Claiming to be THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF FREE SOUND EFFECTS ON THE INTERNET

this is an easy to use online source of sounds to use in your movie projects.

http://www.grsites.com/sounds/

Here are some other sites with sounds:

http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html

http://www.sounddogs.com

http://sunsite.sut.ac.jp/multimed/sounds/sound_effects/

http://www.ljudo.com/default.asp

http://www.filmsound.org/sound-effects/libraries.htm

This is an excellent free download site for a variety of public domain videos, sounds, texts and other resources. http://www.archive.org/details/movies   It's also the home of the Wayback Machine for viewing web pages from the past: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

A handful of free downloadable films are available from this site

including The Little Match Seller.

http://creative.bfi.org.uk/

The folks from Google also have a huge variety of videos both current and historic to download.

http://video.google.com/

Although you can't download the films from this site it's got some very interesting and historic clips

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http://www.historychannel.com/broadband/home/