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Ephemeral films

4,801–4,848 of 19,487 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 Rain On The Plains 1938 · Film 8 minute film on the aridity of the Great Plains. National Archives Identifier: 1709 Local Identifier: 16-P-767 Creator(s): Department of Agriculture. Office… Internet Archive The Story Of Baxter State Park - Nature At Peace 1998 · Film History of Baxter State Park in Maine and Governor Percival Baxter. Featuring interviews with Park Director Irvin "Buzz" Caverly. Internet Archive An Institutional Response to AIDS 1984 · Educational Title from data sheet Camera, Charles Bemis ; editor, Gene Ferraro Intended audience: Hospital supervisory staff Issued also as videorecording Depicts a… Internet Archive Philosophies of Education: Classical Realist Approach to Education (1961) 1961 · Educational · 28 min Philosophies of Education: Classical Realist Approach to Education (1961) Discusses various brain conditions causing mental deficiency. Internet Archive Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, 7 -- The Golden Land 1984 · Educational · 58 min Host Abba Eban explores the universal meaning of the Holocaust, defining that tragedy as a tragedy for all civilized people. Internet Archive The Big Red Barn 1972 · Educational With study guide Based on the book of the same title by Margaret Wise Brown Producers, Joe Hayward, John Churchill; director and cameraman, Robert Ennis;… Internet Archive TV News: Behind the Scenes 1973 · Educational · 26 min With teacher's guide Producer, John Barnes Identifies characteristics of television as a communications medium. Focuses on the planning, preparing, filming,… Internet Archive " THE TRUE GLORY " 1945 ACADEMY AWARD WINNING WWII DOCUMENTARY D-DAY TO V-E DAY PART 2 22374 Documentary Released in 1945, when it won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, The True Glory was a co-production of the US Office of War Information and the… Internet Archive PHYSICS OF SOUND & ACOUSTICS "A LOOK AT SOUND" 1970s SCIENCE FILM MAGNETIC TAPE RECORDING 64984 Film This mid-1970s documentary “A Look at Sound” is part of the “Life Around Us” series and was directed by Tom Spain, and narrated by Dan Ingram. A man topples a… Internet Archive The World of Tomorrow (Part 1) Educational · 36 min Describes the New York World's Fair held in 1939-1940. Shows various exhibits, featuring General Motors Futurama and the Westinghouse exhibit. Describes also… Internet Archive Apollo program oral history. Part 2 1989 · Film Panel dicussion describing the management structure of the Apollo program. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes,… Internet Archive Children's Fantasies 1956 · Educational Correlated with the book Child development, by Elizabeth B. Hurlock Explains some of the causes of children's fantasies and shows how they may affect a… Internet Archive Drottningholm Court Theatre 1966 · Educational Production manager, Ulf Lindroth ; director of music, Erik Nordgren ; editor, Ulla Ryghe Surveys the history of the Drottninghom Court Theatre both as a… Internet Archive I Guess I Got the Job 1975 · Educational Vladimir J. Konecni, Daiva K. Konecni Contrasts the attitudes expressed by two individuals applying for the same job. Shows how the outcome of each interview… Internet Archive The Music of Man: 6 -- The Parting of the Ways 1979 · Educational · 30 min Producers, John Thomson, Curtis W. Davis, Richard Bocking ; writers, Yehudi Menuhin, Curtis W. Davis In America, the synthesis of cultures and musical forms… Internet Archive Tom Mooney Returns 1939 LLSF 2016 20 Mbps 1 1939 · Film Footage of Tom Mooney on his long-awaited return to San Francisco after 22.5 years in jail for a bombing in 1916 he had nothing to do with. He was pardoned by… Internet Archive What Do You Want Me to Say? 1974 · Educational Producer, director, writer, Tom Lazarus Janet Wood, Judd Laurance A dramatization of a young girl who has been pressured into seeing a psychologist. Shows… Internet Archive Breakdown 1951 · Educational · 40 min Breakdown Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film Summary An authentic case study of a young woman who has a… Internet Archive NASA PIONEER 10 SPACECRAFT PROGRAM JUPITER ODYSSEY CARL SAGAN 48594 Film This official circa 1973 NASA color film tells the story of Pioneer 10 — the first spacecraft to travel beyond Mars to the outer planets of our solar system.… Internet Archive Mole and the Hedgehog 1972 · Educational · 9 min Animated. A mole and a mouse rescue a hedgehog who has been caught by a hunter. Internet Archive Moonwalk, Episode 2: Adapting to Space 1970 · Film Episode 2 of Moonwalk examines the testing procedures Apollo operators used to simulate the space environment. Also details the functions of the different… Internet Archive IDENTIFICATION OF MESSERSCHMITT BF 110 AIRCRAFT WWII FILM 33814 Film One of the U.S. Army Air Force aircraft identification films made during WWII, this short movie describes the German Messerschmitt Bf 110. The film was shown… Internet Archive Route One 1976 · Film Shows an eighth grade science class and its study of different kinds of alcohol. Presents factual information on alcohol and discusses hangover cures. Uses… Internet Archive Biology & Space Exploration, Program 4: Musculoskeletal System In Space 1995 · Film This program is fourth in NASA’s Biology & Space Exploration series. Discusses changes that occur in our musculoskeletal system in the absence of weight… Internet Archive Space Works, Episode 8 1986 · Film Episode 8 of Space Works examines two topics: The Landsat satellite pictures of the Los Angeles coastal region; and the shuttle flyby mission linked to radar… Internet Archive U.S. NAVY OPERATION DEEP FREEZE 1955-56 ANTARCTIC MISSION 76674 Film Operation Deep Freeze (OpDFrz or ODF) is the codename for a series of United States missions to Antarctica, beginning with "Operation Deep Freeze I" in… Internet Archive A Voice Shall Be Heard 1951 · Film Promotional film for two-way radio equipment. Targeting municipal government decision makers, A Voice Shall Be Heard follows a Syracuse, New York, family… Internet Archive China, a class by itself. [Motion picture] 1979 · Educational · 50 min Presents an introduction to the highly stylized dance of China, of Korea, and of Japan; points outs the many similarities, and the differences of the three… Internet Archive Development of Means 1966 · Educational · 34 min Depicts the developmental sequences in a series of children from six to 15 months of age. Gives examples of the various methods of locomotion. Traces the… Internet Archive Selling: The Power of Confidence 1982 · Educational Title from data sheet Intended audience: Senior high school through college and adult Issued also as videorecording Shows how a salesperson can often be… Internet Archive STS-34: Postflight Press Conference 1989 · Talk Press conference with the crew of STS-34 describing mission highlights. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes,… Internet Archive These People 1976 · Educational Mental health professionals, patients, and community residents respond to the phasing out of a state hospital near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and the… Internet Archive War Without Winners II 1982 · Educational · 28 min An updated version of the 1979 film, War without winners Director, Haskell Wexler; narrator, Paul Newman This new edition of the film War without winners… Internet Archive Harry Hay on 19th century Remittance Men Short · 2 min A short clip from a longer 1996 interview with Mattachine Society founder Harry Hay in which he describes the common 19th century phenomenon of "Remittance… Internet Archive Listen To This 1978 · Educational · 15 min Shows the production of a film which traces the history of the sound motion picture and the role of the Bell System within this development. Internet Archive Platform Cooperatives 2018 · Film More of our lives are being tightly integrated through the commercial social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google, private corporations that are… Internet Archive Bare Facts Concerning Bears 1923 · Educational · 10 min Bare Facts Concerning Bears Close-range studies of conspicuous types of bears at the National Zoological Park at Washington and the Philadelphia Zoological… Internet Archive From Ten to Twelve 1957 · Educational Another issue. b & w French version released under title, De dis á douze ans Producer, Judith Crawley; director, Edmund Reid; scenario, Polly MacKay-Smith;… Internet Archive Japan: The Land and the People 1973 · Educational Shows modern Japan as a nation enjoying its role as an economic power but also experiencing problems common to other industrial nations, such as pollution and… Internet Archive Vision Quest 1961 · Educational A dramatization about the spiritual experience of an Indian boy in his quest for a guardian spirit upon his transition from boyhood to manhood. Pictures the… Internet Archive People of Mexico 1953 · Film Scenes of the people of Mexico, showing their culture, customs, games, religious festivals, national celebrations and leisure-time activities. We digitized… Internet Archive People of Mexico 1953 · Film Scenes of the people of Mexico, showing their culture, customs, games, religious festivals, national celebrations and leisure-time activities. We digitized… Internet Archive Growth of Infant Behavior: Later Stages 1934 · Educational Produced with the cooperation of the Yale Clinic of Child Development Reveals the increasing ability of the growing infant to use his hands in manipulating… Internet Archive Shape Description: Part 1 1947 · Educational Supplementary filmstrip of the same title also available Correlated with the book, Mechanical drawing, by Thomas E. French Presents the theory of… Internet Archive Verbstar 1979 · Educational · 17 min Dr. Verbose, an interstellar authority on verbs, reveals secrets of English grammar such as how to conjugate verbs and when and how to use auxiliary and… Internet Archive Finite Elements 1975 · Educational 438 feet Executive producer, Jean Crow The training of engineering students in the technique of finite elements analysis has frequently presented certain… Internet Archive Planning The Apollo Missions, Part 1 1989 · Film The second lecture in the Apollo 20th Anniversary Celebration Speaker’s Series. Held July 18, 1989 at the Johnson Space Center. Presentations by Owen Maynard,… Internet Archive With Eyes Wide Open 1983 · Educational Title from data sheet Intended audience: Adults Issued also as videorecording An intimate view of a severely retarded young man named Richard Wawro who is…