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4,897–4,944 of 12,663 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 Bridge Building With The CCC 1939 · Film CCC units construct a reinforced concrete bridge and a cable suspension bridge across an unidentified river. Shows details in the construction and emphasizes… Internet Archive Way for a Sailor 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Home Movie: 10850: Trip to Gulf Coast, May 1937 1937 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive 23 -- Skidoo 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Fotoescultura (1936) 1936 · Feature Película de encargo bajo el rubro de «Variedad cultural» que se ocupa de mostrar, de manera entusiasta, el funcionamiento de un complejo y sofisticado… Internet Archive A Day In Virginia Camps 1934 1934 · Film Shows, without subtitles, various activities of CCC boys at a camp. The men leave the camp and then clear brush, fell trees, build roads, and plant trees. The… Internet Archive 1936 Donner, Blitz Und Sonnenschein 1936 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1936. Donner,Blitz und Sonnenschein Internet Archive General Crack 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Salt for Svanetia 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Tjin Okichi 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Plow That Broke the Plains 1937 · Educational Department of Agriculture. Farm Security Administration. Information Division. (ca. 1937 - ca. 1942) ARC Identifier 13595 / Local Identifier 96.2 1937 The… Internet Archive The Tree's Knees 1931 Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising 1931 · Cartoon The Tree's Knees 1931 Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising Internet Archive The CCC At Work Mosquito Control 1936 · Film Civilian Conservation Corps units drain mosquito-infested swamps on Delaware farms by digging drainage ditches leading away from the marshy areas. Stagnant… Internet Archive The Sins of the Children 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Lord Byron of Broadway 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt 1930 · Feature Internet Archive British Embassy 1939 · Film Shows many views of the gardens and exterior shots of the Embassy of Great Britain in Washington, D. C. National Archives Identifier: 37237 Local Identifier:… Internet Archive Ambicion (1939) 1939 · Feature Ambición es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Adelqui Millar según su propio guion escrito en colaboración con José B. Cairola sobre la… Internet Archive Chimbela (1939) 1939 · Feature Chimbela es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por José Agustín Ferreyra según su propio guion escrito en colaboración con Antonio Botta que… Internet Archive Dawn Strikes The Capitol Dome Circa 1936 1936 · Film An impressionistic study of Washington, D.C., on a typical depression day. Includes shots of the Capitol Building, National Archives, Union Station, Arlington… Internet Archive Home Movie: 10829: Pony Express Museum 1939 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive VANISHING LEGION 1 1931 · Short · 35 min A master criminal The Voice plots & his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir & their secret army fight back. 1931 Mascot. Internet Archive Hell Harbor 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Shot in the Talker Studio 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Undertow 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Up to Mars 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Extravagance 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Safety In Woods Work 1938 · Film Contrasts proper and improper methods of felling trees and carrying hand tools (axes, spades, picks, etc.). Snag (deformed and diseased trees) is felled to… Internet Archive Heads Up 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Ludwig der Zweite, König von Bayern 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Alaska 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Men of the North 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Scarlet Pages 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Kennel Murder Case 1933 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles Title: The Kennel Murder Case Summary: Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and… Internet Archive The River 1938 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 352 The River From IMDB: his short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United… Internet Archive Home Movie: 11111: San Francisco 1930 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Lisboa 1930 · Feature Internet Archive A Throw of Dice 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Golden Dawn 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Cheaters 1930 · Feature Internet Archive A Day In Virginia Camps 1934 1934 · Film Shows, without subtitles, various activities of CCC boys at a camp. The men leave the camp and then clear brush, fell trees, build roads, and plant trees. The… Internet Archive Sex Madness 1938 · Feature · 51 min This sex exploitation film includes wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. After going to a "casting couch", a chorus girl contracts syphilis. The… Internet Archive The Civilian Conservation Corps At Work Utah And Southern Idaho 1934 · Film Civilian Conservation Corps members thin and clear wooded areas and construct forest ranger cabins in the Wasatch National forest of Utah and in timber areas… Internet Archive Inside the Lines 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The CCC At Work Lake States 1936 · Film Reel 1, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) members collect pine cones from trees and squirrel hoards. Seeds from the cones are processed and planted at a… Internet Archive Mädchen Für Alles ( 1937) 1937 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1937.. Mädchen für alles Internet Archive The CCC Fights Erosion 1934 · Film Shows samples of badly eroded farm land in Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas, and illustrates how Civilian Conservation Corps units are combatting soil erosion.… Internet Archive Escape! 1930 · Feature