Prelinger Archives
7,777–7,824 of 10,345 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: 98630: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
[Airstream Dealer]
Skeletal Entry "Building your future with Airstream"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000894
Follows a California family's outings to Palm Springs, Shasta Dam, and elsewhere. Features fly fishing and a Christmas gift exchange.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 005603
Content advisory: A mock "frontier" town appropriates native housing styles in the form of tipis, together with other mock elements forming a tourist trap.…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000404: 1950s African American family, Long Beach
Home movie: 000404: 1950s African American family, Long Beach
Internet Archive
Daily Double
Short narrative film about proper wine service, promoting American made wines.
Internet Archive
Tom Wolfe's Los Angeles (Outtakes, Reel 2)
Outtakes from the TV movie, "Tom Wolfe's Los Angeles" filmed in 1976 and aired on PBS in January 1977. Scenes on a bus and several takes of scripted scenes…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 096551
Winter sports, including ice skating and skiing, at Sun Valley resort in the 1960s.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10116: Detroit
To come.
Internet Archive
Operation Abolition
A report on the resistance to hearings of the Committee on Un-American Activities in San Francisco. Created using subpoenaed news footage, the strongly…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003392
Home movie featuring an American family celebrating Christmas over several years, with scenes of Christmas breakfast and opening presents around a Christmas…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010005
Domestic and vacation footage, including mountains and rock formations, likely in Colorado, and a boat trip through the Wisconsin Dells. Can notes: "Start…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004385
This reel centers on scenes of an African American family camping and driving in a conversion van. Two separate weddings of African American brides and…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 097799
Luminous Kodachrome gleams where thoroughly exposed, showing the Century 21 exposition in Seattle as a highlight along a trip by ferry and by coastal highway…
Internet Archive
Calvin 3401 C: Clay Creek Model Study
Outtake footage of the construction and study of a model dam at Clay Creek in Colorado. Notes on Box: "Client: Colorado State Univ. Title: Clay Creek Model…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Carrol Taylor Collection: 003856
Various fishing and boating trips throughout California. Leader notes: "Taylor -" Preprinting on leader: "March 1966"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006107
Reel begins with winter scenes in Japan and a visit to a shrine, then follows the Koura family's travels by ocean liner to Hawai'i and San Francisco. The…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004203
United Auto Workers local union parties, picnics, and dances from 1957-1961. Note on can: 180505B Bx5051A U.A.W. LOCAL UNION ACTIVITIES #1116 1957-1961…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 011325
Expressive black-and-white photography of urban scenes in London precede a visit to the British countryside from Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10381: Labor Day, Boat Races, Water Fight
To come.
Internet Archive
In Siamese Society
Internet Archive
001032
001032
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Jeanette Green Collection: 003742
Family and children spending time with each other and at the beach in the 1920s. Parade in the 1950s and horse racing and fancy cars in the 1960s. Content…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000921
Men and women play golf at elite golf courses. Can notes: "Golf / Glenn / Mendells"
Internet Archive
Desert Rock (Can 1)
Images from Yucca Flat at the Nevada Test Site and on-camera interviews with soldiers, Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson, and General Joseph May…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 098776
Content advisory: In the Jim Crow South, Black laborers living within legal segregation are photographed at work. In this Florida landscape reel from the Jim…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11003: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
0494 Art In Aluminum
to come
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: New York Harbor, Lake George, N.Y.]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97488: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
The Miracle of Lourdes (Reel 5)
Part 5 of a film about the Grotto in Lourdes, France and its significance to those of Catholic faith. Notes on can: Mogulls No. 1022
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Anderson-Nelson Collection: 001222
Travels around the San Francisco Bay area and northern California. Includes footage filmed in Stockton, San Francisco Chinatown, Woodside, Guerneville, Santa…
Internet Archive
Raisin Festival, The
Internet Archive
Our Productive Industry 22
Our Productive Industry 22
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003399
Roll 1: Amateur or experimental footage of what appears to be desert aerials as seen through a scope. May possibly be military missile or aerial firing test…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010104: 1971 Los Angeles antiwar march
Home movie: 010104: 1971 Los Angeles antiwar march
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97380: Maine
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10535]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97301: Ohio 1946 -
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004247
A trip to British Columbia, including scenes of sightseeing on the water and cabin camping. Note inside: 1960 Vancouver [Quilliam] Wig Inn
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10681: Michigan]
train yard, parade (B&W); family, parade, zoo
Internet Archive
Seeing the World: Part 4
Internet Archive
In the Beginning
Fundamentals of mammalian reproduction, presented through animation, photomicrography and natural photography.
Internet Archive
Seeing the World: Part 5
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97379: Maine
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 098188
Children climbing trees, riding horses, and chasing armadillos on a ranch; a visit to Yellowstone National Park; and children swimming in a public swimming…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010787
Domestic scenes of an early 1950s African American family during the holidays, with images of holiday dinners, people reading magazines on a sofa, a football…
Internet Archive
Calvin 3401 D: Clay Creek Model Study
Outtake footage of the construction and study of a model dam at Clay Creek in Colorado. Notes on Box: "Client: Colorado State Univ. Title: Clay Creek Model…