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Prelinger Archives

3,793–3,840 of 10,346 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 Movie Trailers (April Fool's Day) 2026 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive [Hats in Ring: Knowland, Knight Declare Candidacy] 1950 · Newsreel · Subtitles Senator William Knowland (publisher, Oakland Tribune) announces candidacy in the Republican primary for Governor of California. Incumbent Governor Goodwin… Internet Archive There's No Hiding Place Down Here Film · Subtitles Content warning: contains a graphic still image of an African American victim of the Ku Klux Klan at 6:30. A documentary describing the successful struggle of… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97396: Unidentified Home movie To come. Internet Archive Good Wrinkles 1951 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive [Salute To Farmer Television Spots] 1967 · Film · Subtitles A series of television commercials about the Federal Land Bank system released during the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Federal Land Bank in 1917.… Internet Archive How to Merchandise Your Garden Shop Film · Subtitles 06:45:29:17 VS mostly older women, some men, customers looking at flowers in a nursery. 06:45:50:18 Pretty young woman at outdoor nursery placing white… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Ransohoff Collection: Burt in Army, Family on Vallejo Street] 1940 · Home movie · Subtitles two columns of soldiers marching past camera on army base pilot getting into plane VS soldiers parading and on parade ground film shifts to Kodachrome --… Internet Archive Eight Or Nine In The Morning 1973 · Film · Subtitles The film explores the dramatic changes in Chinese education during and after the Cultural Revolution. Schools and colleges were closed for over two years due… Internet Archive First Color Newsreel Newsreel · Subtitles The first color newsreel seen by American audiences about the 1948 Tournament of Roses and the Rose Bowl football game against University of Michigan and… Internet Archive [Amateur Film: Roller Skating & Beach] 1960 · Film · Subtitles kids in playground. at beach, games on lawn Internet Archive Home Movie: 97406: San Francisco 1950 · Home movie Viewing notes state: “Charbauer” ? Hotel; Charbauer or Tharbauer; Humble Building; oil rig / wife in car (ca. 1954); Death Valley; driving; Welcome to New… Internet Archive Reactions in Plants and Animals Film · Subtitles Some good shots to be logged. FInger being pricked by sharp point. Geotropism; plants growing away from earth Phototropism Stereotropism Internet Archive Post Grape-Nuts Cereal Commercial Commercial · 1 min · Subtitles Internet Archive [Gould Can 5376 Mayor Rolph] 1915 · Film · Subtitles Panama-Pacific International Exposition - Mayor Rolph in Market Street Opening Day Parade San Francisco, California: Mayor Rolph throws out first ball to open… Internet Archive Childcare: People's Liberation 1970 · Educational · Subtitles (Newsreel #56). "The film shows how community run childcare centers are a step toward liberation, by giving parents and children a chance to develop… Internet Archive [Gould can 5161.8] 1915 · Film · Subtitles Chicago, Illinois. Chrysanthemum show opens. 09:46:42:09 Chicago, Illinois chrysanthemum show opens at Garfield Park around 1916. Men and women smelling… Internet Archive Mother, The Film · Subtitles [Reel starts with stilled shots of women on street - before start of film; logged seperately] Internet Archive Chance You Take Film · Subtitles Internet Archive [Gould can 5230.4] 1928 · Film · Subtitles KINOGRAMS NEWSREEL: Sacramento, CA: Antique side-wheeler steamboats and rear paddle-wheeler race on the Sacramento River / steamboats San Joaquin No. 4, Red… Internet Archive Listen Film · Subtitles Content warning: Includes stereotypical characters purporting to represent people of Italian and Irish descent. Instructions for courteous and effective… Internet Archive Tom, Dick and Harriet Film · Subtitles With Ellen Corby, Beverly Wills and the Sportsmen Quartet. Screenplay by Leo S. Rosencrans. Songs by Michael Brown. Directed by Leroy Prinz. Internet Archive Inside Russia: Moscow and Leningrad 1948 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Home Movie: 98230: Fan Trip on CNS&M and Others, 1960 1960 · Home movie Notes on can: "Fan trip on C.N.S. & M. and City of East Troy 2-2160 / Lakeside Belt Line at Milwaukee 7-6-60" Internet Archive Who Cops Out? 1970 · Film · Subtitles About adolescence, with dramatizations of troubles teens face. Internet Archive Movie Trailers ("Intermission, Six Minutes") 2026 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Challenging the Desert Wind Film · Subtitles "A public information film on the Nevada State Tree Nursery program to conserve soil and water through windbreak planting." Stock shots to be logged. VS trees Internet Archive Soundie - What This Country Needs 1941 · Film · Subtitles performed by The Singing Powers Models. Features Jimmie Dodd. Internet Archive Know Your Typewriter Film Many great shots of children at various grade levels learning about typewriters and typing CUs typewriters Hints for typewriter operation Miss Stella Willins,… Internet Archive Light Of Your Life A Educational · Subtitles Internet Archive [San Francisco Marches On!] 1937 · Film · Subtitles San Francisco, California promotional film to vote on a bond issue supporting construction of a subway / many scenes of traffic conditions on San Francisco… Internet Archive Monkeys Uncle Toy Commercial Commercial · 1 min · Subtitles Internet Archive Making Coal Gas and Coke 1920 · Film · Subtitles Hunt's Point plant of Consolidated Gas Co. at New York City (Bronx) Internet Archive Structure of the Earth: Volcanoes, The 1923 · Film · Subtitles Great boiling bubbling lava shots. Internet Archive [Home Movies: Medicus Collection: Little Journey to Washington, D.C., April 1935] 1935 · Home movie · Subtitles Starting title: "Little Journey to Washington, D.C. (April 1935); VS White House and U.S. Capitol; Easter egg rolling on White House lawn; Tomb of Unknown… Internet Archive Salesman: A Film Lesson in Vocational Guidance, The 1920 · Film · Subtitles Careers of male and female salespersons. Some good shots to be logged. Possibly shot in Oakland, California. Internet Archive Home Movie: David Duer Collection: 004035 Home movie Film from a family in the San Francisco East Bay. Includes footage of the Berkeley/Oakland hills in the 1940s, domestic scenes of children playing in a front… Internet Archive Home movie: 170002_001: 1940s California Bay Area family local life and trip to Puerto Rico Home movie Home movie: 170002_001: 1940s California Bay Area family local life and trip to Puerto Rico Internet Archive Industry on Parade Film · Subtitles Pasadena: "To give us more miles!" -AAA mobile gas economy run; A Message from Industry to You... Quality of Life; Academy for Artists - Correspondence… Internet Archive Choice 1978 · Educational · Subtitles A group of young teenagers go to the amusement park and are faced with difficult decisions. From the series: Trade-offs From teacher's guide included with… Internet Archive [Gould can 5161.7] 1915 · Film · Subtitles New York City: City's crack 7th Army Regiment returns home in parade up Fifth Avenue. 09:45:10:13 Intertitle “New York City; Boys From the Border Back Home;… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97475: St. Louis Area Family, Reel 7 1959 · Home movie Viewing notes state: Farmington water tower oil (?) workers Aerials from tower Airport with Eastern Airlines prop plane Korean ? family priest Men with corn… Internet Archive Parade in New York Home movie · 21 min · Subtitles 0629 PA8770 [Parade in New York] 16 Koda orig pix Internet Archive First Line of Defense 1940 · Film · Subtitles Shows maneuvers, shipboard activities, simulated combat. Many interesting shots to be logged. Internet Archive [Home movie: 098263: Hurricane Audrey aftermath and Mexico road trip] 1957 · Home movie 11 min., color: Road trip from Mexico, crossing the border at Ciudad Juarez and El Paso, then heading east on U.S. 90 along the Gulf Coast in Texas and… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Deaf Youth Group II] 1950 · Home movie · Subtitles Sticker on can reads: "Young Group Club Members" Baseball lessons in park Men and women playing informal game of baseball, sort of (goofy) Into Kodachrome… Internet Archive Who Are the People of America? 1953 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Manpower 1943 · Film · Subtitles Some good stock shots to be logged. World War II homefront. Women war workers.