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Prelinger Archives

8,305–8,352 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 OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Home Movie: 97125: Unidentified Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97162: Unidentified Home movie to come Internet Archive Home Movie: 097102 Home movie A family in Ottawa, Canada. Includes images of the Brading Brewery, picnics along the Ottawa River, a child learning to walk, and a fishing trip on an… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97172: County Fair Home movie County fair. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98625: Horse Riding and Tennis Home movie To come. Internet Archive RP 001031 Film RP 001031 Internet Archive Home movie: 010144: 1950s Japanese American family in California Home movie Home movie: 010144: 1950s Japanese American family in California Internet Archive Home Movie: 97057: Strasburg Railroad, Conrail, EBT Home movie To come. Internet Archive Vista Stock Shots: Agricultural Colleges: 1 Film Can marked: "Agricultural Colleges: Labs", "at State Colleges and Feed Lot" Internet Archive Caltex: A Major Scientific Breakthrough Film · Subtitles Skeletal Entry Internet Archive Home Movie: 097353 Home movie Footage of a white dog sunning itself in early Spring, documentary shots of domestic landscaping, and views of Gettysburg National Military Park. Can notes:… Internet Archive News Footage 1954: Can 3 Film Comprehensive assembly of news footage both silent and sound sequences documenting many global issues and situations of the early 1950s including postwar… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97120: Unidentified Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home movie: 000446: 1940s Michigan family Home movie Home movie: 000446: 1940s Michigan family Internet Archive Home movie: 10562: Unititled Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 003158 Home movie Black teenagers working on electrical projects in a high school electronics club. Can marked: "Electronics King Class." This film was likely shot at Martin… Internet Archive Home Movie: 11067: Prelinger Collection Home movie To come. Internet Archive Understanding Modern Art: Non-Objective Art Film Survey of non-objective art and its appreciation. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97350: Pennsylvania Family and Travel Home movie To come. Internet Archive 0494 Untitled Transportation In NYC Film · Subtitles to come Internet Archive Home Movie PA 000234 Home movie Home Movie PA 000234 Internet Archive Home Movie: Gee Collection: 097828 Home movie In the mid-20th century a Chinese American family in San Francisco welcomes new babies and celebrates its young children and the delights available to them in… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97333: Male Child Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98575: Possibly in Maine Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 10333: Prelinger Collection Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98324: Fishing, Cripple Creek Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 004351 Home movie A group of men embark on a deep sea recreational fishing jaunt, starting with loading the bait at the dock and concluding with sunset over the Pacific. Internet Archive Home Movie: 004224 Home movie Aerial footage of airplanes flying and bombs exploding on the ground. Note on can: (ORIG PRINT) MIG FILM 18 Written on film: Mitchell 23 Mitchell, J. 186 Internet Archive Home movie: 001141: 1940s Southern California wealth and leisure Home movie Home movie: 001141: 1940s Southern California wealth and leisure Internet Archive Home Movie: Luna Collection: 004374 Home movie Domestic scenes of a Latinx family, including footage of teenagers on prom night, a woman opening gifts at a birthday party or baby shower, a Muhammad Ali… Internet Archive Home Movie: 098309 Home movie Content advisory: In an integrated classroom, Black learners engage in dance performance that is expressive in many ways, yet may contain an element of… Internet Archive Home movie: 010108_001: 1938 Medford Massachusetts community Home movie Home movie: 010108_001: 1938 Medford Massachusetts community Internet Archive [Conner NARA footage] Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Camera Eye On New Jersey Film · Subtitles Camera Eye On New Jersey Internet Archive Home Movie: Unknown Alaska Collection: 004193 Home movie Travelogue through the cities and wilderness of Alaska. Note on box: 5 1960 Healy Fairbanks So. [Bar--] Lake [Co--] [Williams] [SE] Internet Archive Home Movie: 97102: Unidentified Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97113: Cousins Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97417: Canadian Rockies Home movie To come. Internet Archive 001415 Film 001415 Internet Archive Home Movie: 97416: Canadian Rockies Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 10057: Lake Ozonia, New York Home movie Home movie showing recreation at Lake Ozonia, St. Lawrence County, New York Internet Archive Home Movie: 98591: Unidentified Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie PA 096029 Home movie Home Movie PA 096029 Internet Archive River, The (Part I) 1937 · Short · 14 min · Subtitles Classic documentary history of the exploitation of the resources of the Mississippi River Valley and the work being done to rehabilitate and reclaim the area.… Internet Archive Home Movie: 98832: Orphanage Sorority Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97459: Unidentified Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home movie: 000587: 1950s winter wedding and pet budgie Home movie Home movie: 000587: 1950s winter wedding and pet budgie Internet Archive Home Movie: 97235: Phoenix, Arizona Home movie Apparently shot in Phoenix, Arizona.