Glimpse the World as it was, through the eye of the camera. American HISTORY Archives is inspired by the Prelinger Archives.

Founded by Rick Prelinger in 1982 The Prelinger Archives were founded to preserve films sponsored by corporations and organizations, educational films, and amateur and home movies. These films were typically produced to fulfill specific purposes at specific times, and many exist today only by chance or accident. Enjoy a selection of the 65% of the Archive's holdings that are in the public domain because their copyrights have expired, or because they were U.S. productions that were published without proper copyright notice.

The entire Prelinger Archives collection and further information about its founder Rick Prelinger, can be can be found at:

https://archive.org/details/prelinger

https://publicdomainreview.org/collections/source/prelinger-archives

http://www.prelinger.com

*American HISTORY Archives is not affiliated with the Prelinger Archives organisation.