Prelinger Archives
6,961–7,008 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
Mode-Art Can 2730
Outtakes showing office and residential buildings, the U.S. Steel Corporation Newsletter, U.S. Steel headquarters interiors, steelworkers, molten metal, and…
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098440: Canadian Rockies tourism, Lake Louise]
15 min., color: Mountain scenes of Banff, Lake Louise, and the mountain surroundings, a tourist train, and ending at the British Columbia coast.
Internet Archive
Citizenship at School: School Discipline
great film on behavior and owning up to your bad actions
Internet Archive
Bathe The Baby: Reel 2
A nurse examines and bathing a newborn baby in a private residence. A mother breastfeeds her baby.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004168
A family spending time around their back stoop and in the alley, teenagers acting out a "robbery" scenario, and remote-controlled-model airplanes. Roll is…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004347
Views of the coastline and boats at what appears to be a Mediterranean harbor, possibly the French Riviera, followed by images of Paris from the Eiffel Tower,…
Internet Archive
Iceless Arctic, The
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97077: Florida Vacation, 1957
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Porcelli Collection: 003813
Family and friends socializing in the backyard of a suburban home, and the aftermath and damage from a Long Island flood. There is also footage of a…
Internet Archive
[Germany Stock Scenes]
[Germany Stock Scenes]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97237: Phoenix, Arizona and Blythe, California
Phoenix, Arizona and Blythe, California, 1944.
Internet Archive
Calvin 0334
Outtakes for an industrial film promoting Hesston Manufacturing Corporation, featuring shots of the company plant's manufacturing floor interior and aerial…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Metzler Collection: 005176
A Ford company picnic with employees grilling food, playing baseball, swimming, and more. Camp Dearborn was opened under the racist former mayor of Dearborn,…
Internet Archive
Red Sea Miracle
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003388
Home movie of skiing in Winter Park, Colorado. Also includes a sequence of a passenger train emerging from a tunnel amidst a snow storm with passengers…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10041: Washington State: "Hickory Hut (parade) Air Field, Little Mt Road"]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97263: Kennebago I
Marked as Kennebago I, 1925
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Don Robins Collection: 003770
Home movie of a white family's vacation to St. Martin and Anguilla, including radio antenna installations, scenes inside a radio station staffed by Black…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1833 (Reel 2)
Outtakes from an industrial film featuring scenes in and around Washington D.C. Leader: Daily #- 8925, Prod. #- 1750
Internet Archive
Keep It Clean (B-Roll)
This seems to be a B-roll (of A/B rolls) of a government produced lab safety film. See item 201933 for A-roll. Can notes: "1642"
Internet Archive
Biggest Bears on Earth, The
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098764: An Ohio family, 1950s road trip to Kentucky and boating on a lake]
Short reel with poor image quality. An Ohio family takes a road trip in the early to mid-1950s, with POVs of southern Ohio or northern Kentucky landscape;…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: San Diego, Calif. Parade, ca. 1951]
Description to be added from log sheet.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10560: Trip West]
Internet Archive
Better Work Methods (Reel 2)
Film offering ways to increase productivity on the job. Covers methods for increased output of stud, rope clip, bolt, and washer assembly; breaks down the…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Debbie Golden-West Collection: 004890
Basement dance parties with intimate dancing, drinking, and smoking; Christmas parties amongst friends, as well as family celebrations; children's birthday…
Internet Archive
REM Days of Protests
Raw documentation of multiple demonstrations in Berkeley, California, circa 1960s. Can: KGO-TV- Brother Buzz Note: P.C. Cops w/ Recorder Rubin, Weisman School…
Internet Archive
New Jersey 001
The film footage from the 1960s captures a lively and colorful parade with a variety of participants and spectators. The parade features numerous women,…
Internet Archive
Luer Space Ship B Roll
Luer Space Ship B Roll
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98600: New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Canada, Michigan
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97403: Family Activities, Bridge and Knitting
To come.
Internet Archive
Assemble Kitchen Cabinet R1
Industrial setting depiction of an assembly-line operation for the building of kitchen cabinets Notes on can: Reel 1 Assemble Kitchen Cabinets 1. Spot weld…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: David Duer Collection: 004036
Family in the San Francisco East Bay. Includes a Humboldt State College graduation ceremony, a wedding, and what appears to be a backyard baby shower or…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97165: Family Pictures, Reel 2
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003437
Visits to an active harbor, a vintage car fair in Michigan in the 1960s, and many Church of Christ, Scientist churches in California. Can states: Los Angeles…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10990: Prelinger Collection
To come.
Internet Archive
[Dartmouth Outing Club Down-Mountain Ski Race, Mt. Moosilauke, N.H.]
McCrillis-Schniebs (is this producer?) Ski-Heil skiing, home movie style
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98770: Ohio Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Cross in the Sand (B-Roll)
B-roll footage for a film about Capuchin missionaries (The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a religious order of Franciscan friars within the Catholic Church)…
Internet Archive
Golden State Productions Outtakes - 01
Outtakes from a promotional film for sticker printing shop, Kleen-Stik Products, Inc., possibly in Berkeley, California.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98928: Vacation in Canada
Can label states: 1954 Vacation Canada - Ma & Pa
Internet Archive
[Ford Film Collection selects]
Footage selected from the Ford Film Collection at the National Archives and Records Administration by the Archives Project as part of the production of their…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97244: Family Activities and Fishing
Notes indicate shot in Phoenix, Arizona and elsewhere. Description to come
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Colaci Home Movies: Family 1952-1956]
Rhyolite, Nevada Shaver Lake, southern California: family recreation
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97276: Hot Springs 1943
Hot Springs, Arkansas, 1940s
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004388
An African American family, likely from Southern California, at home and on trips by car and airplane. Reel includes a pool party, giant zucchini on display,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97298: This 'n That
Amateur film.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004189
A couple of elders travel through Oregon, Utah, South Dakota, and Florida; includes camping trips, the Utah State Capitol, and Mount Rushmore. Note on can: #…