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1940s noir films
Watch classic film noir from the 1940s — shadowy crime dramas, hard-boiled detectives, and femme fatales — all free to s...
film and videosilent horror movies
Explore the origins of horror cinema — silent-era films from the 1910s through 1920s featuring expressionist sets, gothi...
film and videoSoviet propaganda reels
Watch Soviet-era propaganda films, newsreels, and state-produced documentaries that shaped public perception during the ...
film and video1970s kung fu movies
Stream classic martial arts films from the 1970s golden age — Hong Kong action cinema, grindhouse imports, and dubbed ku...
film and videoearly stop motion animation
Watch pioneering stop motion animation from the early 20th century — frame-by-frame filmmaking that laid the groundwork ...
film and videoWorld War II newsreels
Watch original WWII newsreels — battlefield footage, home front reports, and wartime propaganda as audiences saw it in t...
film and videopublic domain jazz
Listen to free jazz recordings from the early 20th century — big band, bebop, and swing-era performances that have enter...
music and audioearly jungle mixtapes
Listen to early jungle and drum & bass mixtapes from the 1990s — the breakbeat-driven UK sound that rewired electronic d...
music and audio1920s blues recordings
Listen to the earliest blues recordings — raw, powerful performances from the 1920s that captured a genre before it was ...
music and audiofield recordings West Africa
Listen to ethnographic field recordings from West Africa — traditional music, ceremonial performances, and oral historie...
music and audioshortwave radio broadcasts
Listen to captured shortwave radio broadcasts — international transmissions, numbers stations, and Cold War-era propagan...
music and audiovintage synth demos 1980s
Listen to factory demo tapes and patch showcases for classic 1980s synthesizers — Roland, Yamaha, Moog, and more....
music and audioNASA engineering manuals
Browse declassified NASA engineering manuals — technical documents from Apollo, Gemini, and the Space Shuttle programs c...
books and textsVictorian penny dreadfuls
Read Victorian penny dreadfuls — the cheap, sensational serial publications that thrilled working-class readers with tal...
books and textszoning ordinance PDFs
Access digitized zoning ordinances — the municipal regulations that shaped American cities, neighborhoods, and land use ...
books and textsmedieval manuscript scans
Browse high-resolution scans of medieval manuscripts — illuminated texts, bestiaries, and handwritten codices from the 5...
books and textsearly computing textbooks
Read computing textbooks from the 1950s through 1980s — the manuals, primers, and theory books that taught the first gen...
books and texts1970s counterculture zines
Read underground zines from the 1970s — self-published pamphlets covering alternative politics, communal living, DIY cul...
books and textsMS-DOS shareware games
Play classic MS-DOS shareware games in your browser — the try-before-you-buy software that defined PC gaming in the late...
software and gamesCommodore 64 disk images
Explore the Commodore 64 software library — games, demos, and applications from the best-selling home computer of all ti...
software and gamesearly Macintosh software
Explore early Macintosh software — the applications, games, and tools from the first decade of Apple's revolutionary GUI...
software and gamesBBS door games
Play classic BBS door games — the multiplayer text-based games that thrived on dial-up bulletin board systems before the...
software and gamesAmiga demoscene productions
Watch and explore Amiga demoscene productions — the real-time audiovisual showcases that pushed the Commodore Amiga to i...
software and gamesApple II educational software
Play classic Apple II educational software — Oregon Trail, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?, and the programs that...
software and gamesWorks Progress Administration photos
Browse WPA photographs — the government-funded documentation of Depression-era America that produced some of the most ic...
collections and miscvintage travel posters
Browse vintage travel posters — the bold, colorful advertisements that promoted destinations by rail, ship, and air from...
collections and miscpatent drawings 1800s
Browse 19th-century patent drawings — the technical illustrations submitted to the U.S. Patent Office documenting a cent...
collections and miscantique maps Pacific Islands
Browse antique maps of the Pacific Islands — centuries of cartographic attempts to chart the vast ocean and its scattere...
collections and miscWorld's Fair ephemera
Browse World's Fair memorabilia — programs, postcards, maps, and promotional materials from the international exhibition...
collections and miscprotest posters 1960s
Browse protest posters from the 1960s — the graphic art of civil rights, anti-war, and liberation movements that defined...
collections and misc