Library of Congress: talks and concerts
625–672 of 8,304 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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That Boy Is Cute (but Let Me Save the World First) with Susan Dennard and Tahereh Mafi
If given half a chance, we would all stand up to save our world! But what do you do when, during all that, you fall for a very fine human specimen?…
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Stake It or Leave It: Speculative Fiction with Nnedi Okorafor and V.E. Schwab
When the world has no place for you, what do you do? Fight, surrender or begin anew? Nnedi Okorafor’s experimental book-within-a-book, “Death of the Author,”…
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Seeing Is Believing? American Hoaxes and Scams
How do some people convince large populations to believe something that is essentially a large-scale lie? Why are we so gullible? David Baron’s “The Martians”…
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Great Reads from Great Places with Cristina Henríquez and Willy Vlautin
Home isn’t just where the heart is — it’s where our stories live, too. Join Willy Vlautin, “The Horse” and Cristina Henríquez, “The Great Divide” for trips to…
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Sam Tanenhaus on His New Biography of William F. Buckley Jr.
William F. Buckley, the intellectual who fostered the modern conservative revolution, chose biographer Sam Tanenhaus to tell the story of his life, granting…
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Jill Lepore on the History of the Constitution
As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, the Constitution is becoming more important than ever. But how did the founding fathers approach crafting such a…
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Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio “The Invisible Parade”
There’s no party like a party for the dead…you’ll want to bring a treat, and some courage! Leigh Bardugo and John Picacio weave a family story set on Día de…
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Readings from the 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows
Join the 2025 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellows as they share their poems. These individuals are poets of literary merit and serve as poets laureate…
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Weird Times in Otherworldly Novels: YA with Caroline O’Donoghue and Ransom Riggs
Time waits for no one, including at this event. In Caroline O’Donoghue’s “Skipshock,” Margo and Moon’s fates become linked as a time-traveling train…
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Inspire Learning: Resources for K-16 Educators
Learn how the Library of Congress brings learning to life for K-16 educators with primary source-based programs, classroom materials and fellowships and…
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How Maps Interpret Earth and Other Worlds
Whether on paper or phone screens, we 21st-century humans are so used to maps as infallible reference points that it’s easy to forget every map is a…
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When Dark Academia Gets Real, with Elle Gonzalez Rose and Mariko Tamaki
Best part of every dark academia novel? When we first come across the evidence of dark deeds. Buckle up for graphic novel mystery “This Place Kills Me” by…
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Daniel Mendelsohn’s New Translation of “The Odyssey”
Despite modern technology, we still face many of the same problems as the ancients — including getting seriously lost. Is there anything the Greeks can teach…
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From Scroll to Screen: Celebrating the Digitization of Hebrew Manuscripts
Celebrate the successful conclusion of the Hebrew Manuscript Digitization Project, made possible through a generous grant from the Berg Foundation. The…
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11th Annual SPX Program – Paul Karasik
11th Annual Small Press Expo Program: An Afternoon with two-time Eisner Award winning cartoonist and international comics instructor, Paul Karasik, who has…
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2025 NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award Public Ceremony
Join us as we honor the 2025 National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellows in a live ceremony in Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress,…
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Made at the Library: Mary Cassatt Between Paris and New York
Join author Ruth E. Iskin as she discusses her recent book “Mary Cassatt Between Paris and New York: The Making of a Transatlantic Legacy” with Manuscript…
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Conversation with Nick Gaitan
Houston’s native son, Nick Gaitan, is a singer-songwriter, bandleader, and music historian, with deep roots in the wide-ranging musical culture of Houston’s…
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Homegrown Concert of Tejas Roots Music with Nick Gaitan
The Nick Gaitan Band, based in Houston, Texas, celebrates the vibrant musical cultures of Tejano and Chicano communities on the Gulf Coast of the United…
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September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 2
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and…
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September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 1
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and…
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Live! At The Library: An Evening with Mary Roach
We live in a technologically advanced era, but is it so advanced that replacement body parts are common, even grown from 3D printers? What does it mean to be…
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Regulation of IVF and Related Issues, Global Perspectives
This webinar surveyed the rules in select jurisdictions regarding embryos created through artificial reproductive technology treatment cycles, such as those…
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September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 4
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and…
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American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants: Presentation by AFC Staff
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate the recipients of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program…
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September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 5
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and…
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September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 3
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and…
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September 2025 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Symposium: Session 6
In September 2025, the American Folklife Center (AFC) held a three-day symposium to celebrate awardees of the Community Collection Grant (CCG) program and…
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Katherine Rundell Presents The Impossible Creatures Series
Do you love a thrilling adventure, feisty characters, and a world full of remarkable creatures? Join Katherine Rundell, author of the bestselling children’s…
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“The Sound of Music” Tour Company 2025 Visits the Library of Congress
The National Tour of “The Sound of Music” joined the Library of Congress for a look at historic and rare items in the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II…
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A Closer Look at the Letters that Inspired Lyrics in “The Sound of Music”
Music Specialist Caitlin Miller and cast members from “The Sound of Music” National Tour 2025 discuss how inspiration for lyrics can come from the unlikeliest…
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Everything’s Coming Up Sondheim: A Journey Through the Library’s Theatre Collections
This event celebrated the Library’s acquisition of the Stephen Sondheim Collection with a conversation between Mark Horowitz from the Library and Bob Mondello…
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Congress.gov Public Forum
This is the public forum we hold to provide Congress.gov updates from the Library and our data partners, and also learn more from our users about how we can…
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Tiny Creatures, Big Impact: Bugs and American Science
Discover how the study of insects helped establish American science on the global stage. From Thomas Jefferson’s defense of American nature to Thomas Say’s…
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Pre-concert conversation: Théotime Langlois de Swarte
In this preconcert conversation, Anne McLean sits down with French violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and Augusta McKay Lodge, violinist with the eminent…
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Preconcert conversation with Beatrice Berrut
Beatrice Berrut (piano) sits down with Nicholas A. Brown-Cáceres for a pre-concert discussion. The fantastical imagination of composer-pianist Beatrice Berrut…
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Beatrice Berrut, pianist
The fantastical imagination of composer-pianist Beatrice Berrut draws from the innumerable possibilities of the piano’s sound. Highly regarded for her 2021…
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Susan H. Vita Memorial Concert
The Library of Congress Music Division presented a concert in memory of former Chief Susan Vita, who led the Music Division from 2005-2025. The program…
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Arthur Sze with Kimiko Hahn
U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze participated in an event at the Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library of Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY) on Monday,…
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The Water Test and Witch Trials
This event serves as the capstone lecture for Nathan Dorn’s Kluge Staff Fellowship. This presentation follows the differences of opinion among Scribonius’…
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Build Your Travel Log with Anywhere Adventures
Vivian Li is a comics artist, creative coder, and the 2025-2026 Library of Congress Innovator in Residence. Li created and illustrated a mobile experience…
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U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze Opening Reading
Award-winning poet Arthur Sze gave his inaugural reading as the 25th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress. The historic reading…
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Human Rights Day 2025
This event celebrated America 250 by discussing the impact of the Declaration of Independence domestically, as well as its impact on Flanders, New Zealand,…
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Finding Pictures: Discover Gilded Age Treasures in the Richard Morris Hunt Collection
Let’s dive into the gilded age treasures with the historian Sam Watters who recently published two books on Hunt, after conducting extensive research at the…
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Pre-concert conversation with the Isidore Quartet
Members of the Isidore Quartet talk about the experience of playing the Library’s rare Stradivari instruments in a conversation prior to their concert at the…
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Pre-concert conversation with the Isidore Quartet, Misha Amory and Nina Lee
Violist Misha Amory, cellist Nina Lee, and Kenneth Slowik (Curator of Musical Instruments, National Museum of American History) are joined by the Music…
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Isidore String Quartet with Misha Amory, viola, and Nina Lee, cello
The Isidore String Quartet’s meteoric rise to acclaim began with their formation at Juilliard in 2019 and continued with a win at the Banff International…
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Literacy Awards Applicant Information Session
The 2026 Literacy Awards Applicant Information Session will provide Literacy Awards applicants with the necessary information to complete the 2026 Literacy…