Prelinger Archives
8,497–8,544 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: 97114: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Floating Mapped Out
Homemade visual explanation of the flotation principle.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98597: Michigan Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001132: 1960s California outdoor recreations
Home movie: 001132: 1960s California outdoor recreations
Internet Archive
0493 Diga Buenos Dias Con Buena Salud
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97097: Relatives and Friends
To come.
Internet Archive
Dorsett 1960
Dorsett 1960
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Luna Collection: 004381
A Latinx family celebrates Halloween and birthdays together. Features a children's football game and a trip to Busch Gardens in the Van Nuys neighborhood of…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010067: 1930s USC student life with sports
Home movie: 010067: 1930s USC student life with sports
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97154: Eastern Homes
To come.
Internet Archive
0493 Misc Home Movies
to come
Internet Archive
Your Town USA
Your Town USA
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97292: Suburban Chicago Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000556: 1940s New England beach town
Home movie: 000556: 1940s New England beach town
Internet Archive
Soundie : Sailboat In The Sky (Johnnie Johnston)
Soundie : Sailboat In The Sky (Johnnie Johnston)
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97190: Travels in Western United States
To come.
Internet Archive
[Kling Vogue-Wright Studios Behind-the-Scenes Footage]: 000226
Content warning: Person pulled from a boat appears to be unconscious and requiring CPR at 5:05. Unclear if this is fiction or nonfiction. Behind-the-scenes…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97091: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 097869: 1940s Illinois church group picnicking and hiking
Home movie: 097869: 1940s Illinois church group picnicking and hiking
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97390: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Homecoming
Homecoming
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004196
A midwestern family in fall and winter, with football games and homecoming celebrations; snowy winter fun with a Cocker Spaniel and young children; and…
Internet Archive
River, The (Part II)
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: 008911: 1940s Eastern Washington state ranch and church family
Home movie: 008911: 1940s Eastern Washington state ranch and church family
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97457: Travel
To come.
Internet Archive
New Oregon Trail
New Oregon Trail
Internet Archive
RP Name Unknown 001
RP Name Unknown 001
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010046_003: 1950s road trip Rocky Mountain states to New York
Home movie: 010046_003: 1950s road trip Rocky Mountain states to New York
Internet Archive
Experimental Neurosis
Experimental Neurosis
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11773: Washington DC, Mt Vernon and NY City Trip
to come
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 096022
Content warning: This film contains images of hunting and animal corpses. A wilderness camping trip which includes hunting Big Horn Sheep. Can states: "JHA…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004230
A family sightseeing, fishing, swimming, and hiking through Yosemite National Park. Features a brief scene of synchronized swimming at tail. Lab stamp:…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97352: Pennsylvania Family, River, Christmas
To come.
Internet Archive
Scare Story
Scare Story
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97123: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98943: Operation Understanding
To come.
Internet Archive
Early Aviation 007
Early Aviation 007
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 097277
62nd Annual Tournament of Roses Parade, Pasadena, California, 1951. Long shots of parade and floats shot from a high angle.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 005001
Content warning: Orientalism. A white woman engaging in racist imitation of Asian people at 15:00. Images of young men involved in track events and football;…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98686: Family, 1930 - 1933
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010117: 1940s outdoors life and home life
Home movie: 010117: 1940s outdoors life and home life
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010136_001: 1920s amateur film satire of department store
Home movie: 010136_001: 1920s amateur film satire of department store
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98761: Cincinnati, OH
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97187: Western Trip, Grand Canyon
To come.
Internet Archive
Maze Learning
Maze Learning
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Sutta Collection: 005354
In a Jewish neighborhood in the Bronx, a filmmaker captures an American Legion parade and a ceremonial ribbon-cutting around the opening of a new branch of…
Internet Archive
Mode-Art Can 1482 R3
Negative outtakes of railroad yard footage, possibly used in "Profile of Steel". Mode-Art production number 926
Internet Archive
A Cup For Adams Ale
A Cup For Adams Ale