10,373 itemsWelcome to News & Public Affairs

An analysis of news and public affairs independent from traditional corporate media is available from this diverse video library. From Democracy Now's daily news program, to three days of TV news coverage following the 911 attacks, to Mosaic’s timely clips of Middle East newscasts, to UCSF's Tobacco Industry Videos: These collections offer an alternative way to view and interpret current news and public affairs. Many of these videos are available for free download.

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	Alternative Views Alternative Views is a public affairs program that produced 563 one-hour TV shows between September, 1978, and April, 1998. It's goal was to provide information and perspectives that either were not...	172 items
	September 11 Television Archive This collection contains television news programs recorded live from around September 11, 2001 by the non-profit Television Archive to help patrons research this important part of United States...	414 items
	Democracy Now! A national, daily, independent, award-winning news program, Democracy Now! airs on over 375 stations in North America. Pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the U.S., Democracy Now!...	2,081 items
	Mosaic Middle East News Selections from daily TV news programs produced by national broadcasters throughout the Middle East are featured here. Mosaic's news reports are presented unedited, but translated (when necessary),...	1,271 items
	Election 2008 Political Speech Political Speech videos concerning the 2008 elections in the United States, from local elections all the way to President. Videos of debates, campaign commercials, and speeches will all be included....	199 items
	UCSF Tobacco Industry Videos The University of California, San Francisco Tobacco Control Archives Multimedia Collection contains audiotapes and videotapes related to the advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and...	1,088 items
	The Open Mind First Broadcast in May, 1956, The Open Mind is still produced weekly by Richard D. Heffner, host, historian, and University Professor of Communications and Public Policy at Rutgers University. These...	1,203 items
	Deep Dish TV Deep Dish TV is the first national satellite network linking local access producers and programmers, independent video makers, activists, and other individuals who support the idea and reality of a...	191 items
	The Iraq War 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.	227 items
	Alternate Focus For an alternative view of Middle East issues: Alternate Focus is an non-profit educational media group which uses the Web, video, and satellite television to promote an alternative view of the...	37 items
	PBS \| NPR Forum Network News & Public Affairs News and Public Affairs programming of the PBS \| NPR Forum Network see all collections of the PBS \| NPR Forum Network at Archive.org	9 items
	George W. Bush Presidential Speech Archive 500 hours of speeches made by President George W. Bush from 2000-2006 are available here. These speeches were collected and uploaded to the Archive by the folks at Politcalvideo.org to allow for the...	2,200 items
	September 11 This collection contains videos from Internet Archive users about the events of September 11, 2001 and the issues surrounding them.	77 items
	Report to the Congress: Congressional Hearings Online Introduction By the end of the 110th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives could achieve the goal of providing broadcast-quality video of all hearings and the floor for download on the...	481 items
	Community Media The Community Media Collection gathers the diverse local programs created through community access - including hundreds of television channels on cable television systems serving a wide range of...	1,077 items
	Free Speech TV Get out and get active, this is participatory media! Free Speech TV broadcasts independently-produced documentaries dealing with social, political, cultural, and environmental issues; commissions and...	45 items
	FedFlix Welcome to FedFlix, Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training...	915 items
	Election 2004 Archive users contributed to this non-partisan collection of 2004 presidential election videos by uploading videos to the Archive. The collection contains many campaign commercials including the...	685 items
	Universal Newsreels In the pre-TV era, people saw the news every week in their neighborhood movie theaters. Newsreels were shown before every feature film and in dedicated newsreel theaters located in large cities....	601 items