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The world's archives

4,993–5,040 of 14,262 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 Strictly Unconventional 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Muchachas Que Estudian (1939) 1939 · Feature Muchachas que estudian es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Manuel Romero según su propio guion que se estrenó el 6 de septiembre de… Internet Archive He or I 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Men Are Like That 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Westward Bound 1930 · Feature Internet Archive President Roosevelt At Hyde Park 1939 · Film President Roosevelt converses with bystanders while seated in an auto. Eleanor Roosevelt escorts a group of people over the grounds of the estate. Men on a… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97377: Maine 1938 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive La canzone dell'amore 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Song Writers' Revue 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Recovery In New Jersey Circa 1937 1937 · Film On WPA projects in New Jersey. Reel 1, the Dana mansion in the Palisades Interstate Park is dismantled. In Roosevelt Park, ditches are dug and pipe laid for a… Internet Archive Believe It or Not #1 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Teacher's Pet 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Home Movie: 11209: Election, Christmas and Family, 1936 1936 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive For Her Sake 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Hearts and Flowers 1930 · Feature Internet Archive High C's 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Atlantic 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Fair People 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Home Movie: 11867: Untitled Collection 2 1937 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Safety On The Job 1938 · Film Shows examples of careless mistakes which lead to injury made by a Civilian Conservation Corps unit at work clearing a forest trail. Emphasizes the need for… Internet Archive Prinzessin Turandot ( 1934) 1934 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1934. Prinzessin Turandot Internet Archive Home Movie: 11108: San Francisco 1930 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Asphalt 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Sunny 1930 · Feature Internet Archive A Forest Playground 1936 1936 · Film This film is on Maryland's Patapsco Forest State Park. The footage shows the park's forests and streams and a close-up of Avalon Dam on the Patapsco River.… Internet Archive Girl of the Port 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Tarakanova 1930 · Feature Internet Archive What Made Her Do It? 1930 · Feature Internet Archive The Spanish Earth (Reel 1 of 6) 1937 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 5717241, LI 226-G-6398 - The Spanish Earth (Reel 1 of 6) - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Joint Chiefs of… Internet Archive Fit to Be Tied 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Dirnentragödie 1930 · Feature Internet Archive El misterio de la Puerta del Sol 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Numbered Men 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Sweethearts on Parade 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Wings of Adventure 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy - Flat tire 1930 · Short · 3 min Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy are going for a ride but getting a flat tire. Internet Archive Home Movie: 12039: Untitled Collection 6 1930 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97273: Unidentified 1930 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive 1935 Im Lande Widukinds 1935 · Feature Filmdokumentation aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1935 Im Lande Widukinds Internet Archive Home Movie: 97465: Shots Here and There #1 1930 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Presidents Flood Relief Committee Inspects Inundated Areas 1936 · Film Harry Hopkins and other members of President Roosevelt's flood relief committee inspect flood relief activities in Pennsylvania. The committee examines… Internet Archive Maman Colibri 1930 · Feature Internet Archive Undercover Agent (1939) 1939 · Feature A railway postal clerk goes after a sweepstakes counterfeiting ring. Internet Archive Presto-Chango (1939) 1939 · Feature Internet Archive Is Work Relief Better Than The Dole 1936 1936 · Film Questions concerning the activities of the WPA are posed and answered. Emphasizes that public opinion supports WPA work. National Archives Identifier: 12386… Internet Archive Wallace Kelly Goes to New York 1930 · Home movie This reel from 1930 is possibly the first film shot by Wallace Kelly (1910-1988) and documents his train trip from Kentucky to Cincinnati to New York City,… Internet Archive 1930 Wir Ostpreußen 1930 · Feature Filmdokument zu Ostpreußen von 1930 (ohne Ton). Wir Ostpreußen Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police 1939 · Feature · 54 min While preparing to marry his fiancee (for the umpteenth time!), Drummond discovers that there is a treasure buried somewhere in the secret passageways beneath…