For our sixth monthly public domain night, Internet Archive will host a screening of MEET JOHN DOE(1941), starring Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. Meet John Doe may be Frank Capra’s most pessimistic film. The film serves as a fable about the dangers of homegrown fascism and the potential for ordinary people to resist oppressive forces, […]
Buy Tickets This year’s LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO (the 19th!) casts an archival gaze on the lives of San Franciscans and Bay residents. Drawn from over 400 newly scanned archival films plus a few old favorites, this year’s film revels in the textures and activities of everyday life, labor and celebration, replaying known and […]
On January 1, 2025, creative works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 will enter the public domain in the US. Celebrate with us online on January 22nd! REGISTER NOW
Please join us at our headquarters in San Francisco for a Celebration of the Public Domain! This year, we’re honoring 1929 — the year of the very first Academy Awards, held at the historic Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood, CA. REGISTER NOW!
We invite you to Fahrenheit 2451 an exciting two-day academic conference on Friday, January 31st, and Saturday, February 1st at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco, California. In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury imagines a “living library” where people memorize classic books to preserve them from the flames. From Tolkien’s and C.S. Lewis’s mythologies to the […]
Ideas Worth Saving is hosting an in-person film clip viewing and a panel discussion on Friday, January 31st and Saturday, February 1st. The film clips and a panel discussion themes will be The True Origins of Star Wars on Friday, and The Tolkien You Never Knew on Sunday. We encourage you to attend in costume […]