Comedy films

1,249–1,296 of 1,543 films, free to watch, from the world's open archives.

Where these films come from, and who sees what

Every film here plays from the archive that keeps it: the Internet Archive, Wikimedia Commons, the NASA Image and Video Library, the Library of Congress and Open Images (the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision). Nothing is copied to this site. Each film's page names its archive, links to its page there, and states its licence or status as the archive does.

Archive films carry no age ratings, so each is placed from the collections it sits in and the subjects the archive gives it, cautiously. Sexual content and nudity are left out altogether.

Little OnesFilms for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool.
KidsCartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature.
TweensDocumentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures.
TeensEverything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower.
AdultSexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Nothing Doing 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Fiddlesticks 1927 · Feature Internet Archive I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now 1975 Feature A plot to kill his wife goes wrong when he changes his mind and then cannot identify the killers to make sure they don't do it. Internet Archive Love Thy Neighbor (1940) Feature Jack Benny, Fred Allen Internet Archive Million Dollar Kid (1944) Feature Starring Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William 'Billy' Benedict, Louise Currie, Noah Beery, Iris Adrian, Herbert Heyes, Robert Greig, Johnny Duncan,… Internet Archive The Idle Rich 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Bless 'em All [1949] Feature Bless 'Em All is a 1948 British musical comedy film directed by Robert Jordan Hill and starring Hal Monty and Max Bygraves , the latter in his screen debut.… Internet Archive Girls About Town (1931) Feature Kay Francis, Joel McCrae, Alan Dinehart, Lilyan Tashman, Eugene Pallette Internet Archive Brats 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Hoose-Gow 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Koko Needles the Boss 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Tom Sawyer 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Min and Bill 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Africa Before Dark 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Cameraman 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Two Timid Souls 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Girl in the Show 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Treasurer's Report 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Way Out West 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Perfect Day 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Battle of the Sexes 1928 · Feature Internet Archive It’s in the Bag (restored, colorized) (1945, comedy, imdb score: 6.7) Feature It's in the Bag! is a 1945 comedy film featuring Fred Allen in his only starring film role. The film was released by United Artists at a time when Allen was… Internet Archive Glorifying the American Girl 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Poor Papa 1928 · Feature Internet Archive 171 Feature 171 Internet Archive Molly (1950) (pt. 1 of 2) Feature Here is a lost treasure from 1950 that has never seen any release on video and was found off of a recording from American Movie Classics in the early 1990s.… Internet Archive The Fall Guy 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Wide Open 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Lunch Hound 1927 · Feature Internet Archive True to the Navy 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Love Parade 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Traffic Regulations 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Young Man of Manhattan 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Stand In 1937 Bogart 1937 · Feature Humphrey Bogart plays a Hollywood studio boss in this comedy. Internet Archive Broke in China 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Saturday's Lesson 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Campus Vamp 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Berth Marks 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Africa Screams 1949 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles from IMDB.com: "Abbott & Costello search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals."… Internet Archive Meet John Doe 1941 · Feature Taken from IMDB : As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social… Internet Archive Die Drei von der Tankstelle 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Farmer's Wife 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Days of Youth 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Museum 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Rubber Tires 1927 · Feature Internet Archive The Smart Set 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Pass the Gravy 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Mammy 1930 · Feature