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Prelinger Archives

7,393–7,440 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 OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Home Movie: 97184: Hunting 1954 1954 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Vista Stock Shots: Bay Area Aerials from Goodyear Blimp Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Home Movie: 12323: Fair and Snow Scenes 1946 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Mode-Art Can 1482 R1 Film Negative outtakes of railroad yard footage possibly used in "Profile of Steel". Mode-Art production number 926 Internet Archive Calvin 0331 Film Reel is comprised of outtakes for an industrial film promoting Hesston Manufacturing Corporation and documents activities at a farm equipment show/convention.… Internet Archive Home Movie: Dill Collection: 004085 Home movie Boats cruising down a canal in Delray Beach, Florida. Can notes: "1014 Island Dr 'Boats'" Internet Archive Home Movie: Klaus Henrich Collection: 005255 Home movie Travels through Taiwan, and possibly other Asian countries, including images of the Changchun Shrine, Taroko Gorge, white tourists in a paddy field, and more.… Internet Archive Protecting Nurses' Welfare: A Chronicle of Achievement Film · Subtitles Produced by the American Nurses Association to explain and promote their work in advancing equal pay for equal work, and combating gender-based discrimination… Internet Archive Challenge to Democracy, A 1944 · Short · 17 min · Subtitles Government-produced film attempting to defend the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II. Internet Archive Home Movie: 10382: Baby Pictures 1950 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98225: Railroads Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97466: Shots Here and There #3 1930 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Conductor 1492, Part 1 Film Internet Archive [Home Movies: Weinert Collection: Florida & Boat Trip, ca. 1941] Home movie · Subtitles [Home Movies: Weinert Collection: Florida & Boat Trip, ca. 1941] Internet Archive Story of My Life by Mr. Shoe, The Film · Subtitles Processes of shoemaking Internet Archive Home Movie: 98341: House Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98939: Maine, New York, Niagara Falls 1964 · Home movie Maine, New York, Niagara Falls. Internet Archive Railroads in United States History 1920 · Film A brief history of the railroad industry in the United States up until 1920. Internet Archive Home Movie: Norma Sanders Collection: 097291 Home movie Family and friend time with many dogs and lots of fun around a Minnesota lakeshore cabin in both summer and winter, featuring women who play guitar. Label on… Internet Archive Home Movie: Ycaza Collection: 005037 Home movie Domestic scenes of a suburban Latino/e/x family, possibly living in the Greater Los Angeles area, including birthday celebrations and children playing in the… Internet Archive Home Movie: 11656: Chester, Pennsylvania Family, Picnic 1959 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie PA 010584 Home movie Home Movie PA 010584 Internet Archive [Hardcastle Stock Shots] Film · Subtitles Highway Safety Missouri State Highway Patrol Internet Archive Home Movie: 10836: Prelinger Collection Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97182: Family Scenes 1953 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Betsy Ross Film Internet Archive Home Movie: 004695 Home movie Expo 67 World's Fair in Montréal, a visit to Disneyland, family on vacation at the beach, and at home during Christmas. 1. California Expo-Canada Haig… Internet Archive Home Movie: 098622 Home movie In the 1920s a wealthy white family expresses affection and playfulness, and dances the Charleston, plays tennis on a personal court, and takes in horse… Internet Archive Home Movie: 98753: Possibly in Connecticut Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: Can B1: 004052 Home movie The Dill family summering in Bayville, Maine. Also includes footage filmed in Andover, Massachusetts. Can notes: "B1 / Jordan's / Bayville 1958 / AR /… Internet Archive Home Movie: Vincent-Jackson Collection: 004887 Home movie Domestic and recreational scenes of an African American family in Southern California, including a visit to Disneyland, Christmas celebrations, backyard… Internet Archive Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006104 Home movie Scenes of strawberry and pansy flower harvests on the Koura family farm in Ridgefield, Washington, showing special attention to and affection for the… Internet Archive Home Movie: 011057 Home movie In the 1930s residents and workers shyly pose for the camera in the small town of Lodi, Ohio, as the filmmaker tours the town's commercial, cultural and civic… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Can 10678: Michigan] Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive Home Movie: 010120 Home movie A trip to Asia, including India and the Philippines, partly shot in Kodacolor, the remainder in black and white. Footage of street scenes, markets,… Internet Archive Home Movie: Teeters Collection: 005076 Home movie A Latinx family with teenaged and school-aged kids celebrates birthdays, takes a road trip through the desert to the Isabella Main Dam, spends time in the… Internet Archive Home Movie: 003510 Home movie A small boy spends time at his family's Florida Keys estate. With a driving POV on U.S. Highway 1 in the Florida Keys, showing the Seven Mile Bridge. Shows… Internet Archive Home Movie: Henry Mayer Collection: 002607 Home movie Documentation of a political congress in black and white contrast with vivid Kodachrome touristic sequences. At the World Congress of Women in Copenhagen of… Internet Archive Pipeline To The Arctic Film Internet Archive All About Polymorphics Film · Subtitles Skeletal Entry Internet Archive Home Movie: 97369: Picnic and Easter, Gettysburg Battlefield 1971 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 10807: Vacation to El Paso, Los Angeles and San Francisco 1961 · Home movie Can labeled: Vacation to El Paso, L.A. & S.F. 3-11 to 20-61 II. Internet Archive Home Movie: 010315 Home movie 1920s home movie footage of wealthy white families enjoying leisure time at a private club in Florida; many scenes of children playing with kittens and… Internet Archive Home Movie: Jordan-Joneses Collection: 004122 Home movie Scenes of New England and Washington D.C.. This film is deteriorated due to vinegar syndrome. Internet Archive [Home Movies: Henny and Cooper Pharmacy] Home movie · Subtitles Scenes inside the Henny & Cooper Pharmacy Internet Archive Home Movie: 98567: Frontier Farmers of Alaska (R2) Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98760: Possibly in Connecticut Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98603: Washington, D.C. and Eastern Trip 1957 · Home movie To come.