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Educationals from the world's archives

1,681–1,728 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 Division Algorithms (1965) 1965 · Educational · 29 min · Subtitles Shows why many commonly used algorithms confuse elementary level students. Outlines meaningful division algorithms based on multiplication and subtraction.… Internet Archive A New leash on life 1988 · Educational · 14 min Discusses aspects of pet ownership, including quality time, a good home, investment, medical care, and other vital matters in a dog or cat's life. Internet Archive Quelle Chance 1955 · Educational ‘Quelle Chance’ (1955, 10m, unknown director). In the charming village of Vaires-sûr-Marnes, an accident occurs, and everyone leaves the restaurant to watch… Internet Archive Dots 1948 · Educational Copyright: National Film Board of Canada. PUB 1949; REG 20Jun97; PA866-985. Reg. under GATT/URAA restoration On one copyright claim with: Begone dull care… Internet Archive The Shock of the New: The Powers That Be 1980 · Educational · 30 min Intended audience: College students and adults Issued also as videorecording Art critic Robert Hughes discusses the impact of mechanized warfare and mass… Internet Archive The Forbidden City 1975 · Educational · 22 min The Forbidden City, Reel 1 Reel 2 available here Explores the history and culture of China as reflected in the art and architectural treasures of the… Internet Archive Men Of Gloucester 1949 · Educational · 21 min · Subtitles Description of the daily life of the fishermen of Gloucester , small town of the coast of Massachusetts : activities at home , fishing in high seas , storm at… Internet Archive Black History: Lost, Stolen, or Strayed 1968 · Educational · 52 min Narrator, Bill Cosby Shows some of the contributions to the development and wealth of the United States which have been made by Negroes Internet Archive Filmstrip: "'An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving' by Louisa May Alcott" 1977 · 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 Cuba: In the Shadow of Doubt 1986 · Educational · 59 min · Subtitles Title from data sheet Camera, Jeff Wayman, Tom Hurwitz ; editors, Kate Taverna, S. Bauman ; narrator, Raul Julia ; music, Jim Burroughs, Brian Keane General… Internet Archive Performance Appraisal: The Human Dynamics 1978 · Educational · 24 min Narration by Charles Aidman, Lloyd Bridges Photographed by Rick Robertson, Eric Daarstad ; edited by Andrew Stein Title from film Film: 895 feet Film… Internet Archive The Eagle Has Landed: The Flight of Apollo 11 1969 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 45017 / Local Identifier 255-HQ-194 - The Eagle Has Landed: The Flight of Apollo 11 - National… Internet Archive Living Treasures of Japan 1980 · Educational · 58 min Profiles nine artisans and performing artists who are recognized by law as "holders of important intangible cultural properties" and are charged with publicly… Internet Archive Work of the Blood 1957 · Educational · 13 min Work of the Blood An interpretation by Alexander Calder and Randy Matter of the works of Calder, suggesting an interconnection between movements in nature and… Internet Archive PLANETARY GEARS, PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION - PART II - MULTIPLE SETS 1953 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 29871 PLANETARY GEARS, PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION - PART II - MULTIPLE SETS DEMONSTRATES PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION GOVERNING MULTIPLE… Internet Archive Freedom to speak: people of New York vs. Irving Feiner 1967 · Educational · 22 min Producer, John Barnes; director, Robert Q. Lovett Recounts the case of Feiner vs. the people of New York to examine the meaning of the basic rights of freedom… Internet Archive In Search of Bach 1983 · Educational · 1 h · Subtitles Samuel Baron, music director and flutist ; James Buswell, violinist ; Susan Davenny-Wyner, soprano ; Timothy Eddy, cellist ; Seth McCoy, tenor ; Thomas Paul,… Internet Archive ¡Que Puerto Rico! 1963 · Educational · 14 min This film conveys the mood, feeling and sights of Puerto Rico with humor and emotional impact. Beginning satirically, island music and dance are integrated… Internet Archive Inside the Golden Gate. Part 1. [Motion picture] 1976 · Educational · 40 min Also issued as videocassette Examines the ecological problems caused by pollution and the dumping of millions of tons of landfill into the San Francisco Bay… Internet Archive 30 Years of Fun 1962 · Educational Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Syd Chaplin A comprehensive survey of the most notable motion picture comedians from the earliest… Internet Archive PARIS 44 Educational Department of Defense PARIS 44 PIN 30162 THE RECAPTURE OF PARIS IN 1944, AND HOW THE ALLIES SAVED IT FROM MASS DESTRUCTION BY THE OCCUPATION FORCES OF THE… Internet Archive Chartres Cathedral 1962 · Educational · 30 min An in-depth study of this famous cathedral. "What is the special character of Chartres Cathedral that we should call it the greatest of the medieval… Internet Archive Rainshower 1965 · Educational · 14 min A cine-poem. Presents to primary and elementary school children the sights, sounds, beauty, and rhythm of rain as it comes to living things on a farm and to… Internet Archive Svengali 1971 · Educational · 45 min Svengali Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film A Christmas tale of the regeneration of the miserly Scrooge.… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Using Electrical Energy" 1978 · 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 The Disordered Mind: Paranoid Schizophrenia (1963) 1961 · Educational · 27 min The Disordered Mind: Paranoid Schizophrenia (1963) Shows how Paul Taylor, an exponent of modern dance, functions as creator and performer. Includes excerpts… Internet Archive Lenin Prepares for Revolution 1969 · Educational Publisher's catalog series title: The Russian revolution series Examines the life of Lenin from 1870 to the outbreak of World War I, and studies the… Internet Archive The Solar Film 1979 · Educational Title from data sheet Presented by Warner Communications, inc. and Norton Simon Inc Also issued as videorecording Producers, Saul Bass, Michael Britton;… Internet Archive C-130 Hercules Progress Report 1955 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 66768 / Local Identifier 342-USAF-23442 - C-130 Hercules Progress Report - Department of… Internet Archive I Promise to Remember: Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers 1983 · Educational Title from data sheet Intended audience: Junior high school through college students and adults Issued also as videorecording This documentary deals with… Internet Archive The Class That Went to War 1978 · Educational Traces the lives of some members of a 1964 Chatam, N.J., high school graduating class and shows how they were influenced by the war in Vietnam. Shows how the… Internet Archive Protists: Threshold of Life 1974 · Educational Also issued as videocassette Presents the tiny organisms called protists, including the euglena, the amoeba, and the paramecium. Shows how thousands of… Internet Archive Sue's Leg: Remembering the '30s -- Twyla Tharp and Dancers 1976 · Educational · 1 h Library has reel 2 only Choreographer, Twyla Tharp ; music, Fats Waller About various styles of dance in the 1930's. Tries to show how dance conveys the… Internet Archive Cops 1922 · Educational · 15 min Buster's girl won't marry him until he's successful in business. Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film Internet Archive Classroom Safari 1975 · Educational · 4 min In this film, made by Willis Simms' animation class at Hughes Jr. High in Woodland Hills, California, a bored boy in classroom fantasizes about wild animals.… Internet Archive Common Sense, Self-Defense 1978 · Educational This is an instructional film about women's self-defense from 1977. It presents simple, easily performed self-defense tactics for women. Based on the book,… Internet Archive American Medical Association rebuttal to "What Price Health?". 1973 · Educational · 16 min · Subtitles In an interview with Frank McGee on the "Today" show, Dr. Russell B. Roth, president of the AMA, outlines objections to the NBC television special, What Price… Internet Archive Auditory screening for infants 1961 · Educational · 15 min · Subtitles Live Date is production date Summary Describes an auditory screening method known as the distraction technique, which must be learned from an experienced… Internet Archive Novel: Saul Bellow The World of The Dangling Man 1966 · Educational · 27 min Novel: Saul Bellow The World of The Dangling Man History of black Americans in music and poetry. Their emergence from the slave state of over three hundred… Internet Archive We Work Again 1937 1937 · Educational Documentary: On the employment of Negroes in Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects. Reel 1: Contrasts scenes of Negroes waiting in breadlines with… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Food: An Energy Exchange System" 1974 · 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 Filmstrip: "The Intimacies of Marriage" 1960 · 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 Contraception 1973 · Educational · 23 min Also issued in super-8 mm. cassette Consultant, T. E. Pengelley; production adviser, Solomon Kaplan Points out the needs for contraceptives during… Internet Archive The World at War: 17 -- Morning, June - August 1944 1944 · Educational · 56 min The World at War: 17 -- Morning, June - August 1944 Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film Summary Documents… Internet Archive Stress 1956 · Educational Dr. Hans Selye of the University of Montreal explains the nature of "stress" as a general alarm reaction through the pituitary and adrenal glands, set off by… Internet Archive Destination America: 4--Everything is Better in America 1976 · Educational · 28 min · Subtitles Destination America: 4--Everything is Better in America Reel 1 Reel 2 available here The series Destination America explores the making of the American nation… Internet Archive Destination America: 1--Old World, New World 1977 · Educational · 31 min · Subtitles Destination America: 1--Old World, New World Reel 1 Reel 2 available here Summary: The introductory chapter in a series of eight films that traces the history… Internet Archive Identifying speech disorders. 1972 · Educational · 21 min · Subtitles Produced by M.S. Berman and E.A. Leach A series of interviews with subjects displaying misarticulation. Offers examples of difficulties with various sound…