The world's archives

721–768 of 7,264 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.
Internet Archive It (1927) 1927 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best… Internet Archive [Gould can 5113.1] 1926 · Film · Subtitles Oakland Motorcycle Clubs 9th annual Hill Climb at San Leandro, California. Oakland Tribune “Camera News” newsreel shows Oakland Motorcycle Club holds ninth… Internet Archive Children All Lands 1928 · Film · Subtitles Story about "Bah" little Indian [Native American] Weaver Internet Archive Puss in Boots (1922) 1922 · Feature Puss in Boots is an Alice cartoon directed by Walt Disney. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/puss-in-boots-1922/ Internet Archive The Hollywood Revue of 1929 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Lazybones 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Putting Pants on Philip 1927 · Feature Internet Archive The Mysterious Island 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Lucrezia Borgia 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Wizard of Oz 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Der Alte Fritz Teil 1 1928 (ein Stummfilm Epos Mit Otto Gebühr) Regie Gerhard Lamprecht ( 2) 1928 · Feature Der alte Fritz teil 1 & 2 Stummfilmepos aus Deutschland,aus dem jahre 1929 über (Fridericus)Friedrich der große,Friedrich der 2.te,König von Preußen Teil 1 -… Internet Archive Mother (1926) 1926 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best… Internet Archive California Straight Ahead 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Scarlet Letter 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Sunrise 1927 · Feature Internet Archive The Band Beautiful 1928 · Feature A musical medley performed in a Vitaphone Varieties short by vaudevillian all-girl band, The Ingenues . Vitaphone Varieties #2573… Internet Archive Armies of Health and Disease: A Film Lesson in Health and Hygiene 1928 · Film · Subtitles Microscopic footage of bacteria; Pasteur; anthrax; dramatization of Pasteur's experiments; rabies treatment. Injectable vaccines are "armies of health." Internet Archive Erotikon 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Eldorado 1921 · Feature Internet Archive The Rag Man 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Clash of the Wolves 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Seeing Paris: Part Four: Up and Around The Eiffel Tower 1920 · Film · Subtitles Avenue du Bois VS Eiffel Tower Shots from elevator ascending Ferris wheel Internet Archive Barrabas 1920 · Feature Internet Archive "The Open Switch" (1925) starring Helen Holmes 1925 · Feature This gem is presented by Silent Hall of Fame. Please visit https://silent-hall-of-fame.org/ to support our non-profit mission and the legacy of silent movie… Internet Archive Regen (Rain) 1929 · Short Short documentary film by legendary Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. A poetic meditation on the transformation of a city by rain.… Internet Archive Entr'acte 1924 · Feature Internet Archive A Woman of Affairs 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Applause (1929) 1929 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. One of the first sound… Internet Archive Interference 1928 · Feature https://web.archive.org/web/20230316095534/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference_%28film%29 Internet Archive The Virginian (1929) 1929 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. One of the first Western… Internet Archive [Gould can 5230.1] 1929 · Film · Subtitles KINOGRAMS NEWSREEL: In St. Louis, six nations compete in International Balloon Race / balloons / crews getting ready / take off; also contains outstanding… Internet Archive Daddy's Gone A-Hunting 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Cobra 1925 · Feature Valentino Internet Archive The Great White Silence (1924) 1924 · Feature In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole. The… Internet Archive Aelita: Queen Of Mars (1924) 1924 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This Soviet sci-fi romance… Internet Archive The Road to Yesterday 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Cinderella (1922) 1922 · Feature Cinderella is an Alice cartoon directed by Walt Disney. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/cinderella-1922/ Internet Archive The Red Kimona 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Vitaphone Variety Film Production Clip from 1926 1926 · Feature An example of Vitaphone sound film production in 1926. The performers were a vaudevillian act known as " Witt and Berg ". Internet Archive Kyoiku otogi manga: Usagi to kame (1924) 1924 · Feature A retelling of the classic Aesop Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare. Watch on RetroFlix.org: https://retroflix.org/kyoiku-otogi-manga-usagi-to-kame-1924/ Internet Archive [Reno Flood] 1927 · Film · Subtitles Reno, Nevada: Raging floods cut a wide swath through Reno / camera pans of the roaring waters as they flow by houses, trees and commercial buildings / people… Internet Archive Alaskan Adventures 1926 · Film · Subtitles Captain Jack Robertson Arthur Young, the world's bow and arrow champion sheep Alaskan moose ice breaking up, flowing down river, very dense birds nesting in… Internet Archive The Pony Express 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Viking (1928) 1928 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. The first full length… Internet Archive Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Experiments in Physics 1920 · Film · Subtitles To be logged. Internet Archive The Black Watch 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Whirlpool of Fate 1925 · Feature