Prelinger Archives
5,329–5,376 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
Amateur Levy: Bergen Norway, etc
0616 PA8101 Levy: Bergen Norway, etc.
Internet Archive
Trip to the Planets, A
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98890: Springtime at Charlottesville, Monticello & Williamsburg, Va., No. 2
Springtime at Charlottesville, Monticello & Williamsburg, Va.; Apr. 19-23-'54, No. 2
Internet Archive
TV Associates 4 Reels
Kinescope, TV footage, raw video footage for ad spots for UTI thermal imaging technology, its space and other technology applications. Includes space shuttle…
Internet Archive
Industry on Parade: Plastic Age Anniversary / Fantastic War Production / Housefly’s Nemesis
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Mansfield, Ohio Demolition, Groundbreaking and School Track Meet, 1939]
Internet Archive
Telstar
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Ransohoff Collection: "Joan at 2"]
title: "Joan Spends a Happy Morning at Golden Gate Park July 1927" elephant with saddle Joan riding donkey sliding down slide Joan holding kitten and patting…
Internet Archive
[Nicaro Nickel Company]
Industrial film of nickel mining operations in Nicaro, Cuba. Title at head reads: "War vital nickel for allied war weapons is today being wrested from a Cuban…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Terry Bennett Collection: 004810
The centerpiece of this reel is colorful and kinetic documentation of the 1978 San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade on Market Street in San Francisco, with a…
Internet Archive
Confidential File: Medical Quacks
Episode of the television show "Confidential File" with Paul Coates.
Internet Archive
Miracle from Mold
Gives the scientific story behind terramycin, one of the wonder drugs.
Internet Archive
Folgers Coffee Commercial #8
Internet Archive
[Television Public Service Announcements and Program Promos]
Skeletal entry tv spots in order: - National Safety Council: Winter Driving Safety tips with Julie Bishop (4 spots) - Women's Army Corps - National Guard (2…
Internet Archive
The Wakefield Case (Reel 5)
"Playwright William Wakefield, Jr., turns detective when his father is killed after nearly capturing James and Richard Krogan, who were in possession of four…
Internet Archive
Market Place
Internet Archive
China At The Front
Combat in the Chinese civil wars, 1920s.
Internet Archive
You and Your Bike
Internet Archive
Experiments with Light Rays
Internet Archive
Your Name Here Outtakes (Reel 9)
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Newhouser Collection: 011761
A 1930s African American family documents a parade, a visit to the zoo, and other scenes around Omaha, Nebraska and elsewhere, including a meeting attended by…
Internet Archive
Let's Give a Tea
PA8557 Let's Give a Tea 16 Koda print; has break in middle
Internet Archive
Beatrice Foods News Reports from Around the World (Part II)
0703 PA8668 Beatrice Foods News Reports from Around the World
Internet Archive
Sunbeam Bread Commercial #9
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10048: Wedding in Detroit and Railfan Excursion, ca. 1930s
Scenes shot in Detroit backyards and on street; wedding party on street; a railfan excursion and a car crash.
Internet Archive
Looking Ahead Through Plexiglas A
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2771 (Sound)
A series of segments from a film about the Yankee Atomic Power Plant and Shippingport Atomic Power Station. Segments begin and end abruptly, narration is…
Internet Archive
Farm Petroleum Safety
Internet Archive
Fiberglas at the Fair
Silent A/B roll of duPont film about fiberglas.
Internet Archive
Electronics on Parade
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Morales Collection: 011077
A Latinx family enjoying time cavorting outdoors in Arizona. Sequences include time with kittens, playing in the snow, and other beautiful natural locations.…
Internet Archive
[Television Public Service Announcements and Program Promos]
tv spots in order: - National Safety Council: Winter Driving Safety tips with Julie Bishop (4 spots) - Women's Army Corps - National Guard (2 spots) - Air…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97405: Detroit
To come.
Internet Archive
Around the World in Sports and Games
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97058: Scenes on Pennsylvania Railroad
Can labeled: Rockville Bridge Harrisburg Station Zoo Tower Princeton Trenton Way Home Altoona Dead Track
Internet Archive
What's Happened To Sugar?
Documents wide-ranging impacts of sugar shortage during and after World War II. Documents production of sugar from beet and cane sources, nationwide within…
Internet Archive
Song of the Voodoo
Haiti travelogue. VS Port-au-Prince people and marketplace
Internet Archive
Sylvan Holiday in Pennsylvania
Internet Archive
Home Movies: Can 11229: San Francisco Tourism
San Francisco as shot by tourists, early 1960s. Includes Fishermen's Wharf area, Marina Green, Alcatraz, etc.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Croft Collection: Can 44: Trip to Houghton, Michigan, August 1955]
home movie
Internet Archive
Strohm 0031
Documentation of border zones between East and West Germany with coverage of a pro-Soviet political rally featuring Soviet and East German workers and soldiers.
Internet Archive
Your Name Here Outtakes (Reel 2)
Internet Archive
America the Beautiful (Cuts, Can 6)
Collected travelogue sequences filmed in both the Eastern and W@estern U.S. featuring Washington, D.C. area natural features and landmarks; Southwest arid…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98899: Westward Ho: A Trip Through the National Parks, No. 2
No. 2, Westward - Ho, A Trip through the National Parks, No. 2, July 7 - Aug 1, 1952
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 814
This is a trailer for a feature film, Black Fury, directed by Michael Curtiz. From title in film: "Black Fury - An exposé of the coal and iron police reign of…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: F. C. Doepke Collection: 010605
Tourist views of Egypt circa 1925, including Cairo street scenes, the Luxor Temple, the Temple of Khonsu, camel rides in the desert, rural landscapes, and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98223: CNS&M Fan Trip, 1958
Label on can reads: "C. N. S. & M. fan trip 7-13-58 / Side trip on Lakeside Belt Line"
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 3091
Outtakes for a Mode-Art Pictures production, possibly titled "Dollars From Heaven." Includes footage of potato farming, mulching, and planting tomato…