The world's archives

2,449–2,496 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 La tour 1928 · Feature Internet Archive La venenosa 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Only Me 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Bruxelles: port aérien international 1924 · Feature Internet Archive The Three Passions 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Мойдодыр 1927 · Cartoon · 7 min Мойдодыр — советский кукольный мультфильм 1927 года, созданный на студии « Межрабпом-Русь » по одноимённой сказке Корнея Ивановича Чуковского. Считался… Internet Archive Jack White with the Montrealers 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Charles C. Peterson: Billiard Champion of Fancy Shots 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Les nuits lectriques 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Song Impressions 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Untitled 1927 Silverton, Oregon Nitrate Film 1927 · Home movie · 8 min Produced in November of 1927 by Silverton, OR photographer June Drake with the assistance of Albert Adams, owner of the local theatre known locally as "The… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97261: Salinas Rodeo 1927 · Home movie Salinas, California rodeo, 1927. Photographed by Art Hoxie. Internet Archive Gus Van and Joe Schenck 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Im Schatten der Maschine AKA In the Shadow of the Machine 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Home Movie: 10259: Prelinger Collection 1920 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Accuracy First 1928 · Feature Internet Archive The Roof Garden Revue 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Gilan qizi aka Doch Gilyana aka Gilan's Daughter 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Home Movie: 11845: Cincinnati, OH Family, Suwannee FL, Chattanooga & Harriman TN, Butler KY Trips 1928 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Al Lyons and His Four Horsemen 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Adjutant of the Czar 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Three Masks 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Faint Heart 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Shanhkayskiy dokument 1928 · Feature Internet Archive For the Term of His Natural Life 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Lichtspiel Opus I 1921 · Short German silent film Internet Archive The Orphan of the Storm 1929 · Feature Internet Archive "Selznick News" 1921 · Film Newsreel with stories about burglar-proof mail containers, golfing moms, a prototype car phone, the Princeton crew team, and the latest fashions. Preserved in… Internet Archive Andreas Hofer 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Khlib 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Sleeping Ember 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Gustaf Wasa, Part One 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Radia-tors 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Bridge 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Island of the sunken gold / De brandende vulkaan 1927 · Short · 1 min A sea captain obtains half of a map directing him to an enormous treasure on a south sea island. The princess who rules the island possesses the other half of… Internet Archive Hnde AKA Hands 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Labor's Reward 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Perekop 1929 · Feature Internet Archive The Dance of Life 1929 · Feature · 1 h 51 min · Subtitles From the Wikipedia entry for "The Dance of Life": "The Dance of Life (1929) is the first of three film adaptations of the popular Broadway play Burlesque, the… Internet Archive Green's Twentieth Century Faydettes 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Kastus Kalinovskiy 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Trees, Planting and Care of 1928 · Educational · 10 min Internet Archive Democracy In Education 1922 · Educational · 6 min Internet Archive Espionnage ou la guerre sans armes 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Los milagros de la Divina Pastora 1928 · Feature Internet Archive Popelka 1929 · Feature Internet Archive [Documentary Of Inland Waterway 1929)] 1929 · Documentary Silent amateur footage of the waterway around Elizabeth City, various boats, a boat lauching, the country club, golf club and hotel. Probably shot by the… Internet Archive El Ultimo Centauro (La Epopeya Del Gaucho Juan Moreyra)(1924) 1924 · Feature pelicula