Prelinger Archives
8,353–8,400 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: 97357: Pennsylvania Family Christmas
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000441: 1950s Baby Boom toddlers and children
Home movie: 000441: 1950s Baby Boom toddlers and children
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97149: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Luna Collection: 004375
Latinx family celebrating birthdays, a wedding, and other holidays with extended family in California. Includes visits to Disneyland and other amusement parks.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97072: New Orleans and Bellingrath Gardens, 1941
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97343: Pennsylvania Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001131: 1960s California road trip
Home movie: 001131: 1960s California road trip
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000584-2: 1950s mobile home life
Home movie: 000584-2: 1950s mobile home life
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97299: Eastern Star Installation Inspection
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98917: Possibly in Minneapolis
Possibly shot in Minneapolis, Minn.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98552: Michigan Family
To come.
Internet Archive
001104 Latino family on vacation
001104 Latino family on vacation
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Klaus Henrich Collection: 003459
A European couple celebrates an occasion with a trip to Miyajima, Japan, or the Island of the Gods and to the Children's Peace Garden at Hiroshima, followed…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010036_001: 1930s Vassar College campus and students
Home movie: 010036_001: 1930s Vassar College campus and students
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98956: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000476: 1940s Sitka, Alaska, Canada
Home movie: 000476: 1940s Sitka, Alaska, Canada
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97109: Florence 1st and 2nd Birthday
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10413: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Cats In A Puzzle Box
Cats In A Puzzle Box
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97220: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
0475 Saving Little Pigs
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010825
Black family in Detroit visiting the waterfront, riding ferries, at home, at the Botanical Garden on Belle Isle, and more. Included are a few shots of the New…
Internet Archive
0493 Land Speed Tests Footage
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97148: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98879: Delaware, Riding
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 097868: 1950s Detroit city and a company picnic
Home movie: 097868: 1950s Detroit city and a company picnic
Internet Archive
Coke On The Go 001
Coke On The Go 001
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000592-3: 1960 Christmas
Home movie: 000592-3: 1960 Christmas
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98578: Possibly in Maine
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98551: Fishing
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97311: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004697
Content warning: Contains scene of animal abuse at 36:25—an emaciated bear is chained and put on display for entertainment. A visit to postwar Europe with…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004353
Youth football on a grassy field under a stormy sky, with a scene of a football team playing without helmets. May have been shot in Phillipsburg or Belvidere,…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97112: San Francisco
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97164: Family Pictures, Reel 1
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97203: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97266: Yale-Princeton Football, Lawrenceville Track
To come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10999: Faded Old Family Pictures
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010107: 1928 New York City Central Park and Hunters Island
Home movie: 010107: 1928 New York City Central Park and Hunters Island
Internet Archive
Flowering Trees Of Hawaii
Flowering Trees Of Hawaii
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97226: Vermont
Received from Cornwall, Vermont
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010074_001: 1960s waves breaking at Bald Head
Home movie: 010074_001: 1960s waves breaking at Bald Head
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98831: California Mexico Dinner Club
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97122: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11058: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010597
Local 415 U.P.A.-C.I.O workers on strike in rural Pennsylvania in the 1950s. Can notes: "Local 415 Strike"
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000542
Content warning: Contains images of white women appropriating Hawaiian culture. Domestic scenes of a Detroit family, including dogs playing, a man tending to…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11005: Latest Snaps
To come.