Speech and Lecture Archives
Middlebury College Lecture Archive
An initiative of the Library's Special Collections and the Cataloging Department. Lectures from the library archives in streaming audio or video include talks by the Dalai Lama, Robert Frost, William Rehnquist, and Henry Steele Commager, among others. Viewing or listening requires RealPlayer software, available for free download here. Take care to choose the free option.
University Channel
Middlebury College is a charter member of this initiative at Princeton University offering a collection of lectures and events from academic institutions all over the world
American Rhetoric
A database of 5000+ full-text, audio and streaming video versions of public speeches, lectures, debates, interviews, and speeches in movies. This award-winning site is maintained by Michael E. Eidenmuller, Ph.D. Contains a number of audio excerpts from 9/11.
Audio Interviews from the BBC
From BBC Four, over 150 audio interviews with artists, scientists, political activists and writers, including Gandhi, Gropius, Auden, Warhol and Yeats.
CBC Digital Archives
Over 1,500 hours of archival news stories from the Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Connie Martin Talks Books
From the Claremont Graduate University, the Connie Martinson Talks Books Collection consists of more than 2,500 television interviews with prominent authors of fiction and nonfiction taped over the last 30 years. Included in the collection so far are interviews with Barack Obama, Calvin Trillin, Elie Wiesel, Gore Vidal, Joseph Heller, Lisa See, Mary Gordon, and Susan Vreeland.
Earth Institute at Columbia University
Lectures cover a range of issues related to sustainable development, environmental decision-making, and climate change.
FORA-TV
Video of speeches, discussions, interviews and debates from public forums including American University, The World Affairs Council, Brookings Institute, C-Span, The Times of London, and many others.
Georgetown University Webcasts
Georgetown University is now offering broadcast-quality broadband video of a wide variety of panel discussions and noted speakers.
Harvard Institute of Politics: John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Archives
Streaming video of interviews and lectures from Harvard's Institute of Politics, some with printable news summaries.
Imperial War Museum Collections Online
The Imperial War Museum illustrates all aspects of war in the 20th and 21st centuries. This searchable database of almost 60,000 records includes annotated film and sound archives.
Library of Congress
Online access to print, pictorial and audio-visual collections and other digital services
MIT World
Large, searchable video archive of significant public lectures at MIT on topics covering technology and engineering as well as politics, culture and current events.
National Gallery of the Spoken Word
An online archive of spoken word collections spanning the 20th century.
Newmedia at UFM
Close to 1,000 lectures, many with transcriptions, from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. 65% of the content is in English. Many of the speakers focus on international and theoretical economics.
Oyez: US Supreme Court Multimedia
Over 2,000 hours of digitized Supreme Court oral arguments.
Presidential Recordings Project
From 1940 until 1973, US presidents secretly recorded their meetings and conversations in the White House. The Miller Center of Public Affairs at UVA offers these recordings with transcripts and other research materials.
Princeton University Web Media
Archived lectures given between 1998 and the present, covering a wide range of topics.
Stanford Humanities Center
The Stanford Lecture Series in the Humanities and Arts provides lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and other programs.
TED
This site makes over one hundred short (18 min.) lectures from the TED conference available, with more added each week. Content includes the arts, business, science and global issues.
United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
Lectures given by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different regions, legal systems, cultures and sectors of the legal profession.
UC Berkeley Archives
One of the largest and oldest audio and video archives;these records of UC Berkeley events include lectures and interviews with Bill Clinton, Carlos Fuentes, James Baldwin, Malcolm X and Robert Oppenheimer, to name a few.
Videolectures.net
Free on-demand educational video lectures from world's leading and prominent scientists, research institutions, EU research projects.
Vietnam Project
Primary source materials on the Vietnam War include oral histories and interviews of veterans. Site sponsored by Texas Tech University.
WGBH Forum
Audio and video streaming of public lectures and panel discussions from venues around Boston, including Wheaton, Wellesley, MIT, Harvard and UMass. The archive covers a broad range of topic categories, from art through politics, economics and sports.
The New Television Workshop Archives at WGBH offer a searchable collection of early video art clips.
Word for Word
American Public Media's Word for Word is a weekly public radio program featuring the very best of the nation's speeches, drawing content from the National Press Club, the Chautauqua Institution, the Aspen Institute and other prestigious institutions across the country.
A World of Ideas
An index to video and audio lectures on academic topics maintained by Darrell Arnold, an editor and translator at the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods in Bonn Germany.
A Selective Bibliography of Academic Lectures
A selective bibliography of on-demand academic public lectures compiled in 2008 by George Wrenn, Cataloging Librarian at Humboldt State University Library.
