Stock video clip library sites - Video library directory - Sites to buy, download and use footage

Stock video clip library sites - Video library websites where you can purchase, download and use stock footage to make videos

This stock video library directory constitutes a comprehensive list for many of the different services offering stock video footage.

• Artbeats - Digital film library, stock images, and textures, offering royalty-free footage. Full collection browse facility, with still frames.
• BBC Motion Gallery - Footage licensing portal for BBC Worldwide, featuring searchable and fully browsable clip repository . Provides gateway to research contacts.
• Capital DV Studio - Royalty Free Stock Footage Library with downloadable clips.
• Clipcanvas Royalty-free stock footage marketplace with more than 250.000 video clips. Free comps for download and test editing. Low prices, online payments and immediate download.
• Corbis Motion - Offers moving images from the Hot Shots, Action Sports Adventure, and Film Bank collections plus Royalty Free footage.
• FilmDisc - Royalty free stock footage provider offering 35mm footage. Clips available for online viewing. Material includes lifestyles, nature, aerials, sports, seniors, transportation, business.
• FootageWorks - Royalty free and rights managed reality base and breaking news video clips and stock footage.
• Freestockfootage - Stock footage available for immediate download in Quicktime and MPEG resolutions. Previews are free.
• Getty Images - Film and video collections range from historical to shot-for-stock. On-line search facility.
• HBO Archives - A full service commercial stock footage library. More than 30 years of sports images, pop culture, locations, lifestyles, nature as well as expanding newsreel coverage spanning the turn of the century to the 1960's.
• ITN Source - Provider of motion picture archive material, featuring film and stock footage from the 1890s to the present day.
• MotionElements - Instantly downloadable royalty-free stock video footage and animations. Available in web, broadcast SD quality (PAL, NTSC) and HD formats. Site in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
• Thought Equity Motion - Supplier of stock footage and production-ready commercials. Search, preview and purchase footage and royalty free collections online.
• TimeLapseSource - Royalty-free clips for immediate download.
• Worldclips Stock Footage - Royalty-free video stock footage of signature images from a variety of world locations.

• Absolutely Wild Visuals - An international collection of wildlife stock footage and stock photography based in Australia.
• All-Stock - Film including motion controlled time lapse, microbiology, nature, and storm chases. Includes on-line search facility.
• A Luna Blue - Royalty free stock footage and images. Digitally produced for desktop publishing, broadcast and all new media.
• Always HD - Professional, affordable royalty-free stock footage, all in HD, 2K, or 4K. Search, preview, license, and download in any format you need.  Free full resolution clip offered every week.
• ApexStock - Previously Hollywood-based travel film archive specializing in aviation footage, as well as vintage material filmed around the globe. Offers wide range of footage. Original 35mm material available in multiple formats.
• APTN Library - Film and video news library offering footage from 1950s to yesterday. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• Beyond Vision - Footage library offering 20,000 hours of international footage including science, technology, medicine, wildlife, travel, and environment.
• BigfootHD - A wide collection of royalty-free high-definition footage including animals, cityscapes, Latin America , lifestyle, and technology. Search and purchase online.
• BlackLight Films - 35mm and Hi Def stock footage library. Over 8,000 clips, including aerials, time-lapse, Americana, international.
• Boeing Image Licensing - Offering of created and acquired imagery from The Boeing Company. Principle content includes aviation, space, military, travel and history film, video, photos, animation and models.
• British Movietone News - International cinema newsreel covering the period 1929-1979. Footage available for licensing. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• Brunswick Formula One Film & Video Archive - Motor racing film and video archive for 1970s and 80s. Formula One, rally and motor cycle footage.
• Dutchfootage - An online footage library launched by The Nederlands Instituut for Sound and Vision. For programme makers, broadcasters, advertising agencies, editors and producers essential Dutch footage is now just a mouse click away.
• Easy Street Productions - Public domain archival stock footage. No licensing fees. Bizarre and historic footage.
• Efootage - Online stock footage source offering history and slapstick to high tech and beauty shots. Select images via visual database and order sample tapes for immediate shipment.
• FootageBank - Footage house specializing in HD stock footage. Viewable clips online include aerials, time-lapse, worldwide locations, nature, technology, lifestyles, underwater, and sports.
• Global Cuts Stock Footage - Royalty free film, video and photographs delivered as QuickTime files.
• GotFootage Stock Footage and Video - "Real World" Stock Footage from around the world. Fully searchable database and previews. FTP download service available for broadcast quality clips.
• HD/DVcuts - Digital video stock footage library offering broadcast quality royalty free NTSC imagery sourced from 35mm and 24p cameras for download.
• ImageSource CNN - Footage licensing division of news satellite station CNN. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• Mammoth HD - High Definition Stock Footage, 3D Animation and Motion Graphics in 1080i, 1080/24p, 720p, HDV and SD(480p). Royalty Free collections, single clips - general subjects.
• Movieclip - eCommerce web site selling professionally produced short video clips for use in PowerPoint for business presentations. Previews online.
• Moving Image Communications - Library holding over 17,000 hours of footage covering a wide range of subjects, both archival and contemporary. Material includes TVAM UK breakfast TV programme from 70s and 80s and collection and documents about Britain from the 1930s to the present day. Catalog search facility available on-line. Some video clips incorporated.
• National Geographic Digital Motion - Archives and licensing agent for all National Geographic Television-produced film. Includes nature, wildlife, landscapes, people, technology, exploration, and adventure material, plus footage from third party copyright holders. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• NBC News Archives - Film, video and radio material from NBC News. Includes on-site catalog search facility.
• NewsMarket - Free broadcast-standard video and multimedia content from video news releases service for global corporations, government agencies and non-profits. Search, preview and request content via digital download or tape-by-mail.
• OceanFootage - Ocean stock footage library including sharks, whales, dolphins, topside and underwater marine life on film and high definition video. Based in Monterey, California.
• Online Video Editor - Make video online using the online video editor. Easy, fast, fun and friendly.
• Oxford Scientific Films - Natural history, scientific and special effects stock footage library, originating from 35mm, 16mm, super 16mm and video formats. Online viewing facility available.
• PPIX footage - Natural history video stock footage, DV and HD. Specialist in natural reserves and environmental clips.
• Producers Library Service - Offers rare Hollywood film footage, current and archival stock footage and stock photography. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• Reelhouse - Royalty-Free Footage and FX.
• Reelin' In The Years - Offers footage from over 10,000 musical performances from archives throughout Europe and the United States. Includes on-line search facility.
• Rudewater - Royalty free and right managed stock footage, audio, and image source on South Asia, Middle East, North America and European content.
• Scott Dittrich Films - Library of action sports footage produced since 1972, now represents nearly every sport and many of the world's top cinematographers. Footage shot exclusively on 35mm. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• Silverman Stock Footage - A collection of some of the craziest, wildest, strangest, silliest stock footage and video clips available in the world.
• Mr.Footage - Licenses material from library ranging from contemporary 35mm and 16mm footage to film and video from the early 1900's.
• Stock Footage World - Offering a large selection of contemporary stock footage featuring video clip previews that are searchable by keywords, themes, locations and formats.
• Time-Lapse Stock Footage - Time-Lapse motion picture special effects available for licensing.
• TV Data - Russian footage: Kremlin interiors, Kamchatka Bear, Chernobyl disaster, submarines. Originated on Betacam, DigiBet, Divicam, MiniDivi and colour film.
• Video Tape Library - Commercial provider of historical, vintage, news photography and footage, and extreme video. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• WGBH Media Library/Stock Sales - Footage licensing division of the WGBH Educational Foundation offering material from programs made for TV service. On-line catalog research facility.
• WPA Film Library - Repository of archival and stock footage for documentary programming.
• WTTW Digital Archives - Digital stock video sampling the 50-year broadcast history of WTTW Chicago Public Television. Search and view on-line.
• Tipsfilm - Portal representing stock footage from a selection of partners.
• Footage.net - Stock, archival, news and sports footage network. Host of many footage trade on-line databases and includes on-line multi-catalog search facility. Researchers can submit instant ZAP requests to libraries.
• Matton Images - Royalty free stock footage and film clips, including a digital film library of footage clips and Flash animations. Subjects include: business, lifestyle and sport.
• Stock Footage Online - Resource for researchers and stock footage companies.
• Absolutely Archives - Library specializing in public domain stock footage and photos; also providing access to public domain stock footage and photos held by the government.
• Aerial Focus - Stock imagery of aerial acrobatics, BASE jumping (freefall from high structures or cliffs), skydiving, and hang-gliding.
• Aliens of the Sea - High definition underwater footage library
• America By Air - Aerials, aircraft and atmosphere in 35mm, High Definition, 16mm and Digital Video. Aerial scenics, nature, cities and clouds across North and South America. International footage includes major landmarks and the Pacific Rim.
• AmeriClips - Royalty-free patriotic stock footage for video editors or church use. Includes footage from across America including monuments, flags, and a variety of other patriotic video clips.
• Animated Video Backgrounds - Royalty free broadcast quality animated backgrounds in DV Quicktime format.
• Blackstone Stock Footage - Collection includes the Cascom Select Effects film-generated graphics library, along with Universal Newsreel footage, and sports, extreme sports, business, scenery and animals.
• Blue Sky Stock Footage - Offers 35mm film stock footage of time lapse and real time imagery. On-line image library of thousands of digital clips. Custom shoots available.
• Budget Films Stock Footage - Privately owned film archive, with contemporary and archival stock footage. Searchable database, including images.
• Buyout Footage - Stock footage house featuring broadcast quality contemporary royalty free stock footage and archival public domain films with on-line purchasing available.
• Classic Images Stock Footage Library - All subjects footage from the 1890's to today -- 35mm, HD, 16mm, video and digital. Large vintage collection.
• Collegiate Images - The centralized licensing and rights clearance agency of video and still images for colleges, universities, conferences, bowl games and broadcast rights holders. A subsidiary of Convizion, Inc. and The Collegiate Licensing Company.
• Contemporary Films - Archive of documentary and feature films. Subjects include Communism, Apartheid, the 60s, UK politics, the US Civil rights struggle, Music, the Russian revolution and the Holocaust.
• Creative Arts Television - Library holding several collections of filmed and videotaped arts footage from 1950 to date. Text-based on-line catalogue.
• Discount Video Footage - Royalty free stock video, shot on film and mastered to Digital BetaCam
• E-Aerials - Clouds, landscapes, and cityscapes from North America and Hawaii on video cassette or CD-ROM. Review sample images online.
• EcoFootage - Royalty-free video stock footage collections on environmental and sustainability-related topics including the natural world, land use, water, energy, transportation, recycling and green building.
• European Stock Footage - Modern video stock footage of Italy and the United Kingdom.
• FA Interactive - Nature Film archive offered by production company. On-line research tool.
• Fast Footage - Stock footage source for various subjects including people, business, technology, nature, transportation, aerials, archival, cites, and international locations.
• Film & Video Stock Shots - Stock footage library offering broadcast quality videotape original shots, plus HD-24p, HDTV, 16mm and 35mm film sources. Subjects range from nature to extreme sports, from archival slapstick to historical, lifestyle and location footage.
• Film Images (Paris) - Collection of 16mm and 35mm French current and historic footage, also offering access to various collections from other countries. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• Film Vault - Film based stock footage library specializing in Americana and amusement parks.
• Finley-Holiday Stock Footage - Producer of nature and space related videos offering video library footage for stock use
• Fish Films Footage World - Full service stock footage library resource.
• Footage Bakery - Stock footage company offering digital and film footage, described as "from the ordinary to the unusual", royalty free.
• Footage Farm - An archival film/video collection, with 12,000 data entries, of public domain material spanning over one hundred years. Footage sold by the reel with unrestricted use.
• Footage Store - 35mm, 16mm, and Betacam SP stock footage. Subjects include wildlife, underwater, historical, sports and the bizarre.
• Footagehouse - Royalty free stock footage from broadcast quality video.
• Four Palms - Royalty free stock footage available on various digital and analog formats. On-line search facility with still frames and browse movies.
• Frame FX - Royalty free stock footage and animations in PAL and NTSC.
• Freewheelin' Films - Sports stock footage including NASCAR and other motor sports, horseracing, soccer, golf. Lifestyle and domestic and international travel.
• Gaumont Pathé Archives - Archives holds 14,000 hours of newsreels from 1896 to the present covering political, economic, cultural and sports events in France and worldwide. Search, view, order on line. Includes English language database.
• GlobalImageWorks - Modern and archival footage from around the globe.
• GMTV - Clip sales for UK breakfast television channel
• GotHiDef - High definition stock footage in 720p and 1080i formats. Royalty free with signed releases for all talent.
• Greg Hensley Productions - Stock footage library of hard to film subjects shot all across America, available in 35mm HD and SD.
• Historic Films - A source for the licensing of historic film and musical performance film clips. Over 50,000 hours of stock footage 1895-1995 available for all productions. Includes on-line catalog search facility.
• Hoffmann Films Stock Footage - Production company specializing in Action Sports and Adventure Travel offers footage from a library of 16mm film and video.
• Hot Under the Collar Productions - HUTC for short. Supplies a selection of timeless short stories from the UK, plus clips and footage, covering sports and a range of British and unusual subjects.
• Howard Hall-High Definition Video Library - High Definition Video Library stock footage of underwater locations, southern California, Fiji and others
• Huntley Film Archives - Independent library with more than 80,000 titles, claiming to be one of the largest film libraries in Europe. On-line catalog research facility.
• Images of Borneo - Stock images, footage and 3D maps on the country of Borneo, including time lapse of natural element and hard to find wildlife .
• In the Wild Productions - Production company offering stock video footage of whales, dolphin, basking sharks and other marine life. On-line streaming sample footage.
• Index Stock Shots - Specifically shot 35mm film available in High Definition and SD. Catalog search facility.
• ISKRA Television Ltd. - Library of video clips for licensing to producers and broadcasters. Most material comes from Russia and Eastern Europe with emphasis on reality, home-video and bloopers.

Other services offering stock footage (niche archives, specialty collections, general content sites)

• Jere Mossier Productions - Underwater stock footage specializing in ocean, wildlife and nature.
• Last Refuge Film Library - Wildlife, environments, aerials and time lapses.
• LDTV Archive - Stock footage archive with material in 16mm cine from the early part of the 20th Century through the High Band SP and Betacam SP eras, into the 21st Century with DVCam footage in both 4:3 and 16:9 format, PAL or NTSC
• Liam Dale Television - Stock footage,including aerials and World War Two material, held on videotape
• Marine Bio-images - Marine and underwater stock photography and video. Suppliers of images and footage of marine life, commercial fishing, marine pollution, divers, scientists working at sea.
• Mark Emery Films - Wildlife stock footage including Alaskan bears and Florida alligators.
• MicroCosmos - Royalty free stock video of insects, spiders and protozoa.
• myfootage - Archival and contemporary footage. Clips delivered within minutes via e-mail. Offering includes cartoons, Hollywood features; horror, romance; westerns and action, Newsreels, comedies, educationals,documentaries and original 35mm contemporary shoots.
• TK Time-lapse - Royalty-free stock footage, including high-definition time-lapse, stop motion and computer animation. Includes High Definition Time Lapse footage from Los Angeles area.
• Nature Library - Royalty free scenic stock footage. Search, browse and view clips online.
• Nature Stock Shots - Wildlife and nature stock footage library.
• Nautilus Productions - Stock video of marine life, medical, and military video from around the world.
• New York Shots - Film and Video stock footage provider specializing in New York City, including the Rockefeller Center and Manhattan.
• New Zealand Television Archive - Official custodian of TVNZ's intellectual property. Most locally produced programs broadcast on television in New Zealand; news, current affairs, documentaries, sports, entertainment, and drama. Also holds the National Film Unit collection which recorded New Zealand's history and progress from 1940 to 1972.
• News1 - Stock footage and photographs of New York going back to the late 19th century.
• NHL Hockey Archive - Over 80 years of NHL hockey history: Milestones, press conferences, exclusive interviews, locker room footage, complete past and present games.
• NHNZ Moving Images - Specialist stock shot library with footage from the entire Pacific Rim, Antarctica, Asia and South America and Africa. Over 4000 hours of footage of wildlife, wilderness and underwater animal behaviour, including many rare or unusual animals and remote places. Text-based search catalog available on site.
• Norwood Films - Archive of over 2000 vintage movies on almost every subject. Material on 16mm or 35mm film.
• Paradise Stock Footage Hawaii - Stock images of the Hawaiian Islands all shot in 35mm and transferred to digital video.
• Prairie Pictures - Licenses footage from library which includes images of the great American prairie, storms, New York City, firefighters and scenes from central Europe captured on premium formats like 35mm.
• Rapido Television - Footage library from youth programming company includes titles like Eurotrash, Passengers and The Girlie Show.
• Real Action Pictures - Commercial library founded on an action and extreme sports collection with international travel footage now also representing a variety of libraries originating footage on 16mm or 35mm film. Subjects include sports, travel nature, and outdoor activities.
• Reelcities - Royalty-free stock footage of major US cities.
• Royalty Free HD Stock Footage - High Definition footage featuring with online browsing, one-time only payments and unlimited usage terms.
• Screen Australia - The Screen Australia Library manages a collection of film, video and sound recordings in which the Commonwealth of Australia holds copyright. It's one of the largest and most historically significant sources of archival, documentary and stock footage in the country. There are more than 5000 completed productions in the archive along with thousands of reels and tapes of out-take material and stills.
• Seiurus Video - Dedicated to videography of birds and provides video stock footage.
• SF.V International - Stock footage and custom research.
• Shields Pictures - Licensor of motion picture programming resources to the entertainment community. Subjects include popular sciences, historic, scientific and whimsical discoveries, unusual occupations, talking animals and similar.
• Source Stock Footage Library - Film and video archive specializing in popular culture, Americana, Hollywood, and industrial footage from 1900 to the late 1970's.
• Spectra Communications Inc. - Lists available video stock footage of Yunnan Province in South China including Lijiang, Kunming, Dali and remote villages, people and landscapes. Also includes Hong Kong.
• Sports Cinematography Group - Offer contemporary footage ranging from recreational to extreme sports, plus a selection of lifestyles, nature, wildlife, city-scapes and underwater footage.
• Stock Footage 4 Less - Royalty free stock video footage from the Time Image film library.
• Stockvideophoto.com - Royalty-free stock video and photographs for personal or professional projects.
• Storm Stock - Stock footage library featuring storm images captured on video and motion picture film. Tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes, and storm clouds on 35 mm and other formats.
• Streamline Films Stock Footage - Stock shot library of film and digital video stock footage scenes specializing in archival, news, Hollywood films, Americana and contemporary images.
• Texas B-roll - Royalty free, broadcast quality stock video footage of Texas cities and scenes.
• TheStockTank - Video stock footage library with material originally photographed in NTSC on Betacam SP
• Third Millennium Films - Independent New York stock footage agency offering HD, 35mm, 16mm images,archival film and stock photos.
• Time Image - Royalty free stock footage.
• TimeLapse Digital - Downloadable motion controlled and static time-lapse footage in NTSC, PAL and all frame formats.
• Tommy Video - Broadcast quality motion backgrounds in NTSC and PAL
• TWI Archive - Offers footage covering sports and sporting events, culture and stock shots from around the world. Archive manages and licenses material from many of the world's leading sporting federations.
• Vidcat - Video production and distribution company specializing in fashion stock footage from the 1950s-present including newsreels, runway and backstage beauty images.
• VideoCosmos - Depicts repository of archived film, stock footage, videos and pictures, documenting Soviet Union and Russian space history.
• Videometry - Royalty free stock footage. Themed collections or individual clips. NTSC or PAL. Browse quality previews available online.
• VideoNet - Resource for images of historic and traditional Greece in broadcast quality film and video.
• Visual Concept Entertainment - Fire, explosions, and special effects footage on CD-ROM, Beta-SP and Digi-Beta. Also, movie clips in the AVID format.
• WildCam Australia video productions - Stock footage of rare and endangered tropical wildlife including tropical platypus.
• Wrightwood Laboratories - Royalty free stock footage and video for broadcast and multimedia. Includes search facility and browse quality clip viewing
• zeitrafferfilme.de - Film shots of astronomical subjects. Day-night-day timelapse movies show meteors, aurora and the milky way.

Stock footage research, rights management, clearance and licensing services

• Clear - Full service stock footage content research, clearance and licensing service from content producers with experience in all aspects of content licensing for broadcast/print campaigns, corporate and feature projects.
• Hollywood Licensing - Offers footage research, licensing, representation and auctions.
• Infront Sports & Media - Sports rights and media management company marketing clip footage rights for a number of sports federations.
• Reid and Casement - Footage research and clearance agency.
• Re:Search - A full service visual licensing and rights clearance company for stock footage . Services include budgeting, locating and licensing film and photo content for media use.
• Six Degrees Research, Rights & Clearances - A media services company providing rights and clearances for music, talent, film/TV clips and other intellectual properties as well as global research, sourcing and licensing of content utilized in advertising and entertainment.
• The Research Source - Research service for stock footage, newsreels, news images, archival, historic and modern images.

Relevant industry links (industry associations, organisations, link depositories, blogs)

• FOCAL International - Trade association for the commercial film and video library and archive industry. Includes Footage Finder e-facility. Members include libraries, researchers and consultants.

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