This is a list of film archives and cinematheques. Film archives collect, restore, investigate and conserve audiovisual content like films, documentaries, television programs and newsreel footage. Often, a country has its own film archive to preserve the national audiovisual heritage. The International Federation of Film Archives comprises more than 150 institutions in over 77 countries and the Association of European Film Archives and Cinematheques is an affiliation of 49 European national and regional film archives founded in 1991.
International The European Film Gateway is a single access point to European film archives and cinematheques.
Albania Albanian Central Film Archive
Angola Cinemateca Nacional de Angola
Argentina Museo del Cine Pablo Ducros Hicken
Armenia Armenian National Cinematheque
Austria Austrian Film Museum
Australia National Film and Sound Archive
Bangladesh Bangladesh Film Archive
Belgium CINEMATEK
Bosnia
Filmski Centar Sarajevo
Brazil Arquivo Nacional Cinemateca Brasileira Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna
Bulgaria Bulgarian National Film Archive
Burkina Faso African Film Library / FESPACO
Canada Cinémathèque québécoise Provincial Archives of Alberta TIFF Lightbox - Film Reference Library West Coast Film Archive, Pacific Cinémathèque Library and Archives Canada
China China Film Archive
Croatia Hrvatska kinoteka INDOK
Czech Republic Národní filmový archiv
Denmark Det Danske Filminstitut
Estonia Estonian Film Archives
France National Center of Cinematography and the moving image - CNC Archives Français du Film Institut national de l'audiovisuel Cinémathèque Française Cinémathèque de Bretagne
Finland National Audiovisual Institute
Germany Bundesarchiv Filmarchiv Deutsches Filminstitut Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe
Hungary Hungarian National Film Archive Nemzeti Audiovizuális Archívum (NAVA) (Hungarian National Broadcasting Archive) Blinken Open Society Archives
India National Film Archive of India Film Heritage Foundation Films Division of India
Iran Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Archive
Ireland Irish Film Archive Radharc Archive
Israel Israel Film Archive Jerusalem Cinematheque Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive Yad Vashem Archives
Italy Cineteca di Bologna Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio e Democratico ASCinema - Archivio Siciliano del Cinema Film archive in Torino Museo Nazionale Del Cinema National Film Archive - Cineteca Nazionale - Centro Sperimentale Di Cinematografia
Japan National Film Archive of Japan Fukuoka City Public Library Kobe Planet Film Archive
Laos National Library of Laos
Lebanon Cinematheque du Liban
Malawi National Archives of Malawi
Mexico Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica Cineteca Nacional de México Filmoteca UNAM Agrasánchez Film Archivemexfilmarchive.com Agrasánchez Film Library
Mongolia National Archives of Mongolia
Netherlands EYE Film Institute Netherlands
New Zealand Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
Nigeria Archive of Sound and Vision, Ibadan National Film, Video and Sound Archive, Jos University of Nigeria, Nsukka
North Macedonia Cinematheque of Macedonia
Norway Norsk Filmstitutt Norwegian Film Institute
Philippines ABS-CBN Film Archives CCP Library and Archives
Poland Filmoteka Śląska (Silesian Film Archive) Filmoteka Narodowa-Instytut Audiowizualny
Portugal Cinemateca Portuguesa
Romania Arhiva Națională de Filme
Russia Russian State Film and Photo Archive Gosfilmofond of Russia State Television and Radio Fund
Serbia State Audiovisual Archives of Serbia – Yugoslav Film Archives
Singapore Asian Film Archive National Archives of Singapore
Slovenia Archives of the Republic of Slovenia
South Africa National Archives of South Africa University of Cape Town: Centre for Popular Memory University of the Witwatersrand Archive
South Korea Korean Film Archive
Spain Filmoteca Española
Sweden Swedish Film Institute Archive
Taiwan Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
Tunisia Cinémathèque tunisienne
Ukraine Central State Audiovisual and Electronic Archive Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre
United Kingdom BBC Archives Beaulieu National Motor Museum British Library Imperial War Museum Huntley Film Archives East Anglian Film Archive Cinenova Feminist Film Archive June Givanni Pan African Cinema Archive BFI National Archive ITV Archive Lincolnshire Film Archive London's Screen Archive London Television Archive Media Archive for Central England National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales National Video Archive of Performance Northern Ireland Screen North West Film Archive Northern Region Film and Television Archive Screen Archive South East South West Film and Television Archive Scottish Screen The National Archives Stanley Kubrick Archive Wessex Film and Sound Archive Yorkshire Film Archive
United States Academy Film Archive Alaska Film Archives American Film Archive Anthology Film Archives American Film Institute - AFI Archive American Genre Film Archive Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Black Film Center/Archive, Indiana University Bloomington BYU Motion Picture Archive, L. Tom Perry Special Collections Library Chicago Film Archives CineFiles DEFA Film Library Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies Gene Siskel Film Center George Eastman Museum Harvard Film Archive Historic Films Archive Human Studies Film Archives Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive Japanese American National Museum Library of Congress - Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Sound Division Museum of Modern Art Department of Film National Film Preservation Foundation National Film Registry National Air and Space Museum Film Archive National Archives and Records Administration - Motion Pictures National Center for Jewish Film National Library of Medicine - History of Medicine Collections: Films & Videos New York University Libraries, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department Northeast Historic Film Northwest Film Center Prelinger Archives Research Video (Warner-Pathe, Paramount Newsreels) San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive Texas Archive of the Moving Image UCLA Film and Television Archive United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Film and Video Archive Vanderbilt Television News Archive Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research WWE Video Library Yale Film Archive
Venezuela
Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela Cine Archivo Bolívar Films Archivo Departamento de Cine de la Universidad de los Andes
See also Archive List of archives International Federation of Film Archives List of sound archives
References
Bibliography Le Roy, Éric. Cinémathèques et archives du film. Morgan, Jenny. The Film Researcher's Handbook: A Guide to Sources in North America, Asia, Australasia and Africa.
External links FIAF - International Federation of Film Archives FIAF Associates ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes National Film Preservation Board - List of archives by country FILM HERITAGE INSTITUTIONS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION - List of archives in the European Union Film archives