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3,025–3,050 of 3,050 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.
Library of Congress James Edwin Hoskins Collection 1918 · Interview · 27 min Private First Class, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas; Camp Raritan, New Jersey; Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, Maryland;… Library of Congress Donald E. Wilhelm Collection 1918 · Interview · 59 min Private, Marine Corps, World War, 1914-1918 - Parris Island, South Carolina; France; New York. Library of Congress Robley Henry Rex Collection 1919 · Interview · 49 min Private First Class, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Camp Taylor, Kentucky; Fort Meade, Maryland; Andernach, Germany; Coblenz, Germany; Metternich, Germany. Commons 1912-1914. Архангельск. Новая Земля. Экспедиция Седова к Северному полюсу 1917 · Short · 2 min Видео Commons 1913. Испытания первого водолазного костюма. Погружение под воду в трёхболтовке. 1917 · Short · 2 min Видео Commons A Burlesque on Carmen (1915) by Charlie Chaplin 1915 · Short · 31 min A Burlesque on Carmen (1915) by Charlie Chaplin. Internet Archive A Burlesque on Carmen 1915 · Commercial Library of Congress Francis J. Bombara Collection 1915 · Interview · 47 min Corporal, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - France. Library of Congress Frank William Groves Collection 1916 · Interview · 1 h 30 min Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Texas; Oregon; France; European Theater. Library of Congress Leonard G. Abbett Collection 1917 · Interview · 1 h 1 min Private, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - France. Library of Congress William Oral Weston Collection 1917 · Interview · 41 min Private, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Barron Field, Texas. Library of Congress Eugene W. Lee Collection 1917 · Interview · 55 min Private First Class, Marine Corps, World War, 1914-1918 - France. Library of Congress Alfred Raymond Pugh Collection 1917 · Interview · 1 h 29 min Sergeant, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - France. Library of Congress Reuben Walter Law Collection 1917 · Interview · 27 min Sergeant, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Mississippi River, Mississippi; France. Library of Congress Paul Sunderland Collection 1917 · Interview · 1 h 2 min Navy, World War, 1914-1918 - North Atlantic. Library of Congress John D. Kuebelbeck Collection 1917 · Interview · 25 min Sergeant, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Camp Lewis, Washington; France. Library of Congress Lloyd Brown Collection 1918 · Interview · 46 min Musician Second Class, Navy, World War, 1914-1918. Library of Congress Bert E. Hoke Collection 1918 · Interview · 34 min Private, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Camp Taylor, Kentucky; France. Library of Congress Harold H. Farabee Collection 1918 · Interview · 23 min Private, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Camp Taylor, Kentucky; France. Library of Congress Ezra L. Pete Collection 1918 · Interview · 21 min Private, Army, World War, 1914-1918. Library of Congress Thomas F. Richardson Collection 1918 · Interview · 27 min Private, Marine Corps, World War, 1914-1918 - France. Library of Congress Ernest E. Knape Collection 1918 · Interview · 2 h 50 min Navy, World War, 1914-1918 - Norfolk, Virginia; Atlantic Ocean; Europe. Library of Congress Clarence Rusk Collection 1918 · Interview · 41 min Private, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Camp Cody, Deming, New Mexico. Library of Congress Walter Botts Collection 1918 · Interview · 8 min Private, Army, World War, 1914-1918 - Hoboken, New Jersey. Commons Charlie Chaplin's "A Burlesque On Carmen" 1915 · Feature · 43 min · Low resolution Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen (1915) Commons R.F.D. 10,000 B.C. (1916) 1916 · Cartoon · 4 min American silent short stop motion film