The world's archives

961–1,008 of 3,051 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 Der ewige Zweifel 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Julius Caesar 1914 · Feature Internet Archive What the Doctor Ordered 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Bride of the Nile 1911 · Feature Internet Archive The Immigrant 1917 · Feature Internet Archive The Little Match Girl 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Children of Eve 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Mrs. Pussy Loves Animals 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Heart of a Hero, The 1916 · Film · Subtitles Biography of Revolutionary War patriot Nathan Hale. Internet Archive Colonel Heeza Liar at the Bat 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Das Eskimobaby 1918 · Feature Internet Archive White Fawn's Devotion: A Play Acted by a Tribe of Red Indians in America 1910 · Feature Internet Archive A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919) Directed By Hal Roach 1919 · Feature A Jazzed Honeymoon Film poster Directed by Hal Roach Written by H. M. Walker Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Cinematography Walter Lundin Release… Internet Archive His Wedding Night 1917 · Feature Internet Archive A Submarine Pirate (1915) Directed By Charles Avery, Syd Chaplin 1915 · Feature A Submarine Pirate Syd Chaplin at the periscope Directed by Charles Avery Syd Chaplin Written by Mack Sennett Produced by Mack Sennett Starring Syd Chaplin… Internet Archive The Devil's Needle 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Cityviews of Haarlem in 1919 in color [AI enhanced, colorized] 1919 · Feature This is the complete colorized and restored film about the Dutch city of Haarlem in The Netherlands more than a century ago. Note: The district of "Harlem" in… Internet Archive Sunnyside 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Idle Wives 1916 · Film First two reels of a Lois Weber feature in which a film inspires three sets of moviegoers to remake their lives. Preserved in collaboration with the New… Internet Archive A Busy Day AKA The Militant Suffragette 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Shanghaied 1915 · Feature Internet Archive The Lady of the Dugout 1918 · Feature Internet Archive A Night Out 1915 · Feature Internet Archive The Life Story of David Lloyd George 1918 · Feature Internet Archive The Non Stop Kid (1918) Directed By Gilbert Pratt 1918 · Feature The Non-Stop Kid Directed by Gilbert Pratt Written by H.M. Walker Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Cinematography Walter Lundin Release date May… Internet Archive The Film Primadonna 1915 · Feature Internet Archive The Patchwork Girl of Oz 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Mabel and Fatty's Married Life 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Ramona 1910 · Feature Internet Archive The Fireman 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Judith of Bethulia 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Step Lively 1917 · Film A silent comedy short featuring Harold Lloyd. "Snub Pollard plays a drunken man who believes Harold has robbed him. Meanwhile, Bebe has her hands full with a… Internet Archive The Woman God Forgot 1917 · Feature Internet Archive The Ocean Waif 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Victory 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Unknown Love 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Lagourdette, gentleman cambrioleur 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Le pied qui étreint 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Das fidele Gefngnis AKA The Merry Jail 1917 · Feature Internet Archive The Invaders 1912 · Feature Internet Archive A Romance of Happy Valley 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Die Ahnfrau 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Move On (1917) Directed By Gilbert Pratt, Billy Gilbert 1917 · Feature Move On Directed by Billy Gilbert Gilbert Pratt Written by H. M. Walker Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Cinematography Walter Lundin Release date… Internet Archive The Property Man 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Cruising with Our Navy 1916 · Short · 3 min Rare pre World War I (WWI) film depicting life in the U.S. Navy. Footage includes sailors playing baseball and football on the deck of battleship! Internet Archive Turskiot sultan Mehmed V Resad vo poseta na Bitola 1911 · Feature Internet Archive Dartmouth, River Dart and Dartmoor in 1910 in Colour! [HD enhanced & AI colorized] 1910 · Feature A very short film about Dartmouth, the River Dart and Dartmoor over a century ago in 1910. Dartmouth is a Civil Parish in the south west of the United Kingdom…