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Ephemeral films

7,537–7,584 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 Retrospect - Personal Responsibility Film Highlights end of WWI and English monarchy in early 20th century. Then there's a brief message about your responsibility with Civil Defense. We digitized and… Internet Archive The World at War: Part 2 Red Star, The Soviet Union 1941 - 1943 Educational · 56 min Internet Archive 1927 " BERLIN: SYMPHONY OF A GREAT CITY " WALTER RUTTMAN CITY SYMPHONY GENRE FILM PART 1 12744 Film Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt) is a short 1927 silent film directed by Walter Ruttmann and gives viewers a look at an… Internet Archive MEDAL OF HONOR AUDIE MURPHY TREASURY DEPT. PROMO FILM 24684 Film Made for the U.S. Treasury Department in 1955 to promote their bond program, MEDAL OF HONOR features both Medal of Honor winner Audie Murphy and material shot… Internet Archive China Beach To Mountain Lake Walk N Talk 2022 · Talk A Walk n Talk through the misty drizzle, starting at 30th Avenue and California and walking over to China Beach. It was the first day of Dungeness Crab season… Internet Archive Rip-Off at the Top 1975 · Educational SUMMARY: Robert Townsend, author of Up the Organization, and former president of Avis Rent-a-Car, examines the inequalities of the American income tax system… Internet Archive Round Robin 1980 · Educational Title from data sheet Made in England Directors and writers, Andrew Anderson, Hugh Miles Presents the natural history of a British robin through the… Internet Archive Uncommon Ephemera Filmstrip Soundtrack Preservation Live Stream #4: Hanna Barbera (September 14, 2019) 2019 · Educational SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. If you have sound filmstrips you cannot properly preserve, please consider donating them to me. Contact me at… Internet Archive WWII GERMAN U-BOATS ON PATROL BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC GERMAN NEWSREEL PRINT 2 20374z Newsreel This silent, historic German film produced during WWII by UFA is titled "U-boats on patrol". It shows U-boats operating in Wolfpacks, hunting Allied convoys… Internet Archive PROJECT GEMINI ANALOG RE-ENTRY SIMULATOR NASA FILM 78064 Film This historic NASA film shows an analog re-entry simulation, made in support of Project Gemini. The concept was to use the simulator to test methods of manual… Internet Archive Learning PowerPoint 97: Beginning 1997 · Educational "Introduction (11 min); Creating a new presentation (20 min); Entering text in outline view (15 min); Entering text in a slide view (12 min); More editing… Internet Archive Origins of Man (1965) 1972 · Educational · 29 min Illustrates ways in which we express attitudes toward emotional problems and mental health and encourages the acceptance of differences in the behavior and… Internet Archive " VAGABOND " TV SHOW NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA MARDIS GRAS CARNIVAL BOURBON STREET XD49524 Film This is a color episode of Bill Burrud’s “Vagabond” series from the late 1950’s, focusing on New Orleans landmarks and the customs of the Mardis Gras Carnival… Internet Archive 1950s MAGNETIC REEL-TO-REEL TAPE RECORDER INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 50564 Educational “The Magnetic Recorder” is a 1950s black-and-white film by the State University of Iowa explaining the uses and operation of magnetic tape. Almost any sound… Internet Archive 1953 CIVIL DEFENSE FILM OPERATION DOORSTEP NEVADA ATOMIC BOMB TEST 28072 Film Made in 1953, "Operation Doorstep" shows the Upshot-Knothole Annie nuclear weapons test conducted by the United States as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole.… Internet Archive U.S. NAVY NUCLEAR SUBMARINES MISSIONS, CHARACTERISTICS AND BACKGROUND 74802 Film This outstanding U.S. Navy film from 1971 -- "The Submarine Part II: Backgrounds, Characteristics and Missions of Nuclear Powered Submarines" focuses on the… Internet Archive 1960s EDUCATIONAL FILM -- LIFE ALONG THE AMAZON RIVER BRAZIL 61944 Educational This 16mm color documentary, The Amazon…Life Along the River in Brazil, is an educational film that documents the typical life of those who live along the… Internet Archive OCEANEERING INTERNATIONAL UNDERWATER ATMOSPHERIC DIVING SUIT PROMO MOVIE 77694 Film This fascinating industrial film advertises Oceaneering International's groundbreaking Underwater Atmospheric Diving Suit (ADS), known as JIM. An atmospheric… Internet Archive "TARGET FOR TONIGHT" 1941 WWII ROYAL AIR FORCE WELLINGTON BOMBER RAID ON GERMANY FILM 21184 Documentary Released in 1941, "Target for Tonight" is a Crown Film Unit documentary directed by Harry Watt. The movie -- which uses obvious re-enactments, some model and… Internet Archive " FALLOUT " 1955 CIVIL DEFENSE FILM NUCLEAR WAR / ATOMIC BOMB FALLOUT SHELTER PROGRAM 71642 Film Created by the Office of Civil Defense in 1955, "Fallout" provides a detailed overview of radioactive fallout, its dangers, and the necessary precautions for… Internet Archive Liftoff to Learning: Go For EVA Film In this video, Astronauts from STS-37 demonstrate how spacesuits allow astronauts to operate scientific apparatus, assemble equipment, pilot the Manned… Internet Archive Over There on a Visit 1976 · Educational Director, Alan Wallis; producer, Andrew Leigh Christopher Isherwood, who captured the spirit of Berlin in the 1920s while "over there on a visit" is… Internet Archive “ONE WAY TICKET TO HELL” 1955 DRUG ADDICTION SCARE FILM PART TWO XD49864 Film This black and white, mono-sound fictional film is the second half of “One Way Ticket to Hell”, a drug addiction scare film that was apparently first released… Internet Archive Drive In - Starts Friday - Colorswirl Short Lasts only a few seconds. Suggestion: insert clip at the beginning of any two trailers when making your double-feature dvd. Internet Archive " COMPUTER CHIPS SHAPE AN INFORMATION SOCIETY " 1980s COMPUTER ENGINEERING FILM 65024 Film In this episode of Screen News Digest (Vol. 27, No. 6), viewers see a very brief history of the development of computing and the ways in which microchips… Internet Archive "COME BACK TO IRELAND" 1940s IRELAND TRAVELOGUE DUBLIN, GALWAY, BLARNEY 76774 Film This charming 1940s episode in Castle Film's "The World Parade" series looks at Ireland. It contrasts the picturesque countryside and nature with advancements… Internet Archive “LO LO MIA” 1949 NAVAJO & APACHE NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES / INDIANS EDUCATIONAL FILM 82924 Educational This 1949 film takes a look at certain Native American people, including tribes of the Navajo and Apache tribes as they make an annual pilgrimage to the… Internet Archive PAN AM AIRLINES 1950s TRAVELOGUE // WINGS TO IRELAND 30122 Film Made in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this Pan Am travelogue takes the viewer on a journey to Ireland aboard the DC-6B Clipper Mermaid. The film begins with… Internet Archive WWII AIRPLANE PROPELLER DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND TYPES INSTRUCTIONAL FILM 32824 Educational “Airplane Propellers: Principles and Types” is a “restricted” World War II-era US War Department training film produced by the Signal Corps in collaboration… Internet Archive JAPANESE INTERNMENT DURING WWII "THE NISEI THE PRIDE AND THE SHAME" 75944 Film Produced in 1965 as part of the "Twentieth Century" TV series with Walter Cronkite, THE PRIDE AND THE SHAME tells the story of the Japanese internment, and… Internet Archive SHIPPING BY CONTAINER SHIPS & INTERMODAL TRANSPORTATION PROMOTIONAL FILM 57214 Film CONTAINERIZATION TODAY was produced in the 1960s and presented by the American Iron and Steel Institute, promoting the benefits of shipping cargo using steel… Internet Archive AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 11 22 2022 Film Greenland (silent) Earthworm We're All In the Driver's Seat Age of Space Transportation Internet Archive "FROM A MEXICAN NOTEBOOK" 1960s MEXICO TOURIST FILM ACAPULCO, MEXICO CITY, GUANAJUATO 67064 Film This film made by Hamilton Wright for the Mexican Department of Tourism begins in Mexico City, explores Acapulco, Taxco, Guanajuato, the temples of… Internet Archive Adeste Fideles 1941 · Short · 12 min A 1941 British documentary featuring Christmas in wartime. Produced by Strand Films for the Ministry of Information. Please forgive the black bars on the… Internet Archive AV Geeks' Blender's Xmas Film AV Geeks 16mm Lunch Streaming Show Random Christmas clips from A/V Geeks' archivalclips.com Internet Archive Liftoff To Learning: The Atmosphere Below Film Astronauts from STS-45 investigate Earth’s atmosphere from space. You can see what they see through their experiments on infrared detection of atmospheric… Internet Archive Cold War Radio Free Europe Crusade For Freedom Propaganda Film With Walter Cronkite 79834 Film Made in 1957, TOWERS OF TRUTH shows how the money collected from the first Crusade for Freedom in 1950 led to the establishment of Radio Free Europe the… Internet Archive Imaginext - Fortress of the Dragon 2003 · Film Internet Archive AV Geeks 16mm Lunch 12 16 2022 Film Chesapeake Mother of Waters String Choir Voltaic Cell - Dry Cell Battery Storage Battery PSAs reel 9 Internet Archive LOCKHEED P-38 LIGHTNING WORLD WAR II FILM " ANGEL IN OVERALLS " DICK BONG 31494 Film Made during World War II as an industrial incentive film -- a propaganda film made to encourage war plant workers in their daily tasks -- ANGEL IN OVERALLS… Internet Archive VIETNAM WAR ERA VIETNAM & LAOS HOME MOVIES SHOT BY U.S. PILOT 75072 Home movie These extraordinary Super 8mm home movies from the Vietnam War, come from a member of the "Ravens". The Raven Forward Air Controllers, also known simply as… Internet Archive " DRIVING AT NIGHT " 1967 FORD DRIVER'S EDUCATION FILM 95745 Educational This is 1967 color, driver's ed film was presented by the Ford Motor Company. The purpose of the movie is to illustrate safe driving techniques at dusk and at… Internet Archive Viewlex Systems 16 Film Great promotional film for the new Viewlex Systems 16 projector This film can be purchased on DVD and higher quality versions of the film can be purchased for… Internet Archive "CENTRAL AMERICA" 1930s EASTMAN EDUCATIONAL FILM PANAMA GUATEMALA COSTA RICA NICARAGUA XD59864 Educational Copyrighted by Eastman Teaching Films, Inc. of Rochester, NY in the 1930s, this silent educational film titled “Central America” highlights rural and… Internet Archive Behavioral counseling. [motion picture] : an introduction 1974 · Educational · 41 min Shows a client's phobia and how the conselor helps to dispel it, creating a model for desensitization techniques Internet Archive Cattle 1927 · Film We digitized and uploaded this film from the Orgone Cinema 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are… Internet Archive The Hunters Educational · 41 min Hunters Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film Examines the career and literary output of Pablo Neruda, who… Internet Archive DOPE 354 Film · Subtitles Ed Rusenthal Trial, Marijuana Logs, WAMM bust See scans of liner notes for detailed content.