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The world's archives

2,881–2,928 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 Robinet aviatore (1911) 1911 · Short · 5 min Italian silent short comedy film Commons Балтийский флот Российской Империи. Кинохроника начала XX века 1917 · Short · 2 min Видео Commons Тысяча вторая хитрость. (1915) 1915 · Short · 17 min Thousand and two trick (1915) Commons Max joue le drame (1914) 1914 · Short · 6 min French silent short. Commons The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) 1910 · Short · 13 min · Low resolution The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Commons The Land Beyond the Sunset 1912 · Short · 12 min Silent American short film Commons Mest' Kinomatograficheskogo Operatora (1912) 1912 · Cartoon · 11 min Ladislas Starevich's 1912 silent stop motion film The Cameraman's Revenge. Commons The Evidence of the Film (1913) 1913 · Short · 14 min Full film of The Evidence of the Film, a short crime film Commons Raja Harishchandra (1913) 1913 · Short · 11 min Indian silent film Commons Les Vampires - La Bague qui tue (1915) 1915 · Short · 13 min Second episode of the French silent serial Les Vampires Commons The House of Darkness (1913) 1913 · Short · 14 min American short drama silent film The House of Darkness (1913). Commons Laughing Gas (1914) 1914 · Short · 12 min American silent short comedy film Commons Fox Trot Finesse (1915) 1915 · Short · 13 min American silent short comedy film Commons By the Sea (1915) 1915 · Short · 14 min American silent comedy film By the Sea (1915). Commons Original Films Of Frank B Gilbreth (Part II) 1910 · Short · 16 min · Low resolution American silent film on work analysis. Commons Police (1916) 1916 · Short · 23 min American silent short comedy film Commons 1922. Kino-Pravda 17 1918 · Short · 14 min Видео Commons Cinderella (1911) 1911 · Short · 14 min American silent short film. Commons Le Mystère des roches de Kador (1912) 1912 · Feature · 43 min French silent film Commons Activities of the 31st Division, Camp Wheeler, Macon, Georgia, February 1918 1918 · Short · 12 min Activities of the 31st Division at Camp Wheeler, February 1918. NARA 24630 Commons The Knight of the Snows (1912) 1912 · Short · 16 min French silent short. Commons The Pawnshop (1916) 1916 · Short · 20 min · Low resolution Silent film with Charlie Chaplin directed by Charlie Chaplin and Edward Brewer Commons Broncho Billy and the Schoolmistress (1912) 1912 · Short · 14 min American silent western short film Commons Ramona (1910) 1910 · Short · 16 min American short silent drama film. Commons In the Border States (1910) 1910 · Short · 14 min American silent short film Commons The Rink, 1916 1916 · Short · 19 min · Low resolution The Rink, a silent film from 1916, by Charlie Chaplin. Commons Easy Street 1917 1917 · Short · 23 min · Low resolution Silent film with Charlie Chaplin Commons Ravished Armenia (1919) 1919 · Short · 14 min American silent film (partial) Ravished Armenia (1919) aka Auction of Souls. Commons TheVagabond, 1916 07 10 1916 · Short · 24 min · Low resolution The Vagabond, by Charlie Chaplin. Commons The Rink (1916) 1916 · Short · 23 min American silent short comedy film. Commons 1917 Революционер 1917 · Short · 35 min Революционер Commons A Revolutionary (1917) 1917 · Short · 35 min Russian silent film. Commons Le Voyage de la famille Bourrichon (1913) 1913 · Short · 15 min French silent short. Commons Ambrose's Sour Grapes (1915) 1915 · Short · 26 min American silent short comedy. Commons After Death (1915) 1915 · Feature · 46 min Russian silent film (Russian: После смерти) Commons Tom Sawyer (1917) 1917 · Feature · 58 min The American silent comedy adventure film Tom Sawyer (1917). Commons The Children of the Age (1915) 1915 · Short · 37 min Russian short silent film. Russian: Дети века (Deti veka) Commons King of Paris (1917) 1917 · Feature · 1 h 1 min Russian silent feature film (Russian:Король Парижа, translit:Korol' Parizha). Commons Twilight of a Woman's Soul (1913) 1913 · Feature · 48 min Silent Russian feature film (Russian:Сумерки женской души). Commons A Life for a Life (1916) 1916 · Feature · 43 min Russian silent film (Russian:Жизнь за жизнь). Commons Les Vampires - Les Noces sanglantes (1916) 1916 · Feature · 54 min Tenth episode of the French silent serial Les Vampires Commons The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) 1914 · Feature · 44 min American silent film The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914). Commons The Invaders (1912) 1912 · Feature · 40 min American silent western film The Invaders (1912). Commons The Abyss (1910) 1910 · Short · 37 min Danish silent film (Danish title: Afgrunden) Commons Home Sweet Home (1914) 1914 · Feature · 55 min American silent drama film Commons Tarzan of the Apes (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h · Low resolution American action/adventure silent film Commons Mickey (1918) 1918 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Low resolution American silent film Commons The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) 1914 · Feature · 50 min American silent film The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914)