Prelinger Archives
5,377–5,424 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
Study of Negro Artists, A
PA-0486
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098179: LA family: New baby, 1950s]
10 min., color: A new baby is documented in LA, with other small children too, possibly siblings; LA yard environment with palms and a swimming pool. May be…
Internet Archive
[Martinez, California Scenes]
Internet Archive
Cape May Original Trims Reel 1
Original trims for a production shot in Cape May County, New Jersey. Includes footage of people fishing, camping, surfing, swimming, sunbathing, and visiting…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98643: South Dakota Flood, Mountains
To come.
Internet Archive
Sweeta Commercial
PA8542
Internet Archive
Vista Stock Shots: San Francisco Film Stock
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98329: Colorado
To come.
Internet Archive
Hummingbird Home Life
A Guy D. Haselton Travelette.
Internet Archive
How Man Made Day
0729 PA8999 How Man Made Day
Internet Archive
How Money Is Made
Internet Archive
Burr Davis Funeral Home
Promotional film for Burr Davis Funeral Home in Mt Vernon, NY.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Porcelli Collection: 003814
A visit to Los Angeles and Hollywood, swimming in a beachside pool, and a ferry ride. Notes on can:"Porcelli #3; 1st Kodachrome // 97312 // D54223"
Internet Archive
Simulation of Two-Gyro Gravity-Gradient Attitude Control System
Can notes: "Computer-Made Perspective Movies As A Scientific And Communication Tool / 11 minutes / Unclassified / Film No. XF-17 / Print No. 1 / SDC"…
Internet Archive
Fluids in Weightlessness
Internet Archive
Educational Radio As Used in the St. Louis Public Schools
Film comprised of narration over still images. Great images of cute children recording in radio studio; young children in school doing science experiments…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Weinert Collection: "Shaffr and W...: 1939]
[Home Movies: Weinert Collection: "Shaffr and W...: 1939] ca. 1939
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers (American Flag and National Anthem [color])
Internet Archive
Calvin 0316
Outtakes from the film "Iron Hustler 1969" documenting scrap metal yard workers and infrastructure.
Internet Archive
Keeping New York Harbor Clear
Using dynamite to deepen Arthur Kill, in New York Harbor between Staten Island and Carteret, New Jersey; work performed by the Arundel Corporation Includes…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 04140
Young family with baby in Connecticut, and young adults in the city having a birthday party with friends, in the 1940s. Note found in can: "Manchester, Conn -…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Florida]
Family driving, at beach, mossy trees, at pool.
Internet Archive
Lenox: Hallmark of Excellence
Story of Lenox china and crystal.
Internet Archive
Sailor's Holiday (Reel 3)
Reel 3 of a silent comedy. The film was broken into reels approximately 15 minutes in length for the rental market. "Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 001507
A close-knit and fashion-forward African American family attends a Y's Men International conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also includes a visit to the…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Galante Collection: 004307
Domestic and leisure scenes of the Galante family in San Francisco, including many filmed in Golden Gate Park. Can #1 Reel: Jane in nursery and in park and…
Internet Archive
Vitamin "U" for Me
Vitamin doctor's office, women working out and being administered vitamins.
Internet Archive
Birds of North America
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers (New Year's Eve)
Internet Archive
Frames Will Burn
AT&T Tests
Internet Archive
Forest Fun: Emergency
Live action and puppet animation about california forests
Internet Archive
World Beneath the Sea
Undersea animals (coelenterates).
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10670: Missouri, #11]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Knowlton Collection: 003520
Scenes from a trip around the world, including visits to London, England, Yosemite National Park, San Francisco, and Vienna, Austria among many others. Note…
Internet Archive
Historic Flights and Events from the Metropolitan Oakland International Airport
Compilation of newsreel footage (often dupey) showing pioneer and historical aerial events happening at Oakland Airport. Footage collected from newsreels,…
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
VMM-1980 IMTS Demo
Likely a demonstration of a vertical milling machine for the International Manufacturing Technology Show.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Seck Collection: 010259
A couple with a young child roam widely by car between Mexico, California, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico in 1934. The eye behind the camera savors Sonoran…
Internet Archive
Vista Color Stock Shots: Fairchild Semiconductor Reel 65
Stock footage selections from production titled “Microcircuits for Industry,” made by Vista Productions for Fairchild Semiconductor. Filmed largely at the…
Internet Archive
Tug Boat, The
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004706
Titled "Helen and Jean in Orbit" and "28 Days Around the World," this reel shows two women filming the world and one another as they circumnavigate the globe…
Internet Archive
It Happens Every Day
Internet Archive
Folgers Coffee Commercial #2
Internet Archive
It's Wanton Murder
Internet Archive
Home Movies: Can 11277: Detroit, Michigan area, ca. 1941
Home movies presumably shot by a Detroit family approximately 1941. Pictures home and family activities, the exterior of the Ford River Rouge Plant, boating…
Internet Archive
I Am a Doctor (Part II)
0726 PA8811 I Am a Doctor
Internet Archive
U.C. Trees
Film shot on the UC Berkeley campus during the 1960s, featuring many scenes of nature: trees blowing in the wind, water rushing in a stream and sunlight…
Internet Archive
[Gould Can 5345 Panama-Pacific International Exposition]
Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Mayor Rolph in Market Street Opening Day Parade