FedFlix: US government films

337–384 of 13,516 films, free to watch, from the world's open archives.

Where these films come from, and who sees what

Every film here plays from the archive that keeps it: the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, the NASA Image and Video Library, the Library of Congress and Open Images (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision). Nothing is copied to this site. Each film's page names its archive, links to its page there, and states its licence or status as the archive does.

Archive films carry no age ratings, so each is placed from the collections it sits in and the subjects the archive gives it, cautiously. Sexual content and nudity are left out altogether.

Little OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive A DEFEATED PEOPLE 1946 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) ARC Identifier 36087 / Local Identifier 111-OF-28… Internet Archive Forklift pedestrian safety 2003 · Educational State of Washington Department of Labor & Industries Forklift pedestrian safety Number: VT01760 Material: video, 10 minutes Industry: general industry This… Internet Archive BATTLE OF THE BULGE 1958 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 30112 BATTLE OF THE BULGE STORY OF AMERICA'S WINTER SOLDIER THROUGHOUT THEHISTORY OF THE COUNTRY FROM VALLEY FORGE TO THE BATTLE OF… Internet Archive Palestine 1976 · Educational National Archives - Palestine - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). - This film is a Columbia Broadcasting… Internet Archive A Lady Called Camille 1971 · Educational Department of Agriculture A Lady Called Camille AVA11983VNB1 - 1971 The video documents the devastation caused by Hurricane Camille and the suffering caused… Internet Archive STAFF FILM REPORT 66-28A 1966 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 26980 STAFF FILM REPORT 66-28A VIETNAM - JUNE 1966 - 1ST BRIGADE - 25TH INFANTRY DIVISION IN "OPERATION HAWTHORNE'' AND ARMY… Internet Archive Man Belongs to Earth 1974 · Educational Produced by Roman Kroitor and Graeme Ferguson of Imax Corporation for the U.S. Pavilion, Expo '74, Spokane Man Belongs to Earth NTIS AVA9367VNB1 Originally an… Internet Archive Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 1981 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 13364 / Local Identifier 95.68 - Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 - Department of Agriculture.… Internet Archive Lockout/Tagout Safety Procedure 1992 · Educational Washington State Department of Labor and Industries Lockout/tagout safety procedures Number: VT01277 Material: video, 17 minutes Industry: general industry… Internet Archive DC MOTORS AND GENERATORS 1961 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 29942 DC MOTORS AND GENERATORS DESIGN, APPLICATION, AND OPERATION OF BASIC, SERIES, SHUNT, AND COMPOUND WOUND TYPE DC GENERATORS AND… Internet Archive Gibbons v. Ogden 1977 · Educational Equal Justice Under Law Gibbons v. Ogden (4th in a 4 part series). Presents a conflict between the States and Congress over the authority to regulate… Internet Archive FIVE ARTISTS 1971 · Educational · Subtitles National Archives and Records Administration FIVE ARTISTS U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 50813 / Local Identifier 306.4583.… Internet Archive INTERNATIONAL MORSE CODE, HAND SENDING Educational National Archives and Records Administration INTERNATIONAL MORSE CODE, HAND SENDING Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal… Internet Archive FDR Compilation 2 Great Depression/New Deal 1933 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 257 FDR Compilation 2 Great Depression/New Deal From the Pare Lorentz Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library… Internet Archive Alien Encounters: The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Connection 1994 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration Alien Encounters: The Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Connection Department of Defense. Department of the Air… Internet Archive THE PHOTOGRAPHER 1948 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration THE PHOTOGRAPHER U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 46998 / Local Identifier 306.131.… Internet Archive WITH THE MARINES AT TARAWA 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 37448 / Local Identifier 127-MH-3527 - WITH THE MARINES AT TARAWA - Department of Defense.… Internet Archive Royal Ballet of Cambodia 1965 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration Royal Ballet of Cambodia U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 52434 / Local Identifier… Internet Archive The Plow That Broke the Plains 1937 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration The Plow That Broke the Plains Department of Agriculture. Farm Security Administration. Information Division.… Internet Archive December 7th (Long Version) 1943 · Educational Department of War Department of the Navy Released by National Archives and Records Administration December 7th (Long Version) According to the Amazon.Com… Internet Archive Introduction To The National Radiation Control Network 1977 · Educational From U-Matic tape: "Introduction to the National Radiation Control Network" with John C. Villforth and Richard W. Peterson August 22, 1977 Internet Archive WHY VIETNAM? 1965 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 46000 WHY VIETNAM? THE FILM OUTLINES THE UNITED STATES POLICY WITH RESPECT TO SOUTH VIETNAM AS STATED BY PRESIDENT JOHNSON IN AN… Internet Archive Small Town Espionage 1960 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 896138 / Local Identifier 263.3153 - Small Town Espionage - National Security Council. Central… Internet Archive Big Picture: The Douglas MacArthur Story Educational National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 2569682 / Local Identifier 111-TV-416 Big Picture: The Douglas MacArthur Story DVD Copied by… Internet Archive ALLIES INVADE BALIKPAPAN [ETC.] 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39073, LI 208-UN-166 - ALLIES INVADE BALIKPAPAN [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion… Internet Archive KGB CONNECTIONS (PARTS 1 & 2) 1981 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration KGB CONNECTIONS (PARTS 1 & 2) U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 54508 / Local… Internet Archive AWAY BOARDERS 1953 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 24543 AWAY BOARDERS STORY OF THE USS GUADALCANAL AND CAPTURE OF THE FIRST GERMAN SUBMARINE IN WORLD WAR II BY THE COMMANDING OFFICER… Internet Archive Design for disaster 1962 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 13356 / Local Identifier 95.60 - Design for disaster - Department of Agriculture. Forest… Internet Archive Soviet Man in Space 1961 · Educational National Archives - Soviet Man in Space - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). - This silent film shows Soviet… Internet Archive Rounds of Authority 1997 · Educational Federal Law Enforcement Training Center gov.ntis.ava20354vnb1 VP-005-97 Rounds of Authority This video addresses conventional, specialty, and exotic shotgun… Internet Archive MAN AND SAFETY - PHYSIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS 1963 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 27621 MAN AND SAFETY - PHYSIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS THIS OUTLINE OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MAKEUP OF MAN SHOWS THE BOUNDARIES BEYOND WHICH… Internet Archive Contact Ambush 1996 · Educational Department of the Navy Contact Ambush AVA04620VNB1, 1996 The program shows marine patrol action in Vietnam. Shows land and river patrols and a successful… Internet Archive STAFF FILM REPORT 66-25A 1966 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 26977 STAFF FILM REPORT 66-25A VIETNAM - JUNE 1966 - 25TH INFANTRY DIVISION, 173D AIRBORNE BRIGADE; ARMY PROCUREMENT AGENCY IN… Internet Archive Aerial and Boat Views of Amtrak Train Derailment, Mobile, Alabama 1993 · Educational U.S. Coast Guard Aerial and Boat Views of Amtrak Train Derailment, Mobile, Alabama AVA21271VNB1 The videotape contains aerial views of the Amtrak train… Internet Archive STAFF FILM REPORT 66-12A 1966 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 26961 STAFF FILM REPORT 66-12A VIETNAM - COMBAT AND OTHER ACTIVITY, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1966 - 25TH INFANTRY, 1ST AIR CAVALRY,… Internet Archive Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions 2001 · Educational The National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Program www.firewise.org Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions FWC-623-01 This program is based on the… Internet Archive How Airplanes Fly 1968 · Educational Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration How Airplanes Fly NTIS AVA08357VNB1 What makes an airplane get off the ground and stay in the… Internet Archive Emergency response to transportation accidents involving radioactive materials [videorecording] 2002 · Educational · Subtitles From tape: Emergency Response to Transportation Accidents Involving Radioactive Materials (VT320.2) July 2002 FEMA and DOE Run time: 18:00mins VHS "July… Internet Archive Diversity is Our Strength 2000 · Educational Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance Diversity Series: Religions, Cultures and Communities (NCJ 212664) The Chicago… Internet Archive The Plow That Broke the Plains 1937 · Educational Department of Agriculture. Farm Security Administration. Information Division. (ca. 1937 - ca. 1942) ARC Identifier 13595 / Local Identifier 96.2 1937 The… Internet Archive DUKE ELLINGTON ET SON ORCHESTRE Educational National Archives and Records Administration DUKE ELLINGTON ET SON ORCHESTRE U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 47984 / Local… Internet Archive African Americans in World War II: Legacy of Patriotism and Valor 1997 · Educational Department of the Army African Americans in World War II: Legacy of Patriotism and Valor AVA20001VNB1, 1997 This documentary contains extensive film footage… Internet Archive Hallucination Training Film: Counterguerrilla Training 1954 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration Hallucination Training Film: Counterguerrilla Training National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency.… Internet Archive It's Murder 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 38681 / Local Identifier 208.51 - It's Murder - Office for Emergency Management. Office of War… Internet Archive The California Gray Whale (Revised) Educational National Park Service The California Gray Whale (Revised) AVA01336VNB1 Features the biology and history of one of nature's largest creatures and great… Internet Archive NUCLEAR NAVY, THE 1967 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 25027 NUCLEAR NAVY, THE HISTORY OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUCLEAR POWER AS IT HAS BEEN APPLIED TO UNITED STATES NAVY SUBMARINE AND… Internet Archive DANCE AMERICANA 1956 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration DANCE AMERICANA U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 49773 / Local Identifier 306.3436.… Internet Archive The General George S. Patton Story Educational National Archives and Records Administration The General George S. Patton Story Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of…