How to Find Public Domain & Creative Commons Media

This website provides access to public domain videos from National Park service sites, "including national parks, monuments, battlefields, historic sites and related areas".

This archive, which is on the Internet Archive, offers access to a large number of public domain movies and videos.

Vimeo offers an entire channel devoted to videos that are in the public domain.

Free, public domain videos that may be used for commercial purposes.

This site makes it easy to search for Creative Commons-licensed content on several websites, including one devoted solely to video content.

This site provides access to video footage licensed under a variety of licenses, including Creative Commons licenses, as well as footage in the public domain. You can limit your search to specific license types using the Advanced Search feature. For example, this search returns video content that the Internet Archive has listed as in the public domain.

This portion of the Internet Archive offers access to thousands of Creative Commons-licensed videos, which are organized into subcollections by subject.

Vimeo is a video hosting service that offers the option to both browse content that is Creative Commons-licensed and to limit your search results to only Creative Commons-licensed content using their advanced filters.

WikiMedia Commons offers access to videos that are either in the public domain or available under a Creative Commons license.

YouTube is another video hosting service and it also offers the option to browse Creative Commons-licensed content or filter your search results to only include Creative Commons-licensed videos.