Prelinger Archives
7,921–7,968 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: 98881: Friends, Enid, OK
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 097713
A family road trip through the American Southwest, including stops to White Sands National Park and Zion National Park. Markings on reel state: "White Sands,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97206: Famlly Scenes
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10945: Palm Sunday, Cottage and Flats, 1940-41
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 001897
Footage documenting the Ohio River Flood of 1937 in Cincinnati. Note on can: CINCINNATI 1937 FLOOD Becky Luv
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010793
African American family documents their newly constructed home and suburban neighborhood in the Eastmoor district of Columbus, Ohio, circa 1953. Includes…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 12018: Unidentified Detroit Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: F. C. Doepke Collection: 010751
A rare look at Japan circa 1925 filmed by white tourists. Features many street scenes and visits to Kotoku-in, the deer of Nara Park, and a busy train…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Sutta Collection: 005355
A tourist produced this reel with skill and a sense for documentation, showing devotional and quotidian scenes in southeast Asia in the mid-1930s. Highlights…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 005390
A Japanese American farming family's new irrigation system is the showpiece of the first half of this reel. Once the fields are irrigated, the camera's…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97492: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Minsky Film 015
Robots at the MIT AI Lab
Internet Archive
Dividends From Space Reel 1 A
Dividends From Space Reel 1 A
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 12325: Grad Trip North
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 098150: 1950s Brandeis University graduation and train wreck
Home movie: 098150: 1950s Brandeis University graduation and train wreck
Internet Archive
[Untitled: Alaska]
Scenes of Alaskan life
Internet Archive
Independence Day Celebration
Footage of the Independence Day street celebration in San Rafael, California and a literary exercise at the court house. Also includes footage of King Alfonso…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010276
Sequences featuring Deaf adults and teens socializing, having fun, and communicating using American Sign Language. The first sequence, filmed in black and…
Internet Archive
Story of My Life by Mr. Shoe, The
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97265: Florida
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97388: Garden and Badminton
To come.
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1410 (R2)
Outtakes depicting US Army Corps of Engineers projects working to reclaim riverside land from multiple rivers by dredging and building retaining walls. Rivers…
Internet Archive
[Universal Outs]
Outtakes from Universal Newsreel sequences show fragments from a range of historic episodes in the year after the end of World War II: A news conference in…
Internet Archive
Dollar Store #2
skeletal entry
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10466: "Home Movie #6" - Cotton Bowl]
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97104: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
With One Voice: The Story of the Economic Security Program
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000419: 1960s Pennsylvania farm
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 2251
Silent work print for film entitled "Atomic Power at Shippingport."
Internet Archive
Police Baton 001
Police Baton 001
Internet Archive
Day of Decision, The
Biblical film.
Internet Archive
Back To Bombay
Back To Bombay
Internet Archive
Adirondack Holiday Reel 2B
The 1950s film footage captures a variety of scenes in the United States, showcasing different aspects of leisure, nature, and historical reenactments. It…
Internet Archive
Meet Mr Termite
Meet Mr. Termite is a vintage silent footage for an educational documentary short film produced by F. H. Clough that explores the biology and destructive…
Internet Archive
RP Report In Primary Colors 001
RP Report In Primary Colors 001
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98632: Yellowstone Park
To come.
Internet Archive
A Place In The Sun 1 B
A Place In The Sun 1 B
Internet Archive
[Flea Market (Sync Workprint)]
Views of a flea market in Berkeley, California, showing sellers, buyers and merchandise. This element is scanned to get a first look at the film. Rough cut…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97243: Fishing at Lake Hinshaw, etc.
Notes indicate shot in Phoenix, Arizona and elsewhere. Description to come
Internet Archive
1083 Soundie Begin The Beguine Varios And Vida
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Oregon: 003379
Scenes of boating around the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Note on can: Columbia River boats, freighter, near east Portland [notes are from eBay seller] Date…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98571: Florida
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 0000114
Home Movie PA 0000114
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003438
Visits to Southern California landmarks: Huntington Library and Gardens, the Original Farmers Market, and brief views of Santa Monica. Notes on can state:…
Internet Archive
RP Prologue To The Future 001
RP Prologue To The Future 001
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97249: Eastern Sierra, etc.
To come.
Internet Archive
Skipper Learns a Lesson
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000455: 1928 World War 1 veterans Europe trip
Home movie: 000455: 1928 World War 1 veterans Europe trip