"Images and information for over 7,000 advertisements printed in U.S. and Canadian newspapers and magazines between 1911 and 1955."

"EduPic Graphical Resource was launched in September 2006 as a source of free images for teachers and their students."

"Free images for your inspiration, reference and use in your creative work, be it commercial or not!"

A site where users can exchange and use stock photos for free. Currently has over 2,500,000 registered users and nearly 400,000 photos.

A large database of free images. Free account required.

Free online video sharing services.

A large archive of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's past video and radio broadcasts.

Search for videos from Google.

Vintage TV commercials

Internet Archive's 35mm stock footage collection consists of material especially shot for stock footage purposes as well as feature film outtakes and unused material that were conserved for future use in other productions. Rights to this collection are held by Internet Archive. You may download and reuse material under the Creative Commons Attribution License.

This site contains 5,000+ full-text, audio, and video versions of famous speeches, sermons, media events, and lectures. It's largely American, but not all.

Provides royalty free music that can be used for video production and a variety of applications.

"The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs."