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Ephemeral films

8,257–8,304 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 NC High Schools Radio-TV Institute At Work Film A tour of the WUNC-TV’s Radio-TV Institute for high school students. See students run a TV studio. Wonderful shots of kids overacting balanced with poorly lit… Internet Archive Aeronautics and space report, no. 258 Film Aeronautics & Space Reports Tape #3 - Report #258: consisting of the following short films: Virtual Reality, Scientific Balloons, Aircraft to Medicine, and… Internet Archive Neighborhood Corridors Buchanan Bernal Visitacion Valley 2019 · Film Efforts to integrate history and ecological restoration can be found tucked away in most San Francisco neighborhoods. Neighborhood greenways and corridors are… Internet Archive JOHN NASH OTT " TIME LAPSE PHOTOGRAPHY " 16mm & 35mm MOTION PICTURE CAMERA SLOW MOTION EFFECT 9725 Film This color film compiles late 1940’s time-lapse footage by pioneering photographer John Ott. The filmmaker is regarded as the “father of time-lapse” and was… Internet Archive 1940s WORLD WAR II BRITISH COMBAT CAMERA DOCUMENTARY FILM 48174 Documentary Made during WWII by the British Ministry of Information, CAMERAMEN AT WAR was produced by the Realist Film Unit with support of various newsreel companies,… Internet Archive 1955 INDIANAPOLIS 500 "THE UNFORGETTABLE 500" 76084 Film Created by Perfect Circle to promote their piston ring products, THE UNFORGETTABLE 500 presents the 1955 Indianapolis 500. This was the 39th International… Internet Archive " THE PILOT IS SAFE " WWII ROYAL AIR FORCE & NAVY SEARCH & RESCUE OF DOWNED PILOTS 79324 Film This black & white wartime documentary is about the procedures, and the closely co-ordinated efforts made by the Royal Navy and Air Force, to locate and… Internet Archive A Moment's Reflection 1968 · Short · 15 min A 1968 British road safety film advising people to remember "MSM": Mirror, Signal, Manoeuvre. Produced by World Wide Pictures for the Central Office of… Internet Archive Driving Your 1997 Golf: Welcome To The Family 1996 · Educational Instructional video provided to purchasers of the 1997 model year Volkswagen Golf and Volkswagen GTI. 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 GENERAL MOTORS EXHIBITS 1939 NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR & GOLDEN GATE INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION XD12704 Film This is a 1940’s era black and white movie about General Motors exhibits at the San Francisco and New York World’s Fairs of 1939-1940. It opens with an image… Internet Archive BERCHTESGADEN GERMANY POST-WWII TRAVELOGUE 70352 Film Made after WWII, this charming silent travelogue shows Berchtesgaden. Berchtesgaden is a municipality in the German Bavarian Alps. It is located in the south… Internet Archive Muriel Cigars corporate film 1965 · Short · 9 min Incomplete, untitled corporate film for Muriel cigars filmed in 1965, featuring popular TV popularity Edie Adams on a promotional visit to Memphis. A bit of… Internet Archive WBAP Promo Film Film A promotional film for the new look of Dallas' TV station WBAP for potential advertisers We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks Archives.… Internet Archive WONDERFUL WORLD 1959 COCA COLA SPONSORED TRAVELOGUE FILM MD46154 Film “Wonderful World” is a 1959 color travelogue produced by Jam Handy for Coca-Cola and narrated by Ken Nordine. The broad documentary surveying global cultures,… Internet Archive 1937 BELL AND HOWELL FILM “ HOW MOTION PICTURES MOVE AND TALK ” 16mm & 35mm FILM PROJECTORS (Print 2) XD14224 Talk Note: this file available in HD only. This 1937 film was produced by the Bell and Howell Company (:16) in order to promote the 16mm film format for home use.… Internet Archive DISCOVERY '66 TV SHOW "THE WORLD BENEATH THE SEA" PART 1 UNDERSEA ANIMAL & PLANT LIFE XD30692 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 WORLD WAR II WAR FILM 19 FIREPOWER DOCUMENTARY " HOW GOOD IS A GUN? " 25514 Documentary An official War Department film produced by the United States Army Signal Corps during WWII, “How Good Is A Gun?” opens with a scene from “a valley where… Internet Archive Bayview And CPSRA Walk N Talk Oct 9 2021 2021 · Talk Our Walk-n-Talk Urban Forum visited the top of Bayview Hill where we circumnavigated the peak on the old cement road, stopping at both west and east ends for… Internet Archive The IEP (Individualized Education Program) 1977 · Educational In accordance with Public Law 94-142, all educational agencies must design individualized education programs for the handicapped child. The psychoeducation… Internet Archive SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ART IN THE USSR 1960s COLD WAR ERA EDUCATIONAL FILM SOVIET UNION 30644 Educational This color educational film was created as part of a series of Russian language teaching films. The film is presented entirely in Russian. The focus of the… Internet Archive EXPEDITION! "INVISIBLE WORLD OF THE DEEP " SOVIET UNDERWATER EXPLORATION DIVERS DIVING BELL 66444 Film This film is an episode from an American travel documentary series, “Expedition!”, that aired on television between 1960-1961, and hosted by famed explorer… Internet Archive "MEN FROM THE SKY" 1942 WWII ARMY AIR FORCES CADET TRAINING & PROPAGANDA FILM HAP ARNOLD 66674 Film This 1942 Warner Bros. propaganda film, directed by B. Reeves Eason, gives viewers a look at a reenactment of the training of U.S. Army Air Forces cadets. The… Internet Archive BIOGRAPHY OF DR. WERNHER VON BRAUN ROCKET PIONEER V-2 ROCKET TO SATURN V 27094 Film This 1960s black and white film biography about Dr. Wernher von Braun is presented by Sterling Educational Films, a David L. Wolper Production. 1955, Braun… Internet Archive York Peppermint Patty Commercial 1980 · Commercial York Peppermint Patty television commercial Internet Archive "DUTCH EAST INDIES" 1930s EASTMAN EDUCATIONAL FILM JAVA, SUMATRA, BORNEO, INDONESIA XD5985 Educational Produced by Eastman Teaching Films, Inc. of Rochester, NY in 1930, this silent educational film titled “The Dutch East Indies” was one of a series made for… Internet Archive Machu Picchu Revealed 1995 · Film Documentary featuring the sacred site of Machu-Picchu Internet Archive " THE SPACE AGE " ROBERT GODDARD JOHN PAUL STAPP SPUTNIK EARLY SPACE RACE FILM 50834 Film Presented by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, this is a 1965, black and white film that traces the early space age from Dr. Robert Goddard through… Internet Archive " COAL AN AMERICAN ASSET " 1974 COAL INDUSTRY PROMOTIONAL FILM 93914 Educational This patriotic, color educational film is about coal and how it's beneficial to our energy resources. It dates to 1974. Opening: field, trees on the side of a… Internet Archive "TWENTY FIVE YEARS OF SAVINGS BONDS" W/ LUCILLE BALL WWII WAR BONDS & HOLLYWOOD STARS XD13574 Film This black & white educational film is about celebrating twenty five years of U.S. Savings Bonds. Starring Lucille Ball. Copyright 1966. Opening titles: The… Internet Archive " THE STORY OF SHIPPINGPORT " SHIPPINGPORT NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PENNSYLVANIA ATOMS FOR PEACE 28792 Film This color film likely dating to the late 1950s, “Power and Promise—The Story of Shippingport” shows the development of Pennsylvania's Shippingport Atomic… Internet Archive U.S. NAVY DIRIGIBLE USS AKRON MEMORIAL FILM AFTER 1933 LOSS OF AIRSHIP 59614 Film This rare film from the early 1930s shows the dirigible USS Akron, and was made just after its disastrous loss in 1933. The film begins with images of the USS… Internet Archive " SKY SENTINELS " ATOMIC BOMB TESTS IN NEVADA & CIVIL AIR PATROL HISTORIC FILM 71482 Film First released in 1956 and presented by Lear, Inc., this 17-minute color film shows generally how the civilian volunteers of the Civil Air Patrol serve their… Internet Archive "BOMBS ROCK ITALY!" 1943 WWII AIR ASSAULT ON ROME & INVASION OF SICILY BY ALLIED FORCES 72332 Film This WWII newsreel "Bombs Over Italy" provides a detailed account of the Allied bombing campaign and subsequent invasion of Sicily during World War II. It… Internet Archive Ships That Bring Us Christmas — Filmic Walk | Seaport Winter Night 2025 · Home movie South Street Seaport, Manhattan — December 6, 2025 This filmic walk records the South Street Seaport and Brooklyn Bridge area during a quiet December night in… Internet Archive Finding People To Teach 1981 1981 · Film Filmstrip that presents principles to use in developing various approaches to finding people to teach the gospel. Internet Archive 1930s AMERICAN FRUIT COMPANY CAMEROON BANANA PLANTATION CULTIVATION & SHIPMENT OF BANANAS 26024 Film This silent, pre- WWII movie shows the harvesting of bananas at an American Fruit Company plantation in Cameroon, Africa. Unfortunately the name of the… Internet Archive 1973 LOCKHEED GEORGIA C-130 HERCULES FILM “ AIRLIFT: OUR LEGACY IN LOGISTICS ” CARGO PLANE 46204 Film This film presents the innovations in air lift transport planes due to the arrival of the C-130 Hercules and the subsequent continued innovations which led to… Internet Archive "MEXICANA" 1940s TRAVELOGUE OF NATION OF MEXICO MEXICO CITY PYRAMIDS TAXCO BULL FIGHT 50144 Film This black & white educational film "Mexicana" is about the country of Mexico. Copyright is circa the late 1930s or early 1940s. It was made by the Calvin Co.… Internet Archive "BENEFITS FROM SPACE" 1969 NASA APOLLO PROGRAM EARTHBOUND DIVIDENDS OF SPACE EXPLORATION 86214 Film Produced by NASA in 1969, this forward-looking, color educational film is about the investigation of space and the benefits that research can produce for… Internet Archive 1954 VISIT TO HOLLYWOOD, LOS ANGELES & SAN DIEGO GONE WITH THE WIND MOVIE SET HOME MOVIE 58874 Home movie This silent film is a home movie that shows a trip to Southern California that dates to 1954. The film starts with a shot at :20 of Mann's / Grauman's Chinese… Internet Archive Craft, Design, and Technology: Design and Communication 1982 · Educational Internet Archive KODAK " BASIC MOVIE MAKING " 1973 SUPER 8mm CAMERA, FILMMAKING & EDITING EDUCATIONAL FILM 98454 Educational This color educational film is about Super 8mm movie masking basics. Presented by Kodak. Copyright is 1973. Opening titles: Kodak presents Basic Movie-making… Internet Archive BARA's Rainforest Adventure Film Educational children's video about the rainforest in Peru. Children participate in an exchange program in that area-- description from box. Internet Archive KSNN El Explorador del Siglo 21: ¿Cómo te cambiaría el cuerpo en el espacio? Film ¡Vamos a despegar! Qué fascinante es ver y explorar mundos nuevos. El cambiar nuestro ambiente en la Tierra por el ambiente del espacio es muy emocionante.… Internet Archive "THE 24 HOUR WORLD" 1973 AEROSPATIALE / BAC CONCORDE SUPERSONIC AIRLINER PROMO FILM XD12494 Film This color educational film is about the new Concorde supersonic airliner. It was made in 1973 and directed by John Costello and Terrence Hughes. The… Internet Archive "HIGH ROAD TO THE ORIENT" 1949 NORTHWEST ORIENT AIRLINES JAPAN HONG KONG PHILIPPINES MACAU 48454 Film This 1950s Northwest Airlines travel film explores Japan and parts of Asia, beginning in Tokyo with its historic Imperial Palace, cultural traditions, and… Internet Archive AETNA DRIVOTRAINER DRIVER'S ED DRIVING SIMULATOR w/ COMPUTER SCORECARD 90904 Film This promotional film from the 1950s provides an introduction to the Aetna Drivotrainer, one of the world's first automobile simulators. As the film explains,…