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Ephemeral films

7,441–7,488 of 19,489 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 Aeronautics and space report, no. 257 Film Aeronautics & Space Reports Tape #3 - Report #257: consisting of the following short films: Aerospace Plane: Flexible Access to Space, Advanced Microsensors,… Internet Archive Reading: The American Dinosaur 1976 · Educational Recorded from the Claremont Reading Conference Discusses the importance of reading and how to make it relevant to children. Lillian Thompson, headmistress… Internet Archive Cassette: "Jason Jones: An Instant Music Programme for Younger Primary Children by David Moses" 1984 · Film SEEKING SOUND FILMSTRIPS FOR PRESERVATION. Sound filmstrip was a 35mm film-based still image educational media format used in schools and industry. I am the… Internet Archive Operation Dominick - Muskegon 103752 2017 · Film Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aFZCMivpdk Uploader: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Upload date: 2017-03-13 Internet Archive “ LE MANS: THE GRAND PRIZE ” 1973 LE MANS GRAND PRIX AUTO RACE JOHN GREENWOOD CORVETTE C3 JC10164 Film This 1973 color film documents the 1973 24 Hours of Le Mans 41st Grand Prix of Endurance, also the eighth round of the 1973 World Championship for Makes.… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "The Advancement Process" 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 DISCOVERY '66 TV SHOW "THE WORLD BENEATH THE SEA" PART 2 SCUBA, MINI SUBMARINES, SEALAB XD30702 Film This episode of the TV show, Discovery ‘66, dates to the year 1966. Discovery (in several incarnations) was an innovative historical, cultural and educational… Internet Archive “ WORK AND PLAY IN BELGIUM ” 1950 TOURISM TRAVELOGUE BRUSSELS, GHENT, BRUGES XD45504 Film This 1950 color film, issued by the Belgian Government Information Center of New York City and released as part of the Films of the Nations series, takes a… Internet Archive A JOURNEY TO NORMANDY 1930s TRAVELOGUE LE HAVRE & ETRETAT FRANCE 49694 Film This late 1930s black and white travelogue film about Le Havre and Etretat Normandy pre-dates their invasion in 1940. Most of what is seen would be totally… Internet Archive A Storm of Strangers: The Irish 1974 · Educational Producers, Saul Rubin and Elaine Attias; director, Chris Jenkyns Edmund O'Brien speaks for Dennis Mulligan, who fled the famine-ravaged Ireland of 1955, and… Internet Archive VALENTINA TERESHKOVA FIRST WOMAN IN SPACE SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM VOSTOK-6 MISSION 1963 XD14174 Film This silent movie, entitled "First Woman-Cosmonaut" is a short extract of a 1974 documentary about the first woman in space. It was sold for the home market… Internet Archive Saving The Beauty Of Alabama 1935 1935 · Film Shows CCC men at work in Geneva State Park, Alabama. They cross a footbridge with shovels on their shoulders, erect a fence, bridge a stream, clear away dead… Internet Archive Images of Country Women: A Patchwork Quilt 1976 · Educational · 28 min Producer and director, Lucyann Kerry Shows the activities and attitudes of women towards their roles in rural society through a look at the daily lives of… Internet Archive STS-40: Postflight Press Conference 1991 · Talk Press conference with the crew of STS-40 describing mission highlights. To license this film and get a higher quality version for broadcast/film purposes,… Internet Archive Reading Improvement: Word Recognition Skills 1961 · Educational "With annotated listing of bulletins, 1895-1959."--Cover Supplements the Bureau's Bulletin no. 174, Subject index ... up to May 1, 1915 Internet Archive The Role of Phonics 1974 · Educational Herbert Kohl discusses his views on phonics and talks with teachers about decoding skills. Explores the role of phonics and that role in the reading program Internet Archive ERUPTION OF PARICUTIN VOLCANO MICHOACAN, MEXICO 1943 SOUND NEWSREEL 87864 Newsreel This vintage newsreel shows the eruption of Parícutin (or Volcán de Parícutin, also accented Paricutín) in 1943. The now-dormant scoria-cone volcano is… Internet Archive SURRENDER OF GERMANY OFFICIAL FILMS NEWS THRILLS WWII NEWSREEL 77414 Newsreel This silent WWII newsreel, made by Official Films for the home market, shows the end of the conflict in Europe. Times Square in New York is the scene of… Internet Archive " MAKE MINE FREEDOM " 1948 ANTI-COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA CARTOON JOHN SUTHERLAND XD6618 Cartoon This Cold War-era cartoon "Make Mine Freedom" uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism, and depicts a satire of perceived… Internet Archive WWII U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES RECRUITING FILMS BASIC TRAINING & OFFICER'S CANDIDATE SCHOOL OCS 24964 Film Here are two WWII U.S. Army Air Forces recruiting films. The first "Survival of the Fittest" is about how physical training is important for survival in… Internet Archive "ROME THE ETERNAL CITY" 1947 CASTLE FILM TRAVELOGUE ROME ITALY COLOSSEUM PANTHEON THE VATICAN 45784 Film This black & white educational film is about Rome, the Eternal City. Copyright is either 1947. Opening titles: Castle Films presents The World Parade - Rome… Internet Archive "A LADY FIGHTS BACK" FIRE DESTROYS FAMED OCEAN LINER SS NORMANDIE DOCUMENTARY NEW YORK 79004b Documentary Dating to 1944, this episode in the long-running series "John Nesbitt's Passing Parade" was included in the "G.I. Movie Weekly" shown to American troops in… Internet Archive "THE DRIVING SCENE" 1960s DRIVER EDUCATION FILM w/ JEAN SHEPHERD NARRATION 94564 Educational Narrated by Jean Shepherd, “The Driving Scene” is a late 1960s or early 1970s color PSA-film produced by Volkswaen. The film targets beginning drivers with a… Internet Archive Susan Swift on antinuclear politics and organized labor Short · 3 min Excerpted from the Ecology Emerges interview with Susan Swift. She is a former Abalone Alliance staffer who grew disaffected and resigned a year after the big… Internet Archive KSNN 21st Century Explorers #10: What Would You Find on the Moon's Surface Film Episode 10 of 21st Century Explorer looks at what is found on the moon’s surface. The 60-second video is intended for grades 3-5. Internet Archive Why Do We Still Have Mountains 1964 · Educational · 19 min Why Do We Still Have Mountains Examines the psychological causes of wife beating and the emotional, as well as physical, repercussions on women and their… Internet Archive BOEING VERTOL MODEL 107 HELICOPTER ICING & WEATHER TESTS 30554b Film This 1960s film, Operation Ice Cloud, produced by the Vertol Division of the Boeing Company, shows viewers how a testing rig, which creates an “ice cloud,” is… Internet Archive HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY IN WORLD WAR II 53984 Film This wonderful short featuring Dinah Shore, tells the story of the Hollywood Canteen, a converted Barn located in Hollywood. It operated at 1451 Cahuenga… Internet Archive WALT DISNEY 1945 INDUSTRIAL CARTOON "THE ABC OF HAND TOOLS" TOOL CARE & HANDLING 87264 Cartoon This 1945 color cartoon “The ABC of Hand Tools” is presented by General Motors and produced by Walt Disney Productions in Technicolor. Hand tools are panned.… Internet Archive Bishop Mark Hurley And The 1968 69 SFSU Strike 2021 · Film Bishop Mark Hurley played an important and largely invisible role in mediating the epic 1968-69 student strike at San Francisco State University. Professor… Internet Archive The Motivated Saccade 1974 · Educational · 26 min Documents the motivated control of a specific brain wave by a laboratory experiment in which a cat is conditioned to increase or withhold its eye movement and… Internet Archive Zubin and the IPO 1983 · Educational Title from data sheet Issued also as videorecording Discusses the history of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, focusing on its leading place in the musical… Internet Archive POLAND FOREVER WORLD WAR II POLISH RESISTANCE DOCUMENTARY FILM 32884 Documentary Poland Forever is a 1944 film produced by Pofomo Pictures that champions the Polish people’s perseverance for a single, great, and free Poland during World… Internet Archive CLASSIC 1950s MARRIAGE & RELATIONSHIP EDUCATIONAL FILM "MARRIAGE: TODAY" 47144 Educational One of a series of films based on texts by Henry Bowman called Marriage for Moderns, this campy 1950s film "Marriage: Today" is full of unintentional comedy.… Internet Archive 1960s BOEING PROMOTIONAL FILM "TODAY AND TOMORROW" 707, 727, MINUTEMAN, SATURN V SEATTLE 82474 Film Boeing Today and Tomorrow is a color promotional film put out by their Public Relations Department. It was probably put out in the late 1960’s to promote the… Internet Archive Flash the Teenage Otter Educational · 48 min Internet Archive GERMAN ENTRY INTO AUSTRIA "GERMANY INVADES AUSTRIA" ANSCHULUSS ADOLF HITLER 1938 75604 Film This historic Castle Film newsreel shows the start of WWII with the German invasion of Austria and the surrender of the Austrian government. The film also… Internet Archive A Game Of Chance 1961 · Short · 9 min A 1961 British short film about farm safety. Produced by British Films for the Central Office of Information. Internet Archive " A RAILROAD REPORT TO AMERICA " 1950s RAILROAD FILM PENN STATION PASSENGER TRAINS XD14754 Film This film, dating probably to the early 1950s, demonstrates modernization efforts on the railroads as a shift from steam powered locomotives, to diesel… Internet Archive 1964 TV SHOW " MEN IN CRISIS: HITLER VS HINDENBURG " 1930s RISE OF NAZI PARTY IN GERMANY 94114 Film Dating to 1964, this episode of the David L. Wolper produced TV show "Men in Crisis" was directed by Alan Landsburg, and focuses on the struggle for power… Internet Archive 1950s CHEVROLET PEDAL CAR DRIVER'S EDUCATION MOVIE "TOMORROW'S DRIVERS" 61044 Educational This 1954 black and white documentary film Tomorrows Drivers is presented by Chevrolet dealers (:07) and produced by Jam Handy Pictures (Jam was also a U.S.… Internet Archive MAKING A MARINE U.S. MARINE CORPS 1950s RECRUITING FILM 82124 Film Dating to the Korean War era, this wonderful U.S. Marine Corps film begins with images of combat and an amphibious landing drill, probably at Camp Pendleton… Internet Archive U.S. COAST GUARD CAMERAMEN AT D-DAY INVASION NORMANDY JUNE 6, 1944 22794 Film Photographed by U.S. Coast Guard cameramen with additional scenes provided by the U.S. Navy and Army Air Forces, United States Coast Guard Report No. 4 is a… Internet Archive “MEN OF MAINTENANCE: SOUTHEAST ASIA” 1960s AIR FORCE CREW CHIEFS IN VIETNAM F-105 THUNDERCHIEF 52054 Film This 1960s color film produced by the United States Air Force offers a look at aircraft maintenance procedures and the often overlooked men who performed them… Internet Archive 1950’S SILENT 16mm HOME MOVIE NORTH CAROLINA “ BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY ” TRAVEL FILM 84934 Home movie This silent 16mm home movie takes viewers on a picturesque tour through Blue Ridge Parkway which is a National Parkway and All-American road noted for its… Internet Archive “ ROAD TO THE CLOUDS ” 1958 NEW GUINEA TRAVELOGUE CONSTRUCTION OF THE HIGHLANDS HIGHWAY 86274 Film This 1958 travelogue film is produced by The Australian Commonwealth Film Unit, directed by John Morris, narrated by James McMauley, and released through… Internet Archive [NASA Earthquake Predicting] Film How NASA uses satellite data to help interpret geological events that could predict earthquakes We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks… Internet Archive A Matter of Expectations: Parenting the Exceptional Child 1979 · Educational Produced by Steve Seily The issue of parenting is traced from the discovery of a handicapping condition to the establishment of a healthy relationship…