video-archive
Internet Archive (Video)
The Internet Archive's video holdings: millions of items spanning films, television, and ephemera. Search and metadata are available through the website or the keyless archive.org search API. A primary source for old, obscure, or otherwise vanished footage; it shares the Internet Archive's intermittent 2026 outages and rate-limiting, so occasional retries may be needed.
Video / audio / music API degraded
Why it’s useful & how it works
Keyless JSON both ways; filter mediatype:movies. Shares IA's intermittent 2026 outages/429.
What’s inside
Millions of video items.
API access
https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=mediatype:movies&output=json ; metadata /metadata/<id>
Access
Programmatic API access (a key may be required — see the API tag).