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• iFilm Connections: Asia & Pacific  
  Established in 1995, this site features a continuous online film festival with free streaming of feature-length independent films from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Other resources include profiles and filmographies of filmmakers and overviews of national or regional cinemas.
• Inside an American Factory: Films of the Westinghouse Works, 1904  
  A collection of 21 actuality films of the Westinghouse Works factories in 1904. The website, hosted by the Library of Congress, includes a history of Westinghouse Works and a timeline for the company and its founder.
• Internet Archive: Cinemocracy  
  Thirteen propaganda films, many by top documentary filmmakers, commissioned by the U.S. government during World War II.
• Internet Archive: Feature Films  
  A collection of almost 900 public-domain feature films, including some classic silent films by Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett.
• Internet Archive: German Cinema Collection  
  This section of the Internet Archive features 51 works of "other cinema" by the German filmmaker Lutz Mommartz.
• Internet Archive: Movie Trailers  
  A collection of 103 movie trailers.
• Internet Archive: Prelinger Archive  
  The Prelinger Archive online consists of about 2,000 "ephemeral" films: ads, amateur films, industrial films, and other films that don't fit into traditional genres.
• Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Archive  
  Archive of television and radio programs that can be viewed online. In Farsi.
• ITN Video Source  
  Online archive of Path
• Joan Sourasky-Constantiner Holocaust Multimedia Research Center  
  Searchable archive of multimedia materials related to the Holocaust, including Nazi propaganda materials. Soon to include a full, digitized collection, but for now users can only search the holdings of the physical collection. In English and Hebrew.
• Library of Congress: America at Work / America at Leisure  
  This collection, which includes some of the earliest extant films, is designed to showcase a broad range of American activities at the turn of the century.
• Library of Congress: Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire  
  The Library of Congress's American Memory project houses these 26 films dating from before, during, and after the great San Francisco disasters of 1906.
• Library of Congress: The Spanish-American War  
  This collection contains 68 films documenting and reenacting the Spanish-American War.
• Library of Congress: Variety Stage  
  Explore the relationship between vaudeville and early film. This collection includes 61 short films of vaudeville acts.
• Life of a City: Early Films From New York (Library of Congress)  
  A collection of 45 films made in New York from 1898 to 1906 by the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company or the Edison Company.
• Like Television  
  Streaming video of classic films with expired copyright.
• Living Room Candidate  
  The site is an exhibition presented by Museum of the Moving Image, featuring more than 250 campaign commercials from every presidential election since 1952.
• London Transit Museum Film Collection  
  This site features streaming video of and background information about the films in the London Transit Museum collection, which covers the period from 1910 to 1970 and is best known for documentaries made by British Transport Films in the 1950s and 1960s.
• Machinima Archive  
  A regularly updated archive dedicated to preserving machinima works. Browse the list of available works by keyword and the name of the video game from which the film was made.
• Max Fleischer on the Internet Archive  
  Users can download and view well over fifty of Max Fleischer's animated shorts from the Internet Archive.