The world's archives

865–912 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 The Mad Whirl 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Uncle Tom's Cabin 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Seven Chances 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Alibi (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. Banned in Chicago the year… Internet Archive Dobutsu olympic taikai (1928) 1928 · Feature Animal Olympic Games (動物オリムピック大会, Dōbutsu Orimupikku Taikai) is a Japanese animation film from 1928. Animals gather to compete in Olympic games. Watch on… Internet Archive The Island of the Lost 1921 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5370: Humboldt County, California Lumber Mill] 1926 · Film · Subtitles Lumber mill footage from Humboldt County, California: Logs on flatcars being automatically dumped into pond / men in pond working logs while in the background… Internet Archive Zwei Welten 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Don Juan (1926) 1926 · 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 film… Internet Archive The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) 1929 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and am uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This Dramedy starring Norma Shearer and… Internet Archive Tarzan The Tiger (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 once-lost film serial… Internet Archive Underworld 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Atomic Test near Bikini Atoll in 1946 [HD] 1925 · Feature This test of an underwater atomic bomb was conducted by the US army near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific on 25 July 1946. As the result, the health of the native… Internet Archive Storm Over Asia (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 Soviet propaganda film… Internet Archive The Smiling Madame Beudet (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. La Souriante Madame Beudet,… Internet Archive Body And Soul (1925) 1925 · 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 debut for artist,… Internet Archive The Ocean Hop (1927) 1927 · Feature Oswald the Rabbit enters an airplane race with a makeshift aircraft and ends up riding a dachshund lifted into the air by balloons. Meanwhile, his peg-legged… Internet Archive Michael 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Der Gang in die Nacht 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Hallelujah (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. Hallelujah, starring Daniel… Internet Archive The Taming of the Shrew (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 adaptation of the… Internet Archive Zvenigora (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 of his "Ukraine… Internet Archive The Red Inn 1923 · Feature Internet Archive The Mechanical Cow (1927) 1927 · Feature Oswald wakes up grumpy and takes it out on his alarm clock, afterward trying his best to wake up the mechanical cow sleeping in the bed beside him, with… Internet Archive Tarzan and the Golden Lion 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Aelita: Queen of Mars 1924 · Feature Internet Archive "Hollywood Snapshots" 1922 · Film A tour of Filmdom with glimpses of celebrities Ramon Novarro, Jack Warner, Max Linder, and Vola Vale. Preserved in collaboration with the New Zealand Film… Internet Archive Ratskin (1929) 1929 · Feature While George Herriman is credited as Kat's creator here, Krazy in this short bears little resemblance to the original comic strip character. In fact, instead… Internet Archive Circus Days - A Romance of Youth 1920 · Film · Subtitles Silent comedy short. A young boy loves the circus and attempts to make his own. Internet Archive The Thirteenth Chair (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. Its main claim to fame, that… Internet Archive Shooting Stars 1928 · Feature Internet Archive White Shadows in the South Seas 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Zora Neale Hurston's Fieldwork Footage 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Sarukani-gassen (1927) 1927 · Feature A Yasuji Murata version of the classic Japanese story Saru Kani Gassen. Watch on RetroFlix.org: https://retroflix.org/sarukani-gassen-1927/ Internet Archive [Gould can 1020.1] 1922 · Film · Subtitles San Francisco, California street scenes, including pans and tilts of streets and buildings. Great architectural footage of San Francisco pre-1920. VS San… Internet Archive The King on Main Street 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Laying of Water Pipe Line 1920 · Film · Subtitles Water infrastructure construction. Good footage of construction work and workers. Aerial of circular reservoir / water tank / construction laborers shoveling… Internet Archive [Gould can 5127.6] 1928 · Film · Subtitles "Greater Movie Season" trailer. This rollup trailer extols the progress of Hollywood as a producer of quality filmed entertainment. Internet Archive The Black Pirate (1926) 1926 · Feature A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he… Internet Archive The Fighting Eagle 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Shore Leave 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Little Match Girl 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Waking Up the Town 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Man From Beyond (1922) 1922 · 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 Paint and Powder 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Beloved Rogue 1927 · Feature Internet Archive China And The Chinese 1928 · Film · Subtitles Silent travelogue of China and its people. Producer: Isaac O. Upham. Internet Archive The Scarlet 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. this once-lost film is the…