Our Media

The World and All That’s in it — Captured on Film!

Altogether, National Geographic’s Digital Motion content is comprised of more than 25,000 hours of high-quality indexed material in the most popular content areas:

  • Adventures and exploration
  • Archaeology and ancient civilizations
  • Life science and natural history
  • Medicine and technology
  • People and cultures
  • Physical geography and regions
  • Space and Earth science
  • US and world history
  • World news and current affairs

Produced Vs Stock

Fully produced programs

National Geographic Digital Motion represents hundreds of programs varying in length that may be licensed in their entirety. These programs typically range from two to five minutes (short-form programming) and 30 – 60 minutes in length (full-length or long format programming). Programs are licensed on a per-minute or per-program basis depending on volume. We have hundreds for you to select the right fit for your subject.

These fully produced programs may be used to:

  • support the content in traditional textbook
  • extend print products
  • introduce or reinforce key concepts
  • make real-world connections
  • check comprehension
  • supporting student research and activities

Whether you are looking to enhance your print-based product or create new media-based products or components, licensing fully produced programs allows you to have National Geographic quality while saving money and valuable editorial time when compared to original production.

Video Stock Footage

National Geographic Digital Motion has a century's worth of the world's most captivating digital film archive from around the globe, with thousands of hours of clips added each year. The digital archive at www.ngdigitalmotion.com is filled with amazing footage from around the world, captured by talented and adventurous filmmakers who are willing to endure earth’s harshest extremes for never-before-seen images. Whether its animal behavior, climate change, technology or people and places around the world, we have the footage to bring your educational project to life.

Stock footage (or “raw footage”) is priced on a per-second basis and refers to the licensing of the moving images only. Since stock footage is licensed without sound, educational companies may use it to create their own customized media products, including videos, CDs, DVDs, web-based products, and other e-learning products. In some cases, natural sound may be available.  Our vast digital film archive is available online at www.ngdigitalmotion.com.

One-Stop Shopping with Our Global Stock Footage Partners

In addition, National Geographic Digital Motion represents peer-level archives from around the world in order to better serve our clients as a primary source of footage. Our partner network allows you to easily access to the following peer-level archives:

  • American Museum of Natural History
  • ArchieMD (Medical animation and 3-D modeling)
  • Associated Press Television News
  • Biomedia 
  • National Film Board of Canada
  • QA International
  • White House Historical Association
  • ZDF Archives (German Public Broadcaster)
  • And many more

Preferred Rates for Publishing Clients

National Geographic Digital Motion offers preferred rates for educational publishing and production companies with large volume needs. Please contact us to see if your project qualifies for these preferred rates for licensing, research, and production.