![[movies]](/images/mediatype_movies.gif) | Sex Madness
This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis. Exploitation filmmakers hoped to capitalize on the taboo subjects of venereal disease, sex before marriage, lesbianism, etc. while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 which forbade a film from containing such content...
Keywords: exploitation; melodrama
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| Night of the Living Dead - Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner
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 download an srt compatible player and point it at the correct video and srt files (google for srt subtitles)...
Keywords: horror
Downloads: 645,693
Average rating:  (87 reviews) |  |
| The Power of Nightmares - Adam Curtis
This film explores the origins in the 1940s and 50s of Islamic Fundamentalism in the Middle East, and Neoconservatism in America, parallels between these movements, and their effect on the world today. From the introduction to Part 1: "Both [the Islamists and Neoconservatives] were idealists who were born out of the failure of the liberal dream to build a better world. And both had a very similar explanation for what caused that failure...
Keywords: Adam Curtis
Downloads: 426,365
Average rating:  (155 reviews) |  |
| Classic Television Commercials
Classic Television Commercials
Keywords: Classic Television Commercials
Downloads: 279,979
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| The Last Man on Earth
Based on the chilling Richard Matheson science fiction Classic "I am Legend" and later remade as "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston. This classic features Vincent Price as scientist Robert Morgan in a post apocalyptic nightmare world. The world has been consumed by a ravenous plague that has transformed humanity into a race of bloodthirsty vampires. Only Morgan proves immune, and becomes the solitary vampire slayer.
Keywords: horror; Sci-Fi; Drama
Downloads: 270,141
Average rating: (37 reviews) |  |
| Reefer Madness - George A. Hirliman
Considered THE archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, but it's really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Like many exploitation films of the time, "Reefer Madness" tried to make a quick buck off of a forbidden subject while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. The Code forbade the portrayal of immoral acts like drug use. (The illegal drug traffic must not be portrayed in such a way as to stimulate curiosity concerning the use o...
Keywords: exploitation; cult
Downloads: 252,310
Average rating: (20 reviews) |  |
| His Girl Friday
Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation. Along with plenty of laughs and fast paced dialog this film provides a witty and cynical look at news business...
Keywords: romance; comedy
Downloads: 237,983
Average rating: (24 reviews) |  |
| The Man Who Knew Too Much - Ivor Montagu
While travelling in Switzerland, the child of a well-off couple is kidnapped. She is held to ensure that her father does not reveal what he knows about a planned assassination. Since they can't talk to the authorities, the parents plan to begin the search for their daughter on their own. This is the original, British-made movie from 1934 and is now in the public domain. After coming to the United States, Alfred Hitchcock produced a remake of this movie in 1956 starring James (Jimmy) Stewart and ...
Keywords: Hitchcock; 1930s
Downloads: 211,046
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Eve of Destruction - Ed Lackey, Debra Daly
This is the first music video by the Berkeley CA. based band KUBICAL XPHERE. The video is made up of various public domain clips from Prelinger Archives and other sources. Many popular archive clips are cleverly woven into the nearly 7 minute song "Eve of Destruction" by KUBICAL XPHERE. Featuring Ed Nelson as "Ed" in the role that made him famous.
Keywords: Musical Videos; KUBICAL XPHERE; 9/11; War; Atomic Bomb; Terrorism; Apocalypse; Presidents; Military; Destruction; Humanity; Armageddon; WTC; Twin Towers; Tarot; Clipfilms
Downloads: 200,474
Average rating:  (34 reviews) |  |
| Escape From Sobibor - Jack Gold
Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer star in this award winning movie about the successful mass escape of 300 prisoners from the Sobibor Nazi death camp. Fine acting and production values make this film a worthwhile viewing experience.
Keywords: Alan Arkin; Rutger Hauer; Sobibor; Nazi
Downloads: 189,433
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Suddenly
"Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer well-portrayed against type by Frank Sinatra." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates. 77 min.
Keywords: crime; drama; Frank Sinatra; Sterling Hayden; James Gleason; Nancy Gates; Kim Charney
Downloads: 179,353
Average rating: (25 reviews) |  |
| Hercules
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Adventure
Downloads: 169,967
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Beat the Devil - Jack Clayton, John Huston, Humphrey Bogart
Off-genre comedy-film noir.
Keywords: Crime; Satire; Comedy; Drama
Downloads: 161,652
Average rating: (19 reviews) |  |
| Happy Go Lovely
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. David Niven; Vera-Ellen; Cesar Romero
Keywords: Comedy; David Niven; Vera-Ellen; Cesar Romero
Downloads: 154,735
Average rating: (15 reviews) |  |
| My Man Godfrey
Ditzy socialite with a heart of gold, Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) finds "forgotten man" Godfrey Smith (William Powell) in a scavenger hunt. Eventually Godfrey is taken in as the family butler for the Bullocks and screwball antics and romance ensue.
Keywords: screwball; comedy; romance
Downloads: 153,699
Average rating:  (30 reviews) |  |
| Tarzan and the Rocky Gorge - Robbins Barstow
Sixteen year old Robbins Barstow, an Amateur Cinema League member and a fan of Johnny Weissmuller's Tarzan movies, rounded up his siblings and friends and led them into the wilds of Granby, Connecticut for this epic tale of a journey into Edgar Rice Burroughs' Africa. Also available with commentary by the filmmaker on the DVD "Living Room Cinema: Films From Home Movie Day, Vol. I".
Keywords: home movie; Barstow Travel Adventure
Downloads: 146,401
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
| Great Guy - Grand National Pictures
James Cagney plays the plucky Irish crusader, Johnny Cave, who fights against corruption at the Weights And Measures Department. James Cagney is great in this movie. It shows why he was such a huge movie star
Keywords: James Cagney; mystery; drama
Downloads: 143,771
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| My Favorite Brunette - Daniel Dare
Bob Hope comedy with Dorothy Lamour. | You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Comedy
Downloads: 143,499
Average rating: (17 reviews) |  |
| Big Show, The - Mack V. Wright
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 142,645
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| The Stranger - Sam Spiegel
Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice.
Keywords: Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Thriller
Downloads: 140,755
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Meet John Doe
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Comedy
Downloads: 136,969
Average rating: (10 reviews) |  |
| Sita Sings the Blues - Nina Paley
Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told."
Downloads: 136,955
Average rating: (29 reviews) |  |
| Dressed To Kill
Aka 'Sherlock Holmes in Dressed To Kill' - features Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Mystery; Thriller
Downloads: 136,791
Average rating: (17 reviews) |  |
| M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Moerder - Seymour Nebenzal
This film is nothing less than a masterpiece. It is a highly structured and stylized film about a serial killer. It created the serial kill genre, which includes such entries as Psycho and Silence of the Lambs. Alfred Hitchcock (the director of Psycho) was a disciple of Lang as were Jacques Tourneur (The Leopard Man (1943)) and Michael Powell (Peeping Tom (1960)). M was not only the originator of the genre, but arguably remains it preeminent entry...
Keywords: Thriller; Fritz Lang; German Expressionism; Peter Lorre
Downloads: 129,955
Average rating: (27 reviews) |  |
| Royal Wedding - Arthur Freed
Brother and sister dancing duo Tom and Ellen Bowen (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) travel to merry old England. There, against the backdrop of the impending wedding of royals, they go about the usual comedic pursuit of love. This film is probably most memorable for Astaire's dream sequence that has him dancing on the ceiling. The source is not of the best quality, with analog artifacts and blownout color...
Keywords: musical; comedy; dance
Downloads: 128,838
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| Penny Serenade
Touching romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Find out more about this film at its IMDB page.
Keywords: romance; comedy
Downloads: 125,220
Average rating: (8 reviews) |  |
| The Lost World - Jamie White
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: adventure; fantasy
Downloads: 119,977
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| They Made Me a Criminal - Hal Wallis
Boxer Johnny Bradfield (John Garfield) knocks out a rival in a postfight brawl. Thinking he committed murder, he flees to an Arizona ranch run by hard-as-nails Goldie (Ann Sheridan) and her feisty mother(May Robson) and staffed by Leo Gorcey and the Dead End Kids. Though Johnny is relentlessly dogged by Detective Monty Phelan (Claude Rains), the Kids convince him to finance their future gas station by training for and winning a high stakes prizefight...
Keywords: Leo Gorcey boxing crime drama John Garfield
Downloads: 113,885
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| What To Do In A Zombie Attack - Lone Bannana Productions
A series of 1950 short films on how to survive a Zombie Holocaust. This film was created using a lot of Public Domain films from the Prelinger Archives, so it makes sense that it should reside in Archive.org What To Do In A Zombie Attack DVD What To Do In A Zombie Attack DVD
Keywords: zombie; zombies; 1950; educational; shorts; classroom; lone bannana; bannana
Downloads: 101,618
Average rating: (33 reviews) |  |
| Brunette
Keywords: Vintage Erotica
Downloads: 98,947
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Abraham Lincoln - D.W. Griffith
A biography of the beloved United States president by D. W. Griffith. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 96,158
Average rating: (12 reviews) |  |
| Private Snuffy Smith - Edward Gross
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: Comedy
Downloads: 95,682
Average rating: (5 reviews) |  |
| The Phantom of the Opera - Carl Laemmle
At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives.
Keywords: silent; drama; horror
Downloads: 94,261
Average rating: (13 reviews) |  |
| Three Stooges Episodes
4 Episodes Of The 3 Stooges. Downloads include: Disorder In The Court Brideless Groom Sing A Song Of Six Pants Malice In The Palace
Keywords: three stooges; comedy; public domain
Downloads: 94,110
Average rating: (11 reviews) |  |
| D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin
D.O.A. (1950) is a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the stylistic genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies. The film begins with a scene called "perhaps one of cinema's most innovative opening sequences" by a BBC reviewer. The scene is a long, behind-the-back tracking sequence featuring Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) walking through a hallway into a police station to repo...
Keywords: suspense; film noir
Downloads: 94,103
Average rating: (37 reviews) |  |
| The Fighting Lady - William Wyler
"The Fighting Lady," directed by William Wyler, provides a portrait of life on a World War II aircraft carrier, a vessel that is "enormous, wonderful, and strange to us." After profiling the various activities of the soldiers' day and following the ship's voyage through the Panama Canal, the film takes the audience through a litany of actual combat engagements. The Fighting Lady participates in a strike on the Marcus Islands, then defends itself against a surprise nighttime raid by Japanese figh...
Downloads: 92,340
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| The 39 Steps - Michael Balcon, Ivor Montagu
One of Hitchcock's earliest hits, The 39 Steps sees The Master unravelling the soon-to-be-typical plot of an innocent man on the run, trying to prove his innocence.
Keywords: Drama; Mystery; Thriller; Alfred Hitchcock
Downloads: 91,715
Average rating:  (9 reviews) |  |
| Cachonda Barely Legal Mix Video - Pablo Perez
Video for a remix version of cachonda by Vate. Made with vids from the Prelinger Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/Blonde_2 http://www.archive.org/details/stripper_yvonne_marthay Remixes page: http://www.archive.org/details/cachonda_remixes Original Track and album: http://www.archive.org/details/V09_vate-cachonda
Keywords: remix; video; music; cachonda; mix; nude; women; pop; art; experimental; electronic
Downloads: 90,231
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| The House On Haunted Hill - William Castle
Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as the suavely malevolent host of a "haunted house party" who offers his guests $10,000 if they can survive a night in the murderous mansion. Watch for the great Elisha Cook Jr,(he played Wilmer in the "Maltese Falcon") as the groveling homeowner. The eerie looking home used for the exterior shots is the Ennis Brown house in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1924...
Keywords: Vincent Price; haunted house; horror; William Castle
Downloads: 89,270
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Lady Frankenstein - Umberto Borsato
From IMDb: When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr...
Keywords: Horror
Downloads: 88,405
Average rating:  (11 reviews) |  |
| Disorder in the Court - Jules White
You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: comedy; short; three stooges
Downloads: 87,336
Average rating: (7 reviews) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's "A Woman"
Charlie Chaplin's 44th Film Released July 12 1915 A Woman was Charlie Chaplin's ninth film for Essanay Films. It was made in Los Angeles at the Majectic Studio. The film starts with Chaplin meeting Edna (Edna Purviance) and her parents in a park; the mother is played by Marta Golden and the father by Charles Insley. In this film, Chaplin dresses as a woman to fool Edna's father. It was the third and last time Chaplin played the role of a woman on film...
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 86,736
Average rating: (3 reviews) |  |
| Le voyage dans la lune
By George Melies, an old 1902 film from france about a small group of scientists that travel to space on a rocket to get to the moon.
Keywords: France; 1902; Meilies; sci-fi; b&w
Downloads: 86,583
Average rating: (24 reviews) |  |
| Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Keywords: family; comedy
Downloads: 86,195
Average rating: (26 reviews) |  |
| Bloody Pit of Horror - Francesco Merli, Ralph Zucker
A group of models and cameramen go to a castle to shoot covers for horror novels where they're captured and tortured by the castle's owner, the Crimson Executioner. Find out more about this film on it's IMDB page. There are versions of the movie in XviD (DivX), Theora (Ogg Vorbis), PSP (997 MB MPEG4) and iPod (556 MB MPEG4). Please leave a review if you download one of those versions to let me know if they did or didn't work for you.
Keywords: horror
Downloads: 83,790
Average rating: (14 reviews) |  |
| Utopia - Raymond Eger
Utopia (also known as Atoll K and Robinson Crusoe Land) is last film Laurel and Hardy made together. It was filmed and produced in Europe.
Keywords: Laurel & Hardy; Laurel and Hardy; Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy
Downloads: 78,347
Average rating: (2 reviews) |  |
| Carnival of Souls
Atmospheric 60s B-horror film with a cult following. Mary Henry is enjoying the day by riding around with two friends but everything goes wrong when challenged to a drag race and their car gets forced off of a bridge. The car sinks into the murky depths, and all three women are assumed drowned. Some time later Mary emerges unscathed from the river. She tries to start a new life by becoming a church organist but Mary finds herself haunted by a ghostly figure that instills fear and dread into her...
Keywords: Thriller; Horror
Downloads: 77,212
Average rating: (34 reviews) |  |
| Charlie Chaplin's " The Pawnshop"
Charlie Chaplin's 56th Film Released Oct 02 1916. The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Company. Chaplin played the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner. Henry Bergman played the owner and Edna Purviance the owner's daughter. Albert Austin played an alarm clock owner who watches Charlie in dismay as he checks out the clock. This was one of Chaplin's more popular Mutual Films, mainly for the slapstick comedy he was famous for at the time...
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents
Downloads: 77,004
Average rating:  (0 review) |  |
| Panorama Ephemera - Rick Prelinger
PANORAMA EPHEMERA (2004, 89:35 min., color and black and white) is a collage of sequences drawn from a wide variety of ephemeral (industrial, advertising, educational and amateur) films, touring the conflicted landscapes of twentieth-century America. The films' often-skewed visions construct an American history filled with horror and hope, unreeling in familiar and unexpected ways. PANORAMA EPHEMERA focuses on familiar and mythical activities and images in America (1626-1978)...
Keywords: United States (History and culture); Animals; Motion pictures (Experimental)
Downloads: 74,337
Average rating: (18 reviews) |  |
| Road To Happiness
A down-and-out singer turns to radio acting and finds his life turned around. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page.
Downloads: 74,117
Average rating: (6 reviews) |  |
