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Educationals from the world's archives

2,209–2,256 of 20,951 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 Ancient Greece 1976 · Educational Shows the Parthenon, the Academia, the Plain of Marathon, Delphi, and the Athenian countryside while pointing out the achievements of the Ancient Greeks in… Internet Archive Media Probes, Episode 6 : Design 1981 · Educational How various media affect the way people live and think is explored in this informative magazine-style survey that includes documentary, animated and… Internet Archive Development of the chick. [motion picture] 1966 · Educational · 23 min Living chick embryos and perspective drawings illustrate early development of the amnion, chorion, yolk sac, and allantois. Describes amnion contractions,… Internet Archive Santa Barbara Channel Marine Oil Spill, 1969 1969 · Educational · 3 min The Santa Barbara oil spill occurred in January and February 1969 in the Santa Barbara Channel, near the city of Santa Barbara in Southern California. It was… Internet Archive Mixed Marriages: Homosexual Husbands 1977 · Educational Originally shown on the television series 60 minutes Also issued as videotape Producer, Jeanne Solomon; narrator, Mike Wallace Focuses on the lifestyles… Internet Archive Animal Secrets: Primates (1966) 1967 · Educational · 24 min Traces the rise of the primates. Examines the anatomical changes, the beginnings of sociality and speech, the more complex brain, the semi - erect posture and… Internet Archive Chaumont 1961 · Educational · 9 min Lesson 67 in Encyclopaedia Britannica's 'Je Parle Français' French language instruction series of 1961. Filmed at the famed chateau on the Loire, it begins… Internet Archive Film Making Experience, A (The Night Before Christmas) 1974 · Educational · 10 min Made by Willis Simms' 6th Period Art Class at Hughes Jr. High, Woodland Hills, California. The film depicts the making of the film as well as the finished… Internet Archive Echinoderms: Sea Stars and Their Relatives 1987 · Educational Shows how the body plan of the echinoderm is adapted for locomotion, respiration, digestion, and reproduction Internet Archive The Cage 1975 · Educational · 8 min Features Marcel Marceau in a performance of his legendary pantomime piece. For more on director John Barnes, visit http://www.afana.org/barnesbio.htm Internet Archive In Search of the Lost World 1972 · Educational · 48 min Traces the origins of the lost civilizations of the Americas. Includes information on their development, how and why they perished, and the artifacts they… Internet Archive Marriage 1969 · Educational · 24 min States as a premise that marital conflict can be the result of differences between expectations and reality. Using three married couples, Dr. Frederick Perls… Internet Archive Mole and the Matchbox 1975 · Educational · 6 min In this animated story, the Mole comes upon a matchbox. The Mole and the Mouse then devise many amusing activities with the box and the matches, accidentally… Internet Archive Television Land 1971 · Educational Producer and director, Charles Braverman Uses live and taped film clips from television programs from 1948 to the present to give an overview of the range of… Internet Archive The Signing of the Declaration of Independence 1955 · Educational Reduction print of the 35mm. motion picture made for the CBS television program You are there With film user's guide Producer, William Dozier; writer,… Internet Archive Aggressive Child 1965 · Educational · 28 min Aggressive Child The first Flashe Gordon serial was released in 1936 and this is an edited feature of the thirteen chapters of that serial. Flash Gordon meets… Internet Archive The French Revolution 1979 · Educational Revised edition of the motion picture issued in 1955 under the same title The experiences and ideas of Georges Roget, a lawyer and member of the Third Estate,… Internet Archive Little Tree That Had a Dream, The 1969 · Educational · 11 min A pastiche of spectacular nature shots accompanied by an orchestral score, with the minimal theme of a Joshua tree that dreamed of the far-away places he… Internet Archive N!owa t'ama: the melon tossing 1966 · Educational · 15 min In a large repertoire of!Kung Bushman games, the melon tossing game is unique in the complexity and stability of its music and in the frequency with which it… Internet Archive The Secretary: A Normal Day 1966 · Educational Follows a secretary through a normal day in a modern office, emphasizing the personal qualities of self-direction, tact, willingness to learn, judgment, and… Internet Archive Angiosperms: The Flowering Plants 1962 · Educational With teachers guide Collaborator, Howard Arnott Examines the structural and reproductive characteristics which distinguish the angiosperms from other… Internet Archive Project Thunderstorm, 05/1947 - 09/1947 1947 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration Project Thunderstorm, 05/1947 - 09/1947 Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. Office of the… Internet Archive The Cuna Indians : Island Exiles 1983 · Educational · 22 min Tells that the Cuna Indians isolated themselves long ago on small islands in the Caribbean, off the coast of Panama. Shows the daily life of one family as… Internet Archive Minority Youth: Akira 1971 · Educational · 14 min Akira, a Japanese-American youth, describes how it feels to be a part of two cultures. At home, traditional Japanese customs are practiced. At school and with… Internet Archive Colonial Expansion of European Nations 1955 · Educational · 12 min Colonial Expansion of European Nations SummaryDescribes the pe./ia metadata colonialexpansionofeuropeannatiot empires, the shifts in power between nations,… Internet Archive Death 1968 · Educational Examines some of the customs associated with death in different societies Camera, John Hooper ; film editor, Peter Evans Internet Archive A Fable 1972 · Educational Originally released by Columbia Pictures Corp., 1968 Marcel Marceau Marcel Marceau pantomimes a fable which is intended to promote international… Internet Archive Oil and American Power: Iran 1979 · Educational Events in Iran in the late 1970s proved disastrous for the United States. It lost an ally, the economy of the West was weakened, U.S. hostages were taken, and… Internet Archive Oil in the Middle East 1973 · Educational Produced by NBC Presents the delicate position of the United States vis-a-vis the three Mideast nations that own more than half of the world's known oil… Internet Archive The Great Toy Robbery 1968 · Educational Producer, Wolf Koening, Bob Verrall ; Director, Jeff Hale ; Story, Derek Lamb ; Animation, Jeff Hale, Cameron Guese ; Music, Don Douglas An animated cartoon… Internet Archive Fiber Optics 1965 · Educational · 29 min Fiber Optics Spotlights the remarkable achievements of a quartet of great film pioneers--Edwin S. Porter, George Melies, Thomas H. Ince and D.W. Griffith. Internet Archive Ambush Tool Of Terror 1976 · Educational · 11 min An ambush is a situation that no police officer wants to find himself in. This films shows how an ambush is planned and how the officer can effectively avoid… Internet Archive Free at Last (1965) 1965 · Educational · 28 min Free at Last (1965) Examines early childhood education and its role in a school-oriented society. Considers the relationship between theories of education and… Internet Archive Painting with Calligraphy 1958 · Educational Kodachrome With teacher's guide Demonstrations by Eliot O'Hara, George Post, and Paul Travis are used in showing how artists express thoughts and emotions… Internet Archive Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1966) 1967 · Educational · 27 min Uses animation, sound, and color to demonstrate the basic working principles of nuclear magnetic resonance, the operation of the analytical instrument, and… Internet Archive Welcome Back, Norman 1979 · Educational Norman turns common misfortune into near disaster as the typical weary traveler in a busy airport parking lot Internet Archive Windows Of Heaven 1979 · Educational · 32 min In 1899, an aging President Lorenzo Snow is deeply troubled by the Church's crippling debt, left over from the anti-polygamy crusades of the 1880s. He feels… Internet Archive Documentary: Part 1 1979 · Educational A history of the non-fiction film from "Man With A Movie Camera" to "Harlan County". A compilation of major sequences from landmark documentaries with brief… Internet Archive Everybody's prejudiced 1961 · Educational · 20 min Credits: Producer, Peter Jones; director, Donald Brittain; script, Donald Brittain; music, Eldon Rathburn; cameraman, Robert Humble; film editor, John KemenyA… Internet Archive Watercolor Painting: Abstract Designs from Nature with Edward Betts 1973 · Educational · 19 min With study guide Preparing for a watercolor, artist Edward Betts makes several pencil drawings at a quarry. In his studio he develops one of his drawings… Internet Archive THE STORY OF GASOLINE 1948 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration THE STORY OF GASOLINE Department of the Interior. Bureau of Mines. Pittsburgh Experiment Station. (1934 -… Internet Archive There Was Always Sun Shining Someplace: Life in the Negro Leagues 1983 · Educational · 59 min Title from data sheet Narrator, James Earl Jones Intended audience: General Issued also as videorecording Chronicles the history of Black baseball leagues… Internet Archive Fundamentals of Rifle Marksmanship 1999 · Educational U.S. Marine Corps Fundamentals of Rifle Marksmanship AVA21011VNB1, 1999 This program explains and demonstrates the proper fundamentals of aiming, breath… Internet Archive Pavlov's Experiment: The Conditioned Reflex 1976 · Educational Uses a live dog in a laboratory in a re-creation of the famous experiments of Ivan Pavlov which show the relationship between a particular stimulus and… Internet Archive Le Palais De Versailles 1961 · Educational · 4 min Lesson 84 in Encyclopaedia Britannica's 'Je Parle Français' French language instruction series of 1961. Austere in its grandeur, this most Gallic of films… Internet Archive Bill of Rights in Action: The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination. 1972 · Educational · 22 min Here, director Bernard Wilets crafts a legal argument set in a futuristic setting, in which a "Truth Machine" extracts past actions by reading minds. The film… Internet Archive The Sun Gallery Provincetown 1955-1959 2007 · Educational · 13 min The Sun Gallery Provincetown 1955-1959 (2007) 10m. Andersen and Falcone founded the Sun Gallery in the spring of 1955 in a storefront located at 393… Internet Archive World War II: Prologue, U.S.A. 1956 · Educational Reviews the events that led the U.S. into World War II, showing the different stages of public opinion as events in Europe took place. Follows the conflict…