American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Old Time Radio Shows from the Internet Archive
We Are One: A Global Film Festival
May 29-June 7, 2020
Discover and watch films during this first ever 10-day global film festival co-curated by over 20 film festivals from across the world. All funds raised during the festival will benefit COVID-19 relief funds.
Met Opera on Demand
From old-school legends to today’s great stars, experience more than 700 full-length Met performances with our online streaming service. Free apps available for Amazon Fire TV and Tablet, iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, Android, Roku, and Samsung Smart TV.
Paris Opera on Demand
Streaming performances
A Midsummer Night's Dream (2017): May 4th to 10th
Don Pasquale (2018): May 11th to 17th
L'Opéra, documentary by Jean-Stéphane Bron (2017): May 18th to 24th
Bordi Godounov (2018): May 25th to 31st
Bonus: shows available longer:
Until May 21st: Cinderella
Until August 5th: Giselle
Until October 9th: Les Indes Galantes
Until October 24th: Body and Soul
From May 9th to November 8th: La Traviata
The Show Must Go On
Andrew Lloyd Webber to stream his musicals online for free
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - FULL SHOW
Royal National Theatre in Great Britain presents Theatre at Home
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
During this time when their buildings are closed, there are two exciting ways to virtually-attend our theatre productions online. You can enjoy their free YouTube Premieres.
History At Play launches new HAP n' CHAT LiveSteam Performance and Q&A.
An article on upcoming live-streaming concert performances
Live Music Recordings from the Internet Archive
Free access to 50 concerts to stream
Pink Floyd streaming older concerts on their YouTube channel
Film Treasures, Streaming Courtesy of the Library of Congress.
“‘Sneeze’ is just one of many films that you can watch for free online courtesy of the Library of Congress, which partly acquires deposits through the United States Copyright Office. The biggest library in the world, it has an extraordinary trove of online offerings — more than 7,000 videos — that includes hundreds of old (and really old) movies.”
100 documentaries that will change the world
Open Culture
1,150 Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, etc.
Feature Films Archive from the Internet Archive
Julia Child's Selected Videos on PBS
Book Passage
Live sessions with the writers and thinkers most committed to America’s independent bookstores
Free Amazon Prime video for kids
Go Noodle
Movement and mindfulness videos for kids
I Heart Yoga
Family Yoga on Facebook
MS DOS Games from the Internet Archive
Software for MS-DOS machines that represent entertainment and games. The collection includes action, strategy, adventure and other unique genres of game and entertainment software. Through the use of the EM-DOSBOX in-browser emulator, these programs are bootable and playable
Online jigsaw puzzles from the collections of the Museum of New Zealand
The grandaddy of them all, the crossword has been a puzzle staple since the 1800s, appearing in newspapers and magazines across the country. There’s a boatload of publications that run them, and even more crossword apps you can find on your phone, but we’ll try to narrow things down a bit. Here’s a list of places you can find daily crossword puzzles, including right here on Boston.com.
Think you can name every state capital? Or the all-time leaders in points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks in Boston Celtics history? What about all 151 original Pokemon? No matter what subject your niche knowledge is in, Sporcle has a quiz for it, with tens of thousands of quizzes and puzzles available. Here’s a list of Boston-specific quizzes to start.
With origins dating back to the 19th century, Sudoku is almost as old as the crossword. But it wasn’t until 2004, when Wayne Gould developed a computer program that could randomly generate a large amount of Sudoku puzzles, that the game became a staple in newspapers nationwide. Here’s a few places you can play the logic puzzle daily, including on Boston.com.
Boston.com
Invented in 2004 by a Japanese math teacher, KenKen came onto the puzzle scene not long after Sudoku went mainstream, adding an element of arithmetic to the numbers-based logic game. Here’s a list of places you can play KenKen — also known as Calcudoku, KenDoku, and Mathdoku — daily.
Speaking of Ken(ken), “Jeopardy!” whiz Ken Jennings has been publishing his own syndicated trivia column for years now, giving readers five seemingly unrelated general knowledge questions whose answers all have something in common, the so-called “Kennection.”Jennings has a 400-strong archive of puzzles available on Mental Floss.