Prelinger Archives
7,633–7,680 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
Vista Stock Shots: Bay Area Aerials I
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10354: Bluffton College, Church Camp]
Internet Archive
Emergency In Honduras
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Muraoka Collection: 004854
Domestic and recreational scenes of a Japanese American family in Southern California. Features traditional Japanese dance performed by children and adults…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2820
Outtakes from Mode-Art Pictures production #4247, "For the Racing Industry," for Reynolds Aluminum. Footage includes POVs of racetrack, horse barns,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004708
An American family's tourist trip to Europe, followed by a baby's first birthday party at home and a visit to the Miami Seaquarium.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004387
Visits by an African American family to many different locations are documented in this reel, which includes a BART station and bustling Market street in…
Internet Archive
Campus Capers
Skeletal Entry Mira Loma High School
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000553: 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and California tourism
Home movie: 000553: 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition and California tourism
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004701
Home movie featuring the travels and leisure time of a small group of men in Southern California and Baja California, Mexico. Note on can: Rosarita Mexico -…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004720
Scenes of a road trip to Death Valley and the Eastern Sierra in California, including many species of California wildflowers. Film is shrunk, has surface…
Internet Archive
A Day Of Thanksgiving 001
A Day Of Thanksgiving 001
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 005241
Footage of an Asian-American family cooking and serving a hot pot, family-style dinner, perhaps egg drop soup. High quality photography of San Francisco home…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Newhouser Collection: 011759
A vibrant reel filled with rich portraiture of African American families and community members from all walks of life. Begins with a trip to Ogden, Utah and…
Internet Archive
Trip By Boat Through Grand Canyon of Utah and Arizona: One of the Scenic Wonders of the World, A
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 000228
Home Movie PA 000228
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98914: Pennsylvania Vacation
Pennsylvania vacation, 1958
Internet Archive
City of Neighbors Give Once For All
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Jay Hansell Collection: 003623
Can notes: Roll 4 - 3925 FIELD ST. HOME OAKLAND CA 1963 - Baby Quail, Millie Hansell, Trucks on Mt Blvd [Mountain Boulevard, Oakland], Birds, Rabbit eating…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Oregon: 003380
Scenes from parades, national parks, and Mormon tourism. note on can: Rose Parade, 1950s, old house blocks, Crater Lake [notes are from eBay seller]
Internet Archive
[Home Screen Topics, No. 1 -27]
[Home Screen Topics, No. 1 -27]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 12039: Untitled Collection 6
To come.
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1487
Outtakes for a film sponsored by Westinghouse Electric. Includes footage of men performing various tests on electrical equipment. Can notes: "Prod. 1323"…
Internet Archive
Up and Down New York
A 1930s tour around Manhattan Island features plenty of high angle photography, with aviation-based footage a novelty at the time showing the island's…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003359
Travels in and around Salt Lake City, Utah including a trip to the Bonneville Salt Flats. This film has suffered significant color shifting and emulsion…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97273: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97394: Badminton and Friends
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003784
Home movie showing scenes of the 84th Tournament of Roses Parade, 1973, featuring First Lady Patricia Ryan Nixon. Includes many shots of a horse getting a…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Anderson-Nelson Collection: 001219
Music and other performances at the Golden Gate International Exhibition on Treasure Island, 1939. Note on can: "ROLL:16: Jim Berdahl bass player Calif. Bldg.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 011854
A peek into Depression-era life in the Ohio river valley. Opens with scenes filmed in a Coca Cola bottling plant showing uniformed workers preparing product…
Internet Archive
Mansfield
This silent film footage of Mansfield, Ohio from the 1950s captures various scenes of daily life and community events. It begins with kids at school, engaging…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97234: Travel and Fishing in California
Road trip up California coast and fishing excursions.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98933: North Bay and Timmins, Ontario
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Keith Robinson Collection: 003746
An upper class white family in New York spending time together, traveling, and playing games. Documentation of Keith Robinson's childhood. Content warning:…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010042: 1930s Canada waterways and canoe camping
Home movie: 010042: 1930s Canada waterways and canoe camping
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001222: 1938 California musical family, Chinatown, beach and mountains
Home movie: 001222: 1938 California musical family, Chinatown, beach and mountains
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004386
African American people socializing outdoors at a garden party in fancy dress and at a picnic in a park with outdoor dancing; a road trip to Las Vegas and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97465: Shots Here and There #1
To come.
Internet Archive
Pneumonia
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Vic Lusinchi Collection: 011033
Scenes of leisure and recreation in San Francisco and the Russian River. Includes images of MacArthur Day celebrations at Kezar Stadium, June 13, 1942, in…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 011706
Content warning: This film includes visual evidence of racial and class differences influenced by the legacy of colonialism. Afro-Caribbean people are filmed…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98892: Westward-Ho: Trip Through National Parks, No. 1
No. 1, – Westward-Ho', Trip Through National Parks, July 7 - Aug 1 1952
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97248: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003439
People who enjoy animals very much document their pet dogs and pet birds; riverfront swimming and angling; and miniature golf. In both color and black and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004218
A family's travels to Mexico, New York, and New England. Scenes of local inhabitants of Taxco, Mexico are filmed with a touristic eye. Beach scenes, wide shot…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000867
Domestic and celebratory scenes with an unidentified Black family with a young daughter from the Detroit area. Includes images of the daughter's birthday…
Internet Archive
Citizenship at School - School Discipline
Internet Archive
Historical Review of Incineration
On disposal of garbage before and after the development of incinerators.