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The world's archives

2,833–2,880 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 Las máscaras negras (1918) 1918 · Feature · 2 h 10 min Spanish silent film serial Las máscaras negras (1918) Commons A Florida Enchantment (1914) 1914 · Feature · 1 h 3 min American silent A Florida Enchantment (1914) Commons The Danger Game (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h The Danger Game Commons Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme (1916) 1916 · Feature · 1 h 12 min Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme (1916) Commons Jubilo (1919) 1919 · Feature · 54 min Jubilo (1919) Commons The Wishing Ring - An Idyll Of Old England (1914) 1914 · Feature · 59 min The Wishing Ring: An Idyll Of Old England (1914) Commons Parsifal (1912) 1912 · Feature · 50 min Italian silent short film Commons L'amazzone mascherata (1914) 1914 · Feature · 59 min Italian silent short film Commons Kærlighedens Almagt (1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 31 min Sealed Lips (also known as The Power of Love), a Danish silent film. Commons Folkets Ven (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h 51 min A Friend of the People, a Danish silent film. Commons Pax æterna (1917) 1917 · Feature · 1 h 27 min Peace on Earth, a Danish silent film. Commons The World and Its Women (1919) 1919 · Feature · 1 h 32 min American silent film. Commons The Dragon Painter (1919) 1919 · Feature · 50 min The Dragon Painter Commons Dr. Nicholson and the blue diamond (1913) 1913 · Feature · 1 h 11 min Dr. Nicholson og den blaa Diamant, a Danish silent film. Internet Archive Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 · Commercial Internet Archive The Bank 1915 · Commercial Internet Archive Recreation 1914 · Commercial Internet Archive A Woman 1915 · Commercial Internet Archive The Ragtime Band 1913 · Commercial Internet Archive Shanghaied 1915 · Commercial Internet Archive Triple Trouble 1918 · Commercial Internet Archive Police 1916 · Commercial Internet Archive Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages 1916 · Commercial Commons Mounet Sully (c. 1916) 1916 · Short · 2 min Silent short French documentary film on Mounet-Sully. Payjé Baby version. Commons So Near Yet So Far 1912 DW Griffith 1912 · Short · 1 min · Low resolution Small selection from the film So Near, yet So Far Commons 1911. Русская пляска. Крым. 1917 · Short · 1 min Видео Commons Boireau maçon (1913) 1913 · Short · 6 min French silent short film with André Deed. Pathé Baby Version. Commons Le musée des grotesques (1911) 1911 · Short · 3 min French silent short. Commons Zahlé in 1919 1919 · Short · 2 min · Low resolution Zahlé in 1919. Commons Кинохроника прошлого века. Винницкая область. Украина 1918 · Short · 1 min Видео Commons The Life of the Jews in Palestine - Hebron segment (1913) 1913 · Documentary · 1 min Russian silent film Commons L'iris fantastique (1912) 1912 · Short · 3 min · Low resolution Directed and produced by Segundo de Chomón Commons 1912-1918. Кинохроника. Памятник Белому генералу М. Д. Скобелеву 1917 · Short · 1 min Видео Commons 1927. Московский зоопарк на Большой Грузинской. Кинохроника 1918 · Short · 2 min Видео Commons Je voudrais un enfant - Fim 1910 1910 · Short · 6 min Court métrage muet français réalisé par Max Linder Commons Bobby Bumps' Fourth (1917) 1917 · Cartoon · 5 min Animated cartoon from the Bray Studions Commons 1911. Киев. Европейская площадь. Кинохроника. Открытие памятника Александру II 1917 · Short · 1 min Видео Commons 1919. Хабаровск. Особый Казачий Отряд атамана И.П. Калмыкова 1918 · Short · 3 min Видео Commons 1941. С Красной площади прямо на фронт! Парад 7 ноября 1918 · Short · 6 min Видео Commons Les Rivaux d'Arnheim (1912) 1912 · Short · 13 min French silent short drama film. Pathé Baby version. Commons 1922. Рысистые бега на ипподроме в Москве. Красное дерби 1918 · Short · 1 min Видео Commons Matrimony's Speed Limit 1913 1913 · Short · 14 min · Low resolution Digitized version of Matrimony's Speed Limit (1913) Commons L'epee du spirite (1910) 1910 · Short · 6 min · Low resolution Produced and directed by Segundo de Chomón Commons Bobby Bumps and the Stork (1916) 1916 · Cartoon · 5 min Animated cartoon from the Bray Studios Commons The Evidence of The Film (1913) 1913 · Short · 14 min American silent short crime film. Commons 1913. Ярославль. Ярославская ж.д. Романовский мост через Волгу. 1917 · Short · 1 min Видео Commons 1915 Портрет 1915 · Short · 7 min Портрет Commons Figures de cire (1914) 1914 · Short · 10 min French silent short film.