Prelinger Archives
7,009–7,056 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: 098066b: 1950s Army family road trip in Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania
Home movie: 098066b: 1950s Army family road trip in Georgia, New York, Pennsylvania
Internet Archive
[Untitled: Steamboat Rescue]
capsizing boat hauled in
Internet Archive
Salt from the Earth
About Salt production
Internet Archive
Soundie : Continental (Connie Haine)
Soundie : Continental (Connie Haine)
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98612: Travel and Family
To come.
Internet Archive
1016 Copper Network Silent Excerpt
to come
Internet Archive
Fold Paper Cartons
Examines the various time studies of the performance of tasks with improved methods such as folding paper cartons, assembling ice trays, packaging ampoules,…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2746
Outtakes from a Mode-Art Pictures production about the Ohio River Basin. Includes footage of the Ohio River Basin Survey Coordinating Committee's…
Internet Archive
[Gould can 5483.2: Kinograms Newsreel]
Six year old boy swims the Hudson River, New York and New Jersey
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97062: Fishing Pictures
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004738
A family's three visits to Yosemite Valley in the 1940s and 1950s. Includes a short sequence of Lucille Ball during the location filming of "The Long Long…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98651: Christmas
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 99000: Family Scenes
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000463: Charles E. Smith Collection: Agriculture, Labor and Housing, Kern County, California, Spring 1938
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11651: Chester, Pennsylvania Family, Christmas Parties
To come.
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1410 (R1)
Outtakes depicting US Army Corps of Engineers projects working to reclaim riverside land from multiple rivers by dredging and building retaining walls. Shot…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Dill Collection: 004082
Dill family in Delray Beach. Includes footage of a snowy egret, a dog playing Frisbee, and people on a boat. Can notes: "D7 / Fall, 1974, Bird / March 1975 /…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004337
Christmas celebrations and winter tennis. Can notes: " E5 / Xmas 1964 / Paddle Tennis"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 71161: Hirota Collection
To come.
Internet Archive
Beagle Reactions
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 096562
Footage of a men's club, possibly the Lion's Club, on retreat to Garberville and Grass Valley, California. Can notes: Trip to Garberville - Sept 1958 Park…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97514: Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Life of the U.S. Sailor
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Mobil Service Station Family with Children]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97262: Rye 1st Films
Described on can as First Films, Rye, Summer 1925
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98312: Miscellaneous
To come.
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1739 R1
Outtakes from "Young Man River." Documents shipping coal and steel on Pennsylvania waterways, with talking heads POVs in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers offices…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1897 (Reel 1)
Outtakes of an industrial film featuring many well-photographed scenes of riverside recreation and industry. Production 460 (could be 960) From Mode-Art…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Jesus Villareal Collection: 000415
Joyful celebrations, including a combined Bon Voyage and Birthday party, featuring a Latinx family/community eating, talking, drinking, smoking, dancing,…
Internet Archive
The Third Challenge: Unconventional Warfare
Content warning: Critically injured war casualties and people experiencing war trauma both actual and dramatized. At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. Army…
Internet Archive
His Majesty: The Scarecrow of Oz
Internet Archive
Home Movies: Wathen Collection: Niagara Falls, Austin Texas
Internet Archive
Calvin 0303
Outtakes from Calvin Company's Boston Store commercials #12 and #13. Studio footage of upholstery work and playful models in Spring and Summer fashions.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 071158
The beginning of this reel documents the aftermath of the Uprising of 1967 in Detroit, Michigan (https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/up…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003442
Footage of what appears to be white American settlers living in the Philippines; including footage of children walking with textbooks to school, picnics and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10976: California to Nebraska
Can marked: Callf. to Nebr. 1964
Internet Archive
Calvin 0333
Outtakes for an industrial film promoting Hesston Manufacturing Corporation, featuring shots of the company plant's exterior and interior. One scene pictures…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97308: Miscellaneous Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11686: Newport, OR Family Trips, Coolie Dam and Falls, Spokane WA, Redmond, McKenzie Pass
To come.
Internet Archive
Good Neighbors Awards 08 (Reel 2)
Outtakes for the Good Neighbors Awards film of 1963 and 1967. Includes footage of Warner Lambert, Sandoz, and Johnson + Johnson offices and plants. can notes:…
Internet Archive
US Air Force 342-50-53
US Air Force planes taking off and landing in what appears to be an airfield in Nevada. May relate to the NARA title, 'ATOM BLAST-HOW IT LOOKS AND SOUNDS.'…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004046
The Dill family at leisure, playing football, hunting, on vacation in Florida, and celebrating Thanksgiving. Also featured are horses and horse racing at…
Internet Archive
Teeth: A Film Lesson in Health and Hygiene
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98942: Mackinac Island
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11772: Gardens Scenes, Visiting Soldier
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10877: San Francisco, New Orleans
To come.
Internet Archive
Heart of a Hero, The
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2380 (Reel 2)
Outtakes of people fishing at Hereford Manor Lake in Pennsylvania. Leader marked: "Telesports / Hereford Lake / 8-28-63"