Library of Congress: talks and concerts
6,337–6,384 of 7,413 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 Ones | Films for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool. |
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| Kids | Cartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature. |
| Tweens | Documentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures. |
| Teens | Everything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower. |
| Adult | Sexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage. |
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Ars Nova Copenhagen
With “My end is my beginning,” the gorgeous voices of Ars Nova Copenhagen linked the worlds of Machaut and Gibbons to those of the 20th-century and beyond.…
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Pablo Cartaya and Hena Khan: Sports and Why We Love Them
The hijabi basketball team in Hena Khan’s “We Are Big Time” and Elena, the one girl on the baseball team in Pablo Cartaya’s “Curveball,” learn how they can…
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Literature to Life: ‘I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’
The literary nonprofit Literature to Life performed an adaptation of Erika L. Sánchez’s novel “I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter.” The group performs…
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Donna Hemans and Rachel Khong: Family Secrets
“The House of Plain Truth” by Donna Hemans follows Pearline, who is attempting to find family missing for 50 years. Rachel Khong’s “Real Americans” introduces…
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Elizabeth Gonzalez James and Alexander Sammartino: Fathers, Sons and Guns
How do novelists interpret America’s history with guns? In “The Bullet Swallower” by Elizabeth Gonzalez James, the legacy of two brothers and their botched…
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Annabelle Tometich and Crystal Wilkinson: Food, Family, Community
Annabelle Tometich shares the ways and struggles of her Filipino mother in “The Mango Tree” and Crystal Wilkinson’s “Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts”…
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Renée Fleming and Daniel Levitin: Music Is Medicine
Research shows that music does more than enliven our inner worlds. Music is also an effective tool in combating ailments from neurodegenerative diseases like…
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Ayana Mathis and Viet Thanh Nguyen: James Baldwin’s Centennial
James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote some of the most influential American books of the 20th Century, including “Another Country,” “Giovanni’s Room” and “Notes of…
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Tiya Miles: Icons Harriet Tubman and Audre Lorde
Alexis Pauline Gumbs (“Survival Is a Promise”) and Tiya Miles (“Night Flyer”) discuss their books on two Black women who are icons of social justice and…
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Ned Blackhawk and Kathleen DuVal: American History Is Native History
Books by Ned Blackhawk (“The Rediscovery of America”) and Kathleen DuVal (“Native Nations”) address and rectify the erroneous history that neglects American…
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Erik Larson: Hubris at the Dawn of the Civil War
The American Civil War still fascinates us yet the full, human motivations that dragged us into war are a puzzle that remains incomplete. Erik Larson, author…
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Annalee Newitz and Peter Pomerantsev: Words at War and Misinformation
Annalee Newitz (“Stories Are Weapons”) and Peter Pomerantsev (“How to Win an Information War”) share how psychological operations and coercive storytelling…
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Max Boot on Ronald Reagan
For the past decade, Washington Post columnist and biographer Max Boot sought to understand the contradictions of President Ronald Reagan’s personality and…
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Amanda Bellows and Hampton Sides: Rethinking Exploration
At the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Amanda Bellows and Hampton Sides discussed with Frederick F. Wherry the details of…
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Emily Wilson and M.A.R. Habib: Ancient Wisdom in New Translations
Despite advancements in technology and medicine, the world confronts the same problems, such as war and xenophobia. At the 2024 Library of Congress National…
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Camonghne Felix and Safiya Sinclair: How Honest Can I Be?
How much is too much to reveal in a memoir? In “How to Say Babylon,” Safiya Sinclair explores her father’s religious fundamentalism and its effect on her. In…
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Candace Fleming and Monica Hesse: Young Coders and Codebreakers in Wartime
Candace Fleming tells the true story of Station X, a secret home to teen girls who worked on code-cracking Nazi missives during World War II in “Enigma…
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Jeffrey Rosen and Carlos Lozada: Politicians on the Page
What our leaders wrote and read may be more revealing than they know, according to these two nonfiction books. “The Washington Book” by Carlos Lozada makes a…
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Marie Arana: ‘LatinoLand’
Journalist and writer Marie Arana took on the difficult task in her book “LatinoLand” to write an overview of Latino America, a group which comprises nearly…
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Meg Medina: The Grown-Ups Who Care for Us
When we are kids, we’re sometimes lucky enough to have amazing caregivers. Over time, we have to separate, whether we’re moving on or just getting older. Meg…
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Nathalie Cabrol and Dante Lauretta: Life in Deep Space
What’s it like to peer deeply into space, to know so much about it and yet not know enough? Astrobiologist Nathalie A. Cabrol, author of “The Secret Life of…
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Safia Elhillo and Tony Keith Jr.: Poetry Unlocks Us
What can poetry unlock within yourself? Samira in Safia Elhillo’s “Bright Red Fruit” encounters a threat to her reputation, but her discovery of slam poetry…
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Vera Brosgol and Kazu Kibuishi: We Built These Worlds, Come Visit
Great characters, immersive moods, and expansive worlds make great fantasy, and graphic novels are a great showcase for the genre. Vera Brosgol (“Plane Jane…
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David Rubenstein on the American Presidency
In his research in writing “The Highest Calling,” David M. Rubenstein spoke with living American presidents and revered historians about the American…
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Edan Lepucki and Peng Shepherd: Time Travel — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In fiction we can glide through time, which can be both fun and terrifying. In Edan Lepucki’s “Time’s Mouth,” a time traveler forms a cult for pregnant women…
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James Patterson: The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians
James Patterson is known for his addictive thrillers, but his nonfiction book “The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians” profiles Americans who get good…
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James McBride: Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden presented author James McBride with the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction at the 2024 Library of Congress…
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Doris Kearns Goodwin: An Unfinished Love Story
“An Unfinished Love Story” by Doris Kearns Goodwin is about the author’s marriage to Dick Goodwin, who seemed to be everywhere of any political importance…
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Max Greenfield: Good Night Thoughts
What do we do when our thoughts are racing? And they’re made worse by knowing it’s bedtime and you have to get to sleep right away? Actor and author Max…
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Sandra Cisneros: 40 Years of ‘The House on Mango Street’
Sandra Cisneros celebrates the 40th anniversary of her novel, “The House on Mango Street,” a modern classic taught in schools nationwide. She talked about the…
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Abby Jimenez and Casey McQuiston: Modern Dating, We Love It, We Hate It
Relationship status: it’s definitely complicated. In Abby Jimenez’s rom-com “Just for the Summer,” Justin and Emma agree to date to break their curses, and in…
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Tamron Hall and Lish Steiling: A Confident Cook
In “A Confident Cook,” journalist, novelist and talk show host Tamron Hall and her co-author Lish Steiling invited beginners and those who are curious about…
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James S.A. Corey: After ‘The Expanse’ and ‘The Mercy of the Gods’
When humanity is overrun by an invading alien species, what will be required to survive? ‘The Mercy of Gods’ launches a new science fiction series from the…
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Rebecca Yarros: ‘Romantasy’ Novels
If you thought the first year of training as a dragon rider at Basgiath War College was tough, get ready for the second year. In “Iron Flame,” Violet…
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David Baldacci: ‘A Calamity of Souls’
In “A Calamity of Souls,” David Baldacci tackles the racial politics of a 1968 murder case in southern Virginia in which two very different lawyers partner…
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Joy Buolamwini and Kyle Chayka: Investigating the Algorithm
Algorithms aren’t just the code that suggests your next impulse buy. Joy Buolamwini (“Unmasking AI”) and Kyle Chayka (“Filterworld”) unearth a more troubling…
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Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: ‘Angel of Vengeance’
Step through a dimensional portal into 1880 New York City with Special Agent Pendergast and Constance Greene as they confront a dangerous serial killer in…
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Hayley Dennings and Marie Lu: Love Is a Battlefield
The novels of Hayley Dennings (“This Ravenous Fate”) and Marie Lu (“Icon and Inferno”) sizzle with romance and adrenaline: assassination attempts, old flames,…
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Christopher Paolini: ‘Murtagh’
Return to Alagaësia in Christopher Paolini’s “Murtagh,” which begins a year after the events of his earlier book, “Inheritance.” Eragon’s half-brother Murtagh…
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Tomi Adeyemi and Vanessa Le: My Heritage Is My Weapon
Zélie in Tomi Adeyemi’s “Children of Anguish and Anarchy” and Nhika in Vanessa Le’s “The Last Bloodcarver” want nothing more than freedom from their…
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K.A. Cobell and Andrew Joseph White: Presumed Guilty
What can an outsider teen do against systemic oppression? Miles is carrying his family’s cycle of cruelty, and his attempts to break out are met with…
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Peter Brown: Wild Robot
Animal life and artificial life create a found family in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” series. In the third book, “Wild Robot Protects,” Roz the robot prepares…
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Barbara Dee, Susan Haas and Lexi Haas: Unleashing the Words Within
Communication is everything, but what about when words don’t flow freely? Mother-daughter duo Susan and Lexi Haas (“The Year of the Buttered Cat”), discussed…
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Terry Benton-Walker, Desiree Evans and Saraciea Fennell: Who Dies First?
Terry J. Benton-Walker (“The White Guy Dies First”) and Desiree S. Evans and Saraciea J. Fennell (“The Black Girl Survives in This One”) discuss their…
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Arash Azizi and Celeste Marcus: Who Needs Cultural Critics Anyway?
What do young cultural critics think about their role in the world, where people have been encouraged to think that critics aren’t necessary? Arash Azizi,…
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2024 National Book Festival Opening Celebration: Books Build Us Up
On the eve of the 2024 National Book Festival in Washington, D.C., Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden and Festival co-chair David M. Rubenstein welcomed six…
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PBS Books 2024 National Book Festival Author Talk: Renée Fleming
In partnership with WETA and other local PBS stations, Heather-Marie Montilla of PBS Books talks to author Renée Fleming about her latest book “Music and…
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PBS Books 2024 National Book Festival Author Talk: Tiya Miles
In partnership with Maryland Public Television and other local PBS stations, Heather-Marie Montilla of PBS Books talks to author Tiya Miles about her latest…