12 Best Free B-Roll Footage Websites (No Watermark)

Pexels is the default answer for free B-roll. The Pexels License allows commercial use, including ads and social media, and states that attribution is not required. Search and curation are the strongest of the free libraries, 4K is plentiful, and an orientation filter surfaces portrait clips for short-form work.

The license limits are short: do not sell unaltered copies, do not imply that people or brands in a clip endorse you, do not redistribute clips on another stock platform, and do not use identifiable people in offensive ways. Several editing tools, Jupitrr included, also source free stock from Pexels. New to the term? Start with what B-roll is.

Pixabay, from the same company as Pexels, covers more media types in one place: stock video, photos, illustrations, vectors and music. For B-roll that mixes footage with supporting stills or a music bed, that breadth saves a second search.

The Pixabay Content License lets you use content without attributing the author and modify it into new works. Two exclusions matter for creators: you cannot sell content on a standalone basis, and content showing recognizable trademarks cannot be used commercially in relation to goods and services. Pixabay’s FAQ says you need to sign up to download full-resolution videos.

Jupitrr is not a footage library. It replaces the search-download-upload-place loop the sites on this page assume. There is no blank timeline to start: upload a talking-head video and Jupitrr’s AI B-roll generator reads your transcript and brings you a first cut with B-roll matched to what you say. No editing experience required.

From there you adjust the B-roll, text and hook on the timeline and transcript, and swap any clip in one click from Getty Images and iStock footage (on paid plans), Pexels stock, or your own uploads. Check each clip’s license before you use it in monetized videos, ads or products you sell. For the manual version of this workflow, see how to add B-roll to talking-head videos, and for shot lists by niche, see B-roll ideas for talking-head videos.

Mixkit, run by Envato, is a smaller, tightly curated library of HD and 4K clips with Business, Lifestyle, Nature and Vertical Backgrounds categories. Mixkit states there is no sign-up and no watermark, so grabbing a clean clip takes seconds.

Licensing is per clip. The Mixkit Free License covers commercial projects, naming YouTube videos, social media marketing and online ads, with no attribution required. Some clips carry the Restricted License instead, which allows only personal, non-commercial projects and excludes monetized content. The license is labeled on each clip page.

Coverr groups HD and 4K footage into themed categories, including People, Technology, Travel, Food and a dedicated Vertical section for short-form. Its license allows commercial and non-commercial use at no cost, and attribution is not required.

Two details stand out. Coverr’s license prohibits using its videos to train AI models or to build a competing service, and clips cannot be resold or offered inside stock or video editing services. Downloading needs a free account; Coverr offers Google sign-in with no credit card.

Free Nature Stock is a small library of nature photos and videos released under CC0: the creator has waived copyright, so you can use clips commercially without permission or attribution. Videos come in 4K and HD, and the site states its content is never AI-generated.

The video catalog runs to dozens of clips rather than thousands: foliage, water, skies, campfires and night sky. When it has the shot, CC0 is the simplest license on this page.

Dareful offers a few hundred 4K and HD clips, many of them drone aerials of landscapes, roads and coastlines, all shot by Joel Holland, founder of VideoBlocks. The footage has a consistent, cinematic look that is hard to find in user-uploaded libraries.

Clips are released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, which allows commercial use but requires credit. Dareful suggests the line "Video courtesy of Dareful" with a link back to the site.

Vidsplay is a library of several hundred free clips across nature, travel, animals, food, architecture and technology, with time-lapse and drone footage. The sample we downloaded was 4K with no watermark.

Its own terms allow commercial use with one condition: add a visible credit link to Vidsplay.com on your website, in the end credits, or in the video description. You also cannot sell or redistribute clips as they are.

ISO Republic is a CC0 photo and video site with around 130 HD clips, strong on abstract backgrounds, bokeh, textures and simple lifestyle shots. CC0 means no attribution and commercial use is allowed.

The site asks that you do not present its media as your own work and notes that clips showing brands, people or private property can carry extra rights. Most clips date from 2018 to 2020.

Canva’s stock video library sits inside its editor, in HD and 4K. Canva says its free photos, music and video can be used for commercial and non-commercial projects, with no attribution required, and free stock videos carry no watermark.

The license is built around designs: you cannot sell unaltered copies of a clip, and you cannot pass stock media to a client for use outside a Canva design or on a standalone basis. That suits videos you finish in Canva and fits less well as a download source for another editor.

NASA’s media guidelines state that its images, audio and video are generally not subject to copyright in the United States. For launch, spacecraft, astronaut and Earth-from-orbit B-roll, nothing else on this page comes close.

The conditions are specific. NASA asks to be acknowledged as the source, commercial use must not imply NASA endorses a product, the NASA insignia and logotype are protected, and footage showing an identifiable person may need that person’s permission for commercial use.

Wikimedia Commons holds media under free licenses, usually CC BY or CC BY-SA, or in the public domain. It is useful for footage stock sites rarely carry: historical events, specific places, wildlife species and scientific subjects.

Every file has its own information page listing its copyright status and license conditions, and you follow that page, not a site-wide rule. CC BY requires credit, CC BY-SA adds a share-alike condition, and personality rights can apply to identifiable people.

The Internet Archive’s Prelinger Archives collection holds a large set of ephemeral films, including advertising, educational, industrial and amateur footage, released as public domain. Derivative works are yours to publish and sell without limitation.

Credit to Prelinger Archives is requested but not required. Outside the Prelinger collection, rights on the Archive vary by item, so check each item page before reuse.