Prelinger Archives
6,865–6,912 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 movie: 010060: 1930s New York City labor strike
Home movie: 010060: 1930s New York City labor strike
Internet Archive
Ray Gibson Workshop (Calvin Workshop)
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11127: San Francisco-New York, August 1954
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Cailfornia (?)]
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97152: Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone Park, Pikes Peak, Rocky Mountain National Park, May 30, 1941
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003393
Home movie featuring scenes of family Christmas celebrations over the course of several years. Snowy walks and Easter flowers included also. Family Christmas…
Internet Archive
Tuna Seining and Porpoise Safety
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Muraoka Collection: 005094
Portrait of a Japanese town (part of or near the city of Hiroshima) and countryside, with images of school children playing, fishing communities, farms,…
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098435: Jamaica Pro-Medic gathering, 1940s]
8 min., color: soft focus reel of a large group of North Americans visiting Jamaica for a "Pro-Medic" gathering, 1940s, with picnic and beach time.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Ceylon Collection: 004098
Features images of downhill skiing, tall snowy mountains, children riding a fire truck, a backyard badminton game, and successful fishing in a rushing river.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004693
A family's vacations and celebrations in 1970s USA. Featuring a visit to the Miami Seaquarium, birthday and Easter celebrations, and a ski trip to New…
Internet Archive
It's No Picnic
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10961: Henry Charles Collection (Prelinger Collection)
To come.
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers (Peace on Earth)
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Jay Hansell Collection: 003631
Scenes of a family in Wickenburg, Arizona. Includes shots of people with horses, the Wickenburg Gold Rush parade, the 50 year anniversary celebration of the…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Genter Collection: 003517
Baton twirlers, a Rotary Club meeting, drug store vaccinations, and scenes of suburbia in Lawndale, California. Film was hand-processed or printed from…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004051
A family vacation at lake house in Bayville, Maine. Can notes: "A12 / Bayville 1957 / AR / McGinn"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10295: Prelinger Collection
To come.
Internet Archive
Queerosities - A Negro Baptism
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 098680
Content warning: Confederate flag waving in the stands of a football stadium. Occurs at 14:23. A tour through the mid-Atlantic states, including views of…
Internet Archive
Feeding the World (Farming): A Film Lesson in Vocational Guidance
Internet Archive
Nine States 1976
Internet Archive
[Untited: France, part 2]
Internet Archive
[Miscellaneous Newsreel Clips]
Content warning: includes images of African American stereotypes, harkening back to the minstrel show. Also includes a scene of a young African American boy…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Jay Hansell Collection: 003627
Donor inventory notes: 1964 Peter Clark Graduation for UCB Can notes: Pete's Graduation '6 Lisa
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Dill Collection: 004083
The Dill family summering in Bayville, Maine, including images of boats coming in and out of the bay, family picnics, Fourth of July celebrations, and more.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004338
Florida leisure activities, featuring extensive scenes of fishing in Everglades National Park, followed by lawn bowling. Can notes: " E6 / Flamingo Fall, 1966…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Scarpulla Collection: 57
San Francisco scenes and a newborn foal. Note on container: 1st Super F.V. SCARPULLA
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97201: Spring and Summer
To come.
Internet Archive
The Kitten And The Ducks
Silent short featuring kitten and ducks
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Ozarks]
Internet Archive
Times Square in 1945 & 1969
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97068: Florida Vacation 1967
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Galante Collection: 003371
Leisure scenes of the Galante family spending time in their home in Placer County, California. Includes images of a child raking leaves, garden strolls,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Dill Collection: 004079
The Dill family celebrating Christmas in Florida, playing golf, lounging by the pool, and more. Can notes: "D4"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Nicholson Collection: 004266
Content warning: Racist puppet toy around 3:30. A young boy celebrating his 2nd birthday, and Christmas in the Pacific Northwest. Note in can: 1 IV Train -…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Charles Edward Smith Collection: 000470
Well-photographed San Francisco scenes including extensive footage of Chinatown with neon signs at night, Chinese New Year, a performance of the Foo Hsing…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97061: Travel, 1958
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98316: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
[Gould can 5483.2: Kinograms Newsreel]
Six year old boy swims the Hudson River, New York and New Jersey
Internet Archive
Four Seasons: Autumn
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97213: Trip to California 1967
To come.
Internet Archive
Four Seasons Adventure
Skeletal Entry four seasons at Estes Park, Colorado
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2799 R1
Workprint of a film about the construction of a school. Mode-Art production number: 3883 Leader: Prod. # 3934 "Burlington College" W.P. Leader: #3883 U.S.S.…
Internet Archive
Trimming Beets
World War II-era film produced for food processing workers by Libby's, describing most efficient ways to trim and prepare beets for canning.
Internet Archive
Our Productive Land
0712 PA8693 Our Productive Land
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Northwest]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10003: Toddler on Farm, ca. 1930s
Reference scan of 16mm home movie showing a toddler on the farm, likely in the late 1930s.