Research Guides: Communication: Digitized Images/ Films

Digital Image Collections

Library of Congress Digital Collections Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.

ARTstor This link opens in a new window Digital images (over 1 million) in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities and the social sciences.

Ad*Access Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955.
Openverse Openverse is a tool that allows users to search over 500 million images that are freely available to be freely used and adapted.
Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) The Digital Public Library of America brings together photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more from America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available.
NYPL Digital Gallery Provides access to 900,000+ images digitized from primary sources and printed rarities in the collections of The New York Public Library, including illuminated manuscripts, historical maps, vintage posters, rare prints and photographs, illustrated books, printed ephemera, and more.

American Memory Project: Motion Pictures Collections
AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials The AdViews digital collection provides access to thousands of historic commercials created for clients or acquired by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency or its predecessor during the 1950s - 1980s.
Culture Unplugged -- Documentary Films An online film archive to watch films (documentaries, short films, talks & more).
European Film Gateway The EFG Portal gives you quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.

Films on Demand This link opens in a new window
This database provides thousands of educational films in a large variety of subject areas as well as archival films and newsreels.

To link directly to any film or segment, use the Title URL link below the video. Do not use the URL in your address bar. Titles are subject to change. For more help, contact a librarian.

LearnersTV This is a comprehensive site providing thousands of downloadable Video lectures, live online tests,etc in almost every academic field.
Open Culture Compiles thousands of movies that are freely available online, including classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and others.