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Prelinger Archives

6,721–6,768 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: 005722 Home movie Content warning: This film contains images of historical markers and commemorative plaques to Sir Francis Drake, a slave trader and English explorer who… Internet Archive [Home Movies: The Holy Land] Home movie · Subtitles Silent home movies (?) of travels to landmarks and cities in the The Holy Land. Internet Archive Victory Gardens Film · Subtitles Gardens to produce food on the World War II homefront. Skeletal record Internet Archive Diary of a Mountain Girl, 1927-1939 Film Internet Archive [Home Movies: Richmond, Calif. Harbor and Sacramento Delta, ca. 1966] 1966 · Home movie · Subtitles Description to be added from log sheet. Internet Archive Soldiers of the Soil Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Work Simplification RCA Bloomington Works Film Examination of work flow and production methods in the manufacturing of at the RCA plant in Bloomington, Indiana. Notes included in can: RCA Process Analysis… Internet Archive Home Movie: Galante Collection: 004324 Home movie Images of sunset, autumn leaves, a pet cat, and trees alight with beauty. Can #89 Reel notes: "Color of hidden home / 1940-1944" Internet Archive Frames Will Burn Film A series of tests conducted by AT&T involving setting flame to distribution frames. Warns viewers that fires could occur in office spaces if soldering irons… Internet Archive Oil: Paths of Progress Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Exercise: A Film Lesson in Health and Hygiene Film Internet Archive Home Movie: 010343 Home movie Content warning: At 6:51, this film contains an image of a person of color in the context of a racist and colonialist cultural exhibit. Images of the Golden… Internet Archive American Speaks, An Film · Subtitles Stock shots to be logged. Fundraising film for UJA. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97169: Vacation 1947 to New Orleans, La. 1947 · Home movie Woodbury, N.J. to New Orleans, La. and returning over Skyline Drive. Internet Archive Home Movie: 071224 Home movie Scenes of African American life in the Eastern Market neighborhood, Belle Isle and elsewhere in Detroit in the early 1970s. People of all ages spend time in… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97351: Hawaii 1971 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97468: Trips to Kentucky, Oregon and California 1941 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97270: Hawaii 1950 · Home movie To come, Internet Archive Home Movie: 004740 Home movie Visits to New York City and Yellowstone, and family life. Note on can: YELLOWSTONE PARK LADY BOOTS + PUPS NEW YORK 1938 140128 Bx 5020Y Internet Archive Niagara's Summer Sorcery Film Internet Archive [Home movie: 098422: 1950s Dearborn vacations and First Communion] Home movie 16 min., color: Dearborn, Michigan area weekend and holiday scenes featuring Greenfield Village, also a First Communion party, and a cryptic basement surprise… Internet Archive Home Movie: 098543 Home movie Children doing cartwheels, sledding, playing with dolls, and more. Includes footage of African American domestic workers, and presumably their children,… Internet Archive Home Movie: Charles Forbes Taylor Collection: 003445 Home movie Rose Parade in Pasadena, California. May contain scenes from several different years. Internet Archive Now! (outtakes) Educational Outtakes from Calvin Company's "Now," produced for the United Fund of Chattanooga. Includes footage of children with disabilities; a couple seeking treatment… Internet Archive Home Movie: 12316: Washington DC 1960 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Biological Studies at Nagasaki and Hiroshima Film Documents research on the impact of nuclear radiation on plants, both food crops and wild plants, following the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Biological… Internet Archive Cape May Original Trims Reel 3 Film Original trims for a production shot in Cape May, New Jersey. Includes footage of vacationers and beachgoers swimming, sailing, playing tennis, visiting the… Internet Archive Mode-Art Can 1796 Film Outtakes from Power Forum (Industry) including footage of Gulf States Paper Corporation Paper Mill in Demopolis, Alabama. Mode-Art production no. 2040 Internet Archive Home Movie: Galante Collection: 004310 Home movie A well-to-do family at leisure in outdoor gardens at or near what appears to be their home in Ross, California. Highlights 1920s clothing fashions. Can #4… Internet Archive Home movie: 098055b: 1940s Washington, DC home and tourism Home movie Home movie: 098055b: 1940s Washington, DC home and tourism Internet Archive Yesteryears: A Reminiscence of Over Two Decades Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Home Movie: 11092: Hawaii 1941 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 11777: Family Scenes, Annapolis MD 1960 · Home movie to come Internet Archive Stillman Fires Collection: Typical Fire Film · Subtitles From Stillman Fires Collection. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97251: Skiing 1938 · Home movie Can marked – Skiing 1938 Internet Archive Making Ends Meet Film · Subtitles Skeletal Entry Internet Archive [Gould can 5117] 1931 · Film · Subtitles Pan of California State Capitol building and grounds at Sacramento, Calif. Internet Archive Tuna Seining and Porpoise Safety Film · Subtitles Internet Archive How To Read A Map Film Internet Archive Calvin 0330 Film Outtakes from Annual Sales Meeting Film (PR Movie — 1967). Overs memo dated 7/22/67. Internet Archive Mode-Art Can 2410 (Reel 1) Film Outtakes documenting an outdoor adventure in British Columbia, possibly sponsored by ALCOA. Leader: # 2503 "Copperhead" R2 Internet Archive Home Movie: Anderson-Nelson Collection: 001227 Home movie A circus and stunt show, leisure scenes in Camp Richardson, a rodeo parade in downtown Reno, and more. Can notes: "Roll 25: Circus in Reno. Cal-Neva and Bones… Internet Archive Above the Clouds in Rainier National Park Film Internet Archive [Toronto_Transit] Film Footage of the Toronto Transit Commission, subway trains, workers constructing new stations, passengers on platforms and riding trains. Internet Archive Mode-Art Can 1103 Reel 2 Film Outtakes from a film made for Rockwell Manufacturing about the production of their liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) gas meters. Includes footage of a gas meter… Internet Archive Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004054 Home movie Touring at water's edge with views of grand homes of the privileged classes in Maryland. Can notes: "B3"; documents motorboat, dock, pier, lake with geese,… Internet Archive Home Movie: Madan Collection: 011327 Home movie Before the bridges were built, the San Francisco Bay environment hosted shipping, sailing, submarines, walks at Land's End, air shows with crowds on the… Internet Archive Home Movie: 98595: Family, Social and Church Activities 1960 · Home movie To come.