Prelinger Archives
8,017–8,064 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: 98313: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97016: Marietta, Ohio area
Home movies shot in the 1930s near Marietta, Ohio
Internet Archive
Trees For Tomorrow
Film promoting the tree-growing industry, produced in the 1930s.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010396
Tourist views of California, with a strong focus on San Francisco. Includes images of Fisherman's Wharf, the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco Zoo, and…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010066_001: 1950s Thanksgiving and Christmas with family
Home movie: 010066_001: 1950s Thanksgiving and Christmas with family
Internet Archive
[Untitled: Golden Spike Ceremony and Celebration] (Gould can 5342)
Northwestern Pacific Railroad completion, Humboldt County, Mayor James Rolph
Internet Archive
Home movie: 098064: 1950s artsy Army family road trips and double exposures
Home movie: 098064: 1950s artsy Army family road trips and double exposures
Internet Archive
Whiskey Rebellion, The
Internet Archive
0499 Pennsylvania State Cresson Sanitarium
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003386
Home movie picturing Pacific Coast travels and a drive through San Francisco on U.S. Highway 101. Note in can states: "Eds - Tacoma / 101 Oreg — / Cal — / Red…
Internet Archive
Wings Over Hanford
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98657: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98375: Niagara Falls, Canada
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098933: Ontario tourism, 1955]
Road trip through Ontario, 1955
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006109
Activities surrounding the 1960 strawberry harvest at the Japanese American Koura family farm in Washington, including workers picking berries and what…
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 000166
Home Movie PA 000166
Internet Archive
0499 American Indian Child Life
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004710
Narrow gauge railway journey on the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad through Colorado, filmed from above and alongside tracks and occasionally from the…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Sandoval Collection: 004393
A Latinx family in the late 1950s plays and explores together around Southern California, New Mexico, and Texas, visiting with friends and family at different…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97451: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
[Amsterdam] (Roll 2)
Footage of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, Holland. Includes shots of boats in the harbor in Rotterdam, canals, Rotterdam city hall, women wearing klompen (wooden…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98756: Possibly in Connecticut
To come.
Internet Archive
Caltex: A Major Scientific Breakthrough
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
RP Last Clear Chance 001
RP Last Clear Chance 001
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010976
Road trip moving a trailer from San Diego, California to Lincoln, Nebraska. Can marked: "Callf. to Nebr. 1964"
Internet Archive
Inside Information
How the X-ray works and its use in police work, surgery, industrial engineering and automobile manufacturing.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000454: 1920s Europe: Rhine River, Alps, Versailles
Home movie: 000454: 1920s Europe: Rhine River, Alps, Versailles
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11774: Garden and Farm Scenes
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 097399
Home movie featuring children spending a day at the beach and going on amusement rides.
Internet Archive
U.S. Naval Cadets at U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Md.
Cadets marching in review.
Internet Archive
Pritchett: Life
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000410: 1960s Villareal patio restaurant
Home movie: 000410: 1960s Villareal patio restaurant
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004891
A Los Angeles area family with two young children enjoys holidays, birthdays, school field trips, road trips, and camping excursions in a family Winnebago.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97158: Church Picnic at Nela, 1926-27
Church Picnic at Nela Park, Cleveland, OH, 1926-27
Internet Archive
Minsky Film 013
Robots at the MIT AI Lab
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97257: Gismo 1952 Mackinac
Reel marked: Gismo 1952 Mackinac.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97074: Iowa, 1942 - 1946
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98614: Time and Motion Studies
To come.
Internet Archive
0499 Story Of Tea
To come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 001033
In this iconic home movie an unidentified Latino family in San Francisco's Excelsior District in the 1950s has enormous fun together in everything they do. At…
Internet Archive
Queerosities: Odd Pals
Midget and giant.
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 000220
Home Movie PA 000220
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Newhouser Collection: 011763
A forest retreat or picnic for Black servicemen and their families, featuring Black servicemen swimming in a lake. Also includes zoo animals, street scenes,…
Internet Archive
[Carbon Rod Manufacturing]
Factory workers producing carbon rods, also known as "carbons" for carbon arc lamps used in film projectors and other bright light applications. The Germany…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004357
Content warning: This film contains a brief image of the Aunt Jemima Pancake House at Disneyland with a sign depicting a racist mammy caricature at 13:13.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98714: Eastern Trip from Decatur to Washington D.C, and around Gaspe Peninsula
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97414: Seattle Through Victoria
Can marked: Seattle thru Victoria.
Internet Archive
Energia Para Las Americas