The world's archives

1,489–1,536 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 Peder Tordenskjold 1910 · Feature Internet Archive An Unsullied Shield 1913 · Feature Internet Archive La tourne des grands ducs 1910 · Feature Internet Archive The Return of Draw Egan 1916 · Feature Internet Archive His Bread and Butter 1916 · Feature Internet Archive The Wrong Mr. Fox 1917 · Feature Internet Archive Rips and Rushes 1917 · Film Comedy set in a dance studio in which three rivals vie for the girl. Preserved in collaboration with the New Zealand Film Archive and the Library of Congress. Internet Archive Lonce cinmatographiste AKA Leonce Film 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Seeing Yosemite with David A. Curry 1916 · Feature Internet Archive The Greater Call 1910 · Film Melodrama about an actress who must choose between career and family. Preserved in collaboration with the New Zealand Film Archive and UCLA Film & Television… Internet Archive The Burglar's Dilemma 1912 · Feature Internet Archive His Mother's Thanksgiving 1910 · Film Family melodrama showing what happens when a successful son tries to celebrate the holidays without his mother. Preserved in collaboration with the New… Internet Archive Che paese allegro! AKA What a Lovely Place! 1913 · Feature Internet Archive I lifvets vr AKA The Springtime of Life 1912 · Feature Internet Archive A Cure for Pokeritis 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Frau Blechnudel will Kinoschauspielerin werden 1915 · Feature Internet Archive Ljtnant Galenpanna AKA Lieutenant Madcap 1917 · Feature Internet Archive Professor Bonehead Is Shipwrecked 1916 · Feature Internet Archive The Sunbeam 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Le songe d'un garon de caf AKA The Hasher's Delirium 1910 · Feature Internet Archive One Hundred Percent American 1918 · Feature Internet Archive A Flirt's Mistake 1914 · Feature Internet Archive Biscot se trompe d'étage 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Kino-nedelya 25 AKA Kino-Week 25 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Hunting Wild Geese for Market 1914 · Film Documentary about hunting in the Sacramento Delta, which ends with a plea for greater government regulation. Preserved in collaboration with the New Zealand… Internet Archive Helen's Marriage 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Le chrysanthème rouge 1912 · Feature Internet Archive The Phable of a Busted Romance 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Deschutes Driftwood 1916 · Feature Internet Archive The Public and Private Care of Infants 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Folkets ven 1918 · Feature Internet Archive Les chalands 1911 · Feature Internet Archive Dødsspring til hest fra cirkuskuplen 1913 · Feature Internet Archive Exemplo Regenerador 1919 · Feature Internet Archive For bent Tppe AKA Desdemona 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Hustling for Health 1919 · Feature Internet Archive Les timidits de Rigadin aka A Shy Youth 1910 · Feature Internet Archive Ddskyssen 1916 · Feature Internet Archive From the Submerged 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Ftterung von Riesenschlangen AKA Feeding Boa Constrictors 1911 · Feature Internet Archive His Official Appointment 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Fr fderneslandet AKA For the Fatherland 1914 · Feature Internet Archive A Spanish Dilemma 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Calle som miljonär 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Otvoranje na gradska kafeana vo Bitola 1912 · Feature Internet Archive Pikovaya dama 1910 · Feature Internet Archive An American in the Making 1913 · Feature Internet Archive His Trust 1911 · Feature