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The world's archives

2,785–2,832 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 Le placier est tenace (1910) 1910 · Cartoon · 6 min French silent short Commons Tale of Two Cities (1917) 1917 · Feature · 1 h 20 min American drama film A Tale of Two Cities (1917). Commons Streets of New York (1913) 1913 · Feature · 41 min American silent film. Commons The Conquest of the Pole (1912) 1912 · Short · 30 min Silent French short. Commons La signora delle camelie (1915) 1915 · Feature · 53 min Italian silent film with Francesca Bertini. Commons The revolutionary (1917) 1917 · Feature · 40 min Russian silent film. Commons Historien om en gut (1919) 1919 · Feature · 48 min Norwegian silent film. Commons Zigoto et l'affaire du collier (1911) 1911 · Short · 8 min French silent short. Commons Calino dompteur par amour (1912) 1912 · Short · 6 min French silent short. Commons Onésime et le nourrisson (1912) 1912 · Short · 6 min French silent short. Commons Onésime aux enfers (1912) 1912 · Short · 7 min French silent short. Commons Calino chef de gare (1912) 1912 · Short · 6 min French silent short. Commons Onésime contre Onésime (1912) 1912 · Short · 8 min French silent short. Commons Onésime et l'étudiante (1912) 1912 · Short · 8 min French silent short. Commons Onésime se marie... Calino aussi (1913) 1913 · Short · 7 min French silent short. Commons Onésime, tu l'épouseras quand même (1913) 1913 · Short · 7 min French silent short. Commons Zigomar contre Nick Carter (1912) 1912 · Feature · 48 min French silent film. Commons Le Chevalier de Maison-Rouge (1914) 1914 · Feature · 1 h 54 min Silent French film. Commons Amazonas o maior rio do mundo 1918 · Feature · 1 h 6 min Amazonas, o maior rio do mundo Commons A Reckless Romeo (1917) 1917 · Short · 26 min A Reckless Romeo, with Norwegian intertitles. Commons Opium (1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 36 min German silent film Opium (1919) Commons Maudite soit la guerre (1914) 1914 · Feature · 50 min Hand coloured Belgian silent film. Commons La Fille de Delft (1913) 1913 · Feature · 1 h 10 min Belgian silent film Commons Romeo e Giulietta (1912) 1912 · Short · 32 min Italian silent short film Commons Padre (1912) 1912 · Short · 39 min Italian silent short film Commons Il focolare domestico (1914) 1914 · Feature · 41 min Italian silent short film. Commons Evangeliemandens Liv (1915) 1915 · Feature · 59 min The Candle and the Moth, a Danish silent film. Commons Klovnen (1917) 1917 · Feature · 1 h 8 min The Clown, a Danish silent film, starring Valdemar Psilander Commons Ivanhoe (1913) 1913 · Feature · 52 min American silent film. Commons Don't Change Your Husband (1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 19 min American silent film. Commons The Golden Chance (1915) 1915 · Feature · 1 h 13 min American silent film. Commons Her Crowning Glory (1911) 1911 · Short · 14 min Short American film. Commons The Confederate Ironclad (1912) 1912 · Short · 15 min Short American film The Confederate Ironclad (1912). Commons The Girl Stage Driver (1914) 1914 · Short · 27 min Short American film The Girl Stage Driver (1914). Commons Il padrone delle ferriere (I1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 15 min Italian silent film. English title: The Railway Owner. Commons The Heart of a Hero (1916) 1916 · Feature · 1 h 8 min American silent film. Commons Nobleza Gaucha (1915) 1915 · Feature · 1 h 3 min Argentine silent film. Commons Chantecoq (1916) 1916 · Feature · 1 h 21 min Silent French film. Commons Betta the Gipsy (1918) 1918 · Feature · 47 min British silent film. Commons Les Chalands (1911) 1911 · Short · 10 min French silent short. Commons Zigoto et la blanchisseuse (1912) 1912 · Short · 11 min French silent short. Commons Onésime et l'héritage de Calino (1913) 1913 · Short · 11 min French silent short. Commons The Inner circle (1912) 1912 · Short · 23 min American silent short. Commons Superstition andalouse (1912) 1912 · Short · 10 min Spanish silent short. Commons His Majesty, the American (1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 36 min The original film Commons Mabel's New Hero (1913) 1913 · Short · 8 min American silent short. Commons Život i dela besmrtnog vožda Karađorđa (1911) 1911 · Feature · 1 h 2 min Serbian movie - Život i dela besmrtnog vožda Karađorđa (1911) Commons De Voortrekkers (Winning a Continent, 1916) 1916 · Feature · 53 min 1916 South African epic, directed by Harold M. Shaw.