Film/AV Collections of FIAF Affiliates Online

Today, the Internet provides a wide range of possibilities to stream or download digitized films and other audiovisual materials from the collections of FIAF affiliates, including various third-party pay-per-view or subscription  S/VOD services. The list provided below concentrates exclusively on those outlets and platforms that offer free access to the holdings of FIAF affiliates online and are run or to a great extent maintained by the archives themselves. Many of the collections featured in the list 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.

If your institution's film/audiovisual collection online is not yet listed here, please send the relevant information to info@fiafnet.org.

Arkivi Qendror Shtetëror i Filmit / Central State's Film Archive of Albania: YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCixAPvEU4vuZhi-dXh2NhFA/videos

Arquivo Nacional: YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcB7XUfJLfmtXx5KRKWAwCg

Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V.: Weekly online programme

https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/arsenal-cinema/current-program/single/article/8375/2803.html

https://www.arsenal-berlin.de/en/join/arsenal-3/login.html

Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI): YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWLTWnH_5eRGQz_UL1_J-JA

BFI National Archive: BFI YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/BFIfilms

BFI National Archive: BFI Player (only available in the UK)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/free

Bundesarchiv: Filmothek

https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/

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)

https://www.cnc.fr/cinema/dossiers/retroviseur--a-la-decouverte-des-images-du-passe_1152411

Centre Pompidou - Musée national d'art moderne: Le Cinéma du Musée

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/lib/le-cinema-du-musee

Cinemateca Nacional del Ecuador: Cinemateca Digital

http://cinematecanacionalcce.com/Cinemateca/

Cinemateca Portuguesa: Cinemateca Digital

http://www.cinemateca.pt/Cinemateca-Digital.aspx

Cinémathèque de Bretagne: Base documentaire

https://www.cinematheque-bretagne.bzh/Base-documentaire-426-0-0-0.html?ref=&filter=video_numerique

Cinémathèque des pays de Savoie et de l'Ain: Films

https://www.letelepherique.org/Films-526-0-0-0.html

Cinémathèque française: Henri la plateforme des collections film

https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/

Cinémathèque royale de Belgique: Youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/CINEMATEKfilms

Cinémathèque suisse: Digitized Collections on Memobase (including the Ciné Journal Suisse)

http://www.memobase.ch/

Cinémathèque suisse: Restauration (one restored film added every Wednesday)

https://vimeopro.com/cinemathequesuisse/restauration

Cineteca Nacional (Mexico): YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDl6JsaBKpPlT8FkuMoqKkknJ6VvHDpnH

Cineteca Nacional de Chile: Cineteca Nacional Online

https://www.ccplm.cl/sitio/secciones/cineteca-nacional/cineteca-online/

CSC - Cineteca Nazionale: Portale Cinema Muto Italiano - i film della Cineteca Nazionale

https://www.ilcinemamuto.it/betatest/materiali/videogallery/

Det Danske Filminstitut: Stumfilm.dk - Danish Silent Film portal

https://www.stumfilm.dk/en/stumfilm

Det Danske Filminstitut: danmarkpaafilm.dk

https://filmcentralen.dk/museum/danmark-paa-film

https://filmcentralen.dk/museum/danmark-paa-film/tema/welcome-denmark (in English)

Deutsche Kinemathek: Vorgeschichte der dffb 1962-66

https://dffb-archiv.de/

Eye Filmmuseum: YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/eyefilmnl

Eye Filmmuseum: Open Images portal

https://eye.openbeelden.nl/

Filmmuseum München: Restaurierungen des Filmmuseums München

https://vimeo.com/showcase/6977503/

Filmarchiv Austria: Heimkino

https://www.filmarchiv.at/digitale-sammlung/film/

Film Archive (Public Organization), Thailand: Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/FilmArchiveThailand

Filmoteca de Catalunya

https://filmoteca.cat/web/ca/dossier/recursos-cinematografics-contra-el-covid-19 

Filmoteca Española: NO-DO (Spanish newsreels during Franco's dictatorship) and other collections available via the Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española’s website)

http://www.rtve.es/filmoteca/

Filmoteca Española: Collections on the the Ministry of Culture and Sport’s YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/canalmcu/search?query=Filmoteca Española

Filmoteca Española: Doré en casa (a new restored film accessible every week)

https://vimeo.com/channels/1546070

Filmoteca Valenciana - Institut Valencià de Cultura

http://www.restauracionesfilmoteca.com/inicio/

Filmoteka Narodowa - Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA): Digital Repository

http://www.repozytorium.fn.org.pl/?q=en

Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna: Cinestore

http://cinestore.cinetecadibologna.it/video/primo_piano/

Fondazione Cineteca Italiana (registration necessary)

https://www.cinetecamilano.it/biblioteca/catalogo/login

Imperial War Museums: IWM Film

https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk

Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive: Media Collections Online

https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/

Irish Film Institute: IFI Player

https://ifiplayer.ie/

KAVI - Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti / National Audiovisual Institute: Elonet

https://elonet.finna.fi/?lng=en-gb

KAVI - Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti / National Audiovisual Institute: Elävä muisti (Living Memory)

https://elavamuisti.fi/ (available in Finnish and Swedish)

Kinoteka na Severna Makedonija - Cinematheque of North Macedonia: Filmotheque

http://filmotheque.maccinema.com/

Korean Film Archive: Korean Classic Film Theater on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/user/KoreanFilm

Library and Archives Canada / Bibliothèque et Archives Canada: YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/LibraryArchiveCanada/videos

Library of Congress: The National Screening Room

https://www.loc.gov/collections/national-screening-room/about-this-collection/

Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern: Lichtspiel-Archiv Online

https://vimeo.com/showcase/6887238 

Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern: Lichtspiel-Sonntag (live screening on Sunday evenings)

vimeo.com/lichtspiel 

Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum / Hungarian National Film Archive: Filmhíradók Online (Newsreels Online)

https://filmhiradokonline.hu/en.php

Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum / Hungarian National Film Archive: Hungarian Classics Free to Watch

http://filmarchiv.hu/en/news/hungarian-classics-free-to-watch

Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum / Hungarian National Film Archive: Vimeo channel

https://vimeo.com/filmarchivum

Moving Image Research Collections - University of South Carolina: Digital Video Repository

https://mirc.sc.edu

Moving Image Research Collections - University of South Carolina: Digital Collections

https://digital.library.sc.edu/collections/

Moving Image Research Collections - University of South Carolina: YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHNNj4KRMvKOx2tf1MhPqPg

Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken: YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwP8iCtPwXkPGg0vJK53fRA

Museo Nazionale del Cinema: Vimeo channel

https://vimeo.com/user23575894

Nasjonalbibliotheket / National Library of Norway:

https://www.nb.no/nbsok/search?action=search&mediatype=film

Nasjonalbibliotheket / National Library of Norway: Youtube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/Nasjonalbiblioteket/

National Archives and Records Administration: YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/usnationalarchives/playlists

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia: YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/FILMAUSTRALIA

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia: Australian Screen

https://aso.gov.au/

National Film Archive of Japan: Japanese Animated Film Classics

https://animation.filmarchives.jp/en/index.html

National Film Archive of Japan: The Meiji Period on film

https://meiji.filmarchives.jp/

National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive: Search and browse

https://movingimage.nls.uk/search?videoAccess=r

National Library of Wales Screen & Sound Archive (via BFI Player - only available in the UK)

https://player.bfi.org.uk/search/free?q=&archive=National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

https://ngataonga.org.nz/collections/search?i[has_media]=true&i[media_type]=Moving image

Österreichisches Filmmuseum: Film Online

https://www.filmmuseum.at/en/collections/film_online

San Francisco Silent Film Festival: Watch Now

https://silentfilm.org/watch-now/

Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive: Virtual Cinema

https://en.jfa.huji.ac.il/book/final-virtual-cinema

Svenska Filminstitutet: Filmarkivet.se

http://www.filmarkivet.se/

UCLA Film and Television Archive: Watch and Listen Online

https://www.cinema.ucla.edu/collections/watch-listen-online

Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

https://archive.org/details/wcftr

Other Film Heritage Platforms

European Film Gateway (see in particular “Selected Collections” sub-page)

http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/

http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/about_efg/collections

i-media-cities

https://www.imediacities.eu/

Mémoire filmique Pyrénées-Méditerranée

https://memoirefilmiquedusud.eu/

National Film Preservation Foundation: Screening Room

https://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room