Search the Archive SIGN IN Terms of Service Dec 31, 2014 logo Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more. texts 10M items movies 2.8M items audio 3.1M items software 143K items image 1.2M items etree 169K items collection 228K items Search the Archive search GO Advanced Search Announcements Persistent URL Service, purl.org, Now Run by the Internet Archive The Internet Archive Turns 20! Saving the 78s SEE MORE Top Collections at the Archive 2.5B Community Audio collection Dec 14, 2005 Community Audio collection You are invited to view or upload audios to the Community collection. These thousands of recordings were all contributed by Archive users and community members. Please select a Creative Commons License during upload so that others will know what they may (or may not) do with with your audio. Click here to contribute your audio! Browse by style: Blues, Country, Electronic, Experimental, Hiphop, Indie, Jazz, Rock, Spoken Word. 1.5B Community Video collection Feb 26, 2005 Internet Archive collection You are invited to view or upload your videos to the Community collection. These thousands of videos were contributed by Archive users and community members. These videos are available for free download. Please select a Creative Commons License during upload so that others will know what they may (or may not) do with with your video. Click here to upload your video! Topic: Moving Images 1.5B Live Music Archive collection Nov 19, 2005 collection Browse: all artists · this day in history · average review rating · number reviews · date reviewed · number views etree.org is a community committed to providing the highest quality live concerts in a lossless, downloadable format. The Internet Archive has teamed up with etree.org to preserve and archive as many live concerts as possible for current and future generations to enjoy. All music in this Collection is from trade-friendly artists and is strictly non-commercial, both for access... Topic: Live Music 1.1B American Libraries collection Jan 23, 2006 collection The American Libraries collection includes material contributed from across the United States. Institutions range from the Library of Congress to many local public libraries. As a whole, this collection of material brings holdings that cover many facets of American life and scholarship into the public domain. Significant portions of this collection have been generously sponsored by Microsoft, Yahoo!, The Sloan Foundation, and others. 720.3M Community Texts collection Jan 18, 2005 Internet Archive collection These books are books contributed by the community. Click here to contribute your book! For more information and how-to please see archive.org/about/faqs.php#Texts_and_Books Uploaders, please note: Archive.org supports metadata about items in just about any language so long as the characters are UTF8 encoded Community Afrikaans Texts Community Arabic Texts Community Basque Texts Community Bulgarian Texts Community Catalan Texts Community Chinese Texts Community Croatian Texts Community Czech... Topic: Texts 539.4M The LibriVox Free Audiobook Collection collection Mar 7, 2006 collection LibriVox - founded in 2005 - is a community of volunteers from all over the world who record public domain texts: poetry, short stories, whole books, even dramatic works, in many different languages. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain in the USA and available as free downloads on the internet. If you are not in the USA, please check your country's copyright law before downloading. Please visit the LibriVox website where you can search for books that interest you. You can search or... 486.7M Electric Sheep collection Jul 6, 2010 collection Electric Sheep is a distributed computing project for animating and evolving fractal flames, which are in turn distributed to the networked computers, which display them as a screensaver. Process The process is transparent to the casual user, who can simply install the software as a screensaver. Alternatively, the user may become more involved with the project, manually creating a fractal flame file for upload to the server where it is rendered into a video file of the animated fractal flame.... Topic: electric sheep 440.1M Community Media collection May 12, 2010 collection A collection of media donated by individuals to the Internet Archive. 331.4M Canadian Libraries collection Jun 16, 2005 Internet Archive Canada collection Welcome to the Canadian Libraries page. The Toronto scanning centre was established in 2004 on the campus of the University of Toronto. From it's humble beginnings, Internet Archive Canada has worked with well over 50 institutions, in providing their unique material(s) with open access and sharing these collections the world over. From the Archives of the Sisters of Service to the University of Alberta, IAC has digitized approximately 522,741 unique and special collections. Many... Topic: Texts 238.7M Community Spirituality and Religion collection Jun 15, 2006 collection These religion and spirituality videos were contributed by Archive users. 209.1M Community Arabic Texts collection Aug 21, 2009 collection User-uploaded texts with language code "Arabic" or "ara" (MARC code for Arabic language items)Uploaders, please note: Archive.org supports metadata about items in just about any language so long as the characters are UTF8 encoded. 196.7M Netlabels collection Dec 14, 2005 collection Welcome to the Netlabels collection at the Internet Archive. This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'. These 'netlabels' are non-profit, community-built entities dedicated to providing high quality, non-commercial, freely distributable MP3/OGG-format music for online download in a multitude of genres. Styles include: melodic electronica (e.g. Observatory Online, Please Do Something ) minimal house (e.g.... ( 1 reviews ) 189.6M University of Toronto - Robarts Library collection Dec 7, 2006 collection The John P. Robarts Research Library, commonly referred to as Robarts Library, is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of Toronto Libraries and the largest individual library in the university. Opened in 1973 and named for John Robarts, the 17th Premier of Ontario, the library contains more than 4.5 million bookform items, 4.1 million microform items and 740,000 other items. The library building is one of the most significant examples of brutalist architecture in... 166.2M California Digital Library collection Feb 14, 2006 collection The California Digital Library supports the assembly and creative use of the world's scholarship and knowledge for the University of California libraries and the communities they serve. In addition, the CDL provides tools that support the construction of online information services for research, teaching, and learning, including services that enable the UC libraries to effectively share their materials and provide greater access to digital content. 164.8M Prelinger Archives collection Jun 4, 2005 collection View thousands of films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000 "ephemeral" (advertising, educational, industrial, and amateur) films. In 2002, the film collection was acquired by the Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. Prelinger Archives remains in existence, holding approximately 11,000 digitized and videotape... 122.9M Feature Films collection Feb 26, 2005 Internet Archive collection Feature films, shorts, silent films and trailers are available for viewing and downloading. Enjoy! View a list of all the Feature Films sorted by popularity. Do you want to post a feature film? First, figure out if it's in the Public Domain. Read this FAQ about determining if something is PD. If you're still not sure, post a question to the forum below with as much information about the movie as possible. One of our users might have relevant information. Topic: Moving Images 115.9M Internet Arcade collection Aug 6, 2014 collection The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package. Containing hundreds of games ranging through many different genres and styles, the Arcade provides research, comparison, and entertainment in the realm of the Video Game Arcade. The game collection ranges from early "bronze-age" videogames, with black and white screens and simple sounds, through to large-scale... 113.1M Grateful Dead collection Mar 27, 2004 Grateful Dead collection Browse: this just in · stream only (SBD) shows · downloadable (AUD) shows · this day in history · average review rating · number reviews · date reviewed · number views · search forums Created in 2004 this collection consists of both audience and soundboard recordings. It is not uncommon to find multiple versions of the same show. For more information please see the FAQ. The Grateful Dead collection is not currently open to public uploads. Search Shows: Downloadable Shows - usually... Topic: grateful dead, jam, rock, jerry garcia 96.2M Speed Runs collection Nov 18, 2004 collection Speed running (trying to complete a videogame in the fastest time possible) is almost as old as gaming itself. At least, it's almost as old as games that have a definite end point or staging points, since speedrunning a game with infinitely repeating levels is Sisyphean. This collection hosts downloadable movie files documenting the swiftest possible way to complete videogames such as Quake, Metroid, Zelda and many others. The videos come from Speed Demos Archive, TASvideos, and other sources.... Topic: video games 87.2M Biodiversity Heritage Library collection Dec 28, 2006 collection Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge. | The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community. BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life . The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is a consortium of natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize the legacy literature of... 79.8M European Libraries collection Oct 23, 2008 collection Scanned books from various European Libraries. 78.3M Television Archive collection Jun 13, 2008 collection Files pulled from TV News Archive for research and educational purposes. ( 1 reviews ) 77.8M Iraq War: Non-English Language Videos collection May 4, 2006 collection This collection contains user-submitted videos that are primarily from Middle Eastern sources. The Internet Archive has not reviewed these videos for content, but we have included them here in order to preserve as complete a record as possible of the worldwide views concerning current events in the Middle East. Caution: These videos may not be appropriate for all users. These items have not been reviewed for content. Some items contain images of graphic violence, or appear to explicitly... 72.9M Old Time Radio collection May 10, 2006 collection You are invited to listen to and download Old Time Radio shows here! Browse by: number views · average review rating · number reviews · date reviewed · date archived &middot; topic 70.3M Television Archive News Search Service collection Jun 21, 2012 collection Items included in the Television News search service. Part of TV News Archive. 63.4M Universal Library collection May 7, 2006 collection The Universal Library Project, sometimes called the Million Books Project, was pioneered by Jaime Carbonell, Raj Reddy, Michael Shamos, Gloriana St Clair, and Robert Thibadeau of Carnegie Mellon University. The Governments of India, China, and Egypt are helping fund this effort through scanning facilities and personnel. The Internet Archive has contributed 100k books from the Kansas City Public Library along with servers to India. The Indian government scanned the appropriate books. The... 63M The Iraq War Collection collection Apr 26, 2006 collection A compilation of videos from Internet Archive users about the Iraq War and the issues and events surrounding it are collected here. See a Tag Cloud for the Iraq War collection. Topic: iraq war 54.8M Log In Required collection Jan 13, 2016 collection You must be logged in to archive.org to view the media from items in this collection. Log in, or create a free archive.org account here. 53.5M The Library of Congress collection Oct 3, 2007 collection Texts from The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress, the nation's oldest federal cultural institution, is the world's preeminent reservoir of knowledge, providing unparalleled integrated resources to Congress and the American people. Founded in 1800, the Library seeks to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, which bring to bear the world's knowledge in almost all of the world's languages and America's private sector... 52.3M The Boston Library Consortium collection Sep 18, 2007 collection Books from the Boston Library Consortium. See a Tag Cloud for the Boston Library Consortium collection. 48.5M Microfilm collection Jul 25, 2006 collection Take a picture, it will last longer As books become old and begin to fall apart, librarians depend on microform to preserve their content for the future. Tiny photographs on long strips of film (microfilm) or small cards of film (microfiche) are all that remain of hundreds of thousands of documents that have disintegrated over the last century. While microfilm is perfect for storing and protecting this material, it is a does not allow for much access. In following its mission to provide...