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Ephemeral films

6,913–6,960 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 The Ancient Peruvian (1967) 1967 · Educational · 27 min Survey of pre-Columbian art, architecture, technology, and culture of Peru. Produced by Julien Bryan Internet Archive Job Creating Contest 1940 · Film The NYA office in Illinois conducts an essay contest to get ideas for useful projects for NYA work centers. Announcements are mimeographed and printed,… Internet Archive Helping: A Growing Dimension of Management 1979 · Educational Title from data sheet Also issued as videocassette Illustrates the importance of effectively training employees in order to help them develop their own… Internet Archive The Unveilings 1976 · Educational Don Chastain Writers, Hana Hrabec, Paige Morgenthal Presented by the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Explores Europe's, particularly… Internet Archive Operation Dominick - Muskegon 104002 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX3FfMcvw_s Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive " OF MEN AND WINGS " 1918 - 1940 HISTORY OF AIR MAIL & PASSENGER FLIGHT UNITED AIRLINES 65034 Film This late 1940s black and white travel film highlights 25 years of coast-to-coast flights and events by the year. It is narrated by radio announcer Del… Internet Archive 1958 DAYTONA AND INDIANAPOLIS 500 MOTOR RACE "FAMOUS MEASURED MILE" 76284 Film Enter the world of stock car racing in the late 1950s. In "The Famous Measured Mile", a film presented by the Perfect Circle Corporation, gorgeous cars are… Internet Archive Time To Live! Film How a plentiful energy supply impacts our country's quality of life. This film can be purchased on DVD and higher quality versions of the film can be… Internet Archive 1968 VIETNAM WAR REPORT 9th INFANTRY DIVISION in MEKONG DELTA 25174 Film This is a 1968, black and white news report featuring footage filmed by combat cameramen in the field. It is a presentation of the Armed Forces Information… Internet Archive OFFICIAL FILMS NEWSREEL D-DAY INVASION OF NORMANDY FRANCE WWII JUNE 6, 1944 (Print 1) 55794 Newsreel This black & white educational film is about the D-Day Invasion of 1944 during World War 2 in which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of… Internet Archive " TOMORROW'S AIRPLANE TODAY" BOEING 377 STRATOCRUISER AIRCRAFT PROMOTIONAL FILM 70942B Film Created by acclaimed filmmaker Jerry Fairbanks for the Boeing Co. in the immediate post-WWII era, "Tomorrow's Airplane Today" celebrates the 377… Internet Archive JACK DEMPSEY / GENE TUNNEY THE LONG COUNT BOXING MATCH 1927 83814 Film This silent film shows nearly twenty minutes of the famed Long Count Fight (also known as the Battle Of The Long Count) boxing match. This was actually a… Internet Archive Behind the scenes at the National Air and Space Museum Short · 28 min Tim Wooldridge, Chairman of Aeronautics at the National Air and Space Museum, presents a slide show of the collection there. To license this film and get a… Internet Archive Ecology Emerges: Saul Bloom Film Saul Bloom is the director of ARC/Ecology in San Francisco where he has been deeply involved in local military base decommissioning, ecological and economic… Internet Archive WWII GERMAN HITLER YOUTH "AIR DEFENSE" CIVIL DEFENSE FILM GAS MASK TRAINING 74032 Film This rare German educational film from the WWII era shows civil defense training activities of the Hitler Youth (German: Hitlerjugend ), the youth… Internet Archive Festival Of Faith 1957 · Film A young girl in Jewish Confirmation class doubts the teachings about the Ten Commandments. After talking with her rabbi and father, she figures it all out.… Internet Archive STS-47: Postflight Press Conference 1992 · Talk Press conference with the crew of STS-47 describing mission highlights. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes,… Internet Archive " THE MAGIC KEY " 1950 U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANIMATED FILM POST-WWII PROSPERITY XD38414 Cartoon Sponsored by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, this highly optimistic, 1952 full color animation/live-action hybrid film presents the USA in the forefront of the… Internet Archive U.S. Army Aberdeen Proving Ground Limited War Laboratory 78944 Film Made during the Vietnam War in 1965, this U.S. Army film shows how guerrilla warfare strategies were researched at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. On… Internet Archive 1964 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR FROM THE AIR UNISPHERE PROMO FILM 43294 Film This short film presents viewers with a quick look at the New York’s World Fair as seen from above. The New York’s World Fairs ran in 1939 and again in 1964.… Internet Archive Save Your Shillings And Smile 1943 · Short · 6 min A 1943 British musical WW2 short film starring Tommy Trinder. Produced by Ealing Studios Internet Archive Filmstrip: "The Importance of Play/La Importancia del Juego" 1979 · Educational SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. I am the only person on earth preserving American filmstrips. The media format is largely forgotten and very… Internet Archive 1964 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR PROMO FILM ROBERT MOSES JOHN F. KENNEDY XD10294 Film This World’s Fair Report with Lowell Thomas was created by the New York World’s Fair 1964-65 Corporation. The film opens with Lowell Thomas and an aerial view… Internet Archive GERMAN INVASION OF POLAND NAZI WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA MOVIE BAPTISM OF FIRE 77554 Film Made by German filmmaker Hans Bertram, BAPTISM OF FIRE shows some o the events leading up to the German invasion of Poland, and was shown to the governments… Internet Archive "LE COMBAT CORPS AND CORPS - FRENCH HAND TO HAND COMBAT" 19764 Film This black & white educational film is about hand to hand combat techniques. This is entirely in French. This is circa the 1930s.Opening titles: L'Ecole De… Internet Archive CANADIAN NATIONAL & GRAND TRUNK RAILROAD STEAM LOCOMOTIVES IN ACTION 1958 TRAIN FILM MD53174 Film Shot by Fred McLeod between Montreal and Toronto, this film of the Canadian National Railroad in action dates to 1958. McLeod was something of a visionary,… Internet Archive 1964 " JACK PINE " MOTORCYCLE 520 MILE ENDURANCE RACE LANSING TO WEST BRANCH MICHIGAN XD14285 Film This color film from 1964 celebrates The Jack Pine Motorcycle Race, aka Jake Pine Enduro, probably the best known motorcycle endurance run of all time. It… Internet Archive " THE ELECTRIC STARTER " 1920s AUTO IGNITION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL FILM YELLOW COACH BUSES XD49824 Educational This 1920’s silent black and white film with intertitles presents an introduction to the electric starter, using a combination of live action and animated… Internet Archive LAUNCHING OF KRIEGSMARINE CRUISER PRINZ EUGEN 1938 KIEL SHIPYARD GERMANY 73712 Film This silent German newsreel shows the launching of the Prinz Eugen, an enlarged Admiral Hipper-class heavy cruiser which served with the Kriegsmarine of… Internet Archive " THE HUMAN BODY / THE BRAIN" 1968 BRAIN FUNCTION & HUMAN ANATOMY EDUCATIONAL FILM XD7576 Educational “The Human Body: The Brain” (1968) is a color, instructional film by Coronet Films made in collaboration with J. Langdon Taylor, Ph.D. Associate professor of… Internet Archive Bone For Spotty, A 1950 · Film Explains the fundamentals of saving to youngsters. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes, contact A/V Geeks LLC . Internet Archive Chris L7 Cuadrado Art And Politics April 3 2019 2019 · Film Few local artists have combined the refined skills of a fine artist with the blistering edge of anti-colonial and liberationist critique that L7 has. He has… Internet Archive IMC GLOBAL POTASH MINE AND REFINERY AT CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO 1950s MOVIE 87004 Film UP FROM THE BED OF A DESERT SEA tells the story of the New Mexico based potash mine run by the International Mineral and Chemical Corporation of Carlsbad (now… Internet Archive " THE PENETRATING EYE " 1970s SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPE DOCUMENTARY 99174 Documentary This color educational film "The Penetrating Eye" is about the scanning electron microscope (SEM). The film was produced by Eli Lilly, a leading medical… Internet Archive NASA CONNECT: Functions and Statistics: International Space Station: Up to Us 2001 · Film In this episode of NASA CONNECT™, students will learn about the International Space Station (ISS), why it is being built, and how it provides first-hand… Internet Archive "MAN INTO SPACE PART III" 1960s SPACE RACE SATELLITES JOHN GLENN COSMONAUT YURI GAGARIN 54134 Film This color educational film "Man Into Space" was part of a series created by Explorer Productions. It was produced and directed by Edward Scherer and written… Internet Archive U.S. AIR FORCE F-4 PHANTOM CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS DELIVERY DIVE BOMBING TRAINING FILM 68924 Film This color educational/training film is about the dropping of ordnance from a US Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom jet. No copyright is on file but this… Internet Archive DEFENDERS OF MOSCOW 1941 RUSSIAN PROPAGANDA FILM FOR USA AUDIENCE 82094 Film This early 1940s black and white propaganda film of Soviet war footage, "Defenders of Moscow" opens with a shot of a downed German plane (:11). Men and women… Internet Archive Hamlet: Part 2 - What Happens in Hamlet Educational · 28 min Hamlet: Part 2 - What Happens in Hamlet Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film A discussion of the… Internet Archive JOHN HUSTON'S LET THERE BE LIGHT BANNED WWII SHELL SHOCK / PTSD FILM 29694 Film Let There Be Light is a 1946 American documentary film directed by John Huston. The film, commissioned by the United States Army Signal Corps, was the final… Internet Archive Learning in Infants 1967 · Educational · 26 min Examines the mechanisms and processes of infant development through controlled laboratory experiments at the sensory assessment and conditioning laboratory,… Internet Archive Stevie, Poogie, and Crowkie 1986 · Educational Deborah Mirabai Rothrock Written by, Lea Shenar ; produced and directed by Miri Ben-Shalom ; director of photography, John Rosnell Storyteller Deborah… Internet Archive The Basics of Cross-Country Skiing 1975 · Educational Producer and director, Don Gazzaniga Jerry Smeltzer and Skip Reedy of Squaw Valley explain the variety of special cross-country ski equipment including… Internet Archive The Umbrella 1961 · Educational Presents a day in the life of a young boy, Charles, and the events that drove him to steal an umbrella. Examines in detail the boy's relationship with his… Internet Archive Why Billy Couldn't Learn 1966 · Educational With study guide Director and writer, Bradley Wright Demonstrates special teaching techniques and diagnostic methods. Illustrates emotion, academic and… Internet Archive Holidays for Children - Remembering September 11th 2002 · Film Internet Archive 1938 GERMAN NEWSREEL EXPANSION OF THE THIRD REICH SEIZURE OF SUDETENLAND & MEMEL TERRITORY 73634 Newsreel Created in the 1930s, this German newsreel shows the "expansion of Germany" under Adolf Hitler including the seizure of the Sudentenland. German troops are… Internet Archive "STRANGE VICTORY" GROUND BREAKING 1948 ANTI-RACIST/ ANTI-FASCIST DOCUMENTARY FILM XD7598 Documentary Leo Hurwitz’s extraordinary documentary “Strange Victory” (1948) was the first significant post-WWII anti-racist, anti-fascist non-fiction films. It is…