Primary Source Spotlight: Film & Video
Film & video collections
- All American News
- America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures 1894-1915
- American Archive of Public Broadcasting 1960 on
- American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment 1870-1920
- Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire: Early Films of San Francisco 1897-1916
- Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada 1945-1982
- The Carnegie Hall Collection of Conversations with Composers
- Chicago Ethnic Arts Project Collection
- Civil Rights History Project
- Coptic Orthodox Liturgical Chant and Hymnody
- The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection
- Geographers on Film
- Great Conversations in Music
- Hidden Treasures at the Library of Congress
- Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works 1904
- Inventing Entertainment: the Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies
- The Last Days of a President: Films of McKinley and the Pan-American Exposition 1901
- The Life of a City: Early Films of New York 1898-1906
- National Screening Room
- Origins of American Animation
- Films from Prosperity and Thrift: the Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy 1921-1929
- Ragtime
- Selections from the Katherine Dunham Collection
- Selections from the National Film Registry
- Silent Film Scores and Arrangements
- The Spanish-American War in Motion Pictures
- Theodore Roosevelt: His Life and Times on Film
- Variety Stage Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures
- Video interviews from the September 11, 2001 Documentary Project
- Library of Congress streaming webcasts
Primary source sets
- Billy Bitzer & the Biograph Company
- The Birth of a Nation
- Edison Gets Kinetographic Camera Patent
- George Westinghouse
- The Gish Sisters
- Story Backdrop: “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street”, a Twilight Zone screenplay by Rod Serling
Film & video teaching resources
Library blog posts
- Bessie Smith in St. Louis Blues Now See Hear! April 26, 2017
- “Daisy”: The Most Effective Political Commercial Ever? Now See Hear! September 7, 2016
- Dewey Still Doesn’t Defeat Truman Now See Hear! September 14, 2016
- The First Television Show Ever Copyrighted . . . Maybe Now See Hear! May 20, 2014
- Introducing the Silent Film Project: East Side-West Side Now See Hear! August 31, 2016
- “Meet” Martha Rountree Now See Hear! August 26, 2014
- Mister American: Dwight Eisenhower 1952 Campaign Film Now See Hear! October 14, 2016
- Native American Heritage on Film Now See Hear! November 14, 2018
- NBC Television in Black & White Now See Hear! January 11, 2018
- On the Firing Line With the Germans Now See Hear! November 11, 2016
- Presidents on Film Now See Hear! August 24, 2016
- Rediscovering David Susskind Now See Hear! May 17, 2016
- Remembering Ann B. Davis Now See Hear! June 3, 2014
- Robin Williams Now See Hear! August 12, 2014
- Rodgers and Hammerstein In the Muse
- Carousel September 2, 2014
- Cinderella May 22, 2014
- Oklahoma! February 3, 2014
- South Pacific February 3, 2014
- Silent Cal, Not So Silent Now See Hear!
- The Silent Film Project: The Midnight Message Now See Hear! November 15, 2016
- Thanks for the Memories, Jerry Lewis Now See Hear! September 7, 2017
- Thelma Prescott, Television’s First Female Producer/Director Now See Hear! May 24, 2017
- The “Thriller” Now See Hear! October 21, 2014
- Thunderbirds are GO! In the Muse January 29, 2016
- Where’s Johnny? Now See Hear! June 26, 2014 | Heeeeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny? July 1, 2014
- More Now See Hear blog posts related to film/video
- More In the Muse blog posts related to film
Finding Resources
Film resources outside the Library
- Associated Press (AP) Archive YouTube channel
- British Pathé newsreel archive
- TV News Archive since 2009
- UCLA Film and Television Archive
- WPA Film Library