The world's archives

1,249–1,296 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 Eleven P. M. (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. Afro-Cuban immigrant… Internet Archive Sleigh Bells (1928) 1928 · Feature Oswald plays the hockey champ, but gets distracted and flirts with a beautiful snow bunny. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/sleigh-bells-1928/ Internet Archive Troubles of a Merchant and How to Stop Them, The 1925 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Second Fiddle (Reel 4) 1923 · Film "Jim, a boy who has always played second fiddle to his elder brother, Herbert, gets a chance to be a hero when, to protect his mother and sweetheart, Polly,… Internet Archive La petite marchande d'allumettes AKA The Little Match Girl 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Phantom Carriage 1922 · Feature Internet Archive Poor Papa (1927) 1927 · Feature Oswald gets a visit from the stork ... again and again and again. He has to resort to a variety of strategies to stop the continual flow of babies. Watch on… Internet Archive La voix du rossignol AKA Voice of the Nightingale / Wladyslaw Starewicz / DVD / x264 / MKV 1923 · Feature No description Internet Archive La femme nue 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Perdon, Viejita (1927) 1927 · Feature Perdón, viejita fue una película argentina muda en blanco y negro argentina que se estrenó el 28 de enero de 1927 en el Cine Hindú Palace, ubicado en la calle… Internet Archive Alice the Jail Bird (1925) 1925 · Feature Alice and Julius are riding along on a turtle until they notice someone has left a pie to cool on their third-storey window sill. They swipe it with the aid… Internet Archive Springtime 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Jungle Jingles (1929) 1929 · Feature Oswald goes on safari and comes across an elephant who plays golf with his trunk. Then Oswald gets into an nasty encounter with a Lion. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Poor Daddy (1929) 1929 · 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 The Lady Lies 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Headin' Home 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Milky Way, The 1920 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Why Change Your Wife? 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Black Oxen 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Running Wild 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Pierrot, Pierrette 1924 · Feature Internet Archive So Long Letty 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Devil-May-Care (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 post Napoleonic-France set… Internet Archive Quality Street (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 Humoresque 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Annie Laurie 1927 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5118.1] 1928 · Film · Subtitles Orville Wright visits Philadelphia and meets W.C. Lawrence and D.F. Wright, inventors of Whirlwind Motor. Shots of men talking.14:18:56:24 Stock footage from… Internet Archive The Racketeer (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. The Racketeer, also known as… Internet Archive Sakamoto Ryôma 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Nothing But The Truth (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 drama is notable for… Internet Archive The Scar Of Shame (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 final silent… Internet Archive Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi AKA Frogland AKA The Frogs Who Wanted a King / Wladyslaw Starewicz / DVD / x264 / MKV 1923 · Feature No description Internet Archive Little Red Riding Hood 1922 · Feature Internet Archive At 3:25 1924 · Feature Internet Archive The Ouija Board 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Kurama Tengu 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Scorching Sands / Hal Roach / Robin Williamson / DVD / XviD / AVI 1923 · Feature No description Internet Archive Run, Girl, Run 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Two Pay Days (Part II) 1927 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Crime and Punishment 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Daily Life in Egypt around a century ago in 1925 in color! 1925 · Feature This film shows how Egyptians go about their daily lives nearly a century ago. It can be concluded that the way they cultivate their land hardly has changed… Internet Archive They Had To See Paris (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 globe-trotting comedy… Internet Archive Many a Slip 1927 · Feature Internet Archive The Cartoon Factory 1924 · Cartoon Internet Archive Our Heavenly Bodies 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Night Parade (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. Night Parade is an early… Internet Archive Sodom und Gomorrha 1923 · Feature