Search and read newspaper pages from U.S. newspapers published from 1690-present.

AP Archive is the film and video archive of The Associated Press. The collection offers 1.7 million global news and entertainment video stories, which date back to 1895.

British Movietone is arguably the world's greatest newsreel archive, spanning the period 1895 to 1986.

Pathé News (currently, "British Pathé") was a producer of newsreels, cinemagazines, and documentaries from 1910 until 1976 in the United Kingdom.

Films produced by the U.S. government online, available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.

Watch classic animated cartoons from the 1930's and 1940's! All these cartoons have been transferred from original 35 film prints and digitally remastered. The collection includes classics such as Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Popeye, Porky Pig, The Three Stooges, and others.

Hundreds of films and related items on American history and culture, including early films and animation.

Over 2000 films including stock footage, old commercials, and other materials. They are freely available for download and reuse under the Creative Commons license.

From Vanderbilt University.

"A multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings ... This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920."

Digital images of the largest collection of material on professional theatre and dramatic performance in the age of Shakespeare. Includes letters, bills of sale, court orders, poems and other material dated 1544-1662.

Many sound recordings here are in the US public domain, but not all. The bibliographic record for each work includes its copyright status, so take a look.