University Libraries

WEB

Latin American and Spanish Videos Freely Available on the Internet: A Guide to Web Sources: Home  This website has links to many resources in LAS, not just film.  

and More

• European Film Gateway   Access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials.

• Culture Unplugged  Offers hundreds of free documentary films.

• Tubi - Películas en Español  Free legal streaming video service. Supported by ad breaks at 12-15 minute intervals during their movies and TV shows. Content partners are both big Hollywood and independent studios. This page provides access to its Spanish-language catalog.

• Free Spanish Short Films  This site compiles Spanish-language short films especially those with subtitles that are freely available on the internet.

• Open Video Project

  "The Open Video repository provides video clips from a variety of sources, especially various video programs obtained from U.S. government agencies." Includes a few historical videos related to Latin America. Allows to search by Spanish language and by using keywords such as "Latin America", "South America" and specific Latin American countries.

• PLAT Plataforma de Difusión e Investigación Audiovisual

  An online film archive that provides free and legal access to +150 Spanish films. An initiative by Kinora, a NGO that promotes audiovisual literacy. Feature and short films are browsable by keyword, creator, year, genre, and tags. Platform launched in April 2013.

AVON: 

• Chapulin Films (Mexico)  
• latin america in video 
• New World Cinema, indie features and shorts 
• Mexican Film Institute, 1956-2020

FOD:  FILMS ON DEMAND

• Area Studies:  Latin America
• Artmattan films:  world cinema, focus on LA

DISTRIBUTORS:

Icarus Films

"Since 1978, Icarus has offered a haven for nonfiction films that are at once socially conscious and supremely artful."
—The New York Times

The Society of the Spectacle |The Cordillera of Dreams | Nostalgia for the Light | Le Joli Mai | Downstream to Kinshasa

Pragda 

PRAGDA is your distributor for the newest Latin American, Spanish, and Latinx cinema. We spend a great deal of time searching for the finest contemporary documentaries and features produced each year, and we bring them to you.

GoodDocs

in particular, LatinX films.

Subcine

SubCine is the best source for independent Latino film and video. We are an artist-run and artist-owned collective of Latino film and video makers.

Digitalia

 

Platino Educa

This is a new vendor, 2022.