Educationals from the world's archives

3,553–3,600 of 22,173 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. Nothing is left out for being sexual: sexual content and nudity are for adults, placed by what the archive files a film as, never by a word of its title alone (The Naked City is a police film). A film filed as pornography is listed for adults without its picture and plays nowhere yet, as the law where it would play asks for a proof of age this site does not have. A sexual depiction of a child, drawn ones too, is listed nowhere.

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 content, pornography, nudity and nudism, striptease, sexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, beheadings, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive The Rise of Big Business 1970 · Educational Collaborator, James Shenton Uses quotations from Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan against a background of motion picture and cartoons of… Internet Archive A NATION SINGS 1963 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 30155 A NATION SINGS A MUSICAL REMEMBRANCE OF CIVIL WAR TUNES, FEATURING U.S. ARMY BAND AND CHORUS, AND CIVILIAN VOCALISTS. Internet Archive My Japan 1945 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 2 My Japan This a complex and disturbing anti-Japanese propaganda film produced to spur the sale of U.S. war bonds. The film… Internet Archive Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Human Rights 1948 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 309 Eleanor Roosevelt Speech Human Rights Speech by Mrs. E. Roosevelt for a TV Program on Human Rights Day Archival footage… Internet Archive Leisure 1976 · Educational Credits: Director: Bruce Petty; producer: Suzanne Baker A cartoon history of leisure, using animation by Bruce Petty Internet Archive Management By Objectives and Performance Appraisal: 1 -- What is MBO 1975 · Educational With leader's guide Director, Don Sykes; writer, Sue Walima An industrial education film which uses animation to introduce management by objectives and… Internet Archive The Silence Upstairs 1985 · Educational Writers, Marshall Golden, Alexander Van Ihinger Addresses the problem of elder abuse and neglect as it depicts the dynamics of an average family trying to… Internet Archive " COMPUTERS " 1970 EDUCATIONAL FILM IBM MAINFRAME PUNCHCARD & MAGNETIC TAPE BASED COMPUTERS XD11964 Educational Released by BFA in 1970, "Computers" was created by Victor and Ellen Landweber. The film was apparently shot at, and had cooperation from, the Rand… Internet Archive Moscow 1989 · Educational Originally released as slide and filmstrip presentations in 1976 VHS Examines Moscow, the capital of Russia. Traces traditions and developments in the… Internet Archive The Humanities: A Bridge to Ourselves 1974 · Educational · 28 min With teacher's guide Collaborator, Clifton Fadiman Reviews the cultural history of Western society from its earliest beginnings to the period of the… Internet Archive The Quitter 1987 · Educational Producer, director, animator, Paul Fierlinger; writers, Jim Thurman, Paul Fierlinger; camera, Helena Fierlinger; editor, Mario Fratini Jim Thurman A smoker… Internet Archive Treehouse 1971 · Educational A boy's enjoyment of the beauty and quiet of his treehouse is disturbed by the sound of a bulldozer and the realization that his tree will be torn down.… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Length: Decimeters and Meters" 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 Borodine's Prince Igor (Tatar Camp Scene) 1952 · Educational · 13 min Alexander Borodin's Camp Scene, danced by Ballet of the Rome Opera's Mimi Dugini and Guido Lauri, choreographed by Guglielmo Morresi. The Grand Symphony of… Internet Archive All in the Morning Early: A Scottish Folktale 1969 · Educational NOTE: The very beginning of this film is missing on this print. In this traditional Scottish accumulative counting rhyme, Sandy sets forth on an errand "all… Internet Archive Dating the Past 1954 · Educational Presents techniques for determining the age of fossils and prehistoric relics by carbon 14 and uranium techniques. From the Great Plains trilogy series Internet Archive Flame Grooving 1955 · Educational Presents instructions for finishing castings, preparing plate and casting for welding, cutting out old welds, and gouging out surface defects and other… Internet Archive Play and Personality 1962 · Educational A ten-month record of the play activities of a group of preschool children living in a hospital with their mothers who are being treated for severe neurotic… Internet Archive Itzhak Perlman: In My Case Music 1982 · Educational Title from data sheet Originally shown on the television program 20/20 Intended audience: General Issued also as videorecording Talks with world-acclaimed… Internet Archive The Westward Movement: 4 -- Texas and the Mexican War 1966 · Educational Reviews the causes of the Texas settlers' revolt which led to independence for Texas; ties the annexation of Texas to issues of slavery and territorial… Internet Archive U.S. TROOPS RETURN TO CORREGIDOR [ETC] 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39053, LI 208-UN-146 - U.S. TROOPS RETURN TO CORREGIDOR [ETC] - DVD Copied by J. Williams. Series: Motion… Internet Archive Dublin 1974 · Educational Producer, Edward Barnes; director, Harry Cowdy; writers, Dorothy Smith and Harry Cowdy; narrator, Valerie Singleton; editor, Ian Pitch; photographer, Hugh… Internet Archive Energy: A Matter of Choices 1973 · Educational With teacher's guide Producer, Charles Finance; collaborator, Luther P. Gerlach Shows how current energy shortages are stimulating a reassessment of the… Internet Archive Los Tres Osos 1960 · Educational Spanish version of the 1969 filmstrip entitled The three bears Illustrates the story of the three bears. Emphasizes correct diction and pronunciation. For… Internet Archive Survival on the prairie Motion picture 1970 · Educational · 17 min A reissue, with comments, of the 1931 melodrama of the sinister Svengali, who hypnotizes the beautiful Trilby and makes her into an internationally famous… Internet Archive The Iron Curtain 1983 · Educational 16 3845v A documentatin of the current status of 'behind the iron curtain' countries, a description of the history of cooperation and discord that surrounds… Internet Archive Treadle and Bobbin 1954 · Educational Looks at precision and rhythmic movements of a foot-pedal-driven sewing machine and at its ornate decoration Internet Archive Amphibian Embryo: Frog, Toad And Salamander 1963 · Educational · 15 min Combing exceptional photo-micrography by K.T. Rogers and animated cross-section diagrams, the film illustrates the developmental processes that transform a… Internet Archive Media Probes: Political Spots 1981 · Educational Computers and the future -- Photography -- Soap operas -- TV news -- Language -- Political spots -- Design -- Soundaround Internet Archive Red Deer 1980 · Educational Shows the problems created when the red deer was imported to New Zealand. Discusses the deer's unchecked population growth, the hunting of the deer as a pest,… Internet Archive The Street 1976 · Educational From the book by Mordecai Richler. Animated film which tells of a family's summer-long deathbed vigil in the Jewish section of Montreal. Conveys the… Internet Archive A Time for Building 1960 · Educational Sequel to the film A time for burning ... a study of racial conflicts and understanding in Omaha, Nebraska. Charles Kuralt leads a reaction group in the… Internet Archive Concepts and Controversies in Modern Medicine: Psychiatry and the Law: How They Are Related 1970 · Educational · 28 min Shows how varying reinforcement schedules affect the behavior of pigeons; compares the outcome of the tests with the results of similar experiments made in a… Internet Archive Eakins 1972 · Educational Life and career of Thomas Eakins presented through his paintings and photographs, through interviews with his successors at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine… Internet Archive Otto: The Social Perspective 1975 · Educational · 26 min Otto: The Social Perspective Clifton Fadiman introduces the study of the play Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. He summarizes the story of the play, illustrates… Internet Archive The '29 Boom and '30s Depression 1960 · Educational · 13 min Copyright: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc. 28Mar60; MP10004 Educational adviser, Isidore Starr Recreates the events of the twenties and early thirties, examining… Internet Archive The Salt Marsh: A Question of Values 1975 · Educational With teacher's guide Collaborator, Robert Reimold Shows researchers from the University of Georgia as they examine the complex ecological system of a salt… Internet Archive A DEFEATED PEOPLE 1946 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) ARC Identifier 36087 / Local Identifier 111-OF-28… Internet Archive Amsterdam 1973 · Educational Producer, Edward Barnes; director-writer, David Brown; writer, Dorothy Smith; narrator, Valerie Singleton; editor, Colin Rae Internet Archive The Computer Programme: 3 -- Talking to a Machine 1981 · Educational Produced by the BBC Defines and discusses computer languages, focusing on BASIC. Chris Serle commands a computer-controlled robot art as he translates his… Internet Archive Überfall 1929 · Educational · 15 min Silent short Release title in U.S.: Accident; original release title in Germany was Polizeibericht--Überfall, according to Magliozzi Search Educational Film… Internet Archive Lintola : addition with carrying. 1975 · Educational · 8 min Tells a story which introduces two-digit addition problems, particularly problems which require regrouping. Internet Archive The Secret Love of Sandra Blain 1970 · Educational Shows the step-by-step progression of a wife and mother into alcoholism. Focuses on facilities for rehabilitation and the treatments that are available for… Internet Archive The Character Education Partnership: Commitment To Character 1996 · Educational "The Character Education Partnership is a nonpartisan coalition of organizations and individuals concerned about the moral crisis confronting America's youth… Internet Archive George Mason 1965 · Educational Televised on NBC in the series Profiles in courage With teacher's guide Based on the book Profiles in courage, by John F. Kennedy Historical researcher,… Internet Archive Reflections 1975 · Educational With manual Shows Bible personalities, portrayed by children, as they reflect on their opinions and feelings of Christ's birth Internet Archive Chaucer's England 1957 · Educational Dramatizes Chaucer's The pardoner's tale, using the locations trod by Chaucer's pilgrims, with scenes of Canterbury and the Tabard Inn in London Internet Archive Play and Cultural Continuity Part 2: Southern Black Children (1975) 1975 · Educational · 27 min Play and Cultural Continuity Part 2: Southern Black Children (1975) The first Flashe Gordon serial was released in 1936 and this is an edited feature of the…