Theatre

Explore 60,000 selected recordings of music, spoken word and human and natural environments.

Includes @300 audio examples of English dialects from England and Wales.

Sound recordings of interviews with actors, stage designers, writers and critics, theatregoers, etc. talking about post-war British theatre.

The Boston Public Library sound collection includes hundreds of thousands of audio recordings in a variety of historical formats, including wax cylinders, 78 rpms, and LPs. The recordings span many genres, including classical, pop, rock, jazz, and opera – from 78s produced in the early 1900s to LPs from the 1980s.

(sponsored by MIT). Video and performance archive of Shakespeare performances from many parts of the world.

(Internet Archive ->  Moving Image Archive ->) Sub-collection of the Moving Image Archive. 6,000+ digitized and videotape titles and a large collection of home movies, amateur and industrial films. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven't been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions.

Contains thousands of free digital movies uploaded by Archive users which include: classic full-length films, daily alternative news broadcasts, cartoons, and concerts. Many are available for free download.

EU-funded portal to the digital collections of 35+ European film archives. Offers free access to digital videos, photographs, magic lantern slides, film posters, and text materials.

Provides online access to Europe's television heritage through videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Explore selected content from early 1900s to the present.

This site offers videos that use freely available footage and entire performances from theatre companies around the world. They also have a limited collection of archival footage available to scholars by permission for expressly educational purposes.

Streaming titles from the Brussels Cinematek (YouTube channel).16 videos from 1911-1927.

Curated streaming programs of film the NFPF has helped preserve.

Streaming selection's from the Library of Congress' annual list of films tapped for preservation because of their cultural, historical and aesthetic significance.

(from the website) The National Screening Room showcases the riches of the Library’s vast moving image collection, designed to make otherwise unavailable movies, both copyrighted and in the public domain, freely accessible to the viewers worldwide.

Digital motion picture and television collections collected by the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division of the Library of Congress.