Prelinger Archives
7,825–7,872 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
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…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 005833
The Koura family on vacation in Hawai'i, including visits to the Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery, USS Arizona Memorial, and Waimea Canyon, in addition to…
Internet Archive
News Digest No. 4
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000932
Early milestones in the life of a little girl as she grows and plays in her neighborhood, likely in the upper Midwest United States. Home Movies 000933,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98946: Oakland County, Michigan
Shot in Oakland County, Michigan.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98539: Glen Canyon Bridge
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000554: 1930s Massachusetts shore recreations
Home movie: 000554: 1930s Massachusetts shore recreations
Internet Archive
The Dan Smoot Report: The Tragedy of U.S. Membership in the U.N. (#399)
Content warning: This film contains racist and white supremacist views and racial slurs to describe people of color. Polemical television broadcast by…
Internet Archive
[Going to the Big Game in Berkeley]
Transportation of crowds to and from Berkeley Football game
Internet Archive
[Colorado Flood]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98340: Detroit Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001219: 1930s California musical family, performances and GGIE
Home movie: 001219: 1930s California musical family, performances and GGIE
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000401: 1940 San Francisco wartime family in Brisbane
Home movie: 000401: 1940 San Francisco wartime family in Brisbane
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 011845
A road trip in the southern United States, with scenes of landscapes, car maintenance and scenes of a racially integrated outdoor gathering of children with…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 098626
Teenagers from the 1920s take turns doing the Charleston dance, somersaulting, and later wrestling on the front lawn. This exuberant family from Maryland…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Ransohoff Collection: 010278
Backyard and beach scenes. Middle-class life around brick home, children at play. Taped label on can states: "Mario".
Internet Archive
Soundie : Handful Of Clubs, A (The Elgins Juggling)
Soundie : Handful Of Clubs, A (The Elgins Juggling)
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97210: Home, Vacations to Buffalo & Maine
To come.
Internet Archive
Calvin 3401 A: 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: Muraoka Collection: 005093
A Japanese American family waits to board a United Airlines aircraft on the tarmac at a Los Angeles airport, plus a brief glimpse inside the family's…
Internet Archive
On the River Front of New Orleans
Members of the Rachel Sims Memorial Mission are shown working with impoverished children in New Orleans, featuring images of children playing in a school yard…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006101
Various gatherings and conventions of Youth Buddhist Association chapters in the Pacific Northwest, featuring large groups of Japanese American people…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006114
Various scenes of leisure with the Japanese American Koura family, including children playing in the yard, celebrating a young boy's birthday, and gathering…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97499: Yellowstone Park
To come.
Internet Archive
Alaska
Alaska
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Unknown Alaska Collection: 004205
Home movie of industry, life and travel in Alaska. Note on can: 9 61+62 Kodiak and Nome Fairbanks [S--] Homer
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10592: Trip East
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10048: W. Arrol Collection]
[Home Movies: Can 10048: W. Arrol Collection]
Internet Archive
Tales of A Thousand And One Nights (R5)
Part 5 of an adaptation of the Tales of A Thousand and One Nights. The film was broken into reels approximately 15 minutes in length for the rental market.…
Internet Archive
The Battle of Peekskill
Content warning: White racist violence against Black and Jewish people. Newsreel documenting the Peekskill Riots, "a series of violent attacks by mobs of…
Internet Archive
Steel for the Armed Forces, Part 1: How Steel Is Made
Internet Archive
Industry on Parade (Can 2b)
Internet Archive
Fighting Tuna, The
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10877: "#1 S.F.-N.O. 1935"]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97355: Pennsylvania Family: Back Yard and Halloween Parade
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Hoogerhyde Collection: 098647
Tourism to Hawai'i and Japan in the 1950s. Label on can states:1st TimeHawaii & Japan1957
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97491: Colorado
To come.
Internet Archive
Seeing the World, Part 3
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10370: Family Pictures
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010034: Several 1950s birthday parties
Home movie: 010034: Several 1950s birthday parties
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 001088
Content warning: Contains a live animal sacrifice at 10:45. Travel footage of India and Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka) filmed by white tourists, including…
Internet Archive
[Amsterdam] (Roll 1)
Footage of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Holland. Includes shots of boats cruising down canals; bicyclists at Dam Square; men wearing klompen (wooden clogs), and…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001149: 1940s Royal American Exposition and midwestern home life
Home movie: 001149: 1940s Royal American Exposition and midwestern home life
Internet Archive
Costly Crosses
Railroad ties Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10973: Prelinger Collection
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010596
Tourists visit San Francisco. Includes images of the Golden Gate Bridge, FIsherman's Wharf, Muir Woods, Union Square, and more. Can notes: "San Francisco 1959"
Internet Archive
First Americans Past and Present
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004742
A family in Iowa. Note on can: Approx 1942 Black & White Runs ok and item list inside checked 10 Jan 78 Note inside: about 1942 Picknick (sic) @ Byrne Park…