Library Guides: Open educational resources (OER): Video

Selecting content to reuse

The websites listed have content that you can reuse (usually with attribution requirements) but may also offer stock or paid content. Check the resource you choose carefully to make sure that it allows reuse.

You may be able to:

find a Creative Commons (CC) or other free licence statement on the resource you select
filter the search to find only CC or freely licensed content.

Find or share video

Free licensing

These sites have videos with free licensing where attribution is appreciated but not required:

Video collections

YouTube
Enter your search terms, then use the filters to search for Creative Common licensed video. Create your own YouTube Channel to upload your videos.
Videos on Wikimedia Commons
Find or upload video files.
Public Domain Review - Film
A collection of films in the public domain. Search by time, genre, content etc
Vimeo
Browse the Creative Commons licensed videos on Vimeo.
Ted Talks
Multidisciplinary, short talks
Khan Academy
A not-for-profit organisation with the goal of changing education for the better by providing a free world-class education for anyone anywhere. All of the site's resources are available to anyone.

Simulations

PhET interactive simulations
Free interactive math and science simulations for download or embed. Distributed under the Creative Commons-Attribution 3.0 license and the Creative Commons GNU General Public License.

Movies and TV

Internet Archive
Watch full-length feature films, classic shorts, world culture documentaries, World War II propaganda, movie trailers, and films. Many of these videos are available for free download.
Log in to Kanopy first then use this direct link to find videos on example.
Movieclips.com
A collection of searchable, free, licensed movie clips.
AdViews
Thousands of television commercials created or collected by the D'Arcy Masius Benton & Bowles (DMB&B) advertising agency, dated 1950s - 1980s.

Creating video

iMovie
Video editing software for MACs
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is a non-linear video editing program with a large range of features, very simliar to Adobe Premiere Pro.
Adobe Spark
Adobe Spark is a free web-based video creation tool. You can create simple videos incorporating images, text and voiceover. Spark does not include many of the features of a fully-fledged video editing tool. You need an Adobe account to use Spark.