Technology in the world's archives

3,601–3,648 of 4,351 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.
Library of Congress Diving Deep in a Pool of Pictures: Prints and Photographs Online Catalog 2012 · Talk Prints and Photographs Division staff provide an overview of the Prints and Photographs Online Catalog (PPOC), highlighting features researchers have found… Library of Congress The Transit of Venus 2012 · Talk NASA's Sten Odenwald discusses the astronomical phenomenon known as the Transit of Venus, which occurs on June 5, 2012, and not again until the 22nd Century. 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Since the turn of the 20th century,… Library of Congress Whose Content Is It Anyway? Social Media, Personal Data & the Fate of Our Digital Legacy 2012 · Talk Cathy Marshall speaks about the ownership of digital items and how common it is for most of us to deliberately ignore the rights of creators of digital… Library of Congress Mapping Water Use from Space 2012 · Talk Martha Anderson talks about using images from the Landsat satellite program to monitor water use and drought on U.S. farms with pinpoint accuracy to measure… Library of Congress The Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress 2012 · Talk When most researchers arrive at the Library of Congress, their journey of discovery begins in the Main Reading Room. As the home to the library's reference… Library of Congress Of All the Physicians is There a Physician? Irony in the Practice of Medicine 2012 · Talk Although practicing medicine is a historic and socially established way of living a good and worthy life, the best physicians at times find themselves asking… Library of Congress Library of Congress New Bibliographic Framework Initiative: Update Forum with Eric Miller 2012 · Talk The new bibliographic framework transition initiative will be focused on the Web environment, Linked Data principles and mechanisms, and the Resource… Library of Congress Man, Food, and Fire: The Evolution of Barbecue 2012 · Talk Award-winning cookbook author and "master griller" Steven Raichlen will lecture at the Library of Congress on the history of barbecue, from the discovery of… Library of Congress Integrating Legacy Repository Systems with Archivematica 2012 · Talk Archivematica is a free and open-source digital preservation system that is designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital… Library of Congress From the Glory of Conquest to Paradise Lost: Al-Andalus as an Arab Realm of Memory 2012 · Talk Peter Wien discusses how "Realms of Memory" are central to how societies relate to a perceived collective past. The history of medieval al-Andalus, or Muslim… Library of Congress Enhancing Access to Library of Congress Collections 2012 · Talk Since early 2007, the Library of Congress and several partner organizations have worked to create a thesaurus of genre/form terms (MARC 21 tag 155), that… Library of Congress Cultural Institutions & Wikipedia: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship 2012 · Talk Over the past few years, cultural institutions have formed partnerships with Wikipedia in order to increase their visibility on the web and connect with a… Library of Congress Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age 2012 · Talk Sociologist Manuel Castells examines the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street and other social movements that have emerged in the Internet Age. He shares his… Library of Congress Human Migration, Malaria & Modernization in the Pacific: DNA Studies 2012 · Talk The research of J. Koji Lum focuses on the origins, interactions, and resulting genetic characteristics of Pacific Island populations, the evolution of the… Library of Congress My Winter in Greenland & Summer in Antarctica 2012 · Talk The Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets contain 99 percent of the Earth's fresh-water ice, according to NASA scientist Lora Koenig. Changes to these regions… Library of Congress Chasing Krüger's Dream: Studying the Transmission of Classical & Medieval Manuscripts Using Lattice Theory and Information Entropy 2012 · Talk New computational techniques show how modern digital philology is changing the way we think of the transmission of medieval manuscripts through space and… Library of Congress Climate Change Policy: Updates 2012 · Talk Ecologist Peter Frumhoff discussed whether scientific findings can or should inform the public discourse on climate-change policy. Frumhoff examined results… Library of Congress New Research on Iron Gall Ink 2012 · Talk Prior to the 20th Century, iron gall ink (IGI) was the most common ink in the western world, and a plethora of recipes from which to produce the dark,… Library of Congress Looking Homeward Towards Earth: The Power of Perspective 2012 · Talk In 1968, Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders took an image of planet Earth as it emerged from the lunar horizon. The picture, "Earthrise," changed forever… Library of Congress A Digital Shift: Libraries, Ebooks and Beyond 2012 · Talk Cory Doctorow discusses the challenges facing authors and cultural heritage institutions with the increasing use of electronic texts. Library of Congress Spectral Imaging at St. Catherine's Monastery to Reveal Ancient Texts 2012 · Talk Father Justin Sinaites and Michael B. Toth discussed how advanced hyperspectral imaging is revealing ancient texts in the library at St. Catherine's, a remote… Library of Congress Patricia Cornwell: 2012 National Book Festival 2012 · Talk Patricia Cornwell discusses her book "Red Mist" at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Library of Congress Walter Isaacson: 2012 National Book Festival 2012 · Talk Walter Isaacson discusses his biography of Apple founder Steve Jobs at the 2012 Library of Congress National Book Festival. Library of Congress Lessons Learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake & New Tactics for the STI Ecosystem 2013 · Talk In this lecture, Tateo Arimoto discusses the new science technology and innovation policy of the Japanese government. Library of Congress House Science & National Labs Caucus: Neil deGrasse Tyson 2013 · Talk Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson kicked off the House Science & National Labs Caucus with a lecture at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress The Afterlives of Specimens: Science & Mourning in Whitman's America 2013 · Talk Lindsay Tuggle examines the Civil War narratives of Walt Whitman and Union surgeon John H. Brinton as alternative histories of war casualties: military and… Library of Congress Bibliographic Framework Initiative Update Forum 2013 · Talk The Library of Congress sponsored an update forum on the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative in Seattle, Wash., during the midwinter meeting of the… Library of Congress By Endurance We Conquer: Ernest Shackleton and Lessons of Leadership for the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Centenary Expedition 2014 2013 · Talk A team of adventurers who hope to traverse the Antarctic continent along the same route planned by Sir Ernest Shackleton in 1914 discuss the ill-fated early… Library of Congress The Evolving Moral Landscape: Perspectives on the Environment, Literary, Historical and Interplanetary 2013 · Talk Three scholars from three different disciplines discuss human perspectives on the environment and the moral implications of those views. Library of Congress Printing in Color: Lessons in Technique 2013 · Talk A demonstration of the progress of color printing from 1457 until 1800, using examples from the Library's Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection and recent… Library of Congress The Knowledge Revolution and the Future of Libraries 2013 · Talk Ismail Serageldin speaks on the transformation of knowledge and how it will impact the future of libraries. Library of Congress Danny Kaye Website Launch 2013 · Talk At an evening celebration on March 19, the Library launched a website featuring 2,000 items from its Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Collection. Library of Congress Bringing Digital Forensics to the Library: An Introduction to the BitCurator Project 2013 · Talk Porter Olsen discussed the BitCurator Project, a system for cultural heritage professionals that incorporates the functionality of many digital forensics… Library of Congress How to Put Your Brain on the Internet: Lessons from a Cyborg 2013 · Talk Michael Chorost discusses his book "World Wide Mind: The Coming Integration of Humanity, Machines, and the Internet." Library of Congress Marefa: The On-Line Arabic Encyclopedia 2013 · Talk An examination of Marefa, an online Arabic encyclopedia, by its creator, Nayel Shafei. Library of Congress Extraterrestrial Real Estate: Measuring Habitability on Mars with the Curiosity Rover 2013 · Talk Pamela Conrad discussed her research on planetary habitability assessments. NASA's Curiosity rover is providing vital insight about Mars' past and current… Library of Congress Print Me a Stradivarius: Oberlin Betts Panel Discussion 2013 · Talk Top American instrument makers talk about the impressive results of a recent project to use modern technologies to copy the Library's superb Betts violin,… Library of Congress Rosenzweig Forum on Technology & the Humanities: Preserving & Interpreting Born-Digital Collections 2013 · Talk On Monday, April 22, the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program co-hosted the Rosenzweig Forum on Technology… Library of Congress Honeypots and Archive Realism 2013 · Talk As the Internet continues to seep into the marrow of our lives, the distinction between libraries, archives, museums, and increasingly, the digital services… Library of Congress Preserving Your Memories: Traditional & Digital Albums & Scrapbooks 2013 · Talk Conservators highlighted basic preservation measures one can do at home for long-lasting albums and scrapbooks. They enumerated the pros and cons of… Library of Congress Advances in Raman Spectroscopy for Analysis of Cultural Heritage Materials 2013 · Talk A panel discussion on the advances in Raman Spectroscopy for analysis of cultural heritage materials. Speakers included Lynn Brostoff, Richard Bormett, Silvia… Library of Congress The Longevity of Human Civilization (1 of 4) 2013 · Talk Will the longevity of human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our world-changing technologies? Scientists, humanists, journalists and… Library of Congress The Longevity of Human Civilization (2 of 4) 2013 · Talk Will the longevity of human civilization on Earth be imperiled, or enhanced, by our world-changing technologies? Scientists, humanists, journalists and…