OV: The Open Video Project

The Open Video Project is an online video bank produced by the University of North Carolina that aims “to collect and make available a repository of digitized video content” for the research community. It contains documentaries, historical and educational films, ephemeral films, lectures, and public broadcasts, all released under open source licensing.

Collections include the Digital Himalaya Project (34 early films from anthropologists in the Himalayas); the Internet Moving Images Archive (containing the Prelinger Archives, ephemeral films mainly on everyday life, culture, industry, and institutions in North America in the 20th century); 187 films in the Edison Video collection; and films from the US National Archives, including the Apollo moon landings

The collections are covered by Creative Commons licensing, meaning you are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work as long as it is attributed, unaltered, and for non-commercial purposes.