United States (Major Collections)
Academic Video Online: Premium
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AVON includes documentaries, interviews, performances, news programs and newsreels, field recordings, commercials, and raw footage in all academic areas. Users will find thousands of award-winning films, including Academy, Emmy, and Peabody winners.
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Search US public TV and radio programs from 1940s-2018. Includes TV and radio programs from 100+ public broadcasting stations across the county. (68,000 items are available to watch/listen.)
American History in Video
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Includes contemporaneous video from the 1890s to the 1980s as well as early newsreels, including the complete series of United Newsreel and Universal Newsreel.
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Archive of The Associated Press.
Internet Archive: TV News Archive
Searches closed captions from US TV News shows. 2009 - present. The archive is updated with new broadcasts 24 hours after they are aired.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
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Search TV news broadcasts from 1970s-present. Swarthmore affiliates can watch clips from CNN and NBC.
United States (Thematic Collections)
Presidential campaign commercials from 1952-2016.
Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970
University of Virginia's website contains films from the nightly news from two local television stations in Virginia--WDBJ (CBS) Roanoke and WSLS (NBC) Roanoke. Contains over 230 films.
Global
Search this collection of 80,000+ historical newsreels from British Pathé and Reuters
Search this collection of 6000+ films showing images of life in the British colonies as represented by British government's Colonial Film Unit. Includes Indian News Parade (1943-1946) and other newsreels.
British Movietone Newsreels (AP Archive)
Watch British newsreels from late 1890s-1960s. Also includes stock video from Movietone.
Internet Archive: News & Public Affairs
Watch news from Democracy Now, Mosaic (Middle Eastern newscasts), and other collections offering a range of perspectives.
AVON (Academic Video Online)
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Streaming video collection, includes some French, Dutch, and Japanese WWII-era newsreels (no English translation provided).
Transcripts & Summaries (TV, Radio)
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
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FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world . The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence.
FBIS daily reports, 1941-1974; FBIS daily reports, 1974-1996; FBIS daily report annexes, 1974-1996.Nexis Uni
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Formerly LexisNexis, find newspaper and magazine articles, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials, including Supreme Court cases. Includes the New York Times from 1980-present.
Access World News
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Search radio and TV news transcripts. Includes mostly 2000s-present. (Tip: Limit your results by Type. Good options include Audio and Transcript.)
World News Connection
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Contains hundreds of international news for the period 1995-2013. Material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. Content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.
