How to Find Public Domain Resources

Work, school, and leisure activities in the United States from 1894 to 1915 are featured in this presentation of 150 motion pictures.

This collection consists of twenty-six films of San Francisco from before and after the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1897-1916.

The Westinghouse Works Collection contains 21 actuality films showing various views of Westinghouse companies.

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.

The development of early American animation is represented by this collection of 21 animated films and 2 fragments, which spans the years 1900 to 1921.

Browse sixty-four public domain motion pictures, named to the Library’s National Film Registry.

Search for image, video, or audio public domain resources.

Search by content, type, time, genre, or rights.

Search Flickr's collection of videos that have no known copyright restrictions.

Browse this collection of stock footage clips submitted by Internet Archive users.

OpenFlix provides a directory of movies commonly thought to be in the public domain and works their owners are willing to let be distributed.

Browse Vimeo's collection of public domain/Creative Commons film and video.

Search over 100,000 videos from Wikimedia Commons, a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone.

"This is a non-definitive list of films in the public domain in the United States."

Search YouTube's collection of public domain films.