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Night of the Living Dead
In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation. Note: This item contains a user-contributed srt subtitle file. To use this file you must...

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Welcome to the Archive's Moving Images library of free movies, films, and videos. This library contains thousands of digital movies which range from classic full-length films, to daily alternative news broadcasts, to videos of every genre uploaded by Archive users. Many of these movies are available for download.

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Sub-Collections

1,286 items

Animation & Cartoons
Whether you want to watch classic cartoons from a bygone era, Brick Films made with your favorite building toys, Machinima patched together from video games, or the artful computer animations...

679 items

Arts & Music
This library of arts and music videos features This or That (a burlesque game show), the Coffee House TV arts program, punk bands from Punkcast and live performances from Groove TV. Many of these...

1,935 items

Computers & Technology
Featuring two television programs popular in the 1980's and 1990's: Computer Chronicles and Net Café, this library showcases videos about computing and technology. Collection topics include BBS, the...

849 items

Cultural & Academic Films
This library of academic and cultural films features collections from the Academic Film Archive and the Media Burn Independent Film Archive, as well as a selection of documentaries created by Dorothy...

207 items

Ephemeral Films
Ephemeral films are non-fiction films usually made for educational, industrial, or promotional purposes. The two classic ephemeral film collections found on the Archive are the Prelinger Archives and...

3,070 items

Movies
Watch full-length feature films, classic shorts, world culture documentaries, World War II propaganda, movie trailers, and films created in just ten hours: These options are all featured in this...

9,229 items

News & Public Affairs
An analysis of news and public affairs independent from traditional corporate media is available from this diverse video library. From Democracy Now's daily news program, to three days of TV news...

368 items

Non-English Videos
Collections of non-English language videos are showcased here. Find an Italian blog, a set of films by the German director Lutz Mommartz, and a collection of French Canadian films created by amateur...

52,634 items

Open Source Movies
You are invited to view or upload your videos to the Open Source collection! These thousands of videos were contributed by Archive users and community members. These videos are available for free...

2,012 items

Prelinger Archives
View over 2,000 films from the Prelinger Archives! Prelinger Archives was founded in 1983 by Rick Prelinger in New York City. Over the next twenty years, it grew into a collection of over 60,000...

22,687 items

Spirituality & Religion
View videos about spirituality and religion.

1,738 items

Sports Videos
From soccer to sailing, to rock climbing, cheerleading, and underwater hockey: You are invited to watch or download free sports videos contributed by Archive users!

3,758 items

Video Games
The Internet Archive, a non-profit institution based in San Francisco which also hosts the Wayback Machine and many important audio, video and webpage collections, is working with multiple external...

2,476 items

Vlogs
More serious (or at least prolific) vloggers are showcased in this video library. You may learn how to be happy, geocache, run, or play boardgames by keeping up with these vloggers’ videos. In...

461 items

Youth Media
Videos created by (or which are about) teens and young adults are featured in the Youth Media collection.