Finding Multimedia Online

This is a collection of links to sound and video files freely available on the Internet. To locate videos and dvds at TC3 and at other libraries, please consult the TC3 Library Catalog or contact Media Services.

Search Engines & Subject Directories
Art
Books & Literature
Business & Technology
Government, Politics, Law, Foreign Affairs
Health
History
Languages
Multicultural
Music
News, Radio & Television
Podcasting
Science
Lectures, Speeches & Conferences
Sports

• AlltheWeb - Has audio and video search options
• Alta Vista - Has Audio and Video searches
• AOL Search - Has Video Search and Audio Search options.
• Blinkx TV Video Search
• FindSounds
• Google - Search for webcast, audio archive, streaming, realaudio, archived lectures, listening booth, mp3 etc. For example, a search for webcast scorcese site:princteon.edu will locate Martin Scorsese Discusses Film-Making, a May 4, 1999 lecture at Princeton.
• Library of Congress American Memory Project Collection Finder - You can browse collections with Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings.
• Open Video Project
• PBS Search
• Radio Scout - Public radio broadcast search.
• RealGuide
• SingingFish
• SpeechBot
• University Channel - Collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world.
• World Wide Web Virtual Library: Audio
• Yahoo - Has a video search option

• Brandywine River Museum Audio Tours
• Museum of Modern Art Audio Programs

• Academy of American Poets Listening Booth
• Assistive Media: Expanding the World of Reading
• Bold Type: Audio - Random House
• Book TV
• Booknotes
• Chaucer Metapage Audio Files / The Criyng and the Soun
• Cortland Review
• Diane Rehm Show (NPR)
• Favorite Poem Project
• Fresh Air (NPR)
• Internet Poetry Archive
• Kelly Writers House - University of Pennsylvania. With Webcast Archive
• LibriVox - Free audiobooks from the public domain
• Mercury Theatre on the Air
• New York Times Book Review: Audio Interviews and Readings - Listed alphabetically by author. (This feature ended in 2002)
• Poem Present: Readings and Lectures, 2004-2005 - University of Chicago
• Roland Collection of Videos & Films on Art - Writers Talk: Ideas of our Time
• Seeing Ear Theatre
• Wired for Books

• Bloomberg Radio
• Computer Guys
• Computer Talk on the Internet
• Dr. Dobb's TechNetcast
• Marketplace - With News Archive
• NerdTV - With transcripts
• Tech Talk Radio
• The News Show - CMP Media's online video digest of tech news and trends
• VCall - Offers free access to live and archived corporate communications.

• Capitol Hearings - C-SPAN
• Columbia News Archives
• Conversations with History
• C-SPAN
• Court TV - There's a Video Archive. See sitemap for shows.
• FedNet - "Provider of Washington based, real-time and archival multimedia information."
• Harvard Institute of Politics John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• Harvard Law School Forum
• History and Politics Out Loud
• Library of Congress Webcasts
• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
• United Nations Multimedia - Offers UN Radio News in six languages
• U.S. State Department Daily Briefing - There are also audio archives of Daily Briefings for 1997-2000
• Whitehouse - News - Radio addresses and speeches by the President

• Family Health Radio - With archives.
• PatientVideo - Dallas Urology Associates
• Stanford Health Library Video Collection

• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I and the 1920 Election
• BBC Education Twentieth Century Vox Audio Archives
• Conversations with History
• C-SPAN - Their American Political Archive is a weekly program that features historical audio recordings.
• Great Speeches
• History and Politics Out Loud
• Holocaust Survivors - Has an audio gallery
• Imperial War Museum Sound Archive - In Recollections of War and Recollections of the Korean War verterans recount their war experiences.
• Library of Congress American Memory Project - With Collection Finder by format.
• Lost and Found Sounds (NPR)
• Pentagon Papers: Audio Tapes from the Nixon White House
• Talking History - 30 minute weekly radio program produced by the Organization of American Historians There is a Show Archives. See also the United States Labor and Industrial History Audio Archive.
• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia
• Vincent Voice Library

• American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - 70,000 audio word pronunciations
• Civilisation Française
• Français Interactif: First Year French
• IDEA - The International Dialects Of English Archive
• Lost and Found Sounds - NPR. With Archive.
• Poésie française - Hear 46 RealAudio poems in French.

• Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
• AIROS (American Indian Radio on Satellite)
• Cultures AZ: Voices
• Latino USA: the Radio Journal of News and Culture
• Ohwejagehka: Ha`degaenage - Iroquois Language and Songs
• Omaha Indian Music

• Live from Lincoln Center
• Max Hunter Folk Song Collection - "Archive of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976."

• BBC World Service
• BRS Radio Directory
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Audio
• CBS Netcast
• CNN Video
• C-SPAN: Watch Live
• MSN Video
• News and Information via Streaming Audio & Video
• National Public Radio - Has a list of programs, a Directory of NPR Stations and links to Talk Shows.
• PBS - Has an A-Z program finder and a Search Page and Site Map.
• Radio Locator
• Radio Scout - Public radio broadcast search.
• StreamAudio - With links to radio stations by format and by state.
• TvRadioWorld
• Television Archive - September 11th
• United Nations Multimedia - Offers UN Radio News in six languages
• U.S. State Department Daily Briefing - There are audio archives of Daily Briefings for 1997-2000 and 2001.
• WebActive
• World Radio Network

• Apple - iTunes - Podcasting
• Duke Conference Examines World of Podcasting
• Stanford on iTunes

• Earth and Sky - With Archives and Searchable Index.
• Guide to Animal Sounds on the Net
• Human Genome Webcasts
• Juice - Podcast software
• Live @ Exploratorium - With Archive
• Living on Earth - Weekly environmental news and information program distributed by National Public Radio
• Odeo -
• Scientific American Frontiers - With Video Archive
• Talk of the Nation Science Friday(NPR) - Has archive of previous shows back to 1996
• Yahoo! Podcasts

• American Leaders Speak
• American Rhetoric
• Audio Online: UC Berkeley Speech Archives
• Boston College Front Row
• Columbia News Archives
• Conversations with History
• Digital Future - Discussions hosted by the Library of Congress "examine how the digital age is changing the most basic ways information is organized and classified."
• Fora TV - "Discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues."
• Georgetown University: Webcast
• Great Speeches
• Harvard Law School Forum
• Harvard Institute of Politics John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum
• History and Politics Out Loud
• IT Conversations
• MIT Communications Forum
• MIT World - "Free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT."
• National Press Club
• Princeton University Lectures
• ResearchChannel - University of Washington
• SpeechBot
• Speech and Transcript Center
• University Channel - Collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world.
• U.S. Institute of Peace Events Archive
• Vincent Voice Library
• Voices from the Smithsonian Associates -"Online streaming programs featuring lectures and discussions by world renowned scholars, performers and authors."
• Webcast Berkeley - University of California Berkeley courses & events (live and on-demand) has an extensive archives
• WGBH Forum Network
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Last update: Monday, February 11, 2008