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.
Por qué es útil y cómo funciona
The Internet Archive's video section is one of the oldest and broadest open repositories of moving image material on the web, covering everything from silent-era films and public-domain television to home movies, advertisements, and government footage. To search it, type keywords into the site's search bar and filter by media type, or use the keyless search API to query by title, subject, creator, or date. Items can be streamed or downloaded directly, and most carry rich metadata you can retrieve programmatically without any account.
Qué contiene
Roughly 15 million items categorised as video, encompassing feature films, TV episodes, shorts, news clips, and ephemera. The broader Internet Archive collection exceeds 160 petabytes of data across all media types.
Acceso por API
https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php?q=mediatype:movies&output=json ; metadata /metadata/<id>
Acceso
Programmatic API access (a key may be required, see the API tag).