Technology in the world's archives

3,745–3,792 of 4,312 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 BARD Mobile Android: Introduction & TalkBack Gestures 2015 · Talk Judy Dixon introduces the BARD Mobile application for Android and provides a tutorial on how to use basic TalkBack gestures. Library of Congress BARD Mobile Android: Manage Your Downloads 2015 · Talk Judy Dixon provides a tutorial on how to initiate downloads with the BARD Mobile app for Android devices. Library of Congress BARD Mobile Android: Read an Audiobook 2015 · Talk Judy Dixon provides a tutorial on how to read an audiobook with the BARD Mobile app for Android devices. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs at the Library of Congress 2015 · Talk A conversation with Barbara Natanson on the prints and photographs collections at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress Rethinking Life on Earth & Beyond: Astrobiology and the Role of Paradigm Shifts in Science & Human Self-Understanding 2015 · Talk Part two of a three-part dialogue series that will convene scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars and writers from across the country and around… Library of Congress World Avoided: How Science & Policy Solved a Global Ozone Crisis 2015 · Talk Imagine a world where a five-minute walk could give you a sunburn. This could have happened if not for the Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987. Scientist Paul… Library of Congress Archiving Email: Welcome & Introduction 2015 · Talk Introductory remarks to a day-long meeting on the challenges and solutions of collecting and preserving email. As memory institutions increasingly process… Library of Congress Publishing in the Digital Age: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Lynn Freed, Geoffrey Kloske and Kevin Larimer discuss how book publishing has changed, and may change, in the age of digitization at the 2015 Library of… Library of Congress Claudia Rankine: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Claudia Rankine discusses "Citizen: An American Lyric" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Andrea Wulf: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Andrea Wulf discusses "The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Rachel Swaby: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Rachel Swaby discusses "Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science - and the World" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress David Quammen: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk David Quammen and NPR's Steve Inskeep discuss "The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged From an African Forest" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book… Library of Congress Judy Foreman: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Judy Foreman discusses "A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Biggest Health Problem" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Casey Schwartz: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Casey Schwartz and NPR's Adam Cole discuss "In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of Neuropsychoanalysis" at the 2015 Library of Congress National… Library of Congress The Planet's Future: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Eminent biologist Edward O. Wilson and global economist Jeffrey Sachs discuss human existence and its viability on this planet at the 2015 Library of Congress… Library of Congress Terrence Holt: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Terrence Holt discusses "Internal Medicine: A Doctor's Stories" at the 2015 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Paul Halpern: 2015 National Book Festival 2015 · Talk Paul Halpern discusses "Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat: How Two Great Minds Battled Randomness to Create a Unified Theory of Physics" at the 2015… Library of Congress Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) Update - February 1, 2015 2015 · Talk The Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) is a major community challenge to provide an alternative to the deeply embedded MARC formats that will be… Library of Congress Fukushima and its Lessons for Nuclear Safety 2015 · Talk Edwin Lyman presents "Fukushima: a Story of a Nuclear Disaster," based on his recently published book. Library of Congress A Light on Cuba: Through the Library of Congress Ediciones Vigía Collection 2015 · Talk Jeanne Drewes discussed Ediciones Vigía, a collective of book artists in Matanzas, Cuba. Library of Congress Astrobiology & the Religious Imagination: Reexamining Notions of Creation, Humanity, Selfhood & the Cosmos 2015 · Talk Part one of a three-part dialogue series that will convene scientists, social scientists, humanities scholars and writers from across the country and around… Library of Congress The Preservation Directorate at the Library of Congress 2015 · Talk Conservators with the Library's Preservation Emergency Response Team explain and demonstrate how the Library of Congress prepares for and responds to… Library of Congress The Surprising History of Bird Feeding 2016 · Talk Paul Baicich and Margaret Barker discussed their book, "Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation," written with colleague Carrol… Library of Congress Saving the Web: Ethics & Challenges of Preserving the Internet (morning) 2016 · Talk Preserving the contents of the internet is an increasingly vital activity. The web today is an ubiquitous global information system, and yet significant… Library of Congress Saving the Web: Ethics & Challenges of Preserving the Internet (afternoon) 2016 · Talk Preserving the contents of the internet is an increasingly vital activity. The web today is an ubiquitous global information system, and yet significant… Library of Congress BARD Express: Browsing the BARD Collection 2016 · Talk Judy Dixon provides a tutorial on how to browse the BARD collection with BARD Express. Library of Congress BARD Express: Searching the BARD Collection 2016 · Talk Judy Dixon provides a tutorial on how to search the BARD collection with BARD Express. Library of Congress BARD Express: Browsing the Recently-Added & Most-Popular Lists 2016 · Talk Judy Dixon provides a tutorial on how to browse the recently added and most popular lists with BARD Express. Library of Congress BARD Express: Managing Devices 2016 · Talk Judy Dixon provides a tutorial on how to manage cartridges and other external devices with BARD Express. Library of Congress Expressive Dimensions of Photographic Paper 2016 · Talk Photo conservator Paul Messier discusses how to better understand the materials used by photographers so that preservationists can better interpret them and… Library of Congress Home Canning: Cultural Narratives, Technological Change & the Status of Traditional Knowledge 2016 · Talk Drawing on filmstrips, posters, cartoons, newspaper captions, canning manuals, mail-order catalogs and other sources, Danille Christensen offered examples… Library of Congress Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves 2016 · Talk Ira Thorpe discussed how scientists around the world have built instruments to detect and observe gravitational waves in an effort to learn more about the… Library of Congress Conservation Science & the Daguerreotype 2016 · Talk Tracing the history of the daguerreotype from Paris to Philadelphia, this lecture explores the various improvements made to Daguerre's process and the ways in… Library of Congress BIBFRAME on the Move 2016 · Talk Beacher Wiggins describes what has been accomplished to date on the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME). Kirk Hess and Paul Frank cover how the… Library of Congress A World of Opportunity: Audio Visual Archives & the Digital Landscape 2016 · Talk Andrea Kalas delivers the keynote address, "Move Into The Middle: Digital Archiving 2016," at the 47th annual conference of the International Association of… Library of Congress Data & Humans: A Love Story 2016 · Talk Jer Thorp discusses the relationship between people and data at the Library's symposium, "Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access." Library of Congress Collections as Data at the Library of Congress 2016 · Talk A discussion about efforts to use Library of Congress collections as data, as part of the day-long symposium on "Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use… Library of Congress Working Collections as Data 2016 · Talk Three presentations share the dynamic potential of using collections computationally at the Library's symposium, "Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use… Library of Congress Concerns for Data Scholarship 2016 · Talk Although data scholarship has increased the capacity for discovery, concerns such as biased design, participation barriers, and dehumanization remain. Three… Library of Congress Developing Communities of Practice 2016 · Talk Speakers question the impact of library collections and share strategies for engaging librarians and communities to use them in meaningful ways at the… Library of Congress Collections as Data: Conditions of Possibility 2016 · Talk In the closing keynote of the Library's symposium, "Collections as Data: Stewardship and Use Models to Enhance Access," Thomas Padilla discusses how agency,… Library of Congress Developing Communities of Practice Q&A 2016 · Talk Following their presentations on using library collections as data to engage and empower communities, participants answer questions from conference attendees… Library of Congress Giambattista Bodoni: His Life & His World 2016 · Talk Author Valerie Lester discussed her book, the first English-language biography of the printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813). Library of Congress A Space Weather Report: Preparing Space Explorers for Bad Weather 2016 · Talk C. Alex Young discussed the challenges of dealing with the harshness of space and making sure travelers can safely reach their destination as they reach for… Library of Congress Project IRENE: Analyzing Images to Digitize Sound on Historic Audio Recordings 2016 · Talk This lecture describes the IRENE technology, how the method enables the reconstruction of sound from the digital images, and the innovations and challenges… Library of Congress The Carta Marina at 500 2016 · Talk Second of four sessions of a two-day conference celebrating the 500th anniversary of Martin Waldseemüller's Carta Marina and focusing on some of the most… Library of Congress Mapping the Elusive Southern Sky 2016 · Talk Dava Sobel discusses the early history of celestial cartography in the annual Jay I. Kislak Lecture in the Archaeology and History of the Early Americas at… Library of Congress Launch of Website: A Land Beyond the Stars 2016 · Talk A multimedia website on the life of Martin Waldseemüller is unveiled at the fourth of four sessions of a two-day conference celebrating the 500th anniversary…