Technology in the world's archives

3,793–3,840 of 4,286 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.
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Kramer: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Peter D. Kramer discusses "Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants" with Leonard Bernstein from the Washington Post at the 2016 Library of Congress Book… Library of Congress Mary Roach: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Mary Roach discusses "Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War" with Tim Smith from the Washington Post at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in… Library of Congress James Gleick: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk James Gleick discusses "Time Travel" in a book launch event with Joe Palca from NPR at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Amy Ellis Nutt: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Amy Ellis Nutt discusses "Becoming Nicole: The Transformation of an American Family" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Michael Hiltzik: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Michael Hiltzik discusses "Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book… Library of Congress Joseph Mazur: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Joseph Mazur discusses "Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence" with Joel Achenbach from the Washington Post at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in… Library of Congress Eric Weiner: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Eric Weiner discusses "The Geography of Genius: A Search for the World's Most Creative Places, from Ancient Athens to Silicon Valley" at the 2016 Library of… Library of Congress Janna Levin: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Janna Levin discusses "Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in Washington, D.C. Library of Congress Eliezer Sternberg: 2016 National Book Festival 2016 · Talk Eliezer Sternberg discusses "NeuroLogic: The Brain's Hidden Rationale Behind Our Irrational Behavior" at the 2016 Library of Congress Book Festival in… Library of Congress Mathematics of African Dance Rhythms 2017 · Talk Martin Scherzinger explores some elements of African dance music through the lens of Zimbabwean matepe and mbira music, bringing cultural and mathematical… Library of Congress NEEMO: NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations 2017 · Talk Kelsey Young discussed NEEMO (NASA Extreme Environment Mission Operations), a mission that sends groups of astronauts, engineers and scientists to live and… Library of Congress How I Found my Jewish American Family 2017 · Talk Daniel Horowitz spoke about how to conduct genealogy research in a program cosponsored with the Jewish Genealogy Society of Greater Washington. Library of Congress Introduction to the IQ Five Battery Analyzer 2017 · Talk An introduction to using the IQ Five Battery Analyzer provided to NLS network libraries to test and analyze Talking Book Machine batteries. Library of Congress Space Ethics: Ethical Implications of Commercial Space Projects 2017 · Commercial Christopher Ketcham discussed the need to balance the economic value of commercial ventures with safety and ethical concerns for life on Earth and in space. Library of Congress African American Doctors of World War I. 2017 · Talk Historians W. Douglas Fisher and Joann H. Buckley discuss their book, "African American Doctors of World War I: The Lives of 104 Volunteers." Inspired by his… Library of Congress Broken Cylinders 2017 · Talk Eric Monroe discusses the nature of damage to early wax cylinder audio recordings during storage. Library of Congress Mapping the Great War 2017 · Talk A cartographic specialist and a military historian discuss maps and mapping during World War I. Library of Congress The Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 2017 · Talk C. Alex Young spoke about the science and wonder of total solar eclipses. He explained the celestial mechanics of the eclipse, viewing opportunities and how… Library of Congress Outstanding Catalan Contributions 2017 · Talk As a part of a program on the Library's Catalonian collections, Joan Amorós discussed his book, "Outstanding Catalan Contributions" about unique cultural,… Library of Congress History Between the Lines: Thinking About Collections as Data 2017 · Talk Edward Ayers discusses "History Between the Lines: Thinking About Collections as Data" as part of the day-long symposium, "Collections as Data: Impact." Library of Congress Detachment 2017 · Talk Visual artist Sarah Hatton discusses detachment as part of the day-long symposium, "Collections as Data: Impact." Library of Congress Only Once Imagined 2017 · Talk Stephanie Stillo presents "Only Once Imagined" as part of the day-long symposium, "Collections as Data: Impact." Library of Congress Data in Place: Using Digital Harlem to Map Historical Sources 2017 · Talk Stephen Robertson talked about "Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930," a website he has been developing for the last decade with collaborators at the… Library of Congress Structured Data Storytime 2017 · Talk Rachel Shorey presents "Structured Data Storytime" as part of the day-long symposium, "Collections as Data: Impact." Library of Congress Extremists in the Archive 2017 · Talk Jessie Daniels discusses how digital collections are used by extremist groups as part of the day-long symposium, "Collections as Data: Impact." Library of Congress Toward a Secondary Humanities Fellowship Semester 2017 · Talk Patrick Cronin and Thomas Neville talked about their organization's summer camp last year working with high school students to research the 1968 Washington… Library of Congress Unscroll: An Approach to Making New Things from Old Things 2017 · Talk Paul Ford discusses "Unscroll: An Approach to Making New Things from Old Things" as part of the day-long symposium, "Collections as Data: Impact." Library of Congress From Static Archive to Research-Ready Database 2017 · Talk Nick Adams talks about his work preparing the Congressional Record for computational social science at the day-long symposium, "Collections as Data: Impact." Library of Congress Mapper's Delight 2017 · Talk Tahir Hemphill tells the story of how his "Hip Hop Word Count" project translated into teaching high school students about data literacy during the day-long… Library of Congress Science By, For & With the People 2017 · Talk Geoff Haines-Stiles tells the story of "The Crowd and the Cloud" television series and how citizen science and mobile tech have revolutionized the collection,… Library of Congress Lightning Talks 2017 · Talk A series of eight lightning talks on subjects ranging from Caribbean periodicals to the Alan Lomax collection of Spanish folk music to the archives of the New… Library of Congress Schemes of Annotation in Ptolemy's Geography 2017 · Talk Chet Van Duzer discusses Ptolemy's "Geography." 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Barrow, whoundertook an ambitious study of 1,000 books printed from the 16th through… Library of Congress Cassini's Grand Finale 2017 · Talk Conor Nixon will cover the greatest highlights from the NASA Cassini mission from its earliest phases to the latest and most exciting results from the "Grand… Library of Congress Origins of the Military-Industrial Complex 2017 · Talk Daniel Else explored the results of his year-long inquiry into the organizational underpinnings of that military technological revolution of the 1940s and… Library of Congress Reel Folk: Interview with Bernard MacMahon & Allison McGourty 2017 · Talk As a part of its "Reel Folk" event examining cultural explorations on film, Stephen Winick and Mary Sue Twohy interviewed Bernard MacMahon and Allison… Library of Congress Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media 2017 · Talk Patricia Vieira moderates a discussion with David Castillo and William Egginton, authors of "Medialogies: Reading Reality in the Age of Inflationary Media."… Library of Congress Interview with Leonard Slatkin 2017 · Talk Conductor Leonard Slatkin discussed his career, the future of orchestras and community engagement, arts education and the Leonard Bernstein Centennial, in… Library of Congress To Explore Strange New Worlds: NASA's Small Steps & Giant Leaps in Understanding Worlds Beyond 2017 · Talk NASA's Padi Boyd talked about the thousands of planets discovered beyond our solar system and the evolving view of our place in the universe. 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