Research Guides: Guide to Streaming Videos: Open Access (OA) Media

Open Access Media

Open access (OA) refers to freely available, digital, online information. Open access scholarly literature is free of charge and often carries less restrictive copyright and licensing barriers than traditionally published works, for both the users and the authors.

What is open access?

PBS Video

PBS Video - Hawaiʻi
PBS and our member stations are America’s largest classroom, the nation’s largest stage for the arts and a trusted window to the world. In addition, PBS's educational media helps prepare children for success in school and opens up the world to them in an age-appropriate way.

Documentary Storm

Documentary Storm
Welcome to DocumentaryStorm, the leading source for 100% free documentary films. We curate the best documentary films available online for educational purposes as well as personal enjoyment.

We believe that documentaries are an effective and entertaining way to learn. The main goal of this website is to share knowledge, spread ideas, and have fun.

Netflix Educational Documentaries

Educational Documentaries | Netflix
For many years, Netflix has allowed teachers to screen documentaries in their classrooms via their Educational screenings of documentaries policy. They have made a selection of their documentary features and series available on their YouTube channel.

Some series include: Babies, Amend, Our Planet, 13th, Explained and Abstract.

Smithsonian Open Access [01:41]

Smithsonian Open Access
Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.5 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 21 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.