The world's archives

5,953–6,000 of 6,221 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 Bulldog Drummond 1929 · Feature · 1 h 29 min Bulldog Drummond, a 1929 American film Commons Stramilano (1929) 1929 · Documentary · 13 min Stramilano Commons Angora Love (1929) 1929 · Short · 20 min Angora Love, with English intertitles. Commons Double Whoopee (1929) 1929 · Short · 18 min Double Whoopee, with English intertitles. Commons That's My Wife (1929) 1929 · Short · 17 min That's My Wife, with English intertitles. Commons The Talk of Hollywood 1929 · Talk · 1 h 11 min American musical comedy film The Talk of Hollywood (1929) parodying "talkies." Commons The Bishop Murder Case (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 27 min The Bishop Murder Case Commons Brothers (1929) 1929 · Feature · 59 min American silent film Brothers (1929) Commons Fazil (1928) 1928 · Feature · 1 h 20 min Fazil Commons The Flying Fool (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 13 min The Flying Fool (1929) Commons The Crowd (1928) 1928 · Feature · 1 h 33 min The Crowd, American silent film directed by King Vidor. Commons King of the Rodeo (1929) 1929 · Feature · 53 min King of the Rodeo (1929 silent Western film) Commons The Unholy Night (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 32 min The Unholy Night Commons Chinatown Nights (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 18 min Chinatown Nights (1929) Commons Speedway (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 16 min Speedway (1929 film) Commons Gentlemen of the Press (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 15 min Gentlemen of the Press Commons Half Marriage (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 11 min Half Marriage (1929 film) Commons The Kiss (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 2 min The Kiss (1929 film) Commons The Laughing Lady (retitled Another Kiss) (1929) Ruth Chatterton, Clive Brook, Dan Healy, Nat Pendleton 1929 · Feature · 1 h 18 min The Laughing Lady (1929 film) Commons The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 34 min The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929 film) Commons The Man I Love (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 9 min The Man I Love (1929 film) Commons Oh, Yeah! (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Oh, Yeah! (1929 film) Commons Paris Bound (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 16 min Paris Bound 1929 Ann Harding, Fredric March, Carmelita Geraghty, Leslie Fenton Commons 1925. Коллежский регистратор 1925 · Feature · 1 h 9 min Коллежский регистратор Commons The Grub-Stake 1923 · Feature · 1 h 40 min The 1923 film The Grub-Stake directed by Nell Shipman and Bert Van Tuyle. Commons The Show-Off (1926) 1926 · Feature · 1 h 21 min THE SHOWOFF.1926 Commons The Secret Game (1917) 1927 · Feature · 1 h 7 min The Secret Game, with English intertitles Commons Le Lion des Mogols (1924) by Jean Epstein (cropped to remove black borders) 1924 · Feature · 1 h 43 min Le lion des Mogols (full film) Commons 1929 Старое и новое; Генеральная линия 1929 · Feature · 2 h Старое и новое \ Генеральная линия (1929) Агитационный фильм-эпопея. Commons Revolutionshochzeit (1928) 1928 · Feature · 1 h 35 min The Last Night, a German silent film. Commons La Jeune Belgique (1922) 1922 · Feature · 1 h 33 min Belgian silent film. Commons The Man from Home (1922) 1922 · Feature · 1 h 30 min British silent film The Man from Home (1922). Commons Red Heroine 红侠 (1929) - episode 6 1929 · Feature · 1 h 35 min Sixth episode of a Chinese 13 episodes silent serial. Commons Surrender (1927) 1927 · Feature · 1 h 17 min American silent film. Commons Verlogene Moral (1921) 1921 · Feature · 1 h 3 min German silent drama movie "Verlogene Moral" (1921) - Commons Voluntad (1928) 1928 · Feature · 1 h 16 min Spanish silent film Voluntad (1928) Commons La Revue des revues (1927) 1927 · Feature · 1 h 42 min French silent film Parisian Pleasures (1927) Commons 1929-02-01 - The Broadway Melody (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 40 min American pre-Code musical talkie Commons Welcome Danger 1929 · Feature · 1 h 52 min Welcome Danger, a 1929 American film Commons Dangerous Curves (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 16 min Dangerous Curves Commons Behind That Curtain 1929 · Feature · 1 h 30 min Behind That Curtain, a 1929 American film Commons The Red Dance (1928) 1928 · Feature · 1 h 34 min The Red Dance Commons They Had to See Paris (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 22 min They Had to See Paris Commons Dick Turpin (1925) 1925 · Feature · 1 h 18 min Dick Turpin Commons Charming Sinners (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 5 min Charming Sinners Commons Desert Nights (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 1 min Desert Nights Commons So Long Letty (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 4 min So Long Letty (1929) Commons The Squall (1929) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 42 min The Squall (1929)