Prelinger Archives
7,153–7,200 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
Goodbye, Mrs. Ant!
Narrated film about the habits of ants and the treatment of them as pests in households. The surreal narration takes the point of a view of a hungry swarm of…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10991: Flying in Small Plane
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98339: New York City Scenes
To come.
Internet Archive
Durango (Reel 2)
Train trip footage shot in and around Durango, Colorado, and along the right-of-way of the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000870
Travelogue featuring Gallup, New Mexico and downtown city scenes in Chicago, Illinois and Atlanta, Georgia. can notes: "Gallup NM. Chicago. Atlanta" note in…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11845: Cincinnati, OH Family, Suwannee FL, Chattanooga & Harriman TN, Butler KY Trips
To come.
Internet Archive
Queerosities - Daring Window Washers
Internet Archive
Sunbeam Bread Commercial #6
Internet Archive
[Cal Protest 9-17-1963]
Footage documenting a Berkeley, California rally against racial segregation and violence occurring in Birmingham, Alabama, including speeches and interviews…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 621
Outtakes from Mode-Art Pictures Production number 189, "The Master Element." Footage of industrial shipping operations including tugboat use, barges being…
Internet Archive
The Janitor
Comedic narrative of a day in the life of a building superintendent.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97209: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Flaherty Meeting 1960
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010600
A Southern California family visits the San Francisco Bay Area briefly before returning to home and leisure activities in the Los Angeles metro area. Wartime…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10596: San Francisco 1959
To come.
Internet Archive
[Untitled: Eastman Kodak Follies]
features Kodak Pageant Projector
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000464: Charles E. Smith Collection: Agriculture, Labor, Harvest, Grapes, Cotton, Wind and Landscapes, Kern County, California, Spring 1938
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10850: Trip to Gulf Coast, May 1937
To come.
Internet Archive
Burning 'Em Up
Racing cars
Internet Archive
Soundie: Shine (Louis Armstrong)
Soundie: Shine (Louis Armstrong)
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Galante Collection: 003375
Autumn scenes with the Galante family, including a girl swinging on a swing, a mother and daughter tossing leaves in the air, grandparents walking through a…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 005831
A Japanese American family visiting friends and relatives in Japan documents agricultural life in a small coastal town with particular attention to devotional…
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098549: political pranking in Denver]
8 min., color, Denver, CO 1950s: Reel follows a man being wheeled in a wheelbarrow through the city streets of Denver, wearing a sailor suit and a sign…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004750
Large family, possibly in Southern California, celebrates summer and winter holidays with picnics and games in parks and gardens with many friends and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 071173
Black families in Detroit in the summers of 1970 and 1971 go fishing, visit friends and family both in town and in the countryside, enjoy children at play,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98876: Carrol Riding in Delaware Park
To come.
Internet Archive
Fill Er Up 001
Fill Er Up 001
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098455: Tour of Revolutionary War sites, history tour, 1950s]
17 min., color: A tour of Revolutionary War historical sites in Virginia, Washington, and PA, all identified with titles, also urban Washington, DC, and rural…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000749
A road trip through Florida with images of many tourist attractions such as the Miami Seaquarium, the González–Álvarez House, Daytona Beach and more. Also…
Internet Archive
Farmer Gray in On The Farm
Animated cartoon about a farmer's travails with farm life. Can notes: RODGERS; 16mm master B+W; Reel 83
Internet Archive
Nine States 1976
Internet Archive
Mode Art Can 2850 R2
These outtakes feature scenes from deep within a metal manufactory. Mode-Art Production Number: 3941 Note in can: Bay footage (aerials), Weeds Etc., Bay from…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Richard M. Singer Collection: 000744
Construction workers from the Pruitt-Igoe housing project break for a Christmas party in 1953, featuring groups of African American and white men seated at…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 12152: Unidentified Detroit Family 7
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 12324: Family Scenes, Thanksgiving and Christmas
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003389
Young couple getting married, leaving on a honeymoon camping trip in a Spartan Manor trailer and traveling through scenic spots in the Western United States.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 005588
Travelers with a focus on Orthodox Christian rituals, processions, and architecture travel to Poland and Ukraine around 1930. With street views of Eastern…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97345: Pennsylvania Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Mode Art Can 2291 R2
Experiments done by the Gulf Research & Development Company on deposition and deformation of sediments in the development of salt dome-graben structures.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Anderson-Nelson Collection: 001208
Images and newsworthy events from the 1930s San Francisco Bay Area. Includes Oakland driving POVs; the San Francisco Embarcadero and waterfront during the…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2400
Outtakes from Mode-Art Pictures production # 182. Footage includes: close-up industrial arc welding; "silver fleece" protective gloves; colorful sparks and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97232: Boats and Fishing
Boats and fishing trips, 1950-58.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98553: Pack Trip, Prairie Dog Shooting
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 71114: Detroit Family Collection:
To come.
Internet Archive
Strohm 0037
People inspecting wheat fields and harvesting wheat. can reads: "RR Harvest 9/68" RR is likely Red River based on labeled sack in film.
Internet Archive
Thrift: A Film Lesson in Citizenship
Social guidance film in the form of narrative sequences centered on two children in Los Angeles, living in a home that includes a large garden and chickens.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97212: Family and Travel
To come.
Internet Archive
Child Molester, The
Emphasizes the danger of attacks on children, dramatizing typical approaches. Shows what can be done to reduce the problem by making children aware of it and…