Public Domain Videos from the US Government

There is another source for public domain video from the US government on the web. This was posted on boingboing.net in Feburary 2009:


"Public.Resource.Org released a 1/2-terabyte public domain stock footage library. This is 438 high-resolution MPEG2 files we obtained from the federal government. The footage ranges from WWII Disney productions to Army training films to Fish and Wildlife Service documentaries of wilderness areas."

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Here is a straight link to metadata and mpeg2 files.

If you follow the above link the readme.txt says, "Welcome to the bulk data depot for government video. All of these mpeg files are high-res and public domain. You will find most of these videos on YouTube and on the Internet Archive."

The purpose of this archive here is bulk download, e.g., for people looking to build a public domain stock footage library.

On YouTube, start here:



On the Archive, start here:



On Public.Resource.Org, start here:


There are other ways to access these files:

Public.Resource.Org data are also available via:
- BitTorrent at http://torrent.resource.org
- FTP at ftp://bulk.resource.org
- HTTP at http://bulk.resource.org