Access to commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries related to American history.

Images from a wide variety of civilizations, time periods, and media. Sources include museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, slide collections, and art reference publishers.

Over 240,000 objects from the Americas, Africa, Europe, Asia, and the Pacific Islands have been digitally imaged and are accessible through this website.

Videos covering every region of the world. Includes documentaries, field recordings (edited), interviews, and performances.

Provides access to streaming video supporting classes in the arts, business, health, media/communication, science, humanities and education. Includes more than 200 videos in the Indigenous Peoples of North America subject area.

300,000+ images of archaeological objects, paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs.

Includes the published recordings owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. Also includes music recorded around the African continent as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent.