Prelinger Archives
4,897–4,944 of 10,346 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. |
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: "A Prefix to Piscatorialism"]
Dramatized scenes. Possibly shot in Berkeley or Oakland, California. Good stock shots to be logged. Woman walking dog down city street; men in car pick her…
Internet Archive
Agriculture - New Farms from Grand Coulee
Internet Archive
Shades of Gray
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004754
Family road trip through the American South, including Louisiana, Tennessee, and Georgia, in the 1960s. Note on can: 49
Internet Archive
Johnson's Shampoo Commercial
Internet Archive
Once Upon A Time 001
Once Upon A Time 001
Internet Archive
Story of a Star, The
About Agilon synthetic fiber, used in nylon stocking and hosiery.
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098746: A Danish-American family in San Francisco visits the 1962 Seattle World's Fair]
A Danish-American family that lived on Prospect Street in San Francisco. On this reel, the family takes a road trip through the Pacific Northwest in 1962…
Internet Archive
Behind the Freedom Curtain
Internet Archive
Visit to Wurlitzer, A
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Official Motion Pictures of the New York World's Fair 1939
Internet Archive
Hawaii at Your Wingtip
A tour film depicting many scenes in and around the islands of Hawaii. From title in film: "A Film of the HATS All Islands Tour" Can notes: "Tuffcoated;…
Internet Archive
Home Movies: Can 11303: Dearborn, Michigan: Fordson High School Football Game and Young People Socializing, ca. 1940s
Home movies presumably shot in and around Dearborn and Detroit, Michigan, ca. mid-1940s (possibly World War II-era). Includes scenes at Fordson High School…
Internet Archive
Port of Call: San Francisco
San Francisco scenics and attractions.
Internet Archive
Desert Rock (Can 2)
Reel assembled from three rolls. Order as follows: 1. "Desert Rock: Doomtown" 2. "Desert Rock: Atom Soldier into Ground Zero" 3. "Desert Rock: Wilson at…
Internet Archive
Rules and Laws
Includes POVs and driving scenes in New York City (upper Manhattan).
Internet Archive
Born Again in Strength / Renacido en Fuerza
Documentation of labor strikes and unionization pushes in both industry and agriculture, centered on strike by United Rubber Workers, Local 621 against R.G.…
Internet Archive
Giovinezza
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97419: Northwest and Mountain States
Notes in can state: Coulee ??? Dam; 1948 - Flood; Yellowstone --> Denver; Jackson Hole --> Baby Michael; Central City; Park - Rollercoaster
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098685: 1920s youngsters and family]
1920s scenes of a family with young girls including close sisters engaged in a range of activities with winter scenes of snow, sledding, ice skating, and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Keith Robinson Collection: 003745
Compilation reel. Contents include: (1) A brief news segment on what appears to be a group of executives (Martin Robinson, George Caputo) traveling to Buenos…
Internet Archive
Carboloy
A new cutting material developed by the General Electric Research Laboratories.
Internet Archive
Havana Holiday
Internet Archive
Oldsmobile Presents the Dynamic "Seventy" B-44 (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets)
Advertising
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97260: Home Movies Galore
Taken around 1946-50 in cape cod, bermuda, west virginia & california, scenes of winter at home & hoover dam. Note in can states: Flagship, Snowstorm, Ocean,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98636: Japan, Hong Kong, Thailand, Norway
To come.
Internet Archive
[Misc TV Commercials - Epic Instant Coffee]
Compilation of TV commercials for Epic instant coffee.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98650: Japan, Hong Kong, Bangkok, Philippines
To come.
Internet Archive
This Is Poland
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
It Happens Every Day
Internet Archive
Fastax-tion
0553 PA8456 Fastax-tion Probst film on hispeed photography
Internet Archive
Planning Emergence From Public Shelters
Department of Defense Civil Preparedness Film DDCP 22-219 (also known as DOD CD 22-219). "(For Civil Defense Training Only) How shelter manager plans and…
Internet Archive
Name Unknown
Internet Archive
John Schmidt Collection: Reel 11
A compilation of plants and flowers, natural landscapes, public spaces, light and reflection play, and the human form. Includes images filmed in Golden Gate…
Internet Archive
[Bradley: Second to None]
General Omar Bradley inspires Bradley Fighting Vehicle System (army tank)
Internet Archive
[Unidentified: New York City]
About NYC
Internet Archive
Crimes of Carelessness
Depicts the appalling loss of life and property which results from preventable fires. Illustrates the principal unsafe practices which causes fires--then the…
Internet Archive
Colonial Expansion (North America 1492-1763)
Internet Archive
Vista Stock Shots: People from Crowds to Closeups
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Wheels of Progress
Internet Archive
[Parade in New York]
Internet Archive
The Truth In Time
Filmed speech by Robert W. Welch, Jr., co-founder of the John Birch Society, on the Society's history and importance.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Croft Collection: Reel 61: Int. People]
Highland Park Ford plant smokestacks Skiing at Mt. Holly Train ride to Kalamazoo downtown Kalamazoo Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport Bolex projector…
Internet Archive
Teamwork
Some shots to be logged. On printer's ink.
Internet Archive
Power to Serve, The
How the electric company makes Cleveland the "best location in the nation."
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Leong Collection: 005399
An extended Chinese American family's leisure activities and celebrations through the seasons in the San Francisco Bay Area and other parts of California.…
Internet Archive
Sunbeam Bread Commercial #8
Internet Archive
Road Ahead, The
Skeletal Entry