Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Film Archive

Describes the collections and services offered by the Academy's motion picture archives and library.
http://www.oscars.org/filmarchive/index.html

Harvard Film Archive

Collects and screens fine foreign, art, historical, and other films.
http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org/

BBC Learning Studies

Video resources from the world's largest educational TV archive, incorporating a full licence to use in education and training.
http://www.bbcstudies.com

Center for Motion Picture Study

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - the Oscars - film archive and Margaret Herrick Library. Located in Los Angeles. Free admission.
http://www.oscars.org/cmps/

Media Archive for Central England

The moving image archive for the English Midlands. News, contact details, and a map of the region represented.
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/mace/

National Center for Jewish Film

Dedicated to preserving and sharing Jewish heritage. The collection includes features, documentaries, shorts, newsreels, and home movies. Distributes restored versions of rare Yiddish-language features.
http://www.brandeis.edu/jewishfilm/

British Film Institute: Collections and Archives

Largest collection of television and film titles in Europe. Offers access to titles on several video formats.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/collections/index.html

Cinemedia

Supports the growth and diversification of screen culture in Australia. Search for titles in the Cinemedia collection.
http://www.cinemedia.net/

Footage.net

Stock, archival, and news footage network. Instantly search the footage trade's best databases.
http://www.footage.net/

Filmmakers Library

Collects, distributes, sells and leases documentary films and videos primarily for educational use. Subjects include psychology, sociology, anthropology and multicultural issues.
http://www.filmakers.com/

UCLA Film and Television Archive

California-based museum, containing over 220,000 films and television programs and newsreel footage. Items are available to the public via screenings, research facilities, and licensing as stock footage.
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Centre for study and education with museum, gallery and film archive. Located in Berkeley, California. Entrance charge.
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/main.html

ScreenSound Australia

Seeks to collect, preserve and share Australia's audio visual heritage.
http://www.screensound.gov.au/

Northern Ireland Digital Film Archive

Collection contains 55 hours of moving images about Northern Ireland from 1897-2000, including drama, animation, documentaries, news, newsreels, and amateur films.
http://www.digitalfilmarchive.net

Association of Moving Image Archivists

Organization devoted to advancing the field of moving image archiving. Includes information on membership, conferences, publications, awards, and interest groups.
http://www.amianet.org/

Association of Cinema and Video Laboratories

Organization comprised of motion picture laboratories, post production facilities and support companies, that is dedicated to the open exchange of technical information affecting filmmakers.
http://www.acvl.org/

San Francisco Media Archive

Collection of historically important films. General information including donation guidelines.
http://www.sfm.org/

Prelinger Archives

Collection of advertising, amateur, educational and industrial films that date from 1903 to 1990. Site includes historical and bibliographical resources on these genres.
http://www.prelinger.com

The New Zealand Film Archive

The Archive collects, protects and projects New Zealand's film and television history. Hosts nation-wide and online exhibitions, screenings and education programmes. Has research libraries in Auckland and Wellington.
http://www.filmarchive.org.nz/

National Film Preservation Board

A public-private partnership to benefit the film preservation efforts of American film archives, historical societies and similar institutions.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/film/

The Ransom Center - Film Collection

Located in Austin, Texas at the University of Texas. Various collections and reading rooms.
http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/collections/film/

The Film Reference Library

Located in Toronto, Ontario, collects and preserves materials for film education, research and production. Entrance charge.
http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/cinematheque/library.htm

American Film Institute

Silver Theatre and Louis B Mayer Library. Free admission to library, with booking advised for specific research.
http://www.AFI.com/

National Archive of Film Shorts

A free depository for film and video shorts lasting 30 minutes or less produced by UK based independent film makers.
http://www.nafs.co.uk/

The National Film Archive of Thailand

Collection of television newsreels, documentary and feature films, as well as film ephemera related to Thailand.
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/ter3/thaifilm/nfa.html

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

A collection of over 3,800 videotaped interviews with witnesses and survivors of the Holocaust. Admission by appointment during term time. Housed at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
http://www.library.yale.edu/testimonies/

Out Of Sight

Past festival details with film synopses and genres, as well as a newsletter. Located in Nottingham, UK.
http://www.broadway.org.uk/oos/sight/

The Open Video Project

Sponsored by and developed at the Interaction Design Laboratory at the School of Information and Library Science, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The purpose of the Open Video Project is to collect and make available a repository of digitized
http://www.open-video.org/

George Eastman House: Motion Picture Collections

Collects and interprets images, films, and equipment in the disciplines of photography and motion pictures.
http://www.eastmanhouse.org/inc/collections/motion_picture.asp

Anthology Film Archives

Preserves and exhibits motion pictures. It collects literature and documents, and promotes understanding of cinema for students, scholars, the public.
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/

Alinari

Preserves and exhibits over 800,000 vintage photographs and negatives. Contains exhibit details, a library, and a restoration laboratory. Located in Florence, Italy. [Italian and English]
http://corporate.alinari.it/

Mediatèque

Streams 500 independent films and videos by Canadian media artists. Search by category, medium, length or years. Includes the SAW video forum. [English and French]
http://www.sawvideo.com/cinema/

Fleischarchive.org

Archive of Thorsten Fleisch, hosting scientific and educational silent films, encoded in divx format. Includes a title index. [German and English]
http://www.fleischarchive.org/

The Douglas Fairbanks Sr. Museum

Collection includes over 1100 artifacts, photographs, posters, periodicals, films and silent movie memorabilia. Includes admission rates and hours, by appointment only. Located in Austin, Texas, United States.
http://douglasfairbanks.org

Internet Moving Images Archive

From the Prelinger Archive, thousands of digitalized industrial, educational, travel, propaganda and other short films from 1903 to the 1970s available for free, online.
http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger