Library of Congress: talks and concerts
7,393–7,413 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. |
|---|---|
| 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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Karin Slaughter: 2017 National Book Festival
Karin Slaughter launches her new book "The Good Daughter" at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
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Bernstein Conducting Himself
In this anniversary year for Leonard Bernstein, Daniel Callahan delves into the under-explored realm of the physicality of Bernstein's conducting practices,…
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Cast of "Queer Eye" at the Library
The Library hosted the all-new "Fab Five" from the Netflix show "Queer Eye" in conversation with Jonathan Capehart, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist with the…
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Gods of the Upper Air
Charles King discussed his book, "Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the 20th Century," a…
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I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar: National Book Festival 2020
Gail Collins, "No Stopping Us Now: The Adventures of Older Women in American History" (Little, Brown), appears in conversation with Megan Twohey, "She Said:…
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Talking About Race, Love and Truth: For Kids and Teens
Adam Gidwitz and Renée Watson, authors of the highly acclaimed middle grade anthology "The Talk: Conversations on Race, Love & Truth," will discuss their…
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Talking About Race, Love and Truth: For Caregivers and Teachers
Wade Hudson and Cheryl Willis Hudson, editors of the highly acclaimed middle grade anthology "The Talk: Conversations on Race, Love & Truth," will discuss…
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Finding a Shared Historical Narrative
Kluge Prize winner Danielle Allen moderates an expert panel to discuss the changing interpretations of the nation's founding documents and the principles they…
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Searching for Suffrage at the Library
In honor of Women's History Month, Kimberly A. Hamlin discusses her new book, "Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton…
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2022 National Book Festival: Memories, Maladies, Mysteries and Murders with Rob Hart and Victor Manibo
What do you do when you can't trust your memories and people are dying? Keep looking for answers! In Rob Hart's "The Paradox Hotel," January Cole, security…
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Pillars of Democracy: The Military
The military is an American institution that enjoys higher levels of trust than most others, but that doesn't mean it has been totally removed from larger…
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Marc Maron: National Recording Registry 2022
Comedian and influential podcast host Marc Maron tells the Library about his seminal 2010 interview with comedian Robin Williams, in which the star talked…
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2023 National Book Festival: Sports & American Culture with R.K. Russell
R.K. Russell's sports life and personal life collided when he publicly identified as bisexual during his time in the NFL. In "The Yards Between Us," he aims…
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2023 National Book Festival: Escaping Genocide & Human Trafficking with Tahir Hamut Izgil & Saket Soni
These first-person accounts help us face worldwide human rights violations happening today. Uyghur poet Tahir Hamut Izgil's "Waiting to Be Arrested at Night,"…
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Aynne Kokas on "Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty"
Aynne Kokas discusses her new book "Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty." Kokas considers how data exploitation and…
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From Sexual Regulation to Antigay Discrimination
Library of Congress Chief Communications Officer Roswell Encina interviews Kluge Prize winner George Chauncey. In their discussion, Encina and Chauncey survey…
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Lesia Maruschak: When a Book Holds Your Memory
To mark the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, 1932-1933 famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine, artist Lesia Maruschak spoke about her ongoing exploration of…
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Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 1976 Bangkok Massacre
Thongchai Winichakul is a world-famous Asianist whose work has won numerous prestigious awards and been translated into many languages. His writings are found…
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Were They So Torturous? Reevaluating Modern Surgery’s Underdog Story
The Swann Fellow Lecture focuses on caricature and cartoon. Zoe Copeman, Ph.D. candidate in art history and archaeology at the University of Maryland, argues…
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Anna Sokolow and the Reimagined Roots of Anti-fascist Dance
Sokolow Theatre/Dance Ensemble’s artistic director Samantha Géracht introduced the story of restoring early activist dances of American choreographer Anna…
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Karin Slaughter: Book Fest 05
Author Karin Slaughter at the 2005 National Book Festival.