The world's archives

1,681–1,728 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 Little Lord Fauntleroy 1921 · Feature Internet Archive The President 1920 · Feature Internet Archive America Goes Over (Parts 3-5) 1927 · Film Content warning: Includes images of dead soldiers on the battlefield. Film documenting the activities of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War… Internet Archive Annabelle Lee 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Peck's Bad Boy 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Too Wise Wives 1921 · Feature Internet Archive The Storm 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Custard Pies (1929) 1929 · Feature Animals take on human characteristics in this good-natured comedy. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/custard-pies-1929/ Internet Archive Africa Before Dark 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Alice and the Three Bears 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Das Wunder des Schneeschuhs 1920 · Feature Internet Archive The Balloonatic 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Jocelyn 1922 · Feature Internet Archive Alice the Toreador 1925 · Feature Internet Archive A Trip To The Arctic With Uncle Sam 1921 1921 · Short "DOCUMENTARY: On a voyage of the Coast Guard cutter 'Bear' to the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. 'Bear' plies North Pacific ocean icefields. People at Point… Internet Archive A Tale of Two Worlds 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Lucerna 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Three Must-Get-Theres 1922 · Feature Internet Archive Alice Loses Out 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Rotterdamse Vismarkt aan de Blaak rond 1920 in kleur! Rotterdam Fishmarket in 1920s in color! 1920 · Feature A.I. Enhanced and colorized (slightly damaged) film about the fishmarket at De Blaak in the Dutch harbour city of Rotterdam a century ago in color. Rotterdam… Internet Archive Rônin-gai - Dai-ni-wa: Gakuya-buro - Dai-ippen 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Finishing Touch 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Housing Problem 1920 · Film · Subtitles About how animals make or find housing for themselves. Internet Archive Start of Epic Flight 1925 · Film Newsreel footage depicting the embarkation of "the longest nonstop flight ever undertaken"; 2100 miles from California to Hawaii. U.S. Navy PN-9 flying boat… Internet Archive Oh Boy! 1927 · Film Two-reel comedy with the “McDougall Alley Kids” about a rich boy who gets his comeuppance, preserved in collaboration with the New Zealand Film Archive and… Internet Archive Arsenal 1929 · Feature Internet Archive High and Dizzy 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Stadsgezichten van Den Haag in 1929 in kleur! City of The Hague in color! [AI enhanced & colorized] 1929 · Feature This fantasticly clear film shows the city of The Hague ("Den Haag") in The Netherlands nearly a century ago. The Hague is (and was) the residence of the… Internet Archive Stadsgezichten van Enkhuizen rond 1920 in kleur! Enkhuizen in color! [AI enhanced & colorized] 1920 · Feature Cityviews of the town of Enkhuizen about a century ago in color! Enkhuizen is a town in the province of Noord Holland in North-West of The Netherlands and… Internet Archive The Cameraman 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Covered Wagon Reel 6 1923 · Film Reel 6 of a western drama. "Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims… Internet Archive Two Timid Souls 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Habeas Corpus 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Girl in the Show 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Early to Bed 1928 · Feature Internet Archive An Eastern Westerner 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Alice Gets in Dutch 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Ingmarsarvet 1925 · Feature Internet Archive The Treasurer's Report 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Mollycoddle 1920 · Feature Internet Archive Steam trams in Netherlands in the 1920s in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized] 1925 · Feature A nice collection of colorized images of steam trams in the Netherlands around the 1920s in color. The original B / W films are estored and colored by means… Internet Archive Nathan der Weise 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Girl shy. [motion picture] 1924 · Educational · 38 min "A Pathé picture." Subtitles with background music on sound track Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin Original production:… Internet Archive Manhatta 1921 · Feature Internet Archive La Borrachera Del Tango (1928) 1928 · Feature La borrachera del tango es una película argentina en blanco y negro muda de 1928, dirigida y producida por Edmo Cominetti , y protagonizado por estrellas como… Internet Archive The Code Of The Sea Reel 4 1924 · Film Part 4 of the silent drama, The Code Of The Sea. The film was broken into reels approximately 15 minutes in length for the rental market. Internet Archive Festivities in the Dutch village of Grou in Friesland in 1923 in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized] 1923 · Feature This highly interesting film reports about the festivities in Grou (also sometimes spelled "Grouw"), presumably on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of… Internet Archive Black Beauty 1921 · Feature