Wikimedia Commons

2,641–2,688 of 92,429 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.
Commons Núria Bonada i Caparrós 2025 · Short · 1 min Vídeo de Núria Bonada i Caparrós per la campanya "Dones que inspiren: escoltem les nostres científiques" Commons WDUDesafíoUruguayJuanCeretta 01 2025 · Short · 1 min Una de las intervenciones de Juan Ceretta en el panel "¿Con el agua al cuello? Conflictos ambientales en Wikipedia" organizado por Wikimedistas de Uruguay. Commons Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager First Light Briefing 2010 · Short · 1 min NASA Caption: The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager The HMI will measure the waves rippling across the surface of the Sun and the strength and direction of… Commons Modifier texte svg 2010 · Short · 1 min Méthode simple pour remplacer un texte sur un fichier SVG en utilisant un simple éditeur de texte Commons Citing sources tutorial, part 1 2010 · Educational · 2 min · Subtitles A tutorial on how to use footnotes for creating citations on Wikipedia. Script here, OpenDocument slideshow available on request. See also: part 2. Commons The-Global-Transmission-and-Control-of-Influenza-pone.0019515.s003 2011 · Short · 1 min Animation of simulated pandemics beginning in Mexico, with or without vaccination. The simulation was initialized with 1,000 infected individuals in Mexico… Commons Single-Amino-Acid-Substitutions-in-the-Chemotactic-Sequence-of-Urokinase-Receptor-Modulate-Cell-pone.0044806.s001 2012 · Short · 1 min Basal cell migration of uPAR expressing 293 cells. Phase-contrast time-lapse of 293/uPARwt-3 cells were acquired for 70 minutes (1 frame every 15 s). The… Commons Graham farmer freeway tunnel east gnangarra 2013 · Short · 2 min driving eastbound through the Graham Farmer Freeway tunnel with two lanes of traffic. Work commences 5th April 2013 to create a third traffic lane facilitated… Commons Formation-of-Stylet-Sheaths-in-āere-(in-air)-from-Eight-Species-of-Phytophagous-Hemipterans-from-pone.0062444.s006 2013 · Short · 1 min Video of a single Ferrisia virgata (Hemiptera: Pseudococcidae, striped mealybug) forming a multi-branch stylet sheath in āere. Total elapsed time from start… Commons Mahatma Gandhi - Sabarmati Ashram - Ahmedabad - Gujarat 2013 · Short · 2 min अत्र महात्मनः निवासः आसीत् । अस्य नाम हृदयकुञ्जः इति । यथा अस्माकं हृदयं शरीराय नूतनाम् उर्जां ददाति, तथैवेतत् कुटीरम् आश्रमाय नूतनाम् उर्जां ददाति इति भावः । Commons Projected U.S. Temperature Changes by 2100 2013 · Short · 1 min The average temperature across the continental U.S. could be 8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer by the end of the 21st century under a climate scenario in which… Commons Hierarchical-Self-Organization-of-Non-Cooperating-Individuals-pone.0081449.s001 2013 · Short · 1 min Emergence of a hierarchical leadership network. Starting from a random network of 73 agents, the rule of copying the decisions of the most trusted neighbours… Commons Tyska verb i presens 2014 · Educational · 6 min En grundläggande genomgång av hur man böjer verb i presens på tyska: regelbundna verb, haben och sein. Commons Lightning Simulator - Kelvin Water Dropper for demonstrations to students at UVic lab 2012 · Short · 1 min This is a version of Lord Kelvin's Water Drop apparatus that was built for demonstrations to students visiting our lab at UVic. It simulates the process of… Commons Wikimania 2014 Hackathon time lapse 2014 · Short · 1 min Time lapse of the Wikimania 2014 Hackathon at the Barbican in London. For a high resolution file: https://archive.org/details/hackathon2 Commons Wikimania 2014 opening time lapse 2014 · Short · 1 min Time lapse of the opening of Wikimania 2014 in the Barbican in London. For a high quality file see: https://archive.org/details/WikimaniaOpening Commons General Lavine 2014 · Short · 2 min General Lavine from "Prelude Book II" by Claude Debussy as performed by Jethary Rader in April, 2014. Commons Ford Island 2014 · Short · 4 min Animation of time that passed between initial Japanese transmission of "lightning attack" and the transmission of "Air Raid, Pearl Harbor--this is no drill",… Commons Curiosités de Notre-Dame-Strasbourg 2015 · Short · 1 min Sur le piédroit, de part et d'autre du portail Nord de la façade, sont représentées les vertus terrassant les vices. Il s'agit de copies. Les originales se… Commons Astronauts Mark Leonard Nimoy's Passing 2015 · Short · 1 min NASA Astronaut Michael Fincke and ESA European Space Agency Astronaut Luca Parmitano reflect on the inspiration that actor Leonard Nimoy’s character Mr. Spock… Commons Valentia - Sintonia de campanya - Compromís 2015 · Short · 2 min Cançó de campanya de Compromís per a les eleccions nacionals i municipals de 2015. Commons Lojovice, kaplička, zvonění s ptačím zpěvem 2015 · Short · 1 min Velké Popovice-Lojovice, Prague-East District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. A bell chapel, evening ringing with birdsong on the background. Commons Non-Invasive-Microbial-Metabolic-Activity-Sensing-at-Single-Cell-Level-by-Perfusion-of-Calcein-pone.0141768.s007 2015 · Short · 1 min Intermittant iron supply with single cell events. After 3.7 hours, the perfusion medium was switched to without carbon (CGXII—PCA). The limitation of carbon… Commons Vincent van Gogh Practice makes perfect 2012 · Short · 1 min Vincent van Gogh_ Practice makes perfect. From 29 September 2012 to 25 April 2013, the Van Gogh Museum presents 'Vincent. The Van Gogh Museum in the Hermitage… Commons A-Computational-Study-of-the-Factors-Influencing-the-PVC-Triggering-Ability-of-a-Cluster-of-Early-pone.0144979.s005 2015 · Short · 1 min Dependence of PVC triggering on the value of the resting membrane potential E f of the fibroblasts. Video showing PVC triggering by an EAD clump, radius R =… Commons Πίνακας 2016 · Educational · 1 min Επίδειξη προσθήκης πίνακα σε σελίδα της Βικιπαίδειας, με την χρήση του οπτικού επεξεργαστή VisualEditor. Commons Distributed-Cerebellar-Motor-Learning-A-Spike-Timing-Dependent-Plasticity-Model-Video3 2016 · Short · 1 min Learning simulation. Synaptic weight evolution during Case B study is plotted. Simulations were run using plasticity mechanisms at PF–PC, MF-DCN, and PC-DCN… Commons Seal playing with NRW diver near Skomer - Morlo yn chwarae gyda deifar CNC yn Sgomer 2016 · Short · 1 min Playful seals have gotten up close and personal with officers from Natural Resources Wales in the seas around Skomer Island NRW staff have been busy this year… Commons Canon de l'Hermione 2016 · Feature · 1 h 33 min Sortie de l'Hermione (réplique de 2014) dans la baie de Saint-Malo. Accompagnée de l'Etoile du Roy et de nombreux autres bateaux. Le bateau tire des coups de… Commons Joods Monument Woerden WO II 2015 · Short · 1 min Tijdens het cultuurcafé van 29 april 2015 werd dit filmpje vertoond. Het was ook te zien bij de expositie in de bibliotheek bij gelegenheid van de 70-jarige… Commons Posttraumatic stress disorder 2016 · Short · 5 min What is posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)? PTSD's a type of mental health condition that can happen after experiencing a traumatic event. This video covers… Commons Runoff and filtersoxx 2016 · Short · 1 min animation showing soil erosion by run-off and the addition of filter soxx to prevent it Commons BioSig3D-High-Content-Screening-of-Three-Dimensional-Cell-Culture-Models-pone.0148379.s007 2016 · Short · 1 min (BioSig3D: Plate Layout Video) A video presenting how to do plate layout for high content screening. Commons OMR-Arena-Automated-Measurement-and-Stimulation-System-to-Determine-Mouse-Visual-Thresholds-Based-pone.0078058.s001 2013 · Short · 1 min Visualization of the tracking algorithm. A video of one mouse placed on the platform in the setup performing OMR. To facilitate the detection of the nose… Commons Controlling-the-motion-of-multiple-objects-on-a-Chladni-plate-ncomms12764-s8 2016 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 7 Manipulation of droplets on solid carriers. The movie includes a recording of experiment shown in Fig. 2c. Commons A-three-dimensional-actuated-origami-inspired-transformable-metamaterial-with-multiple-degrees-of-ncomms10929-s3 2016 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 2 Possible shapes of the unit cell. The unit cell considered in this study can be transformed into multiple highly distinct shapes by… Commons Extremely-durable-biofouling-resistant-metallic-surfaces-based-on-electrodeposited-nanoporous-ncomms9649-s3 2015 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 2 Omniphobic slippery TO films formed on stainless steel repel water, ethanol and silicone oil simultaneously. Commons Single-trial-dynamics-of-motor-cortex-and-their-applications-to-brain-machine-interfaces-ncomms8759-s2 2015 · Short · 2 min Supplementary Movie 1 Demonstrates the performance of NDF on the grid task. The video was reconstructed from kinematic data of the neural prosthesis cursor… Commons Spatially-and-temporally-resolved-gas-distributions-around-heterogeneous-catalysts-using-infrared-ncomms8076-s2 2015 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 1 Movie of the CO2 IR PLIF signal for a single sample 2%Pd/CeO2, the LIF signal is partly calibrated and is an average of 10 laser shots. Commons Graphene-based-carbon-layered-electrode-array-technology-for-neural-imaging-and-optogenetic-ncomms6258-s2 2014 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 1 Blood flow movie recordings through the graphene electrode sites in different rats. Commons El-Niño-and-coral-larval-dispersal-across-the-eastern-Pacific-marine-barrier-ncomms12571-s3 2016 · Short · 2 min Supplementary Movie 2 Monthly larval trajectories from the Northern Line Islands, November 2003 to June 2011. Density of larval paths by month of release from… Commons Mysimpleshow Transit of Venus 2016 · Short · 1 min This is a short explainer video based on the Wikipedia article about the Transit of Venus. It was made with mysimpleshow freeware. Commons Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient - Loretta Lynn 2013 · Short · 1 min Loretta Lynn is a country music legend. Raised in rural Kentucky, she emerged as one of the first successful female country music vocalists in the early… Commons Rheinschiffe Köln 2017 · Short · 1 min View from a drone of two cargo ships along the Rhine in Cologne near the Severinsbrücke. Commons Arbizon vu de la Hourquette d Ancizan 2013 · Short · 1 min Col de la Hourquette d'Ancizan (1564m). Vue sur le Pic du Midi de Bigorre (2876m), Hautes-Pyrénées.- France Commons Kepler 11- A Six-Planet Sonata 2012 · Short · 1 min Sonification of the transits of the remarkable Kepler 11 planetary system. Audio available for download: astro.uvic.ca/~alexhp/new/figures/kepler11sonata.mp3… Commons 5 Things to Know About TB- Open caption 2017 · Short · 1 min Many people think that tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of the past - an illness that no longer threatens us today. This CDC video highlights the continuing… Commons Hospitals are -NotaTarget 2016 · Short · 1 min On May 3, 2016, the United Nations Security Council will vote on a resolution designed to stop future attacks against hospitals, patients and civilians in war…