Prelinger Archives
4,513–4,560 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
What About Prejudice?
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97321: Autumn and Arizona
Viewing notes state: Ice skating Burning leaves in the street Women raking leaves Petrified Forest Grand Canyon Native American dancers
Internet Archive
Soundie - Tica Ti Tica Ta
features Ginger Harmon and the Mercer Brothers
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098256: PA rail fan 4: Rail fan scenes of 1960 Pennsylvania]
12 min., color: A rail fan in Pennsylvania captures the Philadelphia Suburban Transit Co. at work, then takes a tourist ride on a coal-fueled, steam powered…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97297: Don't You Believe It
Amateur film.
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers ("Barnyard Night" Promotion)
Internet Archive
Soundie - Surrender
lyrics and music by Benjamin/Weiss
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 10993: Western Trip, Part 1
Note in can states: July 1966 Pa. Turnpike Jam St. Jude, Chicago Omaha & Boys Town North Platte (Buffalo Bill) Home Lincoln Highway Monument (Laramie) San…
Internet Archive
Fall Color
California scenic stock shots: Sierra mountains, high desert, Mojave, wildflowers, Central Valley. Date inferred from edge code.
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098997: Home movie from an Arkansas family in the 1950s that had a large farm (Ullrich Recreation Place and Fun Farm) and traveled regionally; this reel featuring gardens and domestic…
Home movie from a white Arkansas family in the 1960s that had a large farm (Ullrich Recreation Place and Fun Farm) and traveled regionally; this reel features…
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 98224: Grand Trunk Fan Trip, 1960
"G.T.W. fan trip 11-13-60 / C.V. & G.T.W. Steam on Scrap Line at Hyman-Michaels"
Internet Archive
Larynx and the Voice
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Ransohoff Collection: Yosemite and Santa Barbara, 1928]
Title: "Yosemite Valley June 1928" title: "Edith and the Children Spend a Lovely Summer with the Proud Grandparents" VS family VS family visiting major sights…
Internet Archive
Hoosier Promenade
Shot in a gymnasium from a high angle, at eyelevel., and below waist level slightly angled up. For part of the film, dancers have large white numbers on their…
Internet Archive
Modern Commerce
Survey of 1920s-era transport of goods including use of sail ships, navigation with sextants, and major routes and ports. From title screen: A Film Lesson in…
Internet Archive
[Thomas Jefferson]
Shots of historic buildings, some reenactments and some animation, such as Louisiana Purchase
Internet Archive
Martin Luther: His Life and Time
Some good images to be logged. Very title-heavy.
Internet Archive
1936 Pittsburgh Flood
Internet Archive
Your Movie Camera and How to Use It
Internet Archive
Home Movie: Can 11314: John Rieder Collection: From the Atlantic to the Blue Pacific
Home movie shot by John Rieder, probably resident of Brooklyn, New York, ca. mid-1950s. Includes scenes shot from westbound transcontinental flight on…
Internet Archive
1965 Parade of Homes, The
Internet Archive
Riders of the California Surf
Internet Archive
Tippy, Our Town Dog
Shows Tippy, a Terrier, who runs away and acquires a new master.
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098410: Baby Sylvia in Ohio, Reel 2, 1946-47]
16:25 min., color and BW: Baby grows around her first birthday; plays with toys in the living room and in her nursery, has a birthday party, Christmas, and…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Can 10373: Pietsch Collection: California Trips, Boulder Dam, etc.]
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Radiation Safety in Nuclear Energy Explorations (Part I)
0514 PA8063 Radiation Safety in Nuclear Energy Explorations
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Into European Waters]
Home movies of a vacation trip to various sites in Europe. Naples, Rome, Venice, Nice, Marseille
Internet Archive
The ABC's of Pool Care
Film about swimming pool care, advertising PennSalt Chemicals products. Details how pool owners can balance the pH of their home pools with PennSwim testing…
Internet Archive
News Parade of 1945
Internet Archive
Chance You Take, The
DUAL-90 TIRE SALES FILM.
Internet Archive
Seeing London
Internet Archive
DEW Line Story, The (Part I)
0575 PA8519 DEW Line Story, The
Internet Archive
Bicycling With Complete Safety
How boys and girls can make bicycle riding safer and more enjoyable.
Internet Archive
Children's Hospital School (Eugene, Oregon)
School for disabled children "founded September 1947 built and ustained by friends of physically handicapped children. An Easter Seal Project"
Internet Archive
It Takes Two To Make A Champ
This film is about Crisco, an all-vegetable shortening product made by Procter & Gamble. It starts by talking about champions and competition, then goes on to…
Internet Archive
Vista Stock Shots: Some Nightclubs, San Francisco
mostly San Francisco restaurants,
Internet Archive
Patrons Avoid Noise
Movie Theater Ad telling people to shut up and watch the movie.
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098991: Home movie from an Arkansas family in the 1950s that had a large farm and traveled regionally: This reel with square dancing, farmyard scenes, and horseback riding]
Home movie from a white Arkansas family in the 1950s that had a large farm (Ullrich Recreation Place and Fun Farm) and traveled regionally; this reel features…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Parade, etc.]
Appears to be a parade along Market Street, San Francisco, with floats POV through windshield driving across San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 097744
A road trip throughout the Southern and Eastern United States with images of many historical sites in Massachusetts, Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia, Florida,…
Internet Archive
Message to No One
Family issues around listening and paying attention translate to fathers work
Internet Archive
[Stock Footage: San Francisco Parade, etc.]
Parade featuring mult ethnicities, outside City Hall and through City 4H Club w/ cattle; Boat expo; golden gate dog show
Internet Archive
Vista Stock Shots: Sunrises and Sunsets
Internet Archive
Meter Man
The film tells the true story of Leon, a meter inspector for Consolidated Edison in New York City, whose life takes a dramatic turn when his wife, Adele, is…
Internet Archive
News Thrills Of 1940
Internet Archive
It's Everybody's Business
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
Facial Changes
An educational film designed for dental practitioners portraying changes in facial shape and structure due to the wearing of dentures.
Internet Archive
Our Home Town: Levittown, Pa.