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Explore thousands of artworks in the museum’s wide-ranging collection as well as our books, writings, reference materials, and other resources. To limit to freely downloadable images, click "Show Filters" and "Show Only Public Domain."

Beautiful illustrations of Black people for your next digital project. Contains both pay and free images.

Search for free content in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses.

Curationist is a free online resource that brings together arts and culture communities to find, share, collaborate, and reimagine cultural narratives. All content is open and has a Creative Commons license.

Disabled And Here is a disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC). Images are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

This website is a collection of artworks from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Click "Free to Use Art Images" for freely available images.

The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. Images are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

A library of powerful, positive and high-quality images showing women’s work and family life around the world, developed by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Getty Images, and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Images are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

The Getty makes available, without charge, all available digital images to which the Getty holds the rights or that are in the public domain to be used for any purpose. Click "Open Content Images" for these images.

This page features items from the Library's digital collections that are free to use and reuse.

A variety of photos created by a single person, Martin Vorel. All photos are freely licensed for public domain (CC0).

The LACMA has thousands of images online, many of which are freely available. Click "Show public domain images only" to limit to freely downloadable content.

On February 7, 2017, The Met made all images of public-domain works in its collection available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). They can be downloaded, shared, and remixed without restriction. Click "Open Access Artworks" to locate these images.

NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. You can search, browse, share, and download images.

This collection includes almost one million items, including books, videos, maps, manuscripts, illustrations, photographs, and more. To locate images that can be freely reused, click the "Show Only Public Domain" box at the top of the filter menu.

Free stock photos, royalty free images & videos shared by creators.

Photos that are licensed by Creative Commons for public use. Downloaded images automatically cite the author and the image license terms.

Stock image photography of diverse multi-racial images. All images are free. Attribution is not required but users are encouraged to credit picnoi.

Reusable Art has a collection of copyright free images chosen for crafters by a crafter.

Smithsonian Open Access allows anyone to share and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images, including nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from their collections. Images and data come from the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

Unsplash was born from the difficulties people had in finding great, usable imagery. Today, Unsplash is a platform fueled by a community that has generously gifted hundreds of thousands of their own photos.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely-licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips).

Images from #WOCinTech campaign in Flickr. Images are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Crackle is a free to use video entertainment network featuring full-length movies, TV shows, and original programming.

Public domain feature films, shorts, silent films and trailers that are available for viewing and downloading.

A list of free-to-watch films and the years they entered the public domain.

Free stock footage clips, hand-picked by Mazwai's in-house team of video professionals.

Netflix has made a selection of their documentary features and series available on the Netflix US YouTube channel.

Popcornflix is a product of Screen Media Ventures, the largest independent distributor of motion pictures to the world wide television market.. It has free full-length movies, documentaries, foreign films, and unique original web series. Closed captioning is available.

Links to online public domain films, sorted by genre: feature films, comedy, drama & romance, science fiction & horror, and cartoons.

Top Documentary Films has more than 3,000 documentaries (most of them are full length docs), organized in 25 different categories, searchable by keywords, and sortable by rating, comments, and titles.

Tubi is a free, ad-supported service with more than 12,000 titles, including movies and TV shows from studios such as Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Lionsgate, Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures.

Watch the latest movies & TV shows anytime, anywhere. Not all titles are free but you can filter by Free: Movies & TV.

Yidio helps you find where to watch TV shows and movies from Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, Showtime and over 100 more services. It includes a "Free Movies" category.

YouTube has a wide variety of movies and TV shows that are free with ads. Click the "Free with Ads" link at the top of the page.

The Live Music Archive is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format, along with the convenience of on-demand streaming. All music in this collection is from trade-friendly artists who have opted in and is strictly non-commercial.

This site is a resource for independent and non-profit filmmakers, film students, and anyone in need of free music for their independent, non-profit film, video, or short.

Recorded music in the public domain, with downloadable MP3 files.

he Public Domain Song Anthology by David Berger and Chuck Israels is a collection of 348 popular songs with modern and traditional harmonization for both study and performance. This open educational resource was curated by two leading jazz repertory experts and consists of songs in the US public domain.

Links to freely available historic scores and sheet music collections, compiled by the University of Virginia libraries.

Links to current and historic music recordings. Check individual websites and content for specific licensing restrictions.

Log in through Gmail to download and use high-quality 320kbps audio tracks and sound effects royalty-free. Browse by genre, mood, instrument, duration, or attribution.

Complete works of William Shakespeare's plays and poetry.

Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.

E-text of books from 80 partner libraries. Many books are full-text with no restrictions. Excellent source for book published prior to 1923. Search by topic to locate books on medical issues or history.

Free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers from around the world.

The Internet Archive offers over 20,000,000 freely downloadable books and texts. There is also a collection of 1 million modern eBooks that may be borrowed by anyone with a free archive.org account.

This website includes over 3 million free online books.

Open Library, a project of the Internet Archive, has over 20 million edition records online and provides full text access to 1.7 million scanned versions of books. Register for free with an email address and check out books for 14 days at a time.

Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. They can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost. All textbooks are either used at multiple higher education institutions; or affiliated with an institution, scholarly society, or professional organization.

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks, which can be downloaded or read online.