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The world's archives

2,545–2,592 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.
Commons Not Guilty (1910) 1910 · Short · 14 min Not Guilty, with English intertitles Commons The School Teacher & the Waif 1912 · Short · 17 min The School Teacher and the Waif Commons Richard III (1911) 1911 · Short · 19 min Richard III (1911) Commons Тайна дома номер пять (1912) 1912 · Short · 15 min Короткометражный фильм «Тайна дома номер пять» Commons The Newlyweds (1910) 1910 · Short · 17 min The Newlyweds (1910) Commons The Intrigue (1916) 1916 · Feature · 1 h 3 min The Intrigue (1916) Commons Ben Blair (1916) 1916 · Feature · 1 h 3 min Ben Blair (1916) Commons A Bandit (1913), Original version 1913 · Short · 4 min A Bandit (1913) Commons The Bargain (1914) 1914 · Feature · 1 h 20 min American silent film The Bargain (1914). Commons His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) by J. Farrell MacDonald 1914 · Feature · 58 min His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) by J. Farrell MacDonald. Commons The Squaw Man (1914) by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel 1914 · Feature · 1 h 12 min The Squaw Man (1914) by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel. Commons Ludzie bez jutra (1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 23 min Polish silent film Ludzie bez jutra (1919) Commons The Death Mask (1914) 1914 · Short · 21 min American silent film The Death Mask (1914) Commons Himmelskibet (1918) by Holger-Madsen 1918 · Feature · 1 h 20 min A Trip to Mars (Himmelskibet, 1918) by Holger-Madsen. Commons Die Austernprinzessin (1919) 1919 · Feature · 57 min German silent film Commons Les Vampires (1915) par Louis Feuillade 1915 · Short · 33 min The Vampires, first part, (1915) by Louis Feuillade. Commons Caught in a Cabaret (1914) by Mabel Normand 1914 · Short · 23 min Caught in a Cabaret (1914) by Mabel Normand. Commons Algie the Miner (1912) 1912 · Short · 9 min Algie the Miner Commons The Broken Butterfly (1919) by Maurice Tourneur 1919 · Feature · 58 min The Broken Butterfly (1919) Commons The Servant Girl's Legacy (1914) 1914 · Short · 8 min The Servant Girl's Legacy Commons Hello Trouble (1918) excerpt 1918 · Short · 10 min Surviving footage from Hello Trouble Commons The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) 1918 · Short · 10 min The Sinking of the Lusitania Commons Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915) 1915 · Short · 10 min Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco Commons Won by a Fish (1912) 1912 · Short · 8 min Won by a Fish, with English intertitles Commons Sold for Marriage (1916) 1916 · Feature · 53 min Sold for Marriage, with English intertitles. Commons A Romance Of The Redwoods (1917) Good Picture Quality 1917 · Feature · 1 h 32 min A Romance Of The Redwoods (1917) Commons Alice in Wonderland (1915) 1915 · Feature · 58 min Silent film distributed by American Film Manufacturing Company Commons Ghosts (1915) 1915 · Feature · 58 min American silent film. Commons The Cheat (1915) by Cecil B. DeMille, HD 1915 · Feature · 58 min The Cheat (1915) by Cecil B. DeMille. Commons Madame DuBarry (1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 53 min German silent film Madame DuBarry (1919) Commons Filibus 1915 1915 · Feature · 1 h 9 min Italian silent film Filibus (1915). Commons The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) by D. W. Griffith 1919 · Feature · 1 h 9 min The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919) by D. W. Griffith. Commons '49-'17 (1917) by Ruth Ann Baldwin 1917 · Feature · 1 h 9 min '49-'17 (1917) by Ruth Ann Baldwin. Commons The Colleen Bawn (1911) 1911 · Short · 35 min The Colleen Bawn Commons Straight Shooting (1917) by John Ford 1917 · Feature · 1 h 2 min Straight Shooting (1917) by John Ford. Commons Fanchon the Cricket (1915) 1915 · Feature · 1 h 12 min Fanchon the Cricket Commons The Star Prince (1918) 1918 · Feature · 57 min The Star Prince Commons Idle Wives (1916) excerpt 1916 · Short · 23 min The first two reels of Idle Wives Commons Sunshine Molly (1915) excerpts 1915 · Short · 31 min Surviving footage from the first, third, and fifth reels of Sunshine Molly Commons Where Are My Children? (1916) 1916 · Feature · 1 h 4 min Where Are My Children? Commons Her Defiance (1916) 1916 · Short · 20 min Her Defiance Commons The Curse of Quon Gwon (1917) 1917 · Short · 33 min Surviving footage from The Curse of Quon Gwon Commons Bread (1918) excerpt 1918 · Short · 18 min Surviving footage from Bread Commons Tih Minh (1918) by Louis Feuillade 1918 · Feature · 46 min A part of Tih Minh (1918) by Louis Feuillade. Commons Back to God's Country (1919) by David Hartford 1919 · Feature · 1 h 13 min Back to God's Country (1919) by David Hartford. Commons Bears and Bad Men (1918) 1918 · Short · 20 min Bears and Bad Men Commons The Chief Cook (1917) 1917 · Short · 24 min The Chief Cook Commons He's in Again (1918) 1918 · Short · 22 min He's in Again