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==Media collections==
[[File:IMG 5020 - Flickr - Jason "Textfiles" Scott.jpg|thumb|Media reader]]
[[File:Unrelated Microfilm.jpg|thumb|Microfilms at the Internet Archive]]
[[File:Videocassettes and VCRs at Internet Archive.jpg|thumb|[[Videocassette]]s at the Internet Archive]]

In addition to web archives, the Internet Archive maintains extensive collections of digital media that are attested by the uploader to be in the [[public domain]] in the United States or licensed under a license that allows redistribution, such as [[Creative Commons]] licenses.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}} Media are organized into collections by media type (moving images, audio, text, etc.), and into sub-collections by various criteria. Each of the main collections includes a "Community" sub-collection (formerly named "Open Source") where general contributions by the public are stored.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

===Audio===
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The [[Sound archive|Audio Archive]] includes music, [[audiobook]]s, news broadcasts, [[Golden Age of Radio|old time radio]] shows, [[podcasts]], and a wide variety of other audio files. {{As of|2023|January}}, there are more than 15,000,000 free [[digital recording]]s in the collection. The subcollections include audio books and poetry, podcasts, non-English audio, and many others.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Download & Streaming : Audio Archive |url=https://archive.org/details/audio |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190205122014/https://archive.org/details/audio |archive-date=5 February 2019 |access-date=2023-01-10 |website=Internet Archive |language=en}}</ref> The sound collections are curated by [[B. George]], director of the [[ARChive of Contemporary Music]].<ref name="WP">{{cite web|last1=Pritchard|first1=Will|title=How The Great 78 Project is saving half a million songs from obscurity|url=https://thevinylfactory.com/features/great-78-project-archive-interview/|website=The Vinyl Factory|access-date=November 2, 2017|date=August 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107004227/https://thevinylfactory.com/features/great-78-project-archive-interview/|archive-date=November 7, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications====
A project to preserve recordings of amateur radio transmissions, with funding from the Amateur Radio Digital Communications foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holt |first=Kris |date=2022-10-05 |title=The Internet Archive is building a library of amateur radio broadcasts |url=https://www.engadget.com/internet-archive-digital-library-of-amateur-radio-and-communications-180509856.html |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=Engadget |language=en-US |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009003206/https://www.engadget.com/internet-archive-digital-library-of-amateur-radio-and-communications-180509856.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-01-27 |title=Amateur Radio Digital Communications Grants Continue |url=http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-digital-communications-grants-continue |access-date=2022-10-09 |website=American Radio Relay League |language=en |archive-date=October 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009003212/http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-digital-communications-grants-continue |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Live Music Archive====
{{main|Live Music Archive}}
The [[Live Music Archive]] sub-collection includes more than 170,000 concert recordings from independent musicians, as well as more established artists and musical ensembles with permissive rules about recording their concerts, such as the [[Grateful Dead]], and more recently, [[The Smashing Pumpkins]]. Also, [[Jordan Zevon]] has allowed the Internet Archive to host a definitive collection of his father [[Warren Zevon]]'s concert recordings. The Zevon collection ranges from 1976 to 2001 and contains 126 concerts including 1,137 songs.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Tirpack |first=Alex |title=Warren Zevon live shows hit the web, possible film in the works |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/warren-zevon-live-shows-hit-the-web-possible-film-in-the-works-20090603 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=June 3, 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202232253/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/warren-zevon-live-shows-hit-the-web-possible-film-in-the-works-20090603 |archive-date=February 2, 2013 }}</ref>

====The Great 78 Project====
{{main|The Great 78 Project}}
[[The Great 78 Project]] aims to digitize 250,000 [[78 rpm|78&nbsp;rpm]] singles (500,000 songs) from the period between 1880 and 1960, donated by various collectors and institutions. It has been developed in collaboration with the Archive of Contemporary Music and George Blood Audio, responsible for the audio digitization.<ref name="WP" />

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The Archive has a collection of freely distributable music that is streamed and available for download via its ''Netlabels'' service. The music in this collection generally has Creative Commons-license catalogs of virtual record labels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to Netlabels |url=https://archive.org/details/netlabels |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140404162519/https://archive.org/details/netlabels |archive-date=April 4, 2014 |publisher=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref name="lifehacker free music">{{cite web|url=http://lifehacker.com/208221/download-free-music-at-the-internet-archive |title=Download free music at the Internet Archive |work=[[Lifehacker]] |date=October 21, 2006 |first=Wendy |last=Boswell |quote=The Internet Archive has a ginormous collection of free, downloadable music in their NetLabels category ...|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505115952/http://lifehacker.com/208221/download-free-music-at-the-internet-archive |archive-date=May 5, 2012 }}</ref>

===Images collection===
This collection contains more than 3.5&nbsp;million items.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/image |title=Image|publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=October 12, 2020|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220616194450/https://archive.org/details/image |archive-date=16 June 2022 }}</ref> [[MusicBrainz#Cover Art Archive|Cover Art Archive]], [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] – Gallery Images, NASA Images, [[Occupy Wall Street]] [[Flickr]] Archive, and [[Libre Map Project|USGS Maps]] are some sub-collections of Image collection.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

====Cover Art Archive====
[[File:Cover Art Archive Logo with text (2020).svg|thumb|Logo of Cover Art Archive]]
The Cover Art Archive is a joint project between the Internet Archive and [[MusicBrainz]], whose goal is to make cover art images on the Internet. {{As of|2021|04|post=,}} this collection contains more than 1,400,000 items.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/coverartarchive |title=Cover Art Archive: Free Image : Download & Streaming |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=December 4, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20170625002924/https://archive.org/details/coverartarchive |archive-date=25 June 2017 }}</ref>

====Metropolitan Museum of Art images====
The images of this collection are from the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]. This collection contains more than 140,000 items.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/metropolitanmuseumofart-gallery |title=Metropolitan Museum of Art – Gallery Images: Free Image : Download & Streaming |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=December 4, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103140654/https://archive.org/details/metropolitanmuseumofart-gallery |archive-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

====NASA Images====
The NASA Images archive was created through a [[Space Act Agreement]] between the Internet Archive and NASA to bring public access to NASA's image, video, and audio collections in a single, searchable resource. The Internet Archive NASA Images team worked closely with all of the NASA centers to keep adding to the ever-growing collection.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://nasaimages.org/ |title=NASA Images |type=archive |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=April 13, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111124412/http://www.nasaimages.org/ |archive-date=November 11, 2012 }}</ref> The nasaimages.org site launched in July 2008 and had more than 100,000 items online at the end of its hosting in 2012.

====Occupy Wall Street Flickr archive====
This collection contains [[Creative Commons]]-licensed photographs from Flickr related to the [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement. This collection contains more than 15,000 items.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/flickr-ows |title=Occupy Wall Street Flickr Archive: Free Image : Download & Streaming |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=December 4, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103140621/https://archive.org/details/flickr-ows |archive-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

====USGS Maps====
This collection contains more than 59,000 items from [[Libre Map Project]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/maps_usgs |title=USGS Maps: Free Image : Download & Streaming |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=December 4, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103140641/https://archive.org/details/maps_usgs |archive-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref>

===Machinima Archive===
One of the sub-collections of the Internet Archive's Video Archive is the [[Machinima]] Archive. This small section hosts many Machinima videos. Machinima is a digital artform in which [[PC game|computer games]], [[game engine]]s, or software engines are used in a sandbox-like mode to create motion pictures, recreate plays, or even publish presentations or keynotes. The archive collects a range of Machinima films from internet publishers such as [[Rooster Teeth]] and [[Machinima, Inc.|Machinima.com]] as well as independent producers. The sub-collection is a collaborative effort among the Internet Archive, the How They Got Game research project at Stanford University, the Academy of Machinima Arts and Sciences, and Machinima.com.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Welcome to Machinima |url=https://archive.org/details/machinima |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130323173619/https://archive.org/details/machinima |archive-date=March 23, 2013 |publisher=Internet Archive}}</ref>

===Microfilm collection===
This collection contains approximately 160,000 [[Microform|microfilm]]ed items from a variety of libraries including the [[University of Chicago#Library system|University of Chicago Libraries]], [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]], [[University of Alberta]], [[Allen County Public Library]], and [[National Technical Information Service]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Amicrofilm%20AND%20collection%3Aadditional_collections |title=Internet Archive Search: collection:microfilm |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=March 20, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331224824/https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Amicrofilm%20AND%20collection%3Aadditional_collections |archive-date=March 31, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/microfilm |title=Microfilm |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=March 20, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140320180301/https://archive.org/details/microfilm |archive-date=March 20, 2014 }}</ref>

===Moving image collection===
{{See also|Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Internet Archive film{{!}}Wikipedia list of films freely available on the Internet Archive}}
The Internet Archive holds a collection of approximately 3,863 feature films.<ref>{{cite web|title=Internet Archive Search: Collection: Feature Films |url=https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Afeature_films&sort=-%2Fadditional%2Fitem%2Fdownloads |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=March 6, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130402214317/https://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Afeature_films&sort=-%2Fadditional%2Fitem%2Fdownloads |archive-date=April 2, 2013 }}</ref> Additionally, the Internet Archive's Moving Image collection includes: [[newsreel]]s, classic [[cartoon]]s, pro- and anti-war [[propaganda]], The Video Cellar Collection, Skip Elsheimer's "A.V. Geeks" collection, early television, and ephemeral material from [[Prelinger Archives]], such as [[advertising]], educational, and industrial films, as well as amateur and home movie collections.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}

Subcategories of this collection include:
* IA's [[Brickfilm|''Brick Films'']] collection, which contains [[Stop motion|stop-motion]] animation filmed with [[Lego]] bricks, some of which are "remakes" of feature films.{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
* IA's ''Election 2004'' collection, a non-partisan public resource for sharing video materials related to the [[2004 United States presidential election]].{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
* IA's ''FedFlix'' collection, Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org that features "the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the [[National Fire Academy|U.S. Fire Academy]] and the Postal Inspectors"<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Internet Archive|title=FedFlix|url=https://archive.org/details=FedFlix|access-date=December 14, 2013}}</ref>
* IA's ''Independent News'' collection, which includes sub-collections such as the Internet Archive's World At War competition from 2001, in which contestants created short films demonstrating "why access to history matters". Among their most-downloaded video files are eyewitness recordings of the devastating [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami|2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]].{{citation needed|date=October 2024}}
* IA's ''September 11 Television Archive'', which contains archival footage from the world's major television networks of the [[September 11 attacks|terrorist attacks]] of September 11, 2001, as they unfolded on live television.<ref>{{Cite web |title=September 11th Television Archive |url=https://archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403154832/https://archive.org/details/sept_11_tv_archive |archive-date=April 3, 2014 |publisher=Internet Archive}}</ref>

===Open Educational Resources===
{{see also|Open educational resources}}
Open Educational Resources is a digital collection at archive.org. This collection contains hundreds of free courses, video lectures, and supplemental materials from universities in the United States and [[China]]. The contributors of this collection are [[ArsDigita University]], [[Hewlett Foundation]], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]], [[Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey|Monterey Institute]], and [[Naropa University]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/education |title=Download & Streaming : Open Educational Resources |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=June 17, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140702122916/https://archive.org/details/education |archive-date=July 2, 2014 }}</ref>

===TV News Search & Borrow===
[[File:TV tuners at the Internet Archive.jpg|thumb|TV tuners at the Internet Archive]]
In September 2012, the Internet Archive launched the TV News Search & Borrow service for searching U.S. national news programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/tv/ |title=TV NEWS : Search Captions. Borrow Broadcasts : TV Archive |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=April 13, 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130420214957/https://archive.org/details/tv |archive-date=April 20, 2013 }}</ref> The service is built on closed captioning transcripts and allows users to search and stream 30-second video clips. Upon launch, the service contained "350,000 news programs collected over 3 years from national U.S. networks and stations in San Francisco and Washington D.C."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390443720204578002592487339454 |title=Let's Go to the Videotape: Nonprofit Offers News Clips |last1=Fowler |first1=Geoffrey A. |last2=Hagey |first2=Keach |date=September 18, 2012 |publisher=The Wall Street Journal Online |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130424135135/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443720204578002592487339454.html |archive-date=April 24, 2013 }}{{subscription required|date=November 2013}}</ref> According to Kahle, the service was inspired by the [[Vanderbilt Television News Archive]], a similar library of televised network news programs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.archive.org/2012/09/17/launch-of-tv-news-search-borrow-with-350000-broadcasts |title=Launch of TV News Search & Borrow with 350,000 Broadcasts |first=Brewster |last=Kahle |date=September 17, 2012 |work=Internet Archive Blogs |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140813101356/https://blog.archive.org/2012/09/17/launch-of-tv-news-search-borrow-with-350000-broadcasts/ |archive-date=August 13, 2014 }}</ref> In contrast to Vanderbilt, which limits access to streaming video to individuals associated with subscribing colleges and universities, the TV News Search & Borrow allows open access to its streaming video clips. In 2013, the Archive received an additional donation of "approximately 40,000 well-organized tapes" from the estate of a [[Philadelphia]] woman, [[Marion Stokes]]. Stokes "had recorded more than 35 years of TV news in Philadelphia and [[Boston]] with her [[VHS]] and [[Betamax]] machines."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brownell |first=Brett |author2=Benjy Hansen-Brandy |title=Meet the People Behind the Wayback Machine, One of Our Favorite Things About the Internet |work=Mother Jones |access-date=June 7, 2014 |date=May 22, 2014 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/internet-archive-wayback-machine-brewster-kahle |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140607031007/https://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/05/internet-archive-wayback-machine-brewster-kahle |archive-date=June 7, 2014}}</ref>

===Miscellaneous collections===
Brooklyn Museum collection contains approximately 3,000 items from [[Brooklyn Museum]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/brooklynmuseum |title=Brooklyn Museum: Free Image : Download & Streaming |publisher=Internet Archive |access-date=December 4, 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103140547/https://archive.org/details/brooklynmuseum |archive-date=January 3, 2015 }}</ref> In December 2020, the film research library of [[Lillian Michelson]] was donated to the archive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-01-28/hollywood-history-lillian-michelson-digital-internet-archive|title=Column: Lillian Michelson and her one-of-a-kind film library get a digital Hollywood ending|date=January 28, 2021|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 7, 2021|archive-date=February 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210208035207/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-01-28/hollywood-history-lillian-michelson-digital-internet-archive|url-status=live}}</ref>