The world's archives

769–816 of 8,179 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 Womanhandled 1925 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.5: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles Foals at New York horse breeding farm for future champions / "Zev" turf hero of 1923 Internet Archive Zhi guo yuan AKA Romance of a Fruit Peddler 1922 · Feature Internet Archive Un Chien Andalou 1929 · Feature Internet Archive La belle Nivernaise 1924 · Feature Internet Archive The Flying Ace Part 1. 1920 {All Black Cast Silent Film} 1:05:50 1920 · Feature · 1 h 5 min The Flying Ace is a 1926 black-and-white silent drama film directed by Richard E. Norman with an all-African-American cast. This six-reel film, made by Norman… Internet Archive The Great Gabbo (1929) 1929 · Feature For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad. Watch on… Internet Archive The Informer (1929) 1929 · Feature . The Informer is a 1929 British sound part-talkie drama film directed by Arthur Robison and starring Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward and Carl… Internet Archive No Man's Law 1927 · Feature Internet Archive [Alice in Wonderland] 1920 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Rio Rita (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. This musical comedy starring… Internet Archive Lights Of New York (1928) DVD MKV 1928 · Feature DVD remux of the 1928 Warner Bros. Pictures film "Lights of New York." IMDb TMDB Wikipedia Lights of New York is a 1928 American crime drama film starring… Internet Archive Proud Flesh 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Chicago (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 Hell's Heroes (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. Hell's Heroes is a western… Internet Archive The Mysterious Lady (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. Greta Garbo vehicle The… Internet Archive Raskolnikow (1923) 1923 · Feature · 1 h 10 min Also known as Raskolnikov and Crime and Punishment Internet Archive Romola 1925 · Feature Internet Archive [Home Movies: Ransohoff Collection: Scenes at the Beach Club, 1927] 1927 · Home movie · Subtitles title: "Scenes at the Beach Club 1927" people lying around / playing tennis title: "Another Day at the Beach April 1928" Much family activity around beach… Internet Archive Tell It to the Marines 1927 · Feature Internet Archive The Daughter of Dawn 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Safety Last! (1923) 1923 · 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 film infamous for the… Internet Archive El acorazado Potemkin 1925 · Feature La película soviética El acorazado Potemkin subtitulada al español Internet Archive Beggars Of Life (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. This picture, about a… Internet Archive Forbidden Fruit 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Wine of Youth 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Fun's Fun 1925 · Film · Subtitles Dog and kid comedy. Internet Archive Alice's Wonderland (1923) 1923 · Feature Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/alices-wonderland-1923/ Internet Archive Our Dancing Daughters 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Tribune-American Dream Picture 1924 · Film · Subtitles OAKLAND TRIBUNE DREAM FILM. Tribune-American Dream Picture sponsored by American Theatre and Oakland Tribune which gave a prize for the most unusual dream… Internet Archive Sons of the Surf 1920 · Film · Subtitles To be logged. Surfing at Waikiki Beach, Hawaii Internet Archive Tarzan the Tiger, Chapters 8-15 1929 · Short This is the last eight chapters of a 15-Chapter chapterpay featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero in a serialized film adaptation of TARZAN AND THE… Internet Archive Tempest (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. Winner of the first Academy… Internet Archive The Eyes of the Mummy 1922 · Feature Internet Archive The Olympic Games in Paris 1924 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Rosita / VHS / DVD5 / VOB IFO / NTSC 1923 · Feature Internet Archive [Home Movies: Ransohoff Collection: Beresford, 1926] 1926 · Home movie · Subtitles Title: Different scenes at Beresford including some of the active members. 1926. The Beresford Club was probably located in San Mateo, California,and is now… Internet Archive The Man From Beyond (1922) 1922 · Feature The Arctic, 1922. After being buried under the ice for a hundred years, Howard Hillary is thawed and revived. When he meets Felice Strange, he recognizes in… Internet Archive Tarô-san no kisha (1929) 1929 · Feature A combination of live action, traditional animation, and stop motion animation. A father buys his son a toy train, which he loves. When the boy goes to sleep,… Internet Archive Two Pay Days (Part II) 1927 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Motivational film for 1920s Chevrolet salesmen. Internet Archive The Lucky Devil 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Phantom of the Opera 1925 · Feature Internet Archive [San Francisco Aerials] 1920 · Film · Subtitles San Francisco City and Civic Center from a Balloon: take off / City Hall / aerials of various parts of the city and return to City Hall and land Internet Archive Lights of New York 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Submarine 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Last Laugh 1925 · Feature Internet Archive [Alma Emma Spreckels, 13th Birthday, August 23, 1922 and Spreckels Napa Stock Farm] 1922 · Film · Subtitles 13th birthday of Alma Emma Spreckels on Aug. 1922 in films taken at the Spreckels Napa Stock Farm. Includes rare footage of Mr. Spreckels. Internet Archive [Gould can 5484.4: Kinograms Newsreel] 1925 · Newsreel · Subtitles Chicago, Illinois nymphs (actually members of the ballet corps of the Chicago Opera) don't mind chilly breezes