Prelinger Archives
8,209–8,256 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: 004110
Travels around California, the American Southwest, and Hawaii. Also includes footage of new homes under construction and for sale in the San Fernando Valley…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 098779
Bellingrath Gardens on the estate of Walter and Bessie Bellingrath in Alabama. For additional information on Bellingrath Gardens, see…
Internet Archive
Story of Selecting Kosher Meat Products for Their Stores, The
Kosher meat slaughter, inspection, and butchering; shoppers in Stroh and Goldberg butcher shops. Probably filmed in New York City. CONTENT ADVISORY:…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97228: Vermont
Received from Cornwall, Vermont
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98624: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Polar Bear # 3
Polar Bear # 3
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Kay Kibby Collection: 003876
An amateur travelogue documenting a 1930s journey to the South Pacific. Departing San Francisco and traveling to New Zealand, Tahiti, Hawai'i, American Samoa,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97255: Unidentified Kodacolor
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 098163: 1960s California naval family at home and camping
Home movie: 098163: 1960s California naval family at home and camping
Internet Archive
Home Movie PA 000110
Home Movie PA 000110
Internet Archive
Land, The (Part III)
About the american farm Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97161: Unidentified
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97370: Niagara Falls, Animal Farm
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004523
Documents the activities of a multigenerational African American family in Southern California in the 1950s. Includes a wealth of visual evidence, including…
Internet Archive
6359_HM_First_Pictures_Zoo_Poney_sic_Express_Museum_Shower_33139__02_39_43_08
Blonde woman leaving house, mugging at camera Exiting automobile 2 women in bungalow court, Los Angeles-type (possibly Latino family?) Mother and son, or…
Internet Archive
000643b
000643b
Internet Archive
Coyote Scent Stations
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
St. Mihiel Drive, The
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98579: High Pressure Water Fog
To come.
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 6)
03:00:52:29 - 03:56:47:22 World's Fairs: New York, 1939-40; Home movies- amateur films. Can marked: "Amusement #1" Excellent color footage of pavilions,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98621: Trip to Baltimore
To come.
Internet Archive
Caltex: A Major Scientific Breakthrough
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
[Untitled: California's Asparagus Industry]
newreel, likely c. 1920's of Asparagus farmers preparing shipment
Internet Archive
New Fuel for New England
Bechtel Pipeline
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098960: Golf links at Mohawk Country Golf Course in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1942]
Men playing golf in 1942, at Mohawk Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10496: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98958: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000557: 1950s wedding and Bar Mitzvah
Home movie: 000557: 1950s wedding and Bar Mitzvah
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000407_Buffalo: 1930s teens
Home movie: 000407_Buffalo: 1930s teens
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97331: Family Scenes
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97146: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004345
A football game, presumably at Easter time, including stands full of fans, a marching band, and cheerleaders in saddle shoes. Note inside can: "Easter 1954"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 003317
Black and white document of flooded Ottumwa, Iowa and surrounding areas, showing flooded streets, damaged buildings, sand bags, and efforts to remove water…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Unknown Alaska Collection: 004217
An unknown family's Christmas gatherings and trips to the snow and to the ocean. Note in can: Xmas 59-60-61 Seaside Moses Lake
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Ransohoff Collection: 010898
Men log rolling and canoe tipping at a New Hampshire Fish and Game event, as well as people golfing, playing tennis, playing squash, and more. Also includes a…
Internet Archive
Toward Emotional Maturity
A teenage girl reflects on her emotional growth, remembering episodes in which her love, fear, anger were not always under control, and decides not to go…
Internet Archive
Soundie : Good Skates, The
Soundie : Good Skates, The
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Phal Collection: 011823
In the 1940s a pair of apparent businessmen tour mine sites and other business opportunities east and west, starting with desert southwest landscapes and a…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000427: 1944 Fairview Poultry Farm, IL
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98999: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001139: 1970s church wedding
Home movie: 001139: 1970s church wedding
Internet Archive
Home movie: 098092: 1950s Kentucky family summer fun
Home movie: 098092: 1950s Kentucky family summer fun
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004195
Parades and celebrations in Portland, Oregon. Features the Elks Flag Day Parade and Rose Parade. Note on can: #2 Colored Death Valley + Calif - Huntington…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Unidentified: ?Mogull Family 4]
More film from family in parts 1-3. Needs further viewing and analysis
Internet Archive
Home movie: 098115: 1964 road trip to San Francisco and the West
Home movie: 098115: 1964 road trip to San Francisco and the West
Internet Archive
Junior Chamber of Commerce, The (Working with Civic Organizations): A Film Lesson in Citizenship
Internet Archive
Hi-Fi in Hartford
Survey of grocery shoppers about sealtest ice-cream
Internet Archive
Home movie: 097814: 1940s World War II family with military aircraft
Home movie: 097814: 1940s World War II family with military aircraft