Prelinger Archives
5,569–5,616 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
Underground Farmers
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
Home Movie: 000452
Kleindienst family home movie featuring water skiing, roof and garden work, and a children’s birthday party in the late 1930s. Part 1 is silent and part 2 has…
Internet Archive
Gambler's Choice, A
Internet Archive
Telephone Lineman
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098486: Ban the Bomb protest, NY, 1960s]
7 min., BW: Four protesters in front of Department of Energy in New York, surrounded by police, barricades, media, and interested members of the public.…
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
[Gould can 5127.1: Western Electric Sound Film Promo]
Western Electric sound film promo (IRONICALLY, THIS HAS NO SOUND)
Internet Archive
Men And Ideas - William L Laurence
Kinescope of TV show, "Men and Ideas" features a conversation between Dr. Carter Davidson, president of Union College, and William L. Laurence, a Pulitzer…
Internet Archive
[Selling Methods]
Silent film - missing title information. A salesman discusses good selling techniques.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Donnola Home Movies #2]
Internet Archive
[Bradley: Second to None]
General Omar Bradley inspires Bradley Fighting Vehicle System (army tank)
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Modesto, California Family and Christmas]
Internet Archive
Charlie's Atlas
Internet Archive
Home Movies: Can 11309: Visit to Detroit, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1951
Home movies shot by travelers visiting Detroit, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1951. Shows displays and possibly a parade associated with the Detroit…
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
Home Movie: McGinness Collection: 000432
Service station employees having fun and clowning with fire and ladder trucks. Features Texaco gas station workers and the Mattoon, Illinois fire department.…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: New Orleans]
[Home Movies: New Orleans]
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
[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
Cuckoo, The
Internet Archive
Vista Stock Shots: Golden Gate Bridge 1
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Tuohino Collection: 003757
Domestic and recreational scenes of the Tuohino family in or near Downey, California, including children's birthday parties; Easter egg hunts; children…
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
Strand of Silk, A
Internet Archive
It's the Top
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010818
Vacation travelogue to Florida and extensive home garden documentation of plants, insects, and animals in Pennsylvania, with detailed intertitles. Family who…
Internet Archive
Heavenly Bodies
Visionary 1920s film containing imaginative astrophysical visualizations.
Internet Archive
[Trailers: Chubasco, Countdown, The Executioner, Guess What Happened to Count Dracula, Patton]
Content warming: racist costuming at 4:34. A series of trailers and TV spots for feature films released in the late 1960s and early 1970s: Chubasco Countdown…
Internet Archive
Jefferson and Monroe
The film explores the historical significance of Charlottesville, Virginia, focusing on the lives and legacies of Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe. It…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Dill Collection: 004077
Content warning: This film contains brief footage of a white nationalist rally in Washington DC and contains images of Neo-Nazi symbols [12:57:04]. The Dill…
Internet Archive
Wonderful World of Trains
Internet Archive
Pavement Pounding
Educational film explaining foot anatomy, discussing ambulation and the stresses on feet of today produced by walking on pavement, compared to premodern use…
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
Home Movie: Walter Berko Collection: 010806
Train cars of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad (later New Haven Line of Metro-North Commuter Railroad). Label on can states: "N.Y.C. N.Y. N.H. &…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10399: World’s Fair, Family, Canada, Las Vegas
Label taped to can states: World’s Fair, Tammy & ?Peter, Canada, Las Vegas, House Warming
Internet Archive
It Happened in Norristown
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
Movie Trailers ("Children, Attention")
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers ("Double Feature")
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
It's Called Motor Oil
Internet Archive
Be My Guest
Be My Guest Buick ad campaign.
Internet Archive
Alice in Wonderland
live action and animation
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 71155: Unidentified Detroit Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Calvin 0327
Outtakes from "Pump Station Movie" documenting outdoor water treatment or irrigation facility; aerial footage of industrial landscape, businessmen in suits…
Internet Archive
Second Fiddle (Reel 5)
Section of a feature film. "Jim, a boy who has always played second fiddle to his elder brother, Herbert, gets a chance to be a hero when, to protect his…
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers ("A Slight Case of Murder")
with Edward G. Robinson