The world's archives

1,057–1,104 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 Ammunition Smuggling on the Mexican Border: Incidents of the Mexican Revolution 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Das Lied der Colombine 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Pikovaya dama AKA The Queen of Spades 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Love 1919 · Feature Internet Archive When the West Was Young 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1917 · Feature Internet Archive The Avenging Conscience: or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Twenty Minutes of Love 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Cityviews of Utrecht in 1917 in color! [AI enhanced & colorized] 1917 · Feature The City of Utrecht and its annual fair more than a century ago in 1917 (restored, enhanced and A.I. upscaled and colorized footage). Utrecht lies central in… Internet Archive First Female to swim Golden Gate 1911 · Film Hazel Lagenour, first woman to swim across the Golden Gate, in 1911, provided courtesy Bill Pickelhaupt. Internet Archive Le bercail 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Christus 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Trafalgar Square Riot 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Next Aisle Over (1919) Directed By Hal Roach 1919 · Feature Next Aisle Over Theatrical poster to Next Aisle Over Written by H. M. Walker Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Release date March 30, 1919 Country… Internet Archive The Yellow Ticket 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Death's Marathon 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Police 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Liliya Belgii 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Mazeppa, der Volksheld der Ukraine 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Noch pered Rozhdestvom AKA The Night Before Christmas 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Tigre reale 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Passing of the Oklahoma Outlaws 1915 · Feature Internet Archive The Painted Lady 1912 · Feature Internet Archive The Whispering Chorus 1918 · Feature Internet Archive The Doll-House Mystery 1915 · Feature Internet Archive The Cheat 1915 · Feature Internet Archive The Nativity 1910 · Feature Internet Archive Why Pick On Me (1918) Directed By Gilbert Pratt 1918 · Feature Why Pick on Me? Produced by Hal Roach Starring Harold Lloyd Release date October 13, 1918 Country United States Languages Silent English intertitles Why Pick… Internet Archive Matrimony's Speed Limit 1913 · Feature Internet Archive The Face on the Barroom Floor 1914 · Feature Internet Archive The Knockout 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Feline Follies 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Bobby Bumps Puts a Beanery on the Bum 1918 · Feature Internet Archive His Trysting Place 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Hoffmanns Erzählungen 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Tango Tangles 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Die Verrterin AKA The Treacherous Woman 1911 · Feature Internet Archive Struggle for Life 1914 · Feature Internet Archive The Count 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Terror-Stricken 1911 · Feature Internet Archive The Face on the Bar Room Floor 1914 · Feature Internet Archive When Love Took Wings 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Eyes of Youth 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Prehistoric Poultry 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Legal Advice 1916 · Feature Internet Archive The Master Mystery 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Turskiot sultan Mehmed V Resad vo poseta na Solun 1911 · Feature Internet Archive His New Job 1915 · Feature