/oos/sight/
Past festival details with film synopses and genres, as well as a newsletter. Located in Nottingham, UK.
- The Open Video Project - http://www.open-video.org/
Sponsored by and developed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. 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.
- Anthology Film Archives - http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
Preserves and exhibits motion pictures. It collects literature and documents, and promotes understanding of cinema for students, scholars, the public.
- Alinari - http://corporate.alinari.it/
Preserves and exhibits over 800,000 vintage photographs and negatives. Contains exhibit details, a library, and a restoration laboratory. Located in Florence, Italy. [Italian and English]
- Mediatèque - http://www.sawvideo.com/cinema/
Streams 500 independent films and videos by Canadian media artists. Search by category, medium, length or years. Includes the SAW video forum. [English and French]
- Fleischarchive.org - http://www.fleischarchive.org/
Archive of Thorsten Fleisch, hosting scientific and educational silent films, encoded in divx format. Includes a title index. [German and English]
- The Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Museum - http://douglasfairbanks.org
Collection includes over 1100 artifacts, photographs, posters, periodicals, films and silent movie memorabilia. Includes admission rates and hours, by appointment only. Located in Austin, Texas, United States.
- Internet Moving Images Archive - http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
From the Prelinger Archive, thousands of digitalized industrial, educational, travel, propaganda and other short films from 1903 to the 1970s available for free, online.
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