Film/AV Collections of FIAF Affiliates Online
This list features links to free online streaming services used by FIAF affiliates to provide convenient access to their audiovisual collections. Many of the collections featured have been carefully selected and contextualised (e.g. by providing extensive curatorial notes or including the films alongside other film-related documents and media). In some cases, optional English subtitles are available for films in other languages. In the spirit of providing access to moving image content with the least amount of barriers, pay-per-view or subscription S/VOD services featuring films from FIAF affiliates’ collections are as a rule not included in this resource. Click HERE for a list of collection catalogues and databases that can be freely consulted online.
Additionally, the FIAF Programming Game offers an opportunity for users to engage with this resource in a more interactive way by submitting and sharing their own curated programmes drawn from the rich selection of films available through the links provided below. Click HERE to participate.
While online streaming serves as an important tool for access to moving images, PACC considers this service a supplement to - rather than a substitute for - the traditional programming activities of FIAF affiliates. Archives seek to achieve the closest possible approximation to the original viewing experience, and wherever possible, we encourage users to visit their local FIAF Members’ and Associates’ on-site screening venues for the authentic cinema-going experience that cannot be replicated in the virtual domain.
Click HERE to read PACC member Oliver Hanley's related article "The Best Seat in the House? Observations on Online Viewing and Access to FIAF Affiliates' Collections" (in JFP #104, April 2021) on Calameo.
PACC and the FIAF secretariat would like to thank those affiliates that have actively contributed to the expansion of this list. If your institution's online film/audiovisual collections are not yet listed here, please send the relevant information to info@fiafnet.org.
Academy Film Archive
Arhiva Naţională de Filme – Cinemateca Română
Arquivo Nacional
Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
BFI National Archive:
- YouTube channel
- Free films on the BFI Player (only available in the UK)
Bulgarska Nacionalna Filmoteka / Bulgarian National Film Archive
Bundesarchiv
Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée - Direction du patrimoine cinématographique
- Rétroviseur (in collaboration with the Cinémathèque de Toulouse and the Cinémathèque française)
- The CNC French Film Archive Collections in the EFG1914 Project
Cinemateca Brasileira
Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador
Cinemateca Portuguesa
Cinémathèque de Bretagne
Cinémathèque des pays de Savoie et de l'Ain
Cinémathèque de Toulouse
- Films on Mémoire filmique Pyrénées-Méditerranée
- Collections on Vimeo: Les Pathé Kok, ou les VHS DVD VOD du début du XXe siècle, Films d’animation sans caméra
Cinémathèque française
- HENRI - Des films rares de la Cinémathèque française à voir en ligne (films available in English here)
Cinémathèque royale de Belgique
Cinémathèque suisse
- Restauration
- Films on Memobase (including the Ciné Journal Suisse)
La Cineteca del Friuli
Cineteca Nacional (Mexico)
- Miradas al acervo (playlist on YouTube channel)
Cineteca Nacional de Chile
CSC - Cineteca Nazionale
- Portale Cinema Muto Italiano - i film della Cineteca Nazionale
- Progetto EFG prima Guerra Mondiale (playlist on YouTube channel)
- YouTube channels from the Archivio Nazionale Cinema d'Impresa: CinemaimpresaTV, MI RICORDO, Documentalia
Det Danske Filminstitut
- Danmark på film (films available in English here)
- Stumfilm.dk - Danish Silent Film portal
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen
DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum
ECPAD - Établissement de Communication et de Production Audiovisuelle de la Défense
- The ECPAD collections in the EFG1914 Project (via CNC)
- Films and videos on the "ImagesDéfense" portal
Eye Filmmuseum
Film Archive (Public Organization), Thailand
Film Archive of the National Archives of Estonia
Filmarchiv Austria
Filmoteca de Catalunya
Filmoteca Española
- Collections on the Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española’s website
- Collections on the the Ministry of Culture and Sport’s YouTube Channel
- Vimeo channel "Flores en la Sombra"
- Films on the European Film Gateway
Filmoteca de la UNAM
Filmoteca Valenciana - Institut Valencià de Cultura
Filmoteca Vasca
Filmoteka Narodowa - Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA)
Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna
Fondazione Cineteca Italiana
- Film (registration required)
George Eastman Museum
Gosfilmofond of Russia
Harvard Film Archive
Imperial War Museums
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Institut audiovisuel de Monaco
- Instantanés "Monaco en films" (playlist on YouTube channel)
Institut Jean Vigo - Cinémathèque euro-régionale
IFI Irish Film Archive
Jerusalem Cinematheque - Israel Film Archive
- jfc.org.il (limited free content)
Jugoslovenska Kinoteka
Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti / National Audiovisual Institute
Kinoteka na Republika Severna Makedonija / Cinematheque of Republic of North Macedonia
Korean Film Archive
Kvikmyndasafn Íslands
- Ísland á filmu (in collaboration with the Danish Film Institute)
Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Library of Congress
Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern
- Lichtspiel-Archiv Online
- Lichtspiel-Sonntag (live screening every Sunday evening)
Moving Image Research Collections - University of South Carolina
Musée Albert-Kahn
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken
Museo Nazionale del Cinema
The Museum of Modern Art - Department of Film
- Virtual Views: Home Movies & Film Vault Summer Camp (playlists on YouTube channel)
Národní filmový archiv
- YouTube channel "Česká filmová klasika" (English subtitled films available here)
- Films on the European Film Gateway
Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway
National Archives and Records Administration
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
National Film Archive of Japan
National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive
National Library of Wales Screen & Sound Archive
- Free films on the BFI Player (only available in the UK)
Nemzeti Filmintézet Magyarország - Filmarchívum / National Film Institute Hungary - Film Archive
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
- Films (playlist on YouTube channel)
North West Film Archive
- Free films on the BFI Player (only available in the UK)
Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Film Centre
Österreichisches Filmmuseum
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive
Svenska Filminstitutet
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Yale Film Archive
- Yale Film Archive Preserved Films (collection on Vimeo channel)
