The world's archives

1,633–1,680 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 The Movies 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Red Lily 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Men O'War 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Outside the Law 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Nothing Doing 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Fiddlesticks 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Tess of the Storm Country 1922 · Feature Internet Archive The Shakedown 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Wandering Willies 1926 · Short Wandering Willies with Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Bobby Dunn, Billy Gilbert, Barney Hellum, Ruth Hiatt, Marvin Loback, William McCall, Marion McDonald, Kewpie… Internet Archive Kosuzume tôge 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Something to Think About 1920 · Feature Internet Archive De Amsterdamse Haven in 1924 in kleur! Amsterdam's Harbor in 1924 in color! [AI enhanced & colorize] 1924 · Feature Very interesting film about Amsterdam's busy harbour nearly a century ago. This is originally a film in three parts from which my previous film about… Internet Archive Old Scheveningen fisherman´s life in color in 1925 1925 · Feature This short film gives an impression of the hard life of the fishermen and their families in Scheveningen nearly a century ago. Among other, the old harbour,… Internet Archive Shadow of Nazareth, Part 1 1920 · Film Internet Archive People Who Live Through Industry: A Film Lesson in "World Geography" 1928 · Film · Subtitles To be logged, if shots warrant it Internet Archive The Idle Rich 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Doomsday 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Mi Alazan Tostao(1923) 1923 · Feature Sinopsis: Amancio, el hijo de un juez, verdadero amo y señor de un pueblo, quiere imponer criterio de propiedad a los dueños de ranchos y caballos. Impide el… Internet Archive Dream Cafe 1927 · Feature Internet Archive The Frogs Who Wanted a King 1924 · Feature Internet Archive The Coming of Amos 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Love of Jeanne Ney 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Dnevnik Glumova AKA Glumov's Diary / Sergei M. Eisenstein / DVD / DivX / AVI 1923 · Feature No description Internet Archive Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Dutch Submarines, Part-2: Torpedo tests in 1923 in colour! [HD enhanced and AI colorized] 1923 · Feature Original Dutch title: "Onze Vloot", a Dutch navy film from 1923. The film is 'gold' for naval enthusiasts! Extremely rare footage of early types of submarines… Internet Archive Col. Heeza Liar's "Forbidden Fruit" 1923 · Film Animated tall tale in which the colonel recounts how he single-handedly ended the “Great Banana Famine of 1923”. Preserved in collaboration with the New… Internet Archive Camille 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Tarô-san no kisha 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Wings of the Fleet 1925 · Short · 32 min A history of the early days of Naval aviation, Wings of the Fleet was made in the mid-1920s. Includes footage of the battleship USS Texas as it became the… Internet Archive West Virginia, the State Beautiful 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Buy An Electric Refrigerator 1927 · Short Advertising film hawking refrigerators. Copied at 24 frames per second from a 35mm print preserved by the Library of Congress from the AFI/Eugene Kalinowski… Internet Archive Flying over Arnhem in 1926 in color! [AI enhanced & colorized] 1928 · Feature A wonderful flight with a Fokker F.VII aircraft, registration number H-NACT over the city of Arnhem in The Netherlands in 1926. This film has been restored… Internet Archive The narrow roads of Holland in 1925 in color! [AI restored and colorized] 1925 · Feature This very interesting film takes us along the narrow roads of Holland almost a century ago during the first years of the motor car. In these years there were… Internet Archive Futatsuno sekai 1929 · Feature Internet Archive White Oak 1924 · Feature Internet Archive La pieuvre AKA The Octopus 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Hoose-Gow 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Road to Ruin 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Erdgeist 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Koko Needles the Boss 1927 · Feature Internet Archive Thundering Thompson (1929) 1929 · Feature Using a false accusation of unlawful land-squatting, Bill Edwards (Al Ferguson) goes to the County Seat and has Sheriff Brown to swear out a warrant against… Internet Archive Fox Farm (1922) 1922 · Feature "A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree." - IMDb Internet Archive A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor, Star of 'Kid Boots' / Lee De Forest / DVD / x264 / MKV 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Down on the Farm 1920 · Feature Internet Archive From Soup to Nuts 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Dla ciebie, Polsko 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Twenty-Four-Dollar Island 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Wasei kenka tomodachi AKA Fighting Friends 1929 · Feature