Prelinger Archives
8,593–8,640 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: 10396: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Flood Story
Flood Story
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001220: 1930s California musical family, GGIE and Los Angeles
Home movie: 001220: 1930s California musical family, GGIE and Los Angeles
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11678: Chester PA Family Scenes
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 11821: Phal Family Scenes
To come.
Internet Archive
RP Butterick Clothes Of 1942 001
RP Butterick Clothes Of 1942 001
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 098167
Music and dance in rural life animate this engaging portrait of a multigenerational family with friends who laugh together and play fiddles, banjo and guitar.…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004893
In 1970s Los Angeles an affectionate Black family enjoys life in their comfortable home, centered on a young baby and his older sister. With two Christmas…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97053: Delaware & Hudson Railroad
To come.
Internet Archive
Salvation Army Skid Row 001
Salvation Army Skid Row 001
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98613: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98935: Northwest 1951 (Part I), The
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97339: Southern California Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000436: 1920s family scenes
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97251: Unidentified
Description to come.
Internet Archive
Cherry Blossom Time
Cherry Blossom Time
Internet Archive
Mother Macks Puppies
Mother Macks Puppies
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010050_001: 1950s Michigan fishing and family
Home movie: 010050_001: 1950s Michigan fishing and family
Internet Archive
Home movie: 097818: 1930s antiwar protests and campus life
Home movie: 097818: 1930s antiwar protests and campus life
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000586: 1964 JFK gravesite visit
Home movie: 000586: 1964 JFK gravesite visit
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010062_001: 1940s rural life with traffic accident
Home movie: 010062_001: 1940s rural life with traffic accident
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97186: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 98878: Chatauqua
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Abe Doty Collection: 005216
In the early 1940s, people either too young or too old to be involved in the war effort pursue fall and summer recreation in California's Tehachapi and Sierra…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Sutta Collection: 005357
In the 1930s artifacts at an exhibit of objects expressing Tibetan heritage are carefully filmed by a camera with an eye for documentation. Hands offer to the…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001064: 1950s Detroit urban distress
Home movie: 001064: 1950s Detroit urban distress
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97188: Southern California Family
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000574: 1950s winter domestic scenes
Home movie: 000574: 1950s winter domestic scenes
Internet Archive
Home movie: 10409: Untitled
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98941: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97374: Bowling
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10387: Prelinger Collection
To come.
Internet Archive
Petroleum At The NY Worlds Fair 001
Petroleum At The NY Worlds Fair 001
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000434: 1955 cross-country road trip to desert southwest
Home movie: 000434: 1955 cross-country road trip to desert southwest
Internet Archive
Immigration 001
Immigration 001
Internet Archive
RP New York Is A Christmas Wonderland ARoll 001
RP New York Is A Christmas Wonderland ARoll 001
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97012: Untitled
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004390
Footage of an African American family at home and visiting various locations in Southern California, often by car. Includes family members modeling their…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 000874
Christmas scenes, an elder's birthday, and a visit to Tom Walker's Grist Mill, a historic cider mill in Fenton, Michigan. "Note on can: "Jewelry party,…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010106: 1930s to 1940s family wedding and working waterfront
Home movie: 010106: 1930s to 1940s family wedding and working waterfront
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97183: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97180: Moose
To come.
Internet Archive
RP One World Or None 001
RP One World Or None 001
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98807: New York Johnstown PA
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97399: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001480: 1950s California race cars
Home movie: 001480: 1950s California race cars
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98945: Unidentified
To come.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97400: Unidentified
To come.