The world's archives

1,441–1,488 of 3,191 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 Kino-nedelya 1 AKA Kino-Week 1 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Kino-nedelya 3 AKA Kino-Week 3 1918 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 1054.1] 1916 · Film · Subtitles Exterior shot of Red Star Laundry, San Francisco or Oakland, California. Internet Archive Chantecoq 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Domik v Kolomne AKA The Little House in Kolomna 1913 · Feature Internet Archive I'm Insured 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Sous la griffe AKA The Cat's Claw 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Bobby Bumps Starts for School 1917 · Cartoon Bobby Bumps Starts for School We digitized and uploaded this film from the Orgone Cinema 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions… Internet Archive Die Katastrophe der Titanic 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Aleksandar Karadjordjevic vo poseta na Bitola 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Dud Leaves Home 1919 · Feature Internet Archive L'acqua miracolosa aka Miracle Water 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Sur la voie 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Little Moritz chasse les grands fauves 1912 · Feature Internet Archive The Sentimental Bloke 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Did'ums Diddles the P'liceman 1912 · Feature Internet Archive For His Son 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Léonce cinématographiste 1913 · Feature Internet Archive The Better Man 1912 · Feature Internet Archive The Gusher 1913 · Feature Internet Archive The Miser's Heart 1911 · Feature Internet Archive The Prospector 1912 · Film One-reel Essanay Western, preserved with the collaboration of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia and the Library of Congress. Internet Archive Winsor McCay: The Famous Cartoonist of the "N.Y. Herald" And His Moving Comics 1911 · Educational Silent short With Winsor McCay and John Bunny "At a gentlemen's club, Winsor McCay agrees to make 4,000 drawings in one month--drawings to be animated. He… Internet Archive Pendaison Jefferson City AKA Hanging at Jefferson City 1910 · Feature Internet Archive The Crime of Carelessness 1912 · Feature Internet Archive The Stranger 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Kzdelem a ltrt AKA The Struggle for Life 1918 · Feature Internet Archive The Phable of the Phat Woman 1916 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5202.4] 1917 · Film · Subtitles SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: the day World War I declared (sound) Internet Archive Den sorte drøm 1911 · Feature Internet Archive Romans and Rascals 1918 · Feature Internet Archive A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner 1910 · Feature Internet Archive Bjrnetmmeren AKA The Bear Tamer 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Die geheimnisvolle Streichholzdose AKA A Match Box Mystery 1910 · Feature Internet Archive Krlek och journalistik 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Nishchaya 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Over the Top (A battle with the elements) 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Will Rogers Says… Lasso Demonstration 1918 · Short Political humor and lasso tricks from Will Rogers. ARC Identifier 91355 "All rights were conveyed to the U.S. Government on Nov. 28, 1962. However,… Internet Archive Frstadsprsten AKA Suburban Priest 1917 · Feature Internet Archive Het geheim van Delft AKA The Secret of Delft 1917 · Feature Internet Archive The Escape on the Fast Freight 1915 · Feature Internet Archive An Easter “Lily” 1914 · Film Fragment from a drama about the friendship between a white boy and the daughter of his family’s African American servant. Preserved in collaboration with the… Internet Archive Life on the Circle Ranch in California 1912 · Feature Internet Archive On to Washington 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Tsar Ivan Vasilevich Groznyy 1915 · Feature Internet Archive At Bear Track Gulch 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Children Who Labor 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Saved by the Juvenile Court 1913 · Feature