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Prelinger Archives

6,145–6,192 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 OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Home Movie: Arthur Parga Collection: 005019 Home movie Domestic and recreational scenes of a Mexican American family in Southern California; wedding celebrations; a visit to Tijuana; a Día de la Constitución… Internet Archive Direct Distance Dialing Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Home Movie: 97271: Unknown 1930 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98938: New York & Washington D.C. 1944 1944 · Home movie Home movies shot in New York City and Washington, D.C., 1944 Internet Archive Home Movie: Galante Collection: 004325 Home movie An early 16mm home movie featuring children at play with an extended (endless circle) sequence of going down a backyard slide. Opens with a brief scene of a… Internet Archive [WPA Film] Film · Subtitles Internet Archive [Home Movies: Russia, Finland, Denmark] Home movie · Subtitles Home movie footage Title cards indicate Russia, Finland and Denmark locations Internet Archive [Chem Lab Safety] Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Bread: "The Staff of Life" 1920 · Film · Subtitles some good shots to be logged Internet Archive Mode-Art Can 2846 Film Steel mill footage. From Index: "POWER FORUM - RESEARCH PROD NO. 1941. FILED 2/17/64 ELECTRICITY POWER PUBLIC UTILITIES ENERGY RESEARCH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY"… Internet Archive Home Movie: 98543: January 1929 1929 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive [Home Movies: Wathen Collection: Latin America and Caribbean] Home movie · Subtitles ship board scenes: Guatemala: Antigua: Internet Archive Labor of Thy Hands Short · 14 min · Subtitles 0631 PA8721 Labor of Thy Hands Internet Archive Stillman Fires Collection: Large Fires Other Cities Film · Subtitles from Stillman Fires Collection. Internet Archive [Untitled: Misc. Stock Shots] Film · Subtitles second part of reel includes film footage from 1970s Harlem addiction drama Internet Archive Mode-Art Can 1717 Film Outtakes from a Mode-Art production (#1864) for Gibbons Beer. Includes footage of a ventriloquist act by performer Señor Wences. Internet Archive Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: Can B4: 004055 Home movie Dill family around their home, celebrating holidays, and at children's sports matches. Can notes: "B4 / Feb 9th, Josh playing with Snow. Terminal. Easter and… Internet Archive [Home movie: 098444: Wyoming and Utah wild landscapes, moths, insects, birds] Home movie 17 min., color: Wild landscapes of Yellowstone NP and the parks of Utah: Bryce, Cedar Breaks, Canyonlands, with close-ups of moths and insects and a visit to… Internet Archive [Home movie: 098550: Sausage factory in Michigan] Home movie 13 min., color, 1940s: A family in Michigan owns a sausage factory, R.R. Pressel. Featuring the construction of a new facility showing labor, excavation, and… Internet Archive Calvin 0339 Film Outtakes from Caterpillar Tractor-sponsored film "One Turn of the Earth." Includes footage of shrimp processing in Mexico, installing marine engines,… Internet Archive [Home movie: 098436: Hawai'i in the 1940s] Home movie 16 min., color: Late 40s trip to Hawai'i with focus on farming and harvest of sugar cane, pineapple, and coconut, also tour scenes of Maui landscapes and… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Can 10550: Vacation No. 1, Virginia and Washington, 1961] 1961 · Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive Mode-Art Can 2853 Film Outtakes from Mode-Art Production number 3941. Notes on Leader: TEXAS WORKS SKIN, COMPUTOR, CONFER LAB Across Lake to Plt TEST Notes on paper in can: SYNC… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Pendleton Roundup, 1941, I] 1941 · Home movie · Subtitles Photography by Chas. Masters; Titles by Louis Moss. Internet Archive [Home movie: 098756: to Europe by ship, 1940s, a landslide rescue in southern Europe] Home movie A family travels to Europe from New York by ship in the 1940s, with views of the New York waterfront, and Hamburg-American Lines and North German Lloyd lines… Internet Archive Calvin 0304 Film Outtakes of promotional film for 1968 "Pillsbury Busy Lady Bake-Off". Includes test kitchen POVs, staged domestic kitchen scenes, and grocery store scenes.… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97413: Canadian Rockies 1954 · Home movie Trip to Canadian Rockies, July 1954. Internet Archive Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair, The 1939 · Film · Subtitles Skeletal Record Internet Archive Nursing: A Career of Service Film · Subtitles Internet Archive [Amateur Film: "Three Wheels Across Europe"] Film · Subtitles skeletal entry Internet Archive The News Parade: Rome! Falls To Allies Film Newsreel comprised of wartime footage filmed in Europe during the later stages of World War II. Notes on box: "Castle Film - New Parade Complete Edition 16mm… Internet Archive Home Movie: Galante Collection: 004329 Home movie Galante family and children at leisure in various outdoors settings in the countryside of California, including Ojai and Lake Tahoe. Box #77 Box notes: "Ducks… Internet Archive Home Movie: Klaus Henrich Collection: 003458 Home movie A European family travels the Mediterranean Sea, islands of Greece, and Jordan by yacht and by car in the 1970s, visiting historic ruins and photographing the… Internet Archive Stillman Fires Collection: NYC Fires Film · Subtitles from Stillman Fires Collection. Internet Archive Boston Common And Proper Film · Subtitles Silent film looks at Boston and its landmarks. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98211: Wabash Railroad at Decatur 1959 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive [Home Movies: California: Reel 2 of 3] 1960 · Home movie · Subtitles skeletal entry. notes in logbook. Internet Archive Home Movie: 005297 Home movie A group of elders take a road trip throughout the Southern, Midwest, and Southwest United States, with many views of state line markers along the way. Also… Internet Archive Home Movie: Galante Collection: 004301 Home movie Content warning: This film includes a brief image of a statue memorializing settler colonialists [00:08:32]. Sierra Nevada landscapes, fishing in the Bear… Internet Archive Stillman Fires Collection: First Alarms Film · Subtitles from Stillman Fires Collection. Internet Archive Home Movie: 10374: Huntington Library, Japanese Gardens 1940 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Strohm 0044 Film Farming communities, sheep farmers, and aerial shots of farming villages in what is likely Turkey. can notes" Turkey" processed date: May 1968 Internet Archive Forest Fun: Emergency Film · Subtitles Live action and puppet animation about california forests Internet Archive Elementary School: Part 2: Learning the Communicative and Number Skills and the Practical and Fine Arts, The Film · Subtitles Filmed in 68 schools throughout Virginia. Internet Archive Home movie: 010055_001: Hollywood film production documentation with Clark Gable Home movie Home movie: 010055_001: Hollywood film production documentation with Clark Gable Internet Archive Home Movie: 098615 Home movie A portrait of life, work and business in the town of Waterloo, Indiana. Includes footage of local businesses, railroad and electrical workers, families… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Can 10878: West Coast, Mar-April 1936] 1936 · Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive Home Movie: 10042: Trip to Québec, 1930s Home movie Home movie shot during trip to the province of Québec and possibly elsewhere, ca. 1930s.