The world's archives

769–816 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 La valise de Barnum AKA Barnum's Trunk 1904 · Feature Internet Archive L'araigne d'or AKA The Gold Spider 1908 · Feature Internet Archive Mortelle idylle 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Les bulles de savon animes aka Soap Bubbles 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Les fromages automobiles aka The Skipping Cheese 1907 · Feature Internet Archive Les invisibles AKA Invisible Thief 1906 · Feature Internet Archive The Cardinal's Conspiracy 1909 · Feature Internet Archive The Extraordinary Waiter 1902 · Feature Internet Archive Le couronnement du roi douard VII AKA The Coronation of King Edward VII 1902 · Feature Internet Archive #DUPE# 1904 · Feature Internet Archive A Strange Meeting 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Vlasko oro 1905 · Feature Internet Archive A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm 1908 · Feature Internet Archive Selska svadba 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Danses espagnoles 1900 · Feature Internet Archive Un feu d'artifice improvis aka Unexpected Fireworks 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Le menuet lilliputien aka The Lilliptian Minuet 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Les malheurs d'un photographe aka The Mischances of a Photographer 1908 · Feature Internet Archive Plongeur fantastique AKA The Fantastic Diver 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Proslava na vodici vo Bitola 1905 · Feature Internet Archive The Ghost Train 1901 · Feature Internet Archive Uciliste na otvoren prostor 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Down the Hudson 1903 · Feature Internet Archive Confidence 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Le puits fantastique aka The Enchanted Wall 1903 · Feature Internet Archive Parada na turska pesadija i konjanica 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Danseuses Cambodgiennes du roi Norodom 1902 · Feature Internet Archive L'agent a le bras long 1909 · Feature Internet Archive Jamaica Street, Glasgow 1901 · Feature Internet Archive Westinghouse Works 1904 · Feature Internet Archive Daylight Burglary 1903 · Feature Internet Archive En avant la musique AKA Music, Forward! 1907 · Feature Internet Archive Our New Errand Boy 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Proslava na gurgovden 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Le jugement de Pris 1902 · Feature Internet Archive La vrit sur l'homme-singe 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Les apparitions fugitives AKA The Fugitive Apparitions 1904 · Feature Internet Archive Panorama View, Street Car Motor Room 1904 · Feature Internet Archive Those Awful Hats 1909 · Film A gentleman with a top hat, and a series of women with ever more ludicrous hats enter a movie theatre. They refuse to remove them, until a giant bucket… Internet Archive Parada na turska artilerija 1905 · Feature Internet Archive Vu générale de l'Exposition prise du Trocadéro 1900 · Feature Internet Archive Le roi du maquillage aka The Untamable Whisker 1904 · Feature Internet Archive Jacques et Jim AKA Jack and Jim 1903 · Feature Internet Archive La cardeuse de matelas aka The Mattress Makers 1906 · Feature Internet Archive The Golden Louis 1909 · Feature Internet Archive La prophtesse de Thbes The Prophetesse of Thebes 1907 · Feature Internet Archive Les Kiriki, acrobates japonais AKA Kiri-Kis 1907 · Feature Internet Archive The Son's Return 1909 · Feature