The world's archives

2,305–2,352 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 Dnevnik Glumova 1923 · Feature Internet Archive The Ropin' Fool 1922 · Feature Internet Archive Varsity Drag 1927 · Feature Abe Lyman and his Orchestra. Internet Archive Looping the Loop 1929 · Feature Internet Archive President Coolidge, Taken on the White House Grounds 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Prachtig Marken in de jaren '20 in kleur! The wonderful peninsula of Marken in the 1920s in color! 1921 · Feature Marken was and still is a beautiful fishing village in The Netherlands on the borders of the former Zuiderzee. It lies on an peninsula, not far away from… Internet Archive Goldilocks and the Three Bears 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Frances White 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Iron Wills 1923 · Feature Internet Archive The River of Romance 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Balanoires 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Das weiße Stadion 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Wandering Toy 1928 · Feature Internet Archive China Express 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Luther 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Schuldig 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Michigan Kid 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Dick Rich and His Melodious Monarchs 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Nedbrudte nerver 1923 · Feature Internet Archive Jazz Babies 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Der Sonderling 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Barnum Was Right 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Speedway 1929 · Feature Internet Archive My Bag o' Trix AKA My Bag O' Tricks 1929 · Feature Internet Archive One Man Dog 1927 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5227.1] 1928 · Film · Subtitles Oakland, California skyline from top of Capwell's Department Store building Internet Archive Run ’Em Ragged 1920 · Film Slapstick short featuring Snub Pollard, preserved in collaboration with the New Zealand Film Archive and the Library of Congress. Internet Archive The Ol' Gray Hoss 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Border Romance 1929 · Feature Internet Archive En rade 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Red Nichols and His Five Pennies 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Sozenji baba 1928 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5484.3: Kinograms Newsreel] 1925 · Newsreel · Subtitles Lake Merritt, Oakland, California : Fairyland Flotilla in historic fete Internet Archive Les nouveaux messieurs AKA The New Gentlemen 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Issun-bôshi no shusse 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Hyas et stenorinques AKA Hyas and Stenorhynchus, marine crustaceans 1929 · Feature Internet Archive A Husband in Haste 1921 · Film Farce in which a prospective suitor wins a second look from his sweetheart’s father. Preserved in collaboration with the New Zealand Film Archive and the… Internet Archive Raiden 1928 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5127.2: San Francisco Bay Seaplane Ferry] 1928 · Film · Subtitles Oakland - San Francisco seaplane ferry. Internet Archive Parisiskor AKA Women of Paris 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Company and the Crazy 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Mighty 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Gesetze der Liebe 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Kino-pravda no. 13 - Vchera, segodnia, zavtra. Kinopoema, posviashchennaia Oktiabrskim tozrzhestvam 1922 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5185.3] 1929 · Film · Subtitles Promo for IN OLD ARIZONA Internet Archive La Quena De La Muerte (1929) Resubido 1929 · Feature La quena de la muerte es una película argentina sin sonido, en blanco y negro dirigida por Nelo Cosimi que se estrenó en 1929 y que tuvo como protagonistas a… Internet Archive Noisy Noises 1929 · Feature