Captivate: UTSC's Digital Storytelling Competition Resource Guide

Over 3 million free high-resolution images brought to you by the world’s most generous community of photographers.

Over 2.6 million+ high quality stock images, videos and music shared by our talented community.

Wikimedia Commons is a media file repository making available public domain and freely licensed educational media content (images, sound and video clips) to everyone, in their own language. It acts as a common repository for the various projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, but you do not need to belong to one of those projects to use media hosted here. The repository is created and maintained not by paid archivists, but by volunteers.

Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license from this page.

Free Music Archive is powered by Tribe of Noise. Together we care about free access to original music and growing fair trade opportunities & our social impact in favor of talented musicians worldwide.

Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository, includes numerous audio files that you can search and include in your digital story.

Download, sample, cut-up and share various audio.

Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and all sorts of bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse. Freesound provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a "sounds-like" type of browsing and more, upload and download sounds to and from the database, under the same Creative Commons license, interact with fellow sound-artists!

SoundBible.com offers free sound clips for download in either wav or mp3 format. We have free and royalty free sound effects and clips for video editors, movie scores, game designers, and weekend sound warriors. Downloads are totally free, and upfront with large download buttons to prevent confusion.

Creative Commons license applied to them. Creative Commons licenses enable members to grant copyright permissions on their videos so others can copy, distribute, edit, remix, and build upon them while giving credit to the original video’s creator.

Free videos for personal & commercial uses. New videos added weekly! High-resolution videos also available on Vimeo.

Videvo offers free stock videos and motion graphics for use in any project. You may use these video clips free of charge, in both personal and commercial productions. Video clips that carry the Creative Commons 3.0 license must be attributed to the original author.

Pond5 Public Domain Project is making copyright-free media available for you. You’ve got stories, and we’d love to help you tell them.

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