Prelinger Archives
7,249–7,296 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
[Printing Press]
Documentation of a sheet-fed printing press in action. Camera registration is faulty for a portion of the film. May possibly be documentation of an activist…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004335
Family gatherings, camping and water sports. Son going off to college at Yale University. Can notes: "E3 / Hadley and Bayville 1963" Edge states: Processed by…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10829: Pony Express Museum
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010328
Iowa State Fair in the late 1940s, featuring carnival rides, stunt driving, and traveling circus performers. Can notes: "State Fair"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10373: California Trips, Boulder Dam
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97348: Pennsylvania Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006113
The Japanese American Koura family explores the Pacific Northwest, including ferry rides, visits to scenic overlooks, and time spent swimming at Olympic Hot…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Women Washing Clothes]
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers (Thank You)
Internet Archive
Fighting Bulls
Skeletal Entry Bull fighting
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001214: 1930s California musical family Central Valley and performances
Home movie: 001214: 1930s California musical family Central Valley and performances
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98880: Enid, OK Friends
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Ransohoff Collection, Can 1-1: Recitals]
"after the U.S.C. Game, Sunday The Gang Thaws Out"
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001492: 1940s Ozarks and Louisiana road trip
Home movie: 001492: 1940s Ozarks and Louisiana road trip
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10963: Prelinger Collection
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10017: Sanford Collection: "Bubbles of Red Cap"]
Amateur parody film
Internet Archive
Story of the System Training Program (STP), The
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003394
Beautiful home movie apparently made in the early days of 16mm film, depicting sweet rural summer living. Leader: Bought In Beaverton 1997 45th St Reel:…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004727
Elevated trains in Chicago, an amateur baseball game in a sandlot, canoes going through white water on the Klamath River, a family in a swimming pool, and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003430
A visit to Florida with views of the wintering grounds for Spark Circus, the Kentucky Military Institute's drill team and marching band rehearsal in Venice,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 000229
Home Movie PA 000229
Internet Archive
Shipping Room Operations
Time-based study on improving methods of assembling paper cartons and shipping books in industrial production.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Muraoka Collection: 005092
A Japanese American family visits Japan, filming the landscape of a small village during a Shinto festival and the inside of a mannequin factory. A portion of…
Internet Archive
[Koshell Collection: Japan]
Content advisory: Scenes of animal butchering. In postwar Japan, the streets and food markets of Tokyo are filmed with close attention including night markets…
Internet Archive
[Universal Newsreel clips: Fires]
Fires in Ohio, Germany, New York, Chicago, Long Beach CA. "Fire Show of 190-31"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000666: Charles E. Smith Collection: Medical Research, Coccidioidomycosis, Valley Fever, San Joaquin Valley, Kern County, California, Spring 1938
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97507: Cycles, Grandpa, Zoo
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 005484
A family in Mexico exploring man-made and natural environments including a lily pond below a pedestrian bridge, an orchard, and the ocean. Also features macro…
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 000233
Home Movie PA 000233
Internet Archive
China's Children
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98615: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
[IFB Mexico Footage]
Archaeological and cultural sites in Mexico, including Pirámide de los Nichos, Monte Albán, and the Árbor del Tule.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98710: Western Trip
To come.
Internet Archive
[James D. Zellerbach Appointed As New Ambassador to Italy]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98217: Illini Railroad Club CTA Red Car Trip
Label on can reads: "Illini R.R. Club CTA Red Car trip 12-29-57".
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010042: 1930s Canada waterways and canoe camping
Home movie: 010042: 1930s Canada waterways and canoe camping
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004362
Home movie depicting the annual commemoration of the Alamo Memorial in San Antonio, Texas, featuring a primarily Latinx crowd. Can notes: "San Antonio & Alamo…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 9777
Outtake footage of a steel pipe manufacturing plant. Includes footage of workers cutting pipes, factory interiors, and delivery trucks driving through an…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Avakemian Collection: 005088
Scenes of a trip to the Philippines, including images of folk dance performances, fumigation and doctor visits in rural villages, street scenes in the Quiapo…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2391
Footage of what is likely the Saxton Nuclear Generating Station in Saxton, Pennsylvania. From Mode-Art Pictures production numbers 3035/2980. leader reads…
Internet Archive
Industry on Parade (Can 2a)
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Mahoning Valley Collection, Roll 30]
Internet Archive
Luer Space Ship A Roll
Luer Space Ship A Roll
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000912
Travel through Geneva, Switzerland and the Swiss Alps, with Lake Geneva, mountain scenes, and travel by car, boat, rail, and air.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11684: Newport, OR Family, Badlands MT, Pendleton, McNary Lake and Dam, ND State House
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010408
A family shows off their car collection, visits the zoo, spends time at home, and goes water skiing. Can notes: "Vacations" / "SAVAGE + Boalerg"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004705
Road trip scenes from Arizona couple who visit Missouri, then travel southwest to California and spend time at the beach and at Knott's Berry Farm.
Internet Archive
Allied Expeditionary Force in Russia
Documentary footage of military troops sent to Russia after World War I. May be related to "Allied Expeditionary Force in Siberia"…