Prelinger Archives
4,657–4,704 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
Home Movie: 10890: San Francisco, Stockton, Etc.
Notes in can state: Japanese Tea Garden - S.F. Rainbow Freedom Train ‘47? Palace of Fine Arts Bldg. Alcatraz & Bay Pictures
Internet Archive
Day in New York, A
City Symphony w/ abstractions of NY
Internet Archive
American Pioneer
Internet Archive
Sunbeam Bread Commercial #3
0736 PA8910 Sunbeam Bread TV Commercials "John Engel, 1953-1957"; was PA-3992
Internet Archive
Road Runners
Internet Archive
Copper Mining and Smelting
0575 PA8238 Copper Mining and Smelting
Internet Archive
[KPIX Teletour: Kaiser Motors and OPD Firing Range] (Roll A)
A KPIX-TV host visits a used car lot (Henry J. Kaiser Motors) and an Oakland Police Department firing range. Features interviews with car lot patrons and…
Internet Archive
Mother Mack's Puppies Find Happy Homes
TELLS HOW EACH OF MOTHER MACK'S PUPPIES FIND NEW HOMES.
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 97229: Yellowstone Park, Mount Rainier, etc.
Handwritten note in can (removed) states: Trip to Sequoia park & yellowstone park, The large trees, Mountain rainair [Rainier?]with, mother & Daddy
Internet Archive
Focus Leader 02
Focus Leader, Caterpillar Style!
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers ("No Smoking")
Internet Archive
Letter From an Airline Pilot (Part I)
0740 PA9002 Letter From an Airline Pilot 16 B&W print
Internet Archive
Sky, The
Internet Archive
Obligations
Internet Archive
Food for America
Internet Archive
Home Movie: 010158 (My Alaska Cruise, Reel 1)
"My Alaska Cruise" (R1) California tourism, June 1938 - Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Redwood Empire, then Coastal Alaska in 1938 from a shipboard…
Internet Archive
Behind the Front (Reel 4)
Last reel of the silent comedy "Behind the Front". The film was broken into reels approximately 15 minutes in length for the rental market. "Riff Swanson has…
Internet Archive
Sky, The
Internet Archive
Wildcat at Mead
Documentary about the 1972 wildcat strike of predominantly Black workers at Mead Packaging in Atlanta, Georgia. See https://interferencearchive.org/wildcat-at-…
Internet Archive
Young Man River
Internet Archive
400 Years in 4 Minutes
Internet Archive
Tale of Two Cities, A
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Unidentified: ?Mogull Family 3]
Looks like amateur film of a wealthy family, same as previous film (and maybe part of previous film); hunch is could have been shot by a professional employed…
Internet Archive
How to Be a Successful Hostess (Outtakes, Reel 3)
Content warning: This film contains scenes of a white woman engaged in the cultural appropriation of Chinese culture. Description of the source film from…
Internet Archive
[Home movie: 098959: 1940 honeymoon trip to TVA landmarks and Smoky Mountains destinations]
Home movie of 1940 road trip through Georgia and North Carolina, including Great Smoky Mountains and TVA landmarks
Internet Archive
Time Is Life
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Tokyo, Japan and Trip to Nikko by Train]
Add description from log sheet
Internet Archive
[Panama-Pacific International Exposition]
Internet Archive
Tackle Busters
Skeletal Entry
Internet Archive
March Of Time New Orleans
Internet Archive
U.S. Defense Against Foreign Plague
Internet Archive
Patsy's Jim
Western.
Internet Archive
Princeton (part 2)
Portrays the life and spirit of Princeton University, its 200 years of history, its rich associations and the opportunities it offers to those seeking higher…
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Golden Gate International Exposition]
To be logged. Home movies shot at Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939-40. ends with nice shot of woman approaching camera, walking down…
Internet Archive
They Shall Not Want (A-roll picture, silent)
Segment of the film They Shall Not Want produced by Cadillac Motor Car division of General Motors Corporation during World War II. This is one of two picture…
Internet Archive
Emergency First Aid: Part 2 - Bandaging Wounds And Burns
World War II-era instructional film on how to clean, bandage, and treat wounds and burns. Includes demonstrations of how to tie a bandage around various parts…
Internet Archive
Where the North Begins (Reel 1)
First reel of the Rin-Tin-Tin vehicle, in which a dog raised by wolves leaves his pack to protect a fur trapper. Coverage from Screen Opinions, Vol. 13, No.…
Internet Archive
Movie Trailers (Coming Attractions)
Internet Archive
Uncle Sam's Siberians: A Documentary Film of the North in Summer
A number of interesting shots to log. St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea. "Its Eskimo people are nationals of the United States, but by blood, culture and…
Internet Archive
Emergency Exit Promo
Short Movie Theater Ad advising to look for nearest Emergency exit.
Internet Archive
Defense Comes First With Oldsmobile (1942 Oldsmobile Playlets)
Advertising short. Factory whistles blowing against sky
Internet Archive
Crowded Out
Internet Archive
IT'S YOUR PENNSYLVANIA: KEEP IT GROWING!
Internet Archive
[Superior Coach Corp. FOCUS leader]
FOCUS leader with Superior Coach Corp. logo. In Ektachrome.
Internet Archive
Crossroads Of The Pacific
Internet Archive
Psalm of Psalms by David the Shepherd King, The Twenty Third Psalm
Dramatized film about the twenty-third Psalm of the Book of Psalms, including quotations from Scripture.
Internet Archive
Science in Action: Rivers of Ice
Internet Archive
[Home Movies: Night Rodeo, Gallup, New Mexico, 1951]
VS nighttime rodeo.