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BBC Motion Gallery brings you easy access to a wide range of unique, high-quality stock footage. Looking for superb HD? Rare archival shots you simply can't find anywhere else? It's all here, sourced from some of the most remarkable collections in the world, ready for you to preview, purchase and download immediately. We're also your gateway to 2.5 million hours of content offline

National Archives Experience! Create a poster or movie using the digital vaults.

George Mason University's project for the teaching of American History. Some wonderful resources and live conversations with historians, I think.

"View more than 57,000 historic videos and 7 million photos for FREE in one of the world's largest collections of royalty-free archival stock footage. Offering immediate downloads in more than 10 formats starting at just $2.97 (Consumer); $40 (Pro)."

"Using DocsTeach, educators can create interactive history activities that incorporate more than 3,000 primary-source materials from the National Archives"

"In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world. It lets you keyword search more than 700,000 pages of full-text by more than 18,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to some 4,300 audio and video files and 30,000 bibliographic records. The index contains approximately 20,500 months of diary entries, 63,000 letter entries, and 17,000 oral history entries."

"The Maine Memory Network, a project of the Maine Historical Society, provides access to thousands of historical items belonging to over 200 organizations from across Maine."

"PrimaryAccess is a suite of free online tools that allows students and teachers to use primary source documents to complete meaningful and compelling learning activities with digital movies, storyboards, rebus stories and other online tools."