Prelinger Archives
7,201–7,248 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 PA 000099
Home Movie PA 000099
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98315: Vacation
To come.
Internet Archive
[Governor Goodwin Knight Announces Run For Senate]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Rose Collection: 003831
Travels around Mackinac Island in Michigan and a big chicken cookout at Houghton Technological University in 1979. Can notes: "Mackinaw Island, Mich 1979"…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000530: 1920s Los Angeles tourism with zoo animals, commercially produced sequences
Home movie: 000530: 1920s Los Angeles tourism with zoo animals, commercially produced sequences
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97084: Brooklyn Family and Passover Seders
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Paul Steelman Collection: 004113
Road trip across the Western, Southwestern, and Gulf Coast regions of the United States, including New Orleans. ANSCO/DUPONT/KODAK SAFETY film stock.
Internet Archive
Great Fair, Great Fun
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98926: Niagara Falls and Cedar Point, 1966
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11713: Hamden, CT Family Summer Scenes, Lake Qunnipoaug & Savin Rock Trips
To come.
Internet Archive
[George Jackson Funeral]
Crowds of mourners at the funeral of Soledad Brother George Jackson, at St. Augustine's Church, 27th and West Streets, Oakland, California on August 28, 1971.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98560: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
City of Proud Memories
Internet Archive
Coyote Behavior: Summer 1978
Coyote Behavior: Summer 1978
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010413
A young family celebrating birthdays, summer, and Christmas holidays together. Includes a small section featuring truck drivers and workers performing truck…
Internet Archive
[Maple Sugar]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98231: CERA Fan Trip on South Shore Line
Label on can reads: "C.E.R.A. fan trip on C.S.S. & S.B. 10-9-60"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004150
Road trip through Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and elsewhere. Featuring the Third Annual Columbus Mum Show. can notes: "Ohio 46" note found in can reads:…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1557 Reel 2
Outtakes from "The Magic Switch". Documents construction of the Brunner Island Steam Electric Station in York Haven, Pennsylvania. Includes footage of people…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1003 Reel 1
Outtake footage for a film made for Rockwell Manufacturing about the production of their LPG gas meters. Includes footage of a gas meter manufacturing plant…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Arredondo Collection: 005084
Surface streets and highways around Long Beach, Redondo Beach, and other locations in Southern California filmed from a moving vehicle. Also scenes of…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 096536
Interior and exterior scenes of a young child's life in Southern California, beginning with a first birthday party, and including camping, trips to the beach…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004730
Home movie footage filmed in Alaska, including ice skating, skiing, dog sledding, and Indigenous dancing. Note on reel: Dog team/film spliced upside down Lee…
Internet Archive
Ski Racing On Mt Rainier
Silent footage of skiing and races on Mt Rainier.
Internet Archive
Day of Decision, The
Internet Archive
[Unidentified TV News Footage]
Assembly of unidentified footage that appears to be television news material. Can marked "Unidentified SOLLY". "Channel 13" microphone flag appears in frame…
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098244: PA rail fan 7: Dearborn, MI station, 1959
10 min., color. Dearborn, Michigan, station, December 19, 1959.
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098247: PA rail fan 6, Illini R.R. Club Fan Trip B&O Steam]
11 min., color. Illini R.R. Club Fan Trip B&O Steam 3-31-57
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98611: Travels in Southeast U.S. and California
To come.
Internet Archive
Calvin 0323
Multiracial group of educators, including Black educators, interact with a multiracial, integrated group of preschool children in a classroom environment.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006110
A large gathering of people at a community picnic in the Pacific Northwest; downtown street scenes with Koura family friends or relatives posing outside…
Internet Archive
Bread - The Staff Of Life
Silent. Shows how bread is made from wheat.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000437: 1940s western train trip
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004346
Vacation on a lake, followed by travel to or from the Long Beach Municipal Airport in California, all filmed in black and white and appearing faint and washed…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10265: Prelinger Collection
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004752
A family playing with their cats and visiting the Great Smoky Mountains. Note on container: 1. Zagarski 1838 W Armitage 22 Batory [Kopeuluepo] 2. 170825…
Internet Archive
Mother Mack's Puppies Find Happy Homes
TELLS HOW EACH OF MOTHER MACK'S PUPPIES FIND NEW HOMES.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 098161: 1950s Georgia family and neighbors
Home movie: 098161: 1950s Georgia family and neighbors
Internet Archive
Good Neighbors Awards 08 (Reel 1)
Outtakes from footage shot for the Good Neighbors Awards film of 1967 and likely 1973. Includes footage of Midland Ross, J+J Distributing Co, Tenneco…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1557 Reel 1
Outtakes from "The Magic Switch". Documents early-phase construction work on hydroelectric dam. Shows workers engaged in a range of labor-intensive tasks…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Klaus Henrich Collection: 003460
A European family's travels to Nepal and India. Footage alternates between Kodachrome original filmed largely in Kathmandu and faded Ektachrome original…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1621
Trims for the Westinghouse Electric Corporation production "Transmission for Tomorrow." Mode-Art Pictures production number 1501. Includes footage related to…
Internet Archive
Bellum Punicum Secundum: The Second Punic War
Film about the Second Punic War, narrated in Latin.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003898
Home movie of a backyard wedding, followed by the same couple on family vacations with a small child, possibly in New York or the northeastern United States.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003786
Home movie footage of visits to New Orleans, Hawai'i, and other sites including a brief scene in Quartzsite, Arizona. notes on can: "Home Movies // Frank, O."…
Internet Archive
Soundie:When A Gypsy Makes His Violin Cry Emery Deutsch
Soundie: When a Gypsy Makes His Violin Cry (Emery Deutsch)
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97170: Trip to California, Nevada, Utah, Canada, and Florida
Trip to California, Nevada, Utah, Canada, and Florida, 1951.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10952: Henry Charles Collection (Prelinger Collection
To come.