Prelinger Archives
7,729–7,776 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: 97502: Family and Home
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000420
Home movie filmed partly on a family farm, possibly in Idaho (based on unverified provenance information), and partly on a family vacation to Florida.…
Internet Archive
Call Delegation Meeting With Geng Biao and Deng Xiaoping
Documentation of a meeting between a delegation of the American Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) led by Daniel Burstein with Chinese leaders Geng Biao and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 097131
Pineapple packaging and shrimping near Palacios, Texas. Includes images of Latina/o/x/e workers offloading and processing pineapples, fishermen heading out on…
Internet Archive
Tuna Seining and Porpoise Safety
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000416 [Zoo and Detroit, Michigan Fuel and Supply Picnic Summer 1951]
Home movie showing a trip to the zoo, a country picnic, Halloween, and more. Notes on can state: “Zoo & Detroit Fuel & Supply Picnic / Geo. T. Figas / Summer…
Internet Archive
Times Square in 1945 & 1969
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11084: Miscellaneous
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11027: Golden Gate International Exposition
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Janet Dill Collection: 004339
Beachside fishing; golf; fishing out on the water, and relaxing in the tropics. Includes a sequence showing Phillips Academy, Andover, graduation in June…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010719
The architecture of Ciudad Juarez as it appeared in the 1950s is at the heart of this reels with city streets, public buildings, public spaces, homes, and…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000567: 1970s Massachusetts teenagers
Home movie: 000567: 1970s Massachusetts teenagers
Internet Archive
[Untitled: Alaska]
Scenes of Alaskan life
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004763
Relaxed life at a working-class apartment complex, presumably in Florida, with picnics, pool time, and a child at the beach.
Internet Archive
In The Land Of Fertile Fields - Minnesota
Silent film looks at the wildlife found in the Minnesota wilderness.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98029: Atlantic City, Washington D.C.
To come.
Internet Archive
My Own Yard To Play In
Internet Archive
Nevada Highway Story, The
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 097354
Vendors and attractions at the Kutztown Folk Festival; a family celebrating Christmas; and a springtime family gathering. Can notes: 1. Kutztown Festival…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97105: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Down the Colorado River
To be logged.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11091: San Francisco Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98906: Family and Niagara Falls
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004263
The urban landscape of Boston is photographed in detail with focus on many major buildings; camera follows one man walking through Boston; then photographing…
Internet Archive
Yard eclipsed h264
Yard in Castroville, Texas during the total solar eclipse of April 8, 2024.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 005834
The Koura family's life on rural Bainbridge Island, Washington in the early 1950s. Includes a toddler's second birthday, scenes of work and play on the family…
Internet Archive
[How to Compensate Salesmen]
round table discussion about compensation for sales workers.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004360
A camera's eye on locations in Michigan, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, with visits to an historic inn, Fort Michilimackinac, and an Air Force rocket. Includes…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004389
Content warning: This film contains images of animal abuse in the form of an extended bullfight sequence. Footage of an African American family's Christmas…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010146
Road trip along the California Coast, including footage of wildflowers, cacti, beaches, Los Angeles City Hall, and more. Notes in can state (from maker): #1…
Internet Archive
From Forest to Fireside: The Story of Ponderosa Pine
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98961: Golf
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97493: Colorado
To come.
Internet Archive
Books: From Manuscript to Classroom
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000431
Footage representing both the 1920s and the 1950s, with city streets and a residential neighborhood and family in winter in the 1920s and sequences with…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97423: Yellowstone, Lake Tahoe, Grand Canyon
To come.
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1419 (R2)
Outtakes from the film Hard Hats and Thinking Caps, depicting early stages of heavy steel skeleton construction of a large building in a Canada-US border…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Sasaki Collection: 03
A Japanese American multi-generational family enjoys time together walking in the woods and picnicking in the backyard. Includes charming scenes in rich soft…
Internet Archive
[Gould can 5127.9]
Mother's Day promo.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 001503
An African American family attends the 1967 YMCA North Central Regional Convention at Hudson, Wisconsin, and American Baptist Church events at the American…
Internet Archive
Fantasy Reel 2
Fantasy Reel 2
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98949: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Coyote Scent Stations
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97101: Brentwood and Connecticut
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97193: Home and Travel, 1952-54
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98952: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 097115
Views of of New York City and its inhabitants in the 1940s, as well as travels to a tropical location on a ship.
Internet Archive
ZIP ZAK
A youth-produced amateur film tracing the spread of a mysterious red hand mark among children. Includes a very brief clip shot off a television screen of The…