Prelinger Archives
6,193–6,240 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: Can 10047: Florida, Wedding]
Internet Archive
[Unidentified: New York City]
About NYC
Internet Archive
Al Mismo Tiempo...
"Coincidencias Aldredor de 1880...
Internet Archive
Forest Fun: Growing Trees
Live action and puppet animation about california forests
Internet Archive
[Frank Putnam Flint Memorial Fountain Interviews]
Content advisory: Racist remarks. Across several sequences, a television news journalist interviews passersby for their views about whether the Frank Putnam…
Internet Archive
Strohm 0045
Footage of corn, potato, and bean crops at the South Dakota State College experimental research farm. can reads: "NCL" leader reads" "SDAK ST 8"
Internet Archive
Vista Stock Shots: New York Stock Exchange
Excellent traders and floor action.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Dr. P. Hoogerhyde Collection: 098650
At the time of this filming, Hong Kong was a British colony and nearby Macau was a Portuguese colony. In this reel an American couple travel to southeast Asia…
Internet Archive
[Coney Island]
A man and young boy enjoy an afternoon at Coney Island. They walk on the boardwalk, visit some kiddie rides, see a marine mammal show, and visit the New York…
Internet Archive
[Gould can 5483.8: Kinograms Newsreel]
New gold strike in Nevada
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98229: Canadian National Fan Trip
Label on can reads: "Canadian National Fan Trip with 6167 / 9-19-64"
Internet Archive
Home movie: 170003_E: 1940s California landscapes with dam construction
Home movie: 170003_E: 1940s California landscapes with dam construction
Internet Archive
[Gould can 5483.6: Kinograms Newsreel]
Easter services from Hollywood, California / opera star Alice Gentle sings
Internet Archive
Star of Bethlehem
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000266
Shows an 1930s example of non-governmental organizational cooperation between the United States and Japan. American people, possibly government officials,…
Internet Archive
Builders of the Broad Highway (Part 2)
Internet Archive
Pattern for Progress
Internet Archive
Stillman Fires Collection: Albany St Lumber Yard
from Stillman Fires Collection.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: California, Reel 1 of 3]
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10324: Family, 1931]
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Tuohino Collection: 003523
A visit to Norway and Finland, featuring a visit to Vigeland Sculpture Park in Oslo and scenes from a Tukkilaiskisa (a traditional timber rafting…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2860
Outtakes from an industrial film featuring scenes of high-rise building skeleton construction and steel welding and riveting. Mode-Art Production Number: 3737…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Arthur Parga Collection: 005018
Domestic scenes of a Mexican American family; a family visiting the Griffith Park Zoo; a child's birthday party; cars waiting to cross the Mexico-US border;…
Internet Archive
Ray Gibson Workshop (Calvin Workshop)
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 000218
Home Movie PA 000218
Internet Archive
International Dog Show; Chicago 1964
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98680: U.S. Travels
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004770
An adventure-seeking military family at the end of World War II goes fishing in lakes and streams and takes in a risky fairground afternoon of high wire acts…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Tuohino Collection: 003507
Home movie featuring an American family from Downey, California celebrating a child's birthday at a park outside. There is a small carousel ride resting in…
Internet Archive
USGS_Research_Footage
Research footage of unknown nature; various views of soil and rocks prepared in shallow trays, with lights raking slowly across the surface. Clipboard slate…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Jesus Villareal Collection: 000409
The Villareal family hosts festivities at their lushly appointed back yard garden cantina. Mr. Villareal welcomes guests, smokes and drinks with guests, and…
Internet Archive
North of 59 Outtakes
Assembled miscellaneous sequences filmed in Alberta and/or Nunavut/Northwest Territories, including long aerial sequences of arctic forests, site clearing and…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10356: Our 1959 Vacation, Pennsylvania]
Internet Archive
170001-Second-Scan-001
A California family of the 1940s, residents of Alameda County who traveled widely around the west looking at infrastructure and agriculture. This reel…
Internet Archive
Nuclear Plant Discussion: 4 Experts
A sponsored public service announcement in which four experts, Ittsei Nakagawa, Dr. Richard H. Jahns, Owen H. Davis, and James R. Adams argue that nuclear…
Internet Archive
Bob Gaffner: Fisherman's Helper
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Driving]
Internet Archive
Harlem Revue
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Jesus Villareal Collection: 000413
Backyard parties at the Villareal's, featuring a home bar, built-in grill, and dancing. Plus a fishing trip, a road trip through rural Southern California (or…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10482: Texas Trip, Bud & Virginia]
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098759: A venturesome New England family in the 1940s and 1950s, with horseback riding, boating with experimental watercraft, collegiate scenes]
A venturesome New England family in the 1940s and 1950s, at a dude ranch or horseback riding resort in the 1940s, at a lakeshore with an experimental…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Harbison Collection: Western Trip, 1965, Reel 3]
Internet Archive
Yesteryears: A Reminiscence of Over Two Decades
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97456: Girl Scout Roundup, Couples Clubs
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098770: An Ohio family in late 1950s, fly fishing, canoeing, playing, in slow motion]
An Ohio family in the late 1950s: fly fishing at a stream in autumn, recreating at a lakeshore with boating, canoeing, picnicking, diving, showing rod and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004735
Family on a road trip visits several geysers and parks in the United States, and visits Mexico. Notes on can: 1. Roll I Yellowstone Hobble Creek 1946 1)…
Internet Archive
Forest Fun: Forest Weather (Part seven of a series)
Internet Archive
New York To San Francisco Through The Panama Canal 012623
A trip through the Panama Canal, passage into San Francisco Bay through the Golden Gate, Oct. 13-Nov. 5, 1923. Also includes the dedication of the University…