The world's archives

1,393–1,440 of 1,669 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 Watermelon Contest 1900 · Short · 2 min Watermelon Contest Commons Fantasmagorie (1908) 1908 · Cartoon · 1 min 1908 French animated short film by Émile Cohl Commons Testing Large Turbines, Westinghouse Co. Works 1904 · Short · 3 min Silent short. Commons La Clownesse fantôme (1902) 1902 · Short · 1 min Silent French short Commons Le Repas fantastique 1900 · Short · 1 min A Fantastical Meal Commons Bob Kick, l'enfant terrible (1903) 1903 · Short · 1 min Bob Kick, the Mischievous Kid Commons Un miracle sous l'inquisition (1904) 1904 · Short · 2 min A Miracle Under the Inquisition Commons The Cord of Life (1909) 1909 · Short · 10 min The Cord of Life (1909) Commons Confidence (1909) 1909 · Short · 11 min Confidence (1909) Commons En avant la musique (1907) 1907 · Short · 3 min Film de Segundo de Chomón (1907) avec Julienne Mathieu Commons Le tonneau inépuisable (1907) 1907 · Short · 4 min French silent short trick film. Commons Le cauchemar de Fantoche (1908) 1908 · Cartoon · 2 min French silent short. Commons Moderne Ecole (1909) 1909 · Cartoon · 2 min French silent short. Commons La Chrysalide et le Papillon d'or 1901 · Short · 1 min The Brahmin and the Butterfly Commons Un feu d'artifice improvisé (1905) 1905 · Short · 3 min Unexpected Fireworks Commons La Prophétesse de Thèbes (1908) excerpt 1908 · Short · 1 min Fragment of The Prophetess of Thebes Commons Ali Barbouyou et Ali Bouf à l'huile (1907) excerpt 1907 · Short · 1 min Fragment of Delirium in a Studio Commons Mr. Jones has a card party (1909) version 2 1909 · Short · 8 min Mr. Jones Has a Card Party (1909) Commons The Seven Ages (1905) - yt 1905 · Short · 5 min Seven Ages Commons La Possession de l'enfant (1909) 1909 · Short · 11 min Film muet Commons Clair de Lune Espagnol (1909) 1909 · Cartoon · 4 min French silent short Commons Les locataires d'à côté (1909) 1909 · Cartoon · 4 min French silent short Commons Le Cerceau magique (1908) 1908 · Cartoon · 5 min French silent short Commons Barbe bleue (1901) 1901 · Short · 11 min French silent short. Commons Le Portrait spirite (1903) 1903 · Short · 2 min Silent French short Commons Le Mélomane (1903) 1903 · Short · 2 min Silent French short Commons Liliputian dance (1906) 1906 · Short · 6 min Silent French trick film. Commons A Calamitous Elopement 1908 · Short · 7 min A Calamitous Elopement Commons Le Déshabillage impossible 1900 · Short · 1 min Going to Bed Under Difficulties Commons Nouvelles Luttes extravagantes 1900 · Short · 2 min Fat and Lean Wrestling Match Commons Tom Tight et Dum Dum (1903) 1903 · Short · 2 min Jack Jaggs and Dum Dum Commons Explosion of a Motor Car (1900) 1900 · Short · 1 min Explosion of a Motor Car Commons Magie moderne (1908) 1908 · Short · 2 min Stencil coloured French silent short film Commons Le Printemps (1909) 1909 · Short · 6 min Film muet Commons La Statue animée (1903) 1903 · Short · 2 min Silent French short Commons Affaires de coeur (1909) 1909 · Cartoon · 4 min Affaires de cœur is a 1909 French silent animated short by Émile Cohl. Commons Soyons donc sportifs (1909) 1909 · Cartoon · 5 min Soyons sportifs is a 1909 short stop motion film by Émile Cohl. Commons La Boîte à malice (1903) 1903 · Short · 2 min Silent French short Commons Par le trou de la serrure (1901) 1901 · Short · 1 min French silent cartoon. Commons Jack et Jim (1903) 1903 · Short · 2 min Jack and Jim Commons La Parapluie fantastique (1903) 1903 · Short · 2 min Ten Ladies in One Umbrella Commons The Ex-Convict (1904) - yt 1904 · Short · 9 min Silent film by Edwin S. Porter Commons Pickpocket ne craint pas les entraves (1909) - yt 1909 · Short · 8 min Silent 1909 French trickfilm Commons La Peine du talion (1906) 1906 · Short · 5 min Stencil coloured French short silent film La Peine du talion from 1906. Commons The Thieving Hand (1908) 1908 · Short · 5 min Short American film. Commons L'oiseau bleu (1908) 1908 · Short · 11 min French silent short. Commons The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903) 1903 · Short · 1 min The Gay Shoe Clerk is a 1903 American silent short by Edwin S. Porter. Commons Le Courant électrique (1906) 1906 · Short · 1 min 1906 silent film by Segundo de Chomón