David Giesen brings his extraordinary collection of original 1907 Monopoly game artifacts to anchor his presentation of the fascinating political history of the game, with roots in the anti-monop...
http://archive.org/details/history-of-monopoly-april-24-2024
This Soviet film presents a look at the daring French resistance to German occupation during the Second World War. The French Resistance significantly aided in facilitating the Allied forces adva...
http://archive.org/details/XD99455-Soviet-Film-French-Resistance_vwr.mov
This travelogue from the 1970s titled 'Vintage Los Angeles Freeway & Hollywood Tour Film' is a silent film. It was one of a series originally sold to tourists visiting the Los Angeles area, to ha...
http://archive.org/details/XD97655-Vintage-Los-Angeles-Holiday-Tour-Film_mos_vwr.mov
Produced for Religious Films Ltd. in the United Kingdom, 'The Synagogue and the Passover' (1941) is a black-and-white educational film that sheds light on religious practice in the synagogue and ...
http://archive.org/details/XD97605-Two-Thousand-Years-Ago_vwr.mov
Directed by Sandra W. Bradley and produced by the American Security Council Foundation for the Coalition for Peace Through Strength, 'Attack on the Americas' (1980) is a propaganda film that warn...
http://archive.org/details/XD97595-Attack-On-The-Americas_vwr.mov
Here are eight short, silent scientific films created from 1965-1968 at MIT and at University of California Livermore Radiation Laboratory. Most of the visual images were produced by pioneering c...
This educational film titled 'Platform to the stars - Space Shuttle' is a 1980s production by NASA. It includes footage primarily of the Space Shuttle Enterprise and the Space Shuttle Columbia (O...
http://archive.org/details/XD97665-Platform-To-The-Stars-Space-Shuttle_vwr.mov
Presented by Cobra Entertainment in collaboration with Champion Spark Plugs and created by Adam Robbins, 'A Man for the Record' (1970) is a color documentary film detailing pilot Darryl Greenamye...
http://archive.org/details/XD97585-A-Man-For-The-Record_vwr.mov
"News and Views" is a black-and-white, silent amateur home-style film dating to the mid-1930s combining various clips. It was filmed and Edited by Rockwell Hoag, a member of the Amateur Cinema Le...
Shot by an unknown filmmaker, this short film from the 1950s contains footage of a visit to an Inuit or Eskimo village. The well-shot film portrays the indigenous people of Alaska performing trad...
A Camerart Picture produced by John F. Criswell, this film likely titled 'Why Study Mathematics?' is a 1950s-era color educational film seeking to illustrate to school-aged children the importanc...
http://archive.org/details/XD97575-A-Camerart-Picture_vwr.mov
Produced by the U.S. Army Pictorial Service, 'Firepower vs. Jap Log Pillboxes' (issue no. F.B. 122 restricted) is a black-and-white World War II-era military film that depicts a weapons firing te...
http://archive.org/details/XD97565-Fire-Power-Vs-Jap-Log-Pillboxes_vwr.mov
Produced by Thor Lovoos and made by Bill Cartwright, Edmund Penney, and Sven Walnum, 'Angels Flight' (c.1969) is a color film that offers insight into the lost Los Angeles neighborhood of Bunker ...
This is an episode of 'Industry on Parade;' a television program made to promote American manufacturing businesses. It shows complicated industrial processes that transform raw material into comp...
http://archive.org/details/XD97525-Industry-On-Parade-Indiana_vwr.mov
This vintage U.S. Army Air Forces training film delivers a peek into military induction and the assessment of cadet trainees during WWII. It shows medical aspects of the induction process for new...
http://archive.org/details/XD97515-US-Army-Air-Force-Physical-Examination-For-Flying_vwr.mov
1938 was a year of crisis for Hollywood, with an on-going recession fueling a decline in theater attendance. The studios also feared that there was a growing public backlash against some of the o...
http://archive.org/details/XD97495-The-World-Is-Ours_vwr.mov
This silent film entitled 'School Tours Around New Jersey' likely dates from the late 1940s and features four schools in Paulsboro, New Jersey. The schools are the Buck Street Grade School, Loude...
http://archive.org/details/XD97545-Grade-School-Tours-Around-New-Jersey-Home-Movie_mos_vwr.mov
This film, titled 'Cops! Who Needs Them?' from 1973 is a fictionalized educational film, which follows a middle class teenager named Steve, who has a strong mistrust in the police force, but come...
http://archive.org/details/XD97505-Cops-Who-Needs-Them_vwr.mov
Produced by Eastman Teaching Films, Inc. of Rochester, NY in the late 1920s or early 30s, this black-and-white silent educational film takes the viewer on a tour through Japan. The film sheds lig...
http://archive.org/details/XD97465-Japan-1930s-Eastman-Classroom_mos_vwr.mov
This film features a compilation of 11 PSA and promotional-style films from the 1970s and 1980s. The films cover an array of topics from air pollution, reforestation, and the wrongful imprisonmen...
http://archive.org/details/XD96085-PSA-Compilation-2-Of-3_vwr.mov
This untitled, uncredited silent color home movie takes place at the Senior Scout encampment on Chanute Air Force Base (today decommissioned) in Chanute Field, Illinois. The film, which was likel...
http://archive.org/details/XD96635-Senior-Scout-Encampment-Chanute-Airforce-Base_mos_vwr.mov
Produced by ARCO Film productions, Inc. and Cinema et Publicité, 'A Touch of Magic' is a 50s-era color short promotional film directed by Robert Gudin and written by Jean Cerf for the Minnesota ...
This film "High in the Himalayas" takers viewers on an climb up Taboche with Sir Edmund Hillary (:16) presented by Sports Advisory Staff (:20) in cooperation with Sears. It was released in 1963 a...
http://archive.org/details/XD97485-High-In-The-Himalayas_vwr.mov
This untitled, uncredited silent color home-style film chronicles what is likely a group of Boy and Girl Scout leaders on a training trip. The film opens to scenic nature scenes from around Estes...
http://archive.org/details/XD96665-1957-Home-Movie-Estes-Park-Lincoln-Tomb-Philmont_mos_vwr.mov
This amateur home movie from 1968 shows activities of a Boy Scouts of America (BSA) troop in the year 1968. Whoever shot it -- one suspects it was the father of a Scout -- apparently hoped to sho...
http://archive.org/details/XD96645-1968-Home-Movie-Boy-Scout-Outing-And-Lessons_mos_vwr.mov
This film features a compilation of three one-minute long PSA-style films from the 1970s. The films advocate against both drug and alcohol abuse and feature examples of well-known American celebr...
http://archive.org/details/XD96075-PSA-Compilation-1-of-3_vwr.mov
This educational film is a Martin Associates production titled 'The Park' from the 1970s and it shows youngsters, who are addicted to marijuana and cocaine, and portrays the concerned friends and...
This film features a compilation of 10 PSA-style films, all one minute or less, from the late 1970s and 1980s. The majority of the films are produced by the American Lung Association while others...
http://archive.org/details/XD96095-PSA-Compilation-3-Of-3_vwr.mov
This anti-drug educational film titled 'Marijuana, Driving, and You' from 1985 portrays footage and animations displaying the dangers of driving when under the influence of marijuana and/or alcoh...
http://archive.org/details/XD96045-Marijuana-Driving-And-You_vwr.mov
In this film titled 'From Candy to Cocaine' from 1986, the 'Teens Kick-Off' performance group, a performance group recovering from alcohol and drug abuse, perform a modern theater piece on their ...
http://archive.org/details/XD96015-From-Candy-To-Cocaine_vwr.mov
This film was created by Norman Schenker. "Alcoholism: Causes and Dynamics" puts studies the issue of alcoholism and works to show the psychiatric factors contributing to it, using an animal stud...
http://archive.org/details/XD95985-Alcoholism-Causes-And-Dynamics_vwr.mov
This silent, amateur home movie was shot in the immediate post-WWII period, most likely by a member of Company B of the 578th Engineer Battalion. This unit was part of the California National Gua...
http://archive.org/details/XD95955-US-Army-Company-B-157th-Engineer-Headquarters-8mm_mos_vwr.mov
This anti-drug educational film, "H: The Story of a Teen Age Drug Addict" was released by Young America Films. It is a black-and-white film from 1951, produced by Larry Frisch and enacted by a te...
http://archive.org/details/XD96055-The-Story-Of-A-Teen-Age-Drug-Addict_vwr.mov
This recently-discovered, silent, WWII era German film shows various trucks which were modified so that they burned coal / anthracite, peat or wood to produce hydrogen and methane which could be ...
http://archive.org/details/XD95885-Wood-Burning-Trucks-And-Buses-WWII-German-Film_mos_vwr.mov
This film "Fundamentals of Patrol Plane Handling No. 2: Preparing the Plane for Flight" was one of a series. It shows the step by step process to ready a PBY Catalina amphibian for takeoff. It op...
http://archive.org/details/XD95975-US-Navy-Fundamentals-Of-Patrol-Plane-Handling-No-2_vwr.mov
Charles Cahill and Associates (:08); presents this childhood developmental film "Runaway: Freedom or Fright". The film displays a series of unhealthy and dysfunctional family homes; stories colle...
http://archive.org/details/XD95995-Runaway-Freedom-Or-Fright_vwr.mov
'In All the World&' is a 1940s color promotional film highlighting Great Northern Railway's service from Chicago to Glacier National Park and beyond to Seattle and Portland. Narrated by James F. ...
http://archive.org/details/XD95925-In-All-The-World-Glacier-National-Park_vwr.mov
This alcohol awareness film "Dial A-L-C-O-H-O-L" features the story of young people who are working at hotline for alcoholics. It shows how they attempt to assist peers struggling with issues rel...
Presented by Ford Motor Company, 'Dearborn Holiday' (c.1954) is a travelog and promo film that simultaneously highlights the accomplishments of Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company as well as the va...
This short, black-and-white educational film from 1948 titled 'Building a Highway' uses live action footage to offer insights into how highways are built. Produced by Encyclopedia Britannica Film...
http://archive.org/details/XD95905-EB-Films-Building-A-Highway_vwr.mov
Alcohol awareness is addressed in this substance abuse film, "A Step From the Shadows". It follows the plight of one family as the mother struggles with debilitating alcoholism. It traces her roc...
http://archive.org/details/XD96005-A-Step-From-The-Shadows_vwr.mov
This recently-discovered, silent, WWII era German film shows various trucks which were modified so that they burned coal / anthracite, peat or wood to produce hydrogen and methane which could be ...
http://archive.org/details/XD95895-Wood-And-Coal-Burning-Trucks--WWII-German-Film_mos_vwr.mov
This brief silent b&w and color home movie was shot by an unknown American during WWII. It shows activities at the Mississippi Institute of Aeronautics in the early 1940s. MIA was a civilian pilo...
Shot by an unknown American, this black-and-white home movie from 1927 chronicles the arrival of Charles Lindbergh at the East Boston Airport (today's Logan International Airport) as well as a pa...
http://archive.org/details/XD95915-Boston-Airport-North-Grafton-1927-Home-Movie_mos_vwr.mov
'To Sleep&Perchance to Dream' (1966) is a black-and-white educational film illuminating a series of groundbreaking sleep studies and sleep study experiments conducted at UCLA. The film follows a ...
http://archive.org/details/XD95855-To-Sleep-Perchance-To-Dream_vwr.mov
Presented by Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., a division of the Meredith Publishing Company, 'Behavior Theory in Practice Part IV: Sequences of Behavior' (1965) is a color, educational film that lo...
http://archive.org/details/XD95845-Behavior-Theory-In-Practive-Part-IV_vwr.mov
This Civil Rights era film "Epitaph for Jim Crow" takes a look at what conditions would have to be met, for the "Jim Crow" era to be considered over. Jim Crow refers to laws that were introduced ...
http://archive.org/details/XD95875-Epitaph-For-Jim-Crow_vwr.mov
"The Spanish Earth" is a 1937 anti-fascist film created to detail the struggle of the Republic against the rebellious ultra-right wing Francisco Franco. This is part two. The film begins with a s...
http://archive.org/details/XD95835b-The-Spanish-Earth-Reel-2_vwr.mov
"The Spanish Earth" is a 1937 anti-fascist film created to detail the struggle of the Republic against the rebellious ultra-right wing Francisco Franco. It is presented by Contemporary Historians...
http://archive.org/details/XD95835a-The-Spanish-Earth-Reel-1_vwr.mov
This promo film titled 'Fine Cameras and how they are made' is presented by Argus Cameras, Inc., and produced by Loucks & Norling Studios, Inc. in 1953. Argus Cameras is an American Cameras and p...
http://archive.org/details/XD95825-Fine-Cameras-And-How-They-Are-Made_vwr.mov