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Aerial drone footage of the University of West Florida's Emerald Coast Campus (former Fort Walton Beach campus of UWF), April 2017

Video promotional ad for UWF's Festival on the Green, 2009

Although designed as a video for fund-raising in August 2010, this video narrated by President Judy Bense is a good overview of the University of West Florida, with accompanying video and photographs, as of 2010.

A visual history of Gulf Breeze, Florida, utilizing newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials from the collections of the Univerisity Archives and West Florida History Center.  Talk was developed, written, and narrated by Dean DeBolt, Special Collections Librarian, John C. Pace Library, University of West Florida.

Video of the Hawkshaw archaeology dig, May 1985, with commentary by Judy Bense, and interviews and commentary by Mrs. Samuel Carr, Woody Skinner, Alan Gantzhorne, and Eloise Gadus.  The archaeological project covered the area east of downtown Pensacola where Gulf Power was buildilng a new headquarters.  The Hawkshaw area is loosely defined as roughly 100 city blocks, taking its name in the 1920s and 1930s, and bordered by Alcaniz on the west, Gregory Street on the north, and Pensacola Bay to the South and East.  Although British maps indicated the residence of Governor Peter Chester in this area, nothing was found of the British period.  However, an excellent Native American complex from the Deptford era was uncovered.

Produced by Main Street Productions, this is a compilation of photographs and stories about historic homes, buildings, churches, and sites in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, touching on the history of the community, the Florida Chautauqua; it carries no copyright data or date though it does provide the names of the narrator. 31 minutes. Researchers should note that some of the data and businesses mentioned are no longer accurate as of the time of digitization (September 1, 2016).

Compilation of home video and aerial footage as Hurricane Opal moves inland into Fort Walton Beach, Destin, Okaloosa Island, and Santa Rosa Island, with live video during the storm and much video of the damage to the area, some of it from the air. There is a running dialogue. The footage is sixty minutes long but repeats on this videotape transfer. Source and author unknown. October 4-5, 1995.

Inauguration of Dr. Martha D. Saunders as the Sixth President of the University of West Florida, held Friday April 21, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. in the Center for Fine and Performing Arts at UWF, Pensacola, Florida.

Dr. Judy Bense from the University of West Florida Department of Archaeology is interviewed on WSRE Television (Pensacola Junior College) on the archaeology program at UWF, by Dennis Printy, PJC Faculty on the program "Florida Land Report."  Included are artifacts and discussion along with film footage and photographs of digs going on at the time in Pensacola.

Fox News Digital video of the story and possible discovery by Ben Raines, of the Clotilda (sometimes Clotilde) in north Mobile Bay and efforts of the University of West Florida shipwreck archaeology students and faculty to examine the vessel. The ship built in 1855 arrived in Mobile Bay in 1860; it was burned and sunk in northern Mobile Bay after arrival, its location noted by Captain William Foster.