The world's archives

529–576 of 1,846 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 A Pair of White Gloves 1909 · Feature Internet Archive L'assommoir AKA Drink 1909 · Feature Internet Archive New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market 1903 · Feature Internet Archive The Law of Pardon 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Dog Factory 1904 · Feature Internet Archive The Pumpkin Race 1907 · Feature Internet Archive Le matelas pileptique AKA The Drunken Mattress 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Tom Thumb 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Move On 1903 · Short · 1 min Policeman encourages street vendors to move on at a market in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Preserved by the Library of Congress from a paper print. Internet Archive Post-Quake scenes 1906 · Film Footage taken about a month after the massive earthquake and fire of 1906. Internet Archive The Lonely Villa 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Les victimes de l'alcoolisme AKA Alcohol and Its Victims 1902 · Feature Internet Archive A Drunkard's Reformation 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Drama at the Bottom of the Sea 1901 · Feature Internet Archive La statue 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Le voleur invisible 1909 · Feature Internet Archive White Horse Rapids 1900 · Feature Internet Archive The Chimney Sweep And The Miller (1900) Directed By Arthur Marvin 1900 · Feature The Chimney Sweep and the Miller (1900) Director: Arthur Marvin A chimney sweep and a miller become involved in a street fight. The sweep has a bag of soot on… Internet Archive Chapellerie et charcuterie mcanique AKA Automated Hat-Maker and Sausage-Grinder 1900 · Feature Internet Archive The Taming of the Shrew 1908 · Feature Internet Archive La sirne aka The Mermaid 1904 · Feature Internet Archive The Airship Destroyer 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Stenka Razin 1908 · Feature Internet Archive Le voyage de Gulliver Lilliput et chez les gants AKA Gulliver's Travels 1902 · Feature Internet Archive Searching Ruins on Broadway, Galveston, for Dead Bodies 1900 · Feature Internet Archive Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre 1901 · Feature Internet Archive The Delhi Durbar 1903 · Feature Internet Archive The Thieving Hand 1908 · Feature Internet Archive Le sorcier, le prince et le bon gnie aka The Wizard, The Prince and the Good Fairy 1900 · Feature Internet Archive Another Job for the Undertaker 1901 · Feature Internet Archive The 'Teddy' Bears 1907 · Feature Internet Archive Is Spiritualism a Fraud 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Bushman Speaking into the Phonograph 1908 · Feature Internet Archive Fun in a Bakery Shop 1902 · Feature Internet Archive The Talisman or Sheep's Foot 1907 · Feature Internet Archive What Drink Did 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Russkaya svadba XVI stoletiya AKA 16th Century Russian Wedding 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Clown, chien et ballon 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Manifestacii: so grcki natpisi 1908 · Feature Internet Archive Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel 1900 · Feature Internet Archive The Haunted Curiosity Shop 1901 · Feature Internet Archive La lanterne magique aka The Magic Lantern 1903 · Feature Internet Archive Polin, l'anatomie du conscrit 1905 · Feature Internet Archive The Great Trainrobbery - Resampled edition! 1903 · Short · 9 min FOR ALL DOWNLOADERS, WE RESAMPLED THIS MOVIE BECAUSE WE FOUND OUT THAT A WRONG VERSION WAS UPLOADED BY ACCIDENT. THERE IS NOW A MUCH SHARPER VERSION… Internet Archive Fire! 1901 · Feature Internet Archive Mr. Flip 1909 · Short · 3 min As thin on plot as you tend to expect early one-reel comedies to be, Mr. Flip is about as lean as you'll find. Director 'Bronco Billy' Anderson and actor Ben… Internet Archive A Winter Straw Ride 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Comment monsieur prend son bain AKA How Monsieur Takes His Bath 1903 · Feature