Video

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx

Most of online video sources listed here are for "smart" videos. These are more cerebral alternatives: documentaries, speeches, panel discussions, research reports and more on the arts, current events, business, science, etc. (The list is based on an article by Lee Gomes, WSJ, June 18, 2007). All the videos can be played on either RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, or QuickTime.

Several Web sites which provide links to more popular videos (TV shows, amateur videos, etc.) are also listed here under "General Videos".

Countless hours of edifying video are all waiting out there for you, nearly all of it free.

C-Span Video Library
www.c-spanvideo.org
"The C-SPAN Archives records, indexes, and archives all C-SPAN programming for historical, educational, research, and archival uses. Every C-SPAN program aired since 1987, now totaling over 160,000 hours, is contained in the C-SPAN Archives and immediately accessible through the database and electronic archival systems developed and maintained by the C-SPAN Archives. The Archives records all three C-SPAN networks seven days a week, twenty-four hours a day. Programs are extensively indexed making the database of C-SPAN programming an unparalleled chronological resource. Programs are indexed by subject, speaker names, titles, affiliations, sponsors, committees, categories, formats, policy groups, keywords, and location. The congressional sessions and committee hearings are indexed by person with full-text. The video collection can be searched through the online Video Library."

Fora.tv
fora.tv
"fora.tv delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation. It provides deep, unfiltered content, tools for self-expression and a place for the interactive community to gather online."

ResearchChannel
www.researchchannel.org
The ResearchChannel presents video programs from the world's leading research institutions.

JFK Jr. Forum Video and Podcast Archive
ksgaccman.harvard.edu/iop/events_forum_listview.asp
The Harvard University Institute of Politics makes available a searchable video archive spanning thirty years of public addresses and panel discussions held in the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum (formerly the ARCO Forum of Public Affairs). The archive, featuring nearly 1,200 Forum events on politics, policy, culture, and academic life, provides rich historical content and context to students, researchers, and citizens from around the world.

UC Channel
uc.princeton.edu
This is a project of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world.

Research-TV
www.research-tv.com
Research-TV produces cutting-edge research news stories on behalf of universities and research organisations.

Traditional Fine Arts Organization
www.tfaoi.com
The Traditional Fine Arts Organization Inc. works to support the arts in the U.S.. On its Web site, there's a directory of arts-oriented videos throughout the Web. At the main page, click on "Catalogues," and then on "Videos Online".

TotalVid
totalvid.com
One of the few online sources of smart video that charge users is TotalVid.com, owned by the Norfolk, Va.-based TotalVid Inc. unit of Landmark Communications Inc. It costs $9.95 a month for access to a huge library of how-to and documentary videos, many of them originally made for broadcast sites like Landmark's Weather Channel. Users can test the site free for a week.

Energy Policy TV
video.energypolicytv.com
Oil, Natural Gas, Electricity, Infrastructure & Grid, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Solar, Biofuels, Green Economy, Efficiency, and Conservation.

Public Policy Institutes
publicaffairs.html
All of the public policy institutes provide videos of on-site conferences.

MITWorld
mitworld.mit.edu
MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT.

Academic Earth
academicearth.org
Thousands of video lectures from the world's top scholars.

PBS Video
video.pbs.org
Videos fro PBS's TV programs.

General Videos

• www.clicker.com
  Clicker searches 1,200 sources and can index 400,000 episodes from 7,000 shows. Results include television programs as well as "Web originals", or shows that are native to the internet and are of broadcast quality.
• www.youtube.com
  YouTube is a video sharing website on which users can upload and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging and short original videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, UMG and other organizations offer some of their material via the site, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
• www.hulu.com
  Hulo has episodes from 1,200 television shows.
• www.truveo.com
  Truveo is a search engine for Web video operated by AOL, which based in San Francisco, California. Truveo claims to be one of the largest and most widely used video search engines, indexing over 300 million videos.

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