The world's archives

1,153–1,200 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 De Brug 1928 · Short Short documentary film by legendary Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens. The vertical lift-bridge is the object of study in The Bridge.… Internet Archive Endurance 1920 · Feature Internet Archive [Home movie: 098633: 1929 New York construction, Lake George recreation] 1929 · Home movie 17 minute reel from a New York family documenting the construction of the London Terrace apartments and the Parc Vendome apartments, with the last half… Internet Archive [Gould can 5517] 1929 · Film · Subtitles California Governor James Rolph and friends, photographed in Trinity County, California. Internet Archive Alice's Balloon Race (1926) 1926 · Feature Alice and Julius, as a team, are one of four entrants in a $10,000 balloon race. The bad guy takes out one balloon quickly. It's not clear what kind of… Internet Archive Alice's Mysterious Mystery (1926) 1926 · Feature A mouse and his boss pose as dogcatchers and grab a schoolhouse full of dogs; they use several other ruses to round up dogs for, as we discover, a sausage… Internet Archive When A Man Loves (1927) 1927 · 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. Only the third WB film to… Internet Archive The Affairs of Anatol 1921 · Feature Internet Archive White Gold 1927 · Feature Internet Archive The Headless Horseman 1922 · Feature Internet Archive Man, Woman and Sin 1927 · Feature Internet Archive The Fall of Babylon 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Rhythmus 23 / Hans Richter / Unknown / DivX / AVI 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Her Boy Friend 1924 · Film Silent film comedy. Content warning: This film opens with an intertitle that contains an offensive and outdated expression derived from a racial slur for Roma… Internet Archive Bill Sprague Collection-Alice The Dog Catcher 1924 · Cartoon Alice The Dog Catcher An Early Walt Disney Cartoon -(pre Mickey)-1924 Internet Archive Our Hospitality / John G. Blystone / Buster Keaton / Blu-ray / BD50 / m2ts 1923 · Feature No description Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.7: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles Easter at the White House / 38,000 children attend egg rolling on the lawn / Mrs. Coolidge Internet Archive Trip to Mars 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Condemned (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. A film that likely would… Internet Archive Souls for Sale 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Man with a Movie Camera 1929 · Feature Internet Archive East Side, West Side 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Alice's Circus Daze (1927) 1927 · Feature Alice and Julius are getting ready for their big performance at the circus while many of the other acts are being showcased. They are acrobats, with Julius… Internet Archive Their Own Desire (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. Norma Shearer was nominated… Internet Archive The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu 1929 · Feature Internet Archive They Had to See Paris 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Red Dance 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Marriage Circle 1924 · Feature Internet Archive The Greene Murder Case 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Alice Rattled by Rats (1925) 1925 · Feature While Alice is away, her cat is guarding the house. He chases one pesky rat inside the house, and shoots a hole in the floor, which he falls through, into a… Internet Archive Alice the Whaler (1927) 1927 · Feature Alice is dancing aboard her ship with a veritable zoo of a crew. Meanwhile, in the galley, the chef (a cat) is preparing food while his assistant, a mouse, is… Internet Archive The Loves of Pharaoh 1922 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.7: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles Easter at the White House / 38,000 children attend egg rolling on the lawn / Mrs. Coolidge Internet Archive Beau Brummel 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Love 1928 · Feature Internet Archive White Tiger 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Three Ages / Edward F. Cline / Buster Keaton / Blu-ray / x264 / MKV 1923 · Feature No description Internet Archive Furry Creatures: A Film Lesson in "Nature Study" 1927 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Flight of the Graf Zeppelin in 1928 in Color! [AI enhanced & colorized] 1928 · Feature Flight of the Graf Zeppelin from San Francisco via Lakehurst (New Jersey) back to Germany in 1928 [HD]. The director of the Zeppelin company, Hugo Eckner, can… Internet Archive Beggars of Life 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Lilac Time 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Long Pants 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Earth: A Film Lesson in General Science, The 1928 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Sky Scrappers (1928) 1928 · Feature 'Sky Scrappers' finds three characters -- Oswald, a Big Pete-style bully and a Minnie-ish female character -- all engaged in knockabout humour on a building… Internet Archive Seven Footprints to Satan 1929 · Feature Internet Archive You're Darn Tootin' 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Verdun, visions d'histoire 1928 · Feature Internet Archive People Who Live on a Great Plain: A Film Lesson in "World Geography" 1928 · Film · Subtitles About settlement in Latin America (Argentine pampas); Buenos Aires city scenes.