Prelinger Archives
4,321–4,368 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 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
Movie Trailers: "Bugorama"
(aka CREEPSHOW MOVIE TRAILERS)
Internet Archive
Max Fleischer News Sketches
skeletal entry
Internet Archive
Play Your Part
World War II promotional film for Red Cross volunteers.
Internet Archive
You in Public Service: Applying for a Public Service Job
Internet Archive
Operation Doorstep
"The effects of an atomic explosion on two average frame houses are shown in Operation Doorstep, film story of the atom firing at Yucca Flats, Nevada during…
Internet Archive
US Steel Commercial #2
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Century of Progress Exposition]
VS Century of Progress Heavily loaded car (Massachusetts license plate) pulls away from camera with roof filled with cargo more Century of Progress House for…
Internet Archive
Milky Way, The
Internet Archive
Gibson Story, The
The film highlights Atlanta as a vibrant city blending traditional charm with modern industry, focusing on the Gibson Manufacturing Company, a leading…
Internet Archive
Ancient Rome in Africa
"Glimpses of the ruined cities of Timgad, El Djem and Carthage."
Internet Archive
Travel and Enjoy New England
Internet Archive
You Look Just Like Your Pictures
A diary film made by Jonathan Kahana.
Internet Archive
Personal Hygiene for Young Women
Internet Archive
Soldiers of the Soil
Content warning: This film contains dialogue that uses a derogatory word to describe Japanese people, [00:10:18]. Promotes farming as essential to American…
Internet Archive
It Floats
Advertising
Internet Archive
Gasoline For Everybody
Industrial film about the gasoline refining process. "Shows how crude oil is located, drilled, transported, and refined. Animated sequences describe the four…
Internet Archive
Vista Stock Shots: Sunsets and Sunrises
Internet Archive
It's Your America
Delineates the returning soldier's civic responsibilities.
Internet Archive
Shadow of Nazareth, The (Part I)
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098949:
Home movie scenes of Kentucky family life and landscape, 1960, filmed with Sylvania Sun Gun movie light.
Internet Archive
Crest Toothpaste Commercial 3
Crest Toothpaste TV Commercial
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Koura Collection: 006121
The Koura family of Washington state goes on vacation to Olympic Hot Springs Resort in Olympic National Park, and then takes a road trip south through Oregon…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98915: St. Paul Winter Carnival, 1950-1953 and 1960
To come.
Internet Archive
Heart of a Hero, The
Biography of Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale.
Internet Archive
Crater Lake Blues
Presenting Peggy Miller and Roger Long. Written by Jane and Rudolph Erickson. Music by Dan Hart. Narrated by John Alan Gleason.
Internet Archive
County Fair Buns Commercial
County Fair Buns Commercial
Internet Archive
[Gould can 5118.1]
Orville Wright visits Philadelphia and meets W.C. Lawrence and D.F. Wright, inventors of Whirlwind Motor. Shots of men talking.14:18:56:24 Stock footage from…
Internet Archive
Experimental Studies in the Social Climates of Groups
21:19:03:24 Two boys in workshop sawing wood while another boy mixes paint under adult supervision. In background is blackboard with “Charley” written on it…
Internet Archive
Micrin Mouthwash Commercial
Micrin Mouthwash TV Commercial
Internet Archive
Wolf of Cajon, The
A couple and their farm is threatened by a wolf.
Internet Archive
Where the Mountains Meet the Sea
CONCERNS CITY OF SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA
Internet Archive
Staggerlee: A Conversation with Black Panther Bobby Seale
San Francisco County Jail, February 13, 1970
Internet Archive
Home movie: 170001_001: California agricultural life and landscapes with shipwreck
Home movie: 170001_001: California agricultural life and landscapes with shipwreck
Internet Archive
Lady Lifeguards
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Reinders Collection, Reel 6]
Flower farm gardens Flooded street, cars driving slowly through puddles (good) river flooded orchard flowers planted in nursery field
Internet Archive
Charlies Atlas
Internet Archive
American Choice (Outtakes, Reel 3)
Outtakes from an unfinished film, American Choice. Depicts flowering trees and bushes and then row houses. An African American second assistant cameraperson…
Internet Archive
Macleans Toothpaste Commercial
Macleans Toothpaste Commercial
Internet Archive
Vista Color Stock Shots: Spring Blossoms Autumn Leaves
Stock shots of agricultural landscapes in California's Central Valley, including blossoming fruit orchards, wildflowers, and changes in land use.
Internet Archive
[Utica Drop Forge Footage]
Description to be added from log sheet. Outtakes or raw material from industrial film.
Internet Archive
Story of Television
Internet Archive
Allen Carpet Commercial
Commercial for Allen Carpets
Internet Archive
Greater Victory
0648, 0695 PA8534 Greater Victory
Internet Archive
See It Hear It Learn It: A Case for Spot TV
great animation some good static CUs of consumer products
Internet Archive
Touch-a-Matic 12
0649 PA8270 Touch-O-Matic
Internet Archive
Changing City, The
0635 PA8740 Changing City, The
Internet Archive
Restaurant Operator, The
SURVEYS JOBS AVAILABLE IN RESTAURANT BUSINESS & TRAINING NEEDED. Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
American Harvest