Prelinger Archives
8,881–8,928 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: 000517a: 1946 California road trip
Home movie: 000517a: 1946 California road trip
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001207: 1936 California landscape and industry
Home movie: 001207: 1936 California landscape and industry
Internet Archive
World at War
A feature length motion picture presenting step-by-step the events which led up to Pearl Harbor and total war. History, filmed as it happened, shows the…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010053_001: 1930s and 1940s colonial Southeast Asia
Home movie: 010053_001: 1930s and 1940s colonial Southeast Asia
Internet Archive
Kileaua And Mauna Loa
Kileaua And Mauna Loa
Internet Archive
000720
000720
Internet Archive
Home movie: 0001134_GGB_UCBerkeley: 1960s UC Berkeley and California
Home movie: 0001134_GGB_UCBerkeley: 1960s UC Berkeley and California
Internet Archive
The Time Is Now
The Time Is Now
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000496b: 1947 Kansas horse family weding
Home movie: 000496b: 1947 Kansas horse family weding
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000412.1: 1965 Villareal patio restaurant
Home movie: 000412.1: 1965 Villareal patio restaurant
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001159_001: 1940s airplane landing
Home movie: 001159_001: 1940s airplane landing
Internet Archive
Sequoia
Sequoia
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000461: 1930s cavalry
Home movie: 000461: 1930s cavalry
Internet Archive
Miyamoto Reel B
Miyamoto Reel B
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000551: 1950s child in snow and Bay Area urban landscapes
Home movie: 000551: 1950s child in snow and Bay Area urban landscapes
Internet Archive
A Minute A Day
A Minute A Day
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 004677
Assembled reel of home movie footage that appears to document one family at home and on vacations in the western United States in the 1930s and 1940s. The…
Internet Archive
The Coveted East Indies
Content notice: European colonial leaders at work in territories they referred to during the colonial era as "East Indies," otherwise known as Indonesia and…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000575-2: 1950s Lake Erie baseball and summer
Home movie: 000575-2: 1950s Lake Erie baseball and summer
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000588a: Birthday party for Thelma
Home movie: 000588a: Birthday party for Thelma
Internet Archive
001399
001399
Internet Archive
001018
001018
Internet Archive
Home movie: 010075: 1960s New England shore after storm
Home movie: 010075: 1960s New England shore after storm
Internet Archive
001114 SF
001114 SF
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Al Kinard Collection: 000917
A family spending time at a lakeside cabin. Can notes: "Cabin #2 1961"
Internet Archive
000641
000641
Internet Archive
Home movie: 097910: 1960s South Carolina home, tourism, and labor
Home movie: 097910: 1960s South Carolina home, tourism, and labor
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000561-2: 1950s Florida and Atlantic City
Home movie: 000561-2: 1950s Florida and Atlantic City
Internet Archive
Your Postal Service
Your Postal Service
Internet Archive
000730b
000730b
Internet Archive
Home movie: 071247: 1930s Erie Canal coal transport and a pheasant hunt
Home movie: 071247: 1930s Erie Canal coal transport and a pheasant hunt
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000563: 1959 Massachusetts and small children
Home movie: 000563: 1959 Massachusetts and small children
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000592: 1960 motor home family
Home movie: 000592: 1960 motor home family
Internet Archive
001086 World Cruise 1928
001086 World Cruise 1928
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001127: 1961 Midwestern states road trip
Home movie: 001127: 1961 Midwestern states road trip
Internet Archive
City In The Snow 2 B
City In The Snow 2 B
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000415: 1950s Villareal patio restaurant celebrations
Home movie: 000415: 1950s Villareal patio restaurant celebrations
Internet Archive
Home movie: 001192: 1950s grown up birthday party beer and tattoos
Home movie: 001192: 1950s grown up birthday party beer and tattoos
Internet Archive
098725
098725
Internet Archive
RP Swope Park Zoological Gardens 001
RP Swope Park Zoological Gardens 001
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000528-2: 1920s hunting trip for moose
Home movie: 000528-2: 1920s hunting trip for moose
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000564-2: 1961 Massachusetts family with small children
Home movie: 000564-2: 1961 Massachusetts family with small children
Internet Archive
Home movie: 002467_001: 1970s San Francisco and Marin County
Home movie: 002467_001: 1970s San Francisco and Marin County
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000566: 1960s Massachusetts wedding photography
Home movie: 000566: 1960s Massachusetts wedding photography
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000589c: 1950s Michigan lakeshore
Home movie: 000589c: 1950s Michigan lakeshore
Internet Archive
001332
001332
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Dr. OE Wall Collection: 004977
Close-cut sequences visiting sites in south Asia and southeast Asia in the 1930s, with scenes in Chesterfield, Virginia included between historically…
Internet Archive
Home movie: 000500: 1950s Arkansas, Missouri vacations
Home movie: 000500: 1950s Arkansas, Missouri vacations