Prelinger Archives
7,585–7,632 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: 003440
Animals in a zoo, likely the Los Angeles Zoo; people watching along Hollywood Boulevard and views of Hollywood landmarks including the Chinese Theater and the…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 012019
European city streets and a ship voyage from European port to New York City. Note: The majority of footage was filmed out of focus.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97314: Family Recreation and House Building
Viewing notes state: Family 60s Snow sleds Swimming New house being built
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2795
Outtakes, including footage of comedic scenes that illustrate the importance of wearing a hard hard while on the job and following your foreman's directions.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000465: Charles E. Smith Collection: Agriculture, Labor, Picket Line, Oil Wells and Landscapes, Kern County, California, Spring 1938
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11108: San Francisco
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10811: Vacation to San Francisco and Los Angeles, 1959
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Grant's Home, Driving POVs, Landscapes]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11002: Britton, South Dakota Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000551-2: 1930s San Francisco waterfront, Labor Day, and neighborhoods
Home movie: 000551-2: 1930s San Francisco waterfront, Labor Day, and neighborhoods
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003899
Features the happy antics of three teenage sisters through winter and summer and winter again. notes on can: "Home Movies // "3-sisters" // 1930-1955 // #3 +…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003427
Lakeside farm life in upstate New York, featuring a young boy helping out around the farm. Sheet in can states: 19411942 1st Day skool [sic] pet phaesant…
Internet Archive
Land For The Future Reel 2 B
B-roll from a film. It begins with dramatic scenes of men running in the desert, intense encounters with guns, and close-ups of individuals showing various…
Internet Archive
News Of Today 001
The film is a montage of various news events and everyday scenes from the 1940s, showcasing both military and civilian life. It begins with young pilots…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000424_Buffalo: 1947 Buffalo, NY, snow storm
Home movie: 000424_Buffalo: 1947 Buffalo, NY, snow storm
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98623: Morgantown Picnic
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97402: Family and Children
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Mobil Service Station Family with Children]
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11024: Bryce and Zion, Los Angeles 1954 1 & 2
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98208: NYSGW, LNERR and LNR
To come.
Internet Archive
[Pennzoil Film]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Henry W. Jupp Collection: 005097
Views of Vietnam filmed by an American soldier stationed there during the mid-1960s. Includes sequences of local children and crowds in street scenes and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006111
A Japanese American family visits Japan and captures images of street parades with dancing and large clown masks, the Kamado Jigoku geothermal park, visits…
Internet Archive
Snow Road
Snow Road
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98800: National Railway Historical Society Convention 1963
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11820: Phal Family San Francisco, Chico, Monterey & Tahoe CA
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10586: Snow Day in New York, Niagara Falls
Can marked: Snow Day in New York, Niagara Falls.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97168: Family Pictures, Reel 3
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97069: Vacation West 1955
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Crouse's Homemade Patriot Film]
Photography and Editing by Prentiss Crouse. Titles by Gale Crouse.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010054_001: 1940s Great Lakes recreations and Ohio parade
Home movie: 010054_001: 1940s Great Lakes recreations and Ohio parade
Internet Archive
Chateau Thierry and the Aisne-Marne Operation
Internet Archive
Calvin 3401 E: Clay Creek Model Study
Outtake footage of the construction and study of a model dam at Clay Creek in Colorado. This reel includes intertitles and credits. Notes on Box: "Client:…
Internet Archive
Iron Country Iron Ore and Minnesotas Future
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 12017: Unidentified Detroit Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Agen Story
The footage captures various agricultural activities in the 1950s United States, focusing on fruit picking, farming operations, and the processing of crops.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10384: Family, Home and Bird Dogs
To come.
Internet Archive
Gibson Story, The
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
[Erica Anderson Plastik Studios]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97071: El Toro, Spring Mill 1951
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97373: Wedding I
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97287: Friends, Wichita and Washington, D.C.
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 096033
Home Movie PA 096033
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97445: Birthday and Lake Mead
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000429: 1970s California hippie farmers
Home movie: 000429: 1970s California hippie farmers
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Burns Collection: 004822
A Black family in Michigan spends summer fun time together picnicking in a comfortable back yard and playing badminton, as well as visiting one another at…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98656: Glacier National Park
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98210: Railroads
To come.