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Educationals from the world's archives

625–672 of 20,947 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 [Mona's Candle Light ca 1950s] 1950 · Educational · 7 min Mona's Candle Light was discovered among reels of film that Geoff Alexander of the Bay Area-based Academic Film Archive of North America bought at a flea… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Romeo and Juliet Acts III, IV & V: "Thus with a kiss I die" (Copy 1)" 1975 · Educational SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. I am the only person on earth preserving American filmstrips. The media format is largely forgotten and very… Internet Archive Remember 1973 · Educational · 53 min from WorldCat: For many men and women the war was the most memorable experience of their lives. This program asks whether it was worth it. Written and… Internet Archive Glass houses. 1972 · Educational · 21 min · Subtitles A series of deeply personal testimonies from individuals recounting their experiences with drug use and addiction, likely part of a 1970s or 1980s drug… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Advice On Lice And Life Part 1 (Copy 1)" 1985 · Educational SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. I am the only person on earth preserving American filmstrips. The media format is largely forgotten and very… Internet Archive Collage. 1972 · Educational · 15 min · Subtitles With guide Director and cameraman, Stellos Roccos; art director, Herbert Paston Summary Presents the work of John Sennhauser, an artist and craftsman who is… Internet Archive Castle Films Russia Stops Hitler, Soviets Fight Back 1941 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 232 Castle Films Russia Stops Hitler, Soviets Fight Back News Parade 1941 CR No. 71-8:93 Castle Films Soviets Fight Back… Internet Archive Eagle Cage 1960 · Educational National Archives - Eagle Cage - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). - This film's anti-communist perspective… Internet Archive Kifaru --The Black Rhinoceros 1970 · Educational · 51 min Follows biologist John Goddard in the first major scientific study of the black rhinoceros, a "prehistoric relic" believed to be facing extinction. Includes… Internet Archive Great Railway Journeys of The World: Zambezi Express 1981 · Educational · 26 min · Subtitles Great Railway Journeys of The World: Zambezi Express Reel 2 Historian Michael Wood travels from Cape Town to Victoria Falls on the luxurious Blue Train, and… Internet Archive The Day The Universe Changed: 8 - Darwin's Revolution 1986 · Educational · 55 min Title from data sheet Host, James Burke In two parts Ages 16 through adults Reveals how Darwin's writings undermined the concept of an orderly, unchanging… Internet Archive The Boy King 1986 · Educational Cataloged from contributor's data Howard Rollins Issued also in longer version (47 min.) Takes a look at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr.,… Internet Archive Introduction to Development 1983 · Educational Photography, Clarence Flaten, George Vuke ; editor, George Vuke Intended audience: Senior high school through college students and adults DVD copy available… Internet Archive Some Seashore Animals 1930 · Educational · 9 min Also known as "Seashore Animals". Shows an anemone and its relative the sea feather, feather dusters (marine tube worms), and sea urchins. Close-ups of… Internet Archive Toute La Bande, Episode 9: Bricolage 1970 · Educational · 15 min A French language teaching film. Presents a dramatization in which a boy and a girl tour a French workshop after their washing machine breaks down. Internet Archive Castle 1985 · Educational · 58 min From WorldCat: Presents as animated tale about a fictional thirteenth-century fortress and town built by King Edward I to subdue the rebellious Welsh.… Internet Archive The Triune Brain 1984 · Educational Credits : Narrator, Michael Whalen ; Camera, Laval Fortier, Andre Lac Dupont, Phillipe Lavalette ; Editor, Gerald Vansier This film illustrates American… Internet Archive The Writer in America: John Gardner 1975 · Educational · 29 min · Subtitles "Art gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce." In his novels,… Internet Archive Einstein 1979 · Educational · 58 min Portrait of Albert Einstein moves from his early years as a brilliant intellectual, through two world wars, to a lonely voice preaching nuclear disarmament in… Internet Archive Discovering harmony in art 1966 · Educational · 16 min · Subtitles With study guide Discusses the harmony in nature and in the creative works of man and explains how harmony may be achieved in art by limiting, repeating, and… Internet Archive The Japanese Sword as the Soul of the Samurai 1969 · Educational · 23 min Makoto Yanagisawa (samurai), Nobuhide Horii (swordsmith), Tanetsugu Horii (swordsmith), Yasuhide Watanabe (swordsmith), George Takei (narrator) Internet Archive The Ascent of Man: 1 -- Lower Than the Angels 1974 · Educational · 52 min Producer and director, Adrian Malone; writer and narrator, Jacob Bronowski Explores the anatomical and intellectual changes giving rise to man's superiority… Internet Archive Army ants, a study in social behavior. 1968 · Educational · 18 min · Subtitles Chief scientific adviser, Ralph Buchsbaum; collaborator, T. C. Schneirla Documents the complex organization and social behavior of two species of army ants… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Drugs, Injuries & Dangers To Little Children" 1985 · Educational SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. I am the only person on earth preserving American filmstrips. The media format is largely forgotten and very… Internet Archive Tango 1981 · Educational Academy Award winning short subject, A child enters a room to get back his ball. Slowly, the entire space becomes filled with bizarre characters, all of them… Internet Archive Great Railway Journeys of The World:Three Miles High 1981 · Educational · 32 min · Subtitles Reporter Miles Kington travels from Cuzco, Peru, on the highest railway in the world, across the Andes Mountains, to La Paz, Bolivia. He observes South… Internet Archive Felipa: North of the Border 1971 · Educational · 16 min A bilingual girl of Mexican-American parents has ambitions to be teacher. She helps her injured uncle take the drivers test so he can maintain his dignity as… Internet Archive Making A Difference By Making The Grade Educational · Subtitles Internet Archive Connecticut Educational · Subtitles Internet Archive Chemical Munitions Testing 1970 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Materiel Command. U.S. Army Pictorial Center. (08/01/1962 - 12/1972) ARC Identifier 599938 / Local… Internet Archive Artists: Frank Stella and Larry Poons 1990 · Educational · 29 min Artists: Frank Stella and Larry Poons An introduction to the abstract expressionism of Jack Tworkov. Includes his thoughts about his work, along with a… Internet Archive Individual Motivation and Behavior 1963 · Educational · 29 min Explores with individuals of a demonstration group the basis for their own actions within the group. Deals with psychological, perceptual, and family problems… Internet Archive Introduction to Optics 1959 · Educational · 22 min Shows the four ways that light traveling in a straight line can be bent: by diffraction, scattering, refraction, and reflection. Refraction is illustrated by… Internet Archive I do -- and I understand: mathematics 1967 · Educational · 13 min · Subtitles Children of nine and ten accomplish work formerly done by children of thirteen and fourteen at a school in Blackpool, England. New method of teaching provides… Internet Archive Pandemic Flu: Taking Action 2007 · Educational U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine Pandemic Flu: Taking Action August 2007 - Distribution Unlimited Approved for Public Release… Internet Archive White Mane 1953 · Educational Director and author of original scenario, Albert Lamorisse; adaptation, Denys Colomb de Daunant ; commentary, Albert Lamorisse, James Agee ; narrator, Frank… Internet Archive The Forbidden City 1975 · Educational · 19 min · Subtitles The Forbidden City, Reel 2 Reel 1 available here Explores the history and culture of China as reflected in the art and architectural treasures of the… Internet Archive It's a lovely day tomorrow: Burma, 1942-1944 1973 · Educational · 56 min "Jagged mountain and fetid swamp, a steam bath shutting out the sky, endless green growth spawning every kind of disease...especially in the monsoon. After… Internet Archive LSD: The Spring Grove Experiment 1966 · Educational With guide Illustrates the use of LSD as a major facilitating agent in psychotherapy and underscores the need for continuing research into its therapeutic… Internet Archive Two Centuries of Black American Art 1976 · Educational Producer and director, Carlton Moss A survey of the history of art produced by Blacks in America, from the initial African influences, the importance of… Internet Archive WINTER WAR 1959 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 30119 WINTER WAR SECOND FILM COVERING KOREAN WAR HISTORY - NARRATED BY WILLIAM H. LAWRENCE, NEW YORK TIMES CORRESPONDENT. Internet Archive How to Cure Inflation. 1979 · Educational · 28 min · Subtitles Examines the causes of inflation and how it can be cured, using the U.S., Great Britain, West Germany, and Japan as examples of good and bad practices Summary… Internet Archive Langston Hughes. 1971 · Educational · 27 min · Subtitles With study guide Narrator, Dallie Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film Summary Walter Kerr interviews… Internet Archive Three Approaches to Psychotherapy 3: Dr. Hans Strupp 1986 · Educational Music composed and arranged by Allen Davis Techniques used by three different psychotherapists: Hans Strupp, Donald Meichenbaum, and Aaron T. Beck. Strupp… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "The Growing Trip" 1975 · Educational SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. I am the only person on earth preserving American filmstrips. The media format is largely forgotten and very… Internet Archive Ballad of the Irish horse 1985 · Educational · 1 h Focuses on the horses of Ireland and their role in history, tradition, and business of the Irish people who ride, tame, train, and breed these horses, for… Internet Archive How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days 1983 · Educational Title from data sheet Wallace Shawn, Hermione Gingold Based on the book of the same title by Stephen Manes Intended audience: Intermediate grades through… Internet Archive The Sun's Family 1950 · Educational Introduces solar system basics: stars, planets, the profession and practice of astronomy. Contains stock footage of airplanes, observatories, and sunsets and…