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Educationals from the world's archives

1,585–1,632 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 Millionaires of Poverty Gulch 1964 · Educational · 28 min Depicts the gold rush days in Colorado and the problems of a sudden increase in wealth and population. Traces the rise and fall of the small mining town of… Internet Archive Save the Panda 1983 · Educational · 58 min Save the Panda Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film A study of the nature and cause of schizophrenia, the… Internet Archive Schizophrenia: Simple Type Deteriorated 1952 · Educational Demonstrates characteristic symptoms of chronic simple schizophrenia. Presents a female patient, psychotic for more than ten years, who exhibits typical… Internet Archive Long Time Intervals 1959 · Educational · 24 min Harrison Brown discusses the significance of long time intervals and describes how radioactive dating arrives at an estimate for the age of the earth. For… Internet Archive Child Psychiatry: Autism's Lonely Children (1952) 1952 · Educational · 21 min An episode of the television program Spectrum Date is production date Last inspected: 199609. Condition complete; .3% shrinkage/scratched Produced by David… Internet Archive Bertrand Russell Discusses Mankind's Future 1960 · Educational · 13 min 'Bertrand Russell Discusses Mankind's Future' (1960) 14m, director uncredited. In an interview with Woodrow Wyatt, Lord Russell envisions an organized and… Internet Archive Vrooom! 1974 · Educational · 15 min A day at a drag race track. Features Don Garlits and Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, driving their 3,000 horsepower, nitro-methane burning dragsters, accompanied… Internet Archive Guadalajara Family 1958 · Educational · 15 min Photographed by Willard C. Hahn. Another Hoefler production, focusing on an upper-class family, military school, garden parties, etc. They enjoy themselves… Internet Archive Rice farmer in Thailand 1969 · Educational · 18 min · Subtitles Edited version of the motion picture made by Institut für Film und bild, Munich Shows the ancient ceremonies at the beginning of planting season and at… Internet Archive Circus Day in Our Town 1949 · Educational · 15 min Circus Day in Our Town Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film SummaryGives a behind - the - scenes look at a… Internet Archive Ballet Robotique 1983 · Educational Title from data sheet Camera, Reed Smoot ; editor, Marshall Harvey ; music, David Spear Presents a nonverbal fantasy of robots from the General Motors… Internet Archive The Royal archives of Ebla [motion picture] 1980 · Educational · 58 min · Subtitles Title from data sheet Intended audience: Junior high school students through adult Issued also as videorecording Recounts the history of the religious Ebla… Internet Archive Deep Hearts 1979 · Educational · 25 min VHS Produced by Robert Gardner for the Harvard University Film Study Center Young men from the Bororo Fulani tribe of nomads in the Niger Republic of Africa… Internet Archive Lion 1971 · Educational Producer, Peter Chermayeff Shows the physical strength and beauty of the lion. Tells how the male lounges in the shade, while the female goes out to get the… Internet Archive Education as Intellectual Discipline 1961 · Educational · 29 min Dr Arthur Bestor, Professor of history at the University of Illinois, comments on the importance of a disciplined mind and outlines the methods of obtaining… Internet Archive Russian X-Ray Film 1962 · Educational Examines standard Russian, spoken by three native male speakers. Illustrates palatalization and consonant clusters as well as vowel allophones that go with… Internet Archive The Fight for Life 1940 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration The Fight for Life Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Education Division. Office of Education.… Internet Archive Man and the State : Marx and Rockefeller on Capitalism. 1977 · Educational · 27 min People from the future conjure these two ghosts from the past, who fade back into the past as the film ends. Here, Karl Marx and John D. Rockefeller debate… Internet Archive The Age of Intelligent Machines 1987 · Educational Cataloged from contributor's data Camera, Burleigh Wartes ; editor, Kathryn Barnier ; music, Paul Moravee Junior high school students through adults Host… Internet Archive Macbeth, Part 3: The Secret'st Man 1964 · Educational · 32 min An analysis of good and evil in the character of Macbeth as interpreted by actor-director Douglas Campbell. Gives a dramatic portrayal of scenes from the play… Internet Archive Leisure Time U.S.S.R 1968 · Educational · 12 min · Subtitles A Julien Bryan production The working Russian has only in recent years had time for leisure activities. Now, as shown in this film, Russians enjoy sports and… Internet Archive Ancient Egypt 1977 · Educational Traces Egypt's ancient past in North Africa's Nile Valley through the Pyramid Age and the Middle Kingdom to the empire's destruction by the Assyrians… Internet Archive Civilisation: 2 -- The Great Thaw 1969 · Educational -----Another issue. 35 mm Writer and narrator, Kenneth Clark Surveys the development of western civilization during the 12th century from restless curiosity… Internet Archive Thirty Years of Fun 1963 · Educational · 53 min Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Syd Chaplin A comprehensive survey of the most notable motion picture comedians from the earliest… Internet Archive Artists : Jack Tworkov 1967 · Educational · 28 min Artists : Jack Tworkov Shows artist Jim Dine at work and at home; includes footage of Dine discussing his life, his artistic development, and "what is called… Internet Archive Buddhism 2000 · Educational Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance Diversity Series: Religions, Cultures and Communities (NCJ 212664) The Chicago… Internet Archive Pomo Shaman 1964 · Educational Shows Essie Parrish, the spiritual head of the Kashia Indian community and the only southwestern Pomo Indian sucking doctor who still practices this ancient… Internet Archive CHANNEL 3: MOSCOW 1986 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration CHANNEL 3: MOSCOW U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 54306 / Local Identifier 306.9173.… Internet Archive Filmmaking Techniques: Acting 1973 · Educational · Subtitles Carl Betz hosts in showing the transition of a stage actor to a motion picture actor. Actors and actresses, including Helen Hayes, Vincent Price, Jim Backus,… Internet Archive Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi 1984 · Educational · 49 min Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi is a television documentary, first broadcast on CBS in 1983. It is a look behind-the-scenes of the creation of the… Internet Archive Mzima: Portrait of a Spring 1983 · Educational Title from data sheet Longer version (53 min.) issued in 1972 by McGraw-Hill A foreign film (England) Issued also as videorecording Shows how, in the… Internet Archive THE THUNDERBOLTS--RAMROD TO EMDEN 1943 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration THE THUNDERBOLTS--RAMROD TO EMDEN War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) ARC Identifier 2873… Internet Archive Electrical Potential Energy And Potential Difference 1960 · Educational · 54 min This film is viewable in two parts and analyzes the mechanism by which a battery establishes an electric field in a circuit. To be used following viewing the… Internet Archive The Philosophy of the Obvious 1969 · Educational · 25 min Dr. Frederick Perls discusses two dreams as an introduction to the use of dreams in Gestalt therapy. He examines two levels of existence, the inner world and… Internet Archive Let There Be Light 1946 · Educational Shows the treatment of combat neuropsychiatric patients in an Army hospital. Demonstrates narcosynthesis, hypnosis, and psychiatric therapy for individuals… Internet Archive Coming of Age 1982 · Educational · 1 h Coming of Age Documents a summer week when 180 young people of many different backgrounds gathered at a mountain camp with twenty-five counselors. They shared… Internet Archive Serenal 1961 · Educational Norman McLaren salutes the West Indies by painting the spirit of fiesta, using a vibra-drill to etch abstract images on film which sway and change to the… Internet Archive Life Cycle of the Silk Moth 1976 · Educational Also issued as videocassette Uses closeups and slow-motion photography in presenting the silk moth's life cycle. Follows various moth species in the act of… Internet Archive This is Edward Steichen 1965 · Educational · 27 min Portrays Edward Steichen, who has elevated photographic portraiture to an art. Shows some of his world-famous photographs and his renowned 'Family of Man'… Internet Archive Fisher Folk of Lake Pátzcuaro 1951 · Educational · 16 min Purepecha Indians, living on the island of Janítzio, are shown fishing with their butterfly nets, in a rare and damaged film we’re hoping to completely… Internet Archive Story into film : Clark's ThePortable Phonograph 1977 · Educational · 9 min On camera, director John Barnes demonstrates how Walter Van Tilburg Clark's short story 'The Portable Phonograph' was adapted to make a motion picture. Barnes… Internet Archive The Global Assembly Line 1986 · Educational · 28 min A story about a little boy who wins a goldfish in a game of chance and takes it home to become a friend of his canary, telling how the pets almost succumb to… Internet Archive SNOW STORM IN THE JUNGLE Educational National Archives and Records Administration SNOW STORM IN THE JUNGLE Department of Justice. Drug Enforcement Administration. (07/01/1973 - ) ARC Identifier… Internet Archive The Case of Barbara Parsons 1978 · Educational · 27 min Writer and director, Morten Parker A dramatization of a grievance case in a manufacturing plant Internet Archive Amy on the Lips 1981 · Educational Story of a woman who teaches deaf children to speak. This film acquaints children and adults with society's attitudes toward education for the handicapped Internet Archive A portrait of contemporary jazz dance. [motion picture] 1974 · Educational · 17 min Presented by the Department of Theatre and Film, Pennsylvania State University. Producer/director: Christian Stoianovich. Director of cinematography: Charles… Internet Archive Air Brakes - Principles of Operation 1994 · Educational Department of the Army, Washington, DC. Air Brakes - Principles of Operation. NTIS Price: $121.00 Your Price: $0.00 AVA97923-VNB1 Explains the design and… Internet Archive Earth In Motion 1936 · Educational · 11 min Portrays the earth as an astronomical body and discusses its relation to the sun and its motion. Presents evidence of the earth's sphericity, its axis…