The world's archives

865–912 of 3,981 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 Romance of the Redwoods 1917 · Feature Internet Archive Nobleza Gaucha (1915) 1915 · Feature Nobleza gaucha es una película argentina muda, en blanco y negro, dirigida por Humberto Cairo , jefe de producción de la empresa de Julián de Ajuria , [ 1 ] ​… Internet Archive The Marathon 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Alias Jimmy Valentine 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Luke Joins The Navy (1916) Directed By Hal Roach 1916 · Feature Luke Joins the Navy Directed by Hal Roach Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Distributed by Pathé Exchange Release date September 4, 1916 Country… Internet Archive The Champion 1915 · Feature Internet Archive On The Fire (1919) Directed By Hal Roach 1919 · Feature On the Fire Directed by Hal Roach Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Release date February 23, 1919 Country United States Languages Silent English… Internet Archive An Unseen Enemy 1912 · Feature Internet Archive A Mormon Maid 1917 · Feature Internet Archive The Little Girl Next Door 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Falling Leaves 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Pay Your Dues (1919) Directed By Vincent Bryan, Hal Roach 1919 · Feature Pay Your Dues Directed by Vincent P. Bryan Hal Roach Written by H. M. Walker Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Cinematography Walter Lundin Release… Internet Archive The City Slicker ( 1918) Directed By Gilbert Pratt 1918 · Feature The City Slicker Directed by Gilbert Pratt Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Release date June 2, 1918 Running time 12 minutes Country United States… Internet Archive Love, Loot and Crash 1915 · Short You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England 1914 · Feature Internet Archive La hantise 1912 · Feature Internet Archive The Cook 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Ring Up The Curtain (1919) Directed By Alfred J. Goulding 1919 · Feature Ring Up the Curtain Directed by Alfred J. Goulding Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Distributed by Pathé Exchange Release date April 27, 1919… Internet Archive The Fatal Mallet 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Getting Mary Married 1919 · Feature Internet Archive The Adventurer 1917 · Feature Internet Archive A Night in the Show 1915 · Feature Internet Archive A Panicky Picnic 1910 · Feature Internet Archive A Trip through Japan with the YWCA 1919 · Film Travelogue by Benjamin Brodsky spotlighting the work of Japanese women, , preserved with the collaboration of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia… Internet Archive [275th Anniversary of Founding of Southampton, New York Pageant] 1915 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Vive la France! 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Moonshine 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Behind the Screen 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Daddy-Long-Legs 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Raja Harishchandra 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Roald Amundsens Sydpolsferd (1910-1912) 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Caught in the Rain 1914 · Feature Internet Archive The Woman Always Pays 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Never Touched Me [1919] Directed By Alfred J. Goulding 1919 · Feature Never Touched Me Directed by Alfred J. Goulding Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Production company Rolin Films Distributed by Pathe Exchange… Internet Archive Automatic Moving Company: Emile Cole 1910 · Cartoon · 4 min Automatic Moving Company: Emile Cole Set in Greektown, one of Baltimore's ethnic neighborhoods, this cinema verite documentary focuses on four young immigrant… Internet Archive Panama-Pacific International Exposition 1915 · Film panoramic view of the PPIE on San Francisco's northern edge, 1915, as broadcast in a 1930s newsreel. Internet Archive [Panama-Pacific International Exposition] 1915 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Back to God's Country 1919 · Feature Internet Archive How Men Propose 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Heart of a Hero, The 1916 · Film · Subtitles Biography of Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale. Internet Archive The Rough House 1917 · Feature Internet Archive A Militant Suffragette 1914 · Feature Internet Archive By the Sea 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Coney Island 1917 · Feature Internet Archive His Prehistoric Past 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Young Mr. Jazz (1919) Directed By Hal Roach 1919 · Feature Young Mr. Jazz Directed by Hal Roach Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Release date April 20, 1919 Country United States Languages Silent English… Internet Archive Gliders Over Outside Lands LLSF 2015 20151208 30p 7 MBps 1915 · Film Early gliders being launched over the outside lands when the Sunset was entirely sand dunes, c. 1910s. from "Lost Landscapes 10," 2015, courtesy Prelinger… Internet Archive [Panama-Pacific International Exposition] 1915 · Film · Subtitles