film archives

Movies from around the world.

  • Archive.org - movies
    This library contains thousands of digital movies uploaded by Archive users which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to cartoons and concerts. Many of these videos are available for free download.
  • Europa Film Treasures
    This documentary content will make it possible for you to (re) discover film heritage, especially by way of the thematic files addressing the role and work of archives and film libraries, the history and techniques of film preservation and restoration, the emblematic figures of film heritage, etc. You will also find reference book bibliographies, a glossary of technical terms, and a presentation of professional networks.
  • Experimental TV Center
    The Center was founded in 1971, an outgrowth of a media access program established by Ralph Hocking at Binghamton University in 1969; today, the Center continues to provide support and services to the media arts community. Mission to support the creation of work using new electronic media technologies, by providing space and time to artists for personal, self-directed creative investigations, and by providing funding and other administrative support directly to makers to encourage an informed appreciation of media art by supporting the exhibition of film and electronic works by artists and by arts and cultural organizations in the State, and to encourage the development of new venues and audiences in all regions to help honor our independently created moving-image heritage by initiating projects and participating in partnerships which address the needs for research, education and preservation, and place independent works within a larger cultural context
  • La Cinémathèque française
    Rich with experience, the Cinémathèque Française continues to fulfil its original mission: preserving and restoring films and archives within its collections, programming major classics as well as complete etrospectives and tributes to filmmakers, actors, producers and film technicians, exhibiting precious pieces from its collections within the “Passion Cinéma” permanent exhibition, organising temporary exhibitions displaying the riches of its vault, and highlighting the ties connecting cinema to the other arts. Thanks to its many initiatives, the Cinémathèque Française strives to transmit a passion for cinematographic art, through its educational and cultural activities in particular, intended for younger audiences.
  • Other Cinema
    Other Cinema is a long-standing bastion of experimental film, video, and performance in San Francisco's Mission District. We are inspired and sustained by the ongoing practice of fine-art filmmaking, as well as engaged essay and documentary forms. But OC also embraces marginalized genres like "orphan" industrial films, home movies, ethnography, and exploitation, as media-archeological core-samples, and blows against consensus reality and the sterility of museum culture.
  • The Pacific Film Archive
    PFA is home to the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan, as well as impressive gatherings of Soviet silents, West Coast avant-garde cinema, seminal video art, rare animation, Eastern European and Central Asian productions, and international classics.