The world's archives

2,401–2,448 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 Moan & Groan, Inc. 1929 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.3: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles New York University football practice Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.3: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles New York University football practice Internet Archive Lonesome 1929 · Feature Internet Archive An Ideal Woman 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Bare Facts Concerning Bears 1923 · Educational · 10 min Bare Facts Concerning Bears Close-range studies of conspicuous types of bears at the National Zoological Park at Washington and the Philadelphia Zoological… Internet Archive Ko-Ko's Reward 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Mocny czlowiek 1929 · Feature Internet Archive At the Party 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Filmens helte 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Land o' Cotton 1929 · Feature Internet Archive English as She Is Not Spoken 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Railroadin' 1929 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.2: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles Six year old boy swims the Hudson River, New York and New Jersey Internet Archive A Knight in London 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Let 'Er Go Gallegher 1928 · Feature Internet Archive After the Round-Up 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Eyesight 1928 · Film We digitized and uploaded this film from the Orgone Cinema 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are… Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.4: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles English boys run tough steeplechase Internet Archive Hegyek alján 1920 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.4: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles English boys run tough steeplechase Internet Archive Aftermath 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Bouncing Babies 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Peach Skin 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Rotaie AKA Rails 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Do zavtra 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Home Movie: 97263: Kennebago I 1925 · Home movie Marked as Kennebago I, 1925 Internet Archive Studenterna på Tröstehult 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Überfall 1929 · Educational · 15 min Silent short Release title in U.S.: Accident; original release title in Germany was Polizeibericht--Überfall, according to Magliozzi Search Educational Film… Internet Archive Les oursins AKA Sea Urchins 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Should Tall Men Marry? 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Opry House 1929 · Feature Internet Archive 1928 - The Racket - La horda - Lewis Milestone - VOSE 1928 · Feature https://derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive Running a Cinema 1921 · Feature Internet Archive Shaw Talks for Movietone News 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Stramilano 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Gus Arnheim and His Ambassadors 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Penal Servitude 1928 · Feature Internet Archive [Gould can 5483.2: Kinograms Newsreel] 1927 · Newsreel · Subtitles Six year old boy swims the Hudson River, New York and New Jersey Internet Archive Man from Headquarters 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Rabmadár 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Home Movie: 97262: Rye 1st Films 1925 · Home movie Described on can as First Films, Rye, Summer 1925 Internet Archive The Wizardry of Wireless 1923 · Film Partly animated technical film illustrating how radio works. After tracing the history of communications, from smoke signals to the telephone, The Wizardry of… Internet Archive Refuge 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Noah's Lark 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Roaming Romeo 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Hongxia 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Eagle 1925 · Educational The Eagle is a 1925 American silent film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, and Louise Dresser. A loose adaptation on the…