Educationals from the world's archives

3,841–3,888 of 22,172 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 Maestros de la Pintura 1965 · Educational With teacher's guide Another issue. b&w Camon Aznr, director of the Museum Lazaro Galdiano, discusses the historical and cultural backgrounds of some of the… Internet Archive MAN AND SAFETY - PHYSIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS 1963 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 27621 MAN AND SAFETY - PHYSIOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS THIS OUTLINE OF THE PHYSIOLOGICAL MAKEUP OF MAN SHOWS THE BOUNDARIES BEYOND WHICH… Internet Archive Growth and Development of a Multiply-Handicapped Infant 1969 · Educational Title on container: Growth and development of a multi-handicapped infant Presents a longitudinal record of a profoundly retarded blind infant's first 3 and… Internet Archive Playing Together 1968 · Educational · 28 min Produced by the BBC Explains that three- and four-year-old children need to be surrounded with materials that develop notions of shape, size, weight,… Internet Archive Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 1977 · Educational · 15 min Biography of Proust shows him at different stages of life: child, student, and the reflective, withdrawn youth, barred by illness and frailty from the active… Internet Archive A Storm of Strangers: Jung Sai, Chinese-American 1977 · Educational · 29 min A young Chinese American journalist seeks her ethnic origins by traveling through the West Coast Chinese community interviewing people on the coolie labor… Internet Archive A Study in Maternal Attitudes 1960 · Educational · 29 min With discussion guide Director, Herbert Kerkow; script, Robert Anderson Explains why the study and treatment of the emotional life of children and their… Internet Archive Foods: Fads and Facts 1982 · Educational Title from data sheet Editor, Vince Matsudaira Intended audience: Junior high school through college and adult Health experts and nutritionists present… Internet Archive From Dust and Ashes 1983 · Educational Title from data sheet Intended audience: Aes 14 through adult Issued also as videorecording Documents a conference on the Holocaust that was organized by… Internet Archive Von der Nordseekuste bis Berlin 1972 · Educational Also issued with English narration With student guidebook Writer, Ruth Pressell; consultant, Meno Spann A German language teaching film which shows views… Internet Archive [Cal Protest 9-17-1963] Educational Footage documenting a Berkeley, California rally against racial segregation and violence occurring in Birmingham, Alabama, including speeches and interviews… Internet Archive Future Fuels 1973 · Educational Narrator, Frank Mc Gee Illustrates possible new alternative energy souerces such as oil shale, geoghermal power, solar energy, and nuclear fusion Internet Archive Martin Luther (1970) -- excerpt 1970 · Educational · 29 min Martin Luther (1970) -- excerpt A dramatization of the life and work of Martin Luther from the time of his taking the vows of the Augustinian monastic order,… Internet Archive The Computer Programme: 5 -- The New Media 1982 · Educational Produced by the BBC. Narrated by Chris Serle and Ian McNaught-Davis Explores communication among computers and the uses to which it is put to service our… Internet Archive Benjamin Franklin 1971 · Educational Subjective camera techniques at historic sites trace the life of Benjamin Franklin, scientist, statesman, scholar, and sage. From the Americana series Internet Archive Botanic Man: 7 -- White Death, Life 1978 · Educational Examines the recolonization of plant life since the Ice Age 20,000 years ago. Shot on location in the Arctic Circle and the wheat lands of Canada, the program… Internet Archive Everyman (Power of the Poor) 1981 · Educational · 37 min Title on container: Power of the poor Editor, Andrew Barr Investigates the role of the Catholic Church in the growing conflict between the affluent ruling… Internet Archive Jerusalem of Heaven and Earth: Capital of Israel 1983 · Educational Producer, Douglas Stanley ; director, John Jacob and Richard Tombelson ; music, Frank Strangio Traces the events that made the ancient city capital of a new… Internet Archive The Making of a Continent II: Part 1 -- Collision Course Educational · 58 min The Making of a Continent II: Part 1 -- Collision Course Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "The Promise of Productivity" 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 Giants Mystery And The Myth Educational · 50 min Out of the mists of our past come The Giants. Who were they? Where and when did they live? A Hamilton-Brown/Discovery production explores the phenomena of… Internet Archive In a New Light 1982 · Educational Title from data sheet Presents profiles on three handicapped students who have excelled in significant ways. Intended to help the viewer understand the… Internet Archive The Eiger 1972 · Educational Relates the experiences of four men as they successfully climb Mt. Eiger in Switzerland Internet Archive Contact Ambush 1996 · Educational Department of the Navy Contact Ambush AVA04620VNB1, 1996 The program shows marine patrol action in Vietnam. Shows land and river patrols and a successful… Internet Archive STAFF FILM REPORT 66-25A 1966 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 26977 STAFF FILM REPORT 66-25A VIETNAM - JUNE 1966 - 25TH INFANTRY DIVISION, 173D AIRBORNE BRIGADE; ARMY PROCUREMENT AGENCY IN… Internet Archive Help Prevent Fires 1963 · Educational · 11 min · Subtitles Cleverly animated texts of everyday use which performs their daily actions without the aid of people. Although the very few words spoken are French, the film… Internet Archive Aerial and Boat Views of Amtrak Train Derailment, Mobile, Alabama 1993 · Educational U.S. Coast Guard Aerial and Boat Views of Amtrak Train Derailment, Mobile, Alabama AVA21271VNB1 The videotape contains aerial views of the Amtrak train… Internet Archive Manioc Bread 1972 · Educational Réalisation, Herman Schlenker Observation de la fabrication du pain à partir des racines du manioc. Les femmes Makiritare éliminent le poison par la… Internet Archive The Crocodile (And Discussion) 1973 · Educational Collaborator, Clifton Fadiman Tells the short story The crocodile, by Dostayevsky, about a middle class government employee who is swallowed by a crocodile… Internet Archive With All Deliberate Speed 1976 · Educational In Clarendon County, South Carolina, black minister J.A. DeLaine and white judge J. Waites Waring suffered harassment during the fight over school… Internet Archive STAFF FILM REPORT 66-12A 1966 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 26961 STAFF FILM REPORT 66-12A VIETNAM - COMBAT AND OTHER ACTIVITY, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH, 1966 - 25TH INFANTRY, 1ST AIR CAVALRY,… Internet Archive Chromatography: 1 -- Introduction and Gas Chromatography 1970 · Educational Writer, Harold M. McNair; consultant, James M. Miller Presents the theory and principles of chromatography as a separation technique and introduces the… Internet Archive The Progressive Era: Reform Works in America 1971 · Educational Produced by UPITN in collaboration with James P. Shenton Examines politics in the early 1900's. Describes what government was like then, and how it has… Internet Archive Botanic Man: 4 -- Potential Energy 1978 · Educational Using photomicrography, animation, and footage shot in Brunei on the coast of the South China Sea, the program describes the stage of evolution from the sea… Internet Archive Metric Properties Of Figures (Part XV) 1963 · Educational From the School Mathematics Study Group: A Brief Course in Mathematics for Elementary School Teachers. With Stewart Moredock. Film scanning by Ashley… Internet Archive Mountains of Green, Streets of Gold 1977 · Educational · 25 min "Montage, a public affairs film presentation of WKYC-TV." Examines the reasons why Appalachians left good jobs in Cleveland to return to the mountains of… Internet Archive Pathway From Within 1975 · Educational · 18 min Discusses the works and philosophy of Elizabeth Fraser Williamson, a prominent Canadian sculptor. FOR FURTHER INQUIRIES contact: Arts On Film.… Internet Archive Allostery: Molecular Communication 1980 · Educational · 25 min Produced by the BBC for the British Open University Howard Schachman of the University of California show how allostery can be understood by studying the… Internet Archive At the Crossroads: The Story of America's Endangered Species 1976 · Educational · 27 min Presents examples of each of the major reasons why much of America's wildlife is now endangered. Includes scenes of now extinct species, rescued species, and… Internet Archive Television: The Enchanted Mirror 1981 · Educational Title from data sheet A study of the role of television in American life. Includes interviews with TV directors, writers, an ABC executive, a brain behavior… Internet Archive The Football Incident: High School 31, Beijing 1976 · Educational Note: Purchased under a grant from the Sidney Myer Charity Trust 664 feet Directors, Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan One of a unique cinema verite style… Internet Archive The Water's Edge: The Silent Explosion 1975 · Educational · 28 min Producer and director, Milan Chvostek; writer and narrator, William Whitehead Focuses on the interrelationship of animal and plant life which has been lying… Internet Archive Truman: Years of Decision 1979 · Educational Title from data sheet Originally shown in Canada on the television program entitled Portraits of power Director, Jeremy Murray-Brown; journalist, Drew… Internet Archive Ingrid 1984 · Educational Title from data sheet Intended audience: Ages 12 through adults Issued also as videorecording A documentary on the life of actress Ingrid Bergman that… Internet Archive The Sounds of Language 1957 · Educational Explains that each language has its own sound system of characteristic intonation patterns, rhythms, stresses, and sounds and points out that a problem in… Internet Archive You See ... I've Had a Life 1972 · Educational Producer, Ben Levin Reveals through flashbacks how a 13-year-old boy and his family attempt to deal with the child's fatal affliction with leukemia Internet Archive Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions 2001 · Educational The National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Protection Program www.firewise.org Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions FWC-623-01 This program is based on the… Internet Archive How Airplanes Fly 1968 · Educational Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration How Airplanes Fly NTIS AVA08357VNB1 What makes an airplane get off the ground and stay in the…