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Copyright-Free Images, Videos, and Music

Age without Limits
The photos show a more realistic depiction of ageing – to help challenge stereotypes of older people. The library contains over 3,000 images and is available for anyone to use for free.
Clip Safari
All clip art images are distributed under the CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license. You can copy, modify, and distribute these images, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.
Creative Commons
Browse over 500 million images, available for reuse.
Disabled and Here
"Disabled And Here is a disability-led stock image and interview series celebrating disabled Black, Indigenous, people of color (BIPOC)."
Dollar Street
Photographs of families around the world, their homes, and how they live. Organized by income, topic, and geography. CC-BY
Encyclopedia of Life
The Encyclopedia of Life aims to increase awareness and understanding of living nature by gathering, generating and sharing knowledge in an open, freely accessible and trusted digital resource.
Europeana
"At Europeana we work with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research. Europeana provides access to millions of books, music, artworks and more – with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for."
Flickr Creative Commons
Filter by license type.
The Gender Spectrum Collection: Stock Photos Beyond the Binary
"The Gender Spectrum Collection is a stock photo library featuring images of trans and non-binary models that go beyond the clichés. This collection aims to help media better represent members of these communities as people not necessarily defined by their gender identities—people with careers, relationships, talents, passions, and home lives."
Images of Empowerment
"[L]ibrary of images celebrating women's lives and their work in 11 countries around the world"
Nappy
"[W]e launched nappy ... to provide beautiful, high-res photos of black and brown people to startups, brands, agencies, and everyone else. Nappy makes it easy for companies to be purposeful about representation in their designs, presentations, and advertisements."
NASA Image Galleries
Mostly Public Domain images.
Photos Public Domain
"Free stock photos, textures, images, pictures & clipart for any use including commercial."
PICNOI
"We are a coop of stock image photography. We recognize that most other FREE stock image sites have very few or no images of people of color. We sought out to create a space where publishers, bloggers, website owners, marketers, designers, graphic artists, advertisers and the like can easily search and find diverse multi-racial images."
Pixabay
" All content on Pixabay can be used for free for commercial and noncommercial use across print and digital, except in the cases mentioned in "What is not allowed". Attribution is not required. Giving credit to the contributor or Pixabay is not necessary but is always appreciated by our community. You can make modifications to content from Pixabay."
Queer in Tech
"We created this photo set to promote the visibility of queer and gender-nonconforming (GNC) people in technology, who are often under-represented as workers powering the creative, technical, and business leadership of groundbreaking tech companies and products."
Smithsonian Open Access
Nearly 3 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections; includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo. Also, includes the Learning Lab, which you can use to build lessons.
StockSnap.io
All photos on StockSnap fall under the Creative Commons CC0 license. That means you can copy, modify, distribute any photo on the site.
Unsplash
Free high-resolution photos.
Wikimedia Commons
Freely usable archive of images, sounds and videos.
WOCinTechChat
This collection was created to address "the problem of not having visible representations of women of color engaging in technical tasks in stock images."

Science Cinema
"DOE ScienceCinema is a multimedia search tool provided by the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information, with video and audio files produced by DOE National Laboratories, other DOE research facilities, and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)...Users can search for specific words and phrases, and precise snippets of the video where the search term was spoken will appear along with a timestamp...Users may then select a snippet or a segment along the timestamp to begin playing the video at the exact point in the video where the words were spoken."
FedFlix
Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.
Khan Academy
Vimeo - Creative Commons
Moving Image Archive (Internet Archive)
Ted
PBS Video

Free Music Archive
"We provide free licenses and other legal tools to mark creative work with the freedom the creator wants it to carry, so others can share, remix, use commercially, or any combination thereof...Much of the music found on the Free Music Archive is released under Creative Commons licenses."
SoundCloud
ccMixter
"Creative Commons allows free non-commercial use of our music - just Attribute. (CC-BY tracks can even be used commercially with Attribution!)"
Jamendo Music
Free Sound