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The world's archives

2,737–2,784 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 An American in the Making (1913) 1913 · Short · 15 min American silent short. Commons Una congiura contro Murat (1912) 1912 · Short · 30 min Italian silent short. Commons Les Beaux-arts mystérieux (1910) 1910 · Cartoon · 5 min French silent short Commons Le Rembrandt de la rue Lepic (1911) 1911 · Short · 5 min French silent short. Commons Eugénie redresse-toi (1911) 1911 · Short · 4 min French silent short. Commons Calino courtier en paratonnerres (1912) 1912 · Short · 4 min French silent short. Commons Zigoto promène ses amis (1912) 1912 · Short · 5 min French silent short. Commons Onésime a un duel à l'américaine (1912) 1912 · Short · 4 min French silent short Commons Onésime horloger (1912) 1912 · Short · 5 min French silent short. Commons Métamorphoses (1912) 1912 · Short · 4 min French silent short. Commons Yankee Doodle In Berlin (1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 5 min American silent film Commons Whirl of life 2 (clip, 1915) 1915 · Short · 27 min Clip from The Whirl of Life, a silent biopic on Vernon and Irene Castle. Commons Пиковая дама. (1916) 1916 · Feature · 1 h 2 min Queen of spades, film 1916 Commons 1913 Драма на Волге 1913 · Feature · 42 min Драма на Волге Commons Le diamant noir (1913) 1913 · Feature · 50 min Belgian silent film. Commons Il circolo nero (1913) 1913 · Short · 37 min Italian silent short film. Commons La moglie di Claudio (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h 9 min Italian silent film Commons Custer's Last Fight (1912) 1912 · Feature · 53 min American silent film. Commons The Wicked Darling (1919) 1919 · Feature · 58 min American silent film The Wicked Darling (1919). Commons Her First Kiss (1919) 1919 · Short · 24 min American short film. Commons Le due innamorate di Cretinetti (1911) 1911 · Short · 9 min Italian silent short. Commons Sogno di un tramonto d'autunno (1911) 1911 · Short · 16 min Italian silent short. Commons En route (1910) 1910 · Cartoon · 5 min French silent short Commons Le tout petit Faust (1910) 1910 · Cartoon · 5 min French silent short. Commons Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman (film, 1917) 1917 · Feature · 1 h 4 min American silent film Commons A Modern Monte Cristo (1917) 1917 · Feature · 56 min American silent film. Commons Calino veut être cowboy (1911) 1911 · Short · 5 min French silent short. Commons La lune de miel de Zigoto (1912) 1912 · Short · 5 min French silent short. Commons Onésime employé des postes (1913) 1913 · Short · 6 min French silent short. Commons Onésime aime les bêtes (1913) 1913 · Short · 5 min French silent short. Commons Hypocrites (1915) 1915 · Feature · 49 min American silent film Commons The Heart of Humanity (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h 44 min · Subtitles American silent war propaganda film. Commons Das Eskimobaby (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h 9 min German silent film. Commons Wild and Woolly (1917) 1917 · Feature · 1 h 11 min Wild and Woolly (1917) Commons Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics - Little Nemo (1911) 1911 · Cartoon · 11 min Little Nemo (1911). Partly animated movie by Winsor McCay. Partly hand painted. Commons The World and the Woman (1916) 1916 · Feature · 1 h 5 min American silent drama film The World and the Woman (1916). Commons 1911 Оборона Севастополя 1911 · Feature · 59 min Silent Russian film Commons M'Liss (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h 12 min American silent film Commons Himmelskibet (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h 20 min Danish silent film Commons La meridiana del convento (1916) 1916 · Short · 32 min Italian silent short film. Commons Nelly la domatrice (1912) 1912 · Short · 24 min Italian silent short film Commons Anime buie (1916) 1916 · Cartoon · 55 min Italian silent film Commons Et vanskeligt Valg (1914) 1914 · Short · 31 min A Difficult Choice, a Danish silent film (fragment). Commons Endelige alene (1914) 1914 · Short · 30 min Alone at last, a Danish silent film (fragment). Commons The Woman God Forgot (1917 ) 1917 · Feature · 1 h 17 min American silent film. Commons Revolutionsbryllup (1914) 1914 · Feature · 1 h 3 min Danish silent film. Commons Viaggio in Congo (1912) 1912 · Short · 33 min Viaggio in Congo – an Italian silent documentary film Commons La nave dei leoni (S. A. Ambrosio, 1912) 1912 · Short · 21 min Italian silent short.