A silent film starring Buster Keaton
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 3:39 am
Time off over the holidays? Need a little break while visiting family? Sourcing recommendations for movie night? The Internet Archive has you covered. We’ve gathered some of our staff’s favorite items (holiday-themed and otherwise) in our collections to share with you—enjoy this selection of publicly available movies, books, games, and more!
Movies
“We have a number of movies in the public domain within our collections, many of which we play in our HQ during Public Domain movie nights. Now, you can bring the public domain movie nights to your own home
The Haunted House (1921): Malice in the Palace (1949): A comedy short starring the Three Stooges
Charade (1963): A classic romance starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn”
-Internet Archive Admin Team
Books
My favorite collection is the whatsapp number database Heritage Library.”
-Joy Chesbrough, Director of Philanthropy
“I’m a big fan of Penn’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts Collection, particularly this book on herbs from 15th century Italy. The illustrations are super well-preserved and mix realism and fantasy to depict herbs and their qualities.”
-Tanya Zeif, Patron Services
“Enjoy over 19,000 public domain audiobooks read by Librivox volunteers. The collection has novels (Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Moby Dick, etc.) + short stories and poetry read in over forty different languages. Pretty neat. I recommend The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.”
-Tom Mayer, Development Coordinator
“One of my favorites is The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Handbook for All Women Who Motor or Who Want to Motor. It’s a guide to learning to drive from a woman who was a professional racecar driver in 1909. She briefly held the world land speed record (a blistering 79 miles per hour) and is credited with inventing the rearview mirror–she recommended that women bring their makeup compact along with them while driving so that they could hold up the mirror and see what was behind them without having to take their eyes off the road. A few years later, car manufacturers started including these mirrors in the vehicle by default.”
Movies
“We have a number of movies in the public domain within our collections, many of which we play in our HQ during Public Domain movie nights. Now, you can bring the public domain movie nights to your own home
The Haunted House (1921): Malice in the Palace (1949): A comedy short starring the Three Stooges
Charade (1963): A classic romance starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn”
-Internet Archive Admin Team
Books
My favorite collection is the whatsapp number database Heritage Library.”
-Joy Chesbrough, Director of Philanthropy
“I’m a big fan of Penn’s Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books, and Manuscripts Collection, particularly this book on herbs from 15th century Italy. The illustrations are super well-preserved and mix realism and fantasy to depict herbs and their qualities.”
-Tanya Zeif, Patron Services
“Enjoy over 19,000 public domain audiobooks read by Librivox volunteers. The collection has novels (Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Moby Dick, etc.) + short stories and poetry read in over forty different languages. Pretty neat. I recommend The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.”
-Tom Mayer, Development Coordinator
“One of my favorites is The Woman and the Car: A Chatty Little Handbook for All Women Who Motor or Who Want to Motor. It’s a guide to learning to drive from a woman who was a professional racecar driver in 1909. She briefly held the world land speed record (a blistering 79 miles per hour) and is credited with inventing the rearview mirror–she recommended that women bring their makeup compact along with them while driving so that they could hold up the mirror and see what was behind them without having to take their eyes off the road. A few years later, car manufacturers started including these mirrors in the vehicle by default.”