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5,137–5,184 of 6,223 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.
Open Images Wassenaar en omstreken 1921 · Short · 2 min Filmbeelden van villa's, landhuizen en de dorpskern van Wassenaar. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Kampen 1923 · Short · 4 min Filmbeelden van markante punten en monumenten uit de stad Kampen. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Amersfoort 1928 · Short · 2 min Diverse opnamen o.a. van de stad Amersfoort ca. 1920. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Giethoorn 1921 · Short · 5 min Toeristische opnamen van Giethoorn, gefilmd vanuit bootje. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Iets over waterreiniging 1924 · Short · 3 min Film over de reiniging en ontharding van water in de wasserij-industrie. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Dordrecht 1926 · Short · 2 min Documentaire over Dordrecht met stads- en havenbeelden, van Haghefilm. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Enkhuizen 1923 · Short · 1 min Beelden van de bezienswaardigheden in Enkhuizen. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Liberale staatspartij 'de Vrijheidsbond' 1928 · Short · 10 min Opnamen van Den Haag, onder andere van het Binnen- en Buitenhof. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Deventer 1920 · Short · 1 min Filmbeelden van enige markante punten uit de stad Deventer. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Met onze Hollandse jongens naar Zwitserland (acte 2) 1924 · Short · 7 min In dit tweede deel: het NK op de schaats. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Leeuwarden 1921 · Short · 2 min Filmbeelden van enige markante punten in de stad Leeuwarden. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Leiden 1921 · Short · 1 min Filmbeelden van enige bekende locaties en gebouwen in de stad Leiden. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Kasteel Hillenraedt en de R.K. kerk van Asselt 1920 · Short · 1 min Beelden van kasteel Hillenraedt bij Swalmen en het dorpskerkje van Asselt. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Processie Begijnenhof Amsterdam 1922 · Short · 2 min Opnamen van de jaarlijkse Sacramentsprocessie in het Begijnhof te Amsterdam Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Franeker 1922 · Short · 1 min Filmbeelden van enige markante punten uit het stadje Franeker. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Schoenfabriek Waalwijk 1920 · Short · 2 min Korte fragmentarische filmimpressie van schoenfabricage te Waalwijk. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Zeist 1922 · Short · 2 min Filmbeelden van enige bekende punten in Zeist. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Eerste ijs in 1921 1921 · Short · 4 min Reportage over Den Haag in winterkleed ; ijzelvorming ; schaatsenrijden. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Markante plekken in Enkhuizen (HD) 1923 · Short · 1 min Kort filmfragment over markante punten in Enkhuizen. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Compilatie: vliegen (HD) 1924 · Short · 5 min Compilatie bestaande uit vier items over vliegen in de jaren '20. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Volendam en Marken (HD) 1925 · Short · 9 min Film over het dagelijks leven in Volendam en Marken. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Skilopen in Nederland (HD) 1927 · Short · 1 min Beeldmateriaal uit 1927 van sneeuwpret op de ski´s en op de slee. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Tomaten in het Westland (HD) 1928 · Short · 3 min Promotie van de tomatenteelt in kassen in het Westland. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Amersfoort in de jaren ´20 (HD) 1928 · Short · 2 min Diverse opnamen van de stad Amersfoort in de jaren ´20. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Boogschieten in Zeeland (HD) 1927 · Short · 1 min Beelden uit 1927 van boogschieten in Zeeland. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Kijkjes in Staphorst (HD) 1921 · Short · 2 min Film uit de jaren ´20 met beelden van het dagelijkse leven in Staphorst. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Bouw van een boortoren 1926 · Short · 25 min Corporate film made by the firm De Vries Robbé. Open Images is not answering just now Internet Archive Nosferatu 1922 · Commercial Internet Archive The Gold Rush 1925 · Commercial Internet Archive Orphans of the Storm 1921 · Commercial Internet Archive Faust 1926 · Commercial Internet Archive Go West 1925 · Commercial With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast. Internet Archive The Phantom of the Opera 1925 · Commercial Internet Archive Battleship Potemkin 1925 · Commercial Internet Archive Sherlock Jr. 1924 · Commercial Commons Depression era gangsters 1920 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles · Low resolution Famous Depression Era gangsters, including Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, Machine Gun Kelly, and more (1920s). Commons YBAKGvOV6 k (3) 1921 · Short · 2 min Kinograms newsreel footage of the arrival of federal troops in West Virginia after the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921. The footage shows miners in a… Commons Chico Marx performs "Gypsy Love Song" by V. Herbert (1929 Cocoanuts) 1929 · Short · 1 min Chico Marx demonstrates his comic piano skills playing Gypsy Love Song by Victor Herman in 1929's The Cocoanuts Commons Little Robinson Crusoe 1924 - JACKIE COOGAN - clip 1924 · Short · 3 min Not the whole film. There is no synchronized sound. This clip does feature Portuguese title cards. Commons Charles K. Harris sings his own song "After the Ball" in "A Trip to Chinatown" 1926 · Short · 3 min Charles K. Harris sings his own song "After the Ball," from A Trip to Chinatown. Published in 1892, it was supposedly the first song to sell a million copies… Commons Neck 'N' Neck (1928) Oswald The Lucky Rabbit 1928 · Cartoon · 2 min Description from Archive.org: NECK 'N' NECK is a short animated silent film created by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks and distributed by Universal Studios. It was… Commons After Seben 1929 · Short · 3 min After Seben, 1929 Band: Chick Webb and his orchestra MC / solo dancer (in blackface): James Barton 3rd dance couple: George 'Shorty' Snowden and Mattie… Commons The Fall of the House of Usher, 1928 1928 · Short · 12 min US short silent horror film adaptation of the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allan Poe. Commons 1500 killed, 2000 injured in terrible earthquake (Vallenar, Chile, 1923) 1923 · Short · 1 min Item title reads - 1500 killed and 2000 injured in terrible earthquake followed by tidal wave at Vallenar. First and exclusive pictures by Pathe Staff… Commons Mechanical Doll (1922) 1922 · Short · 6 min Mechanical Doll – a 1922 short American animated film produced by Max Fleischer and directed by Dave Fleischer. Commons Manhatta 1921 1921 · Documentary · 9 min · Low resolution Manhatta, a film portrait of New York City by painter Charles Sheeler and photographer Paul Strand. The title cards show quotes from Walt Whitman's "Leaves of… Commons 1922. Kino-Pravda 03 1922 · Documentary · 6 min Kino-Pravda newsreel, issue 3. Trial of the Right SRs. Reading of the indictment Moscow workers meeting on proletarian justice Commons 1922. Kino-Pravda 05 1922 · Documentary · 7 min Кино-правда №5. К экспедиции т. Яковенко по Сибири. "Сочи" Кавказская Ривьера в сезоне 1922 года. Бега. 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