The world's archives

769–816 of 13,519 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 Code of the Mounted (1935) - Kermit Maynard 1935 · Feature · 54 min · Subtitles Code of the Mounted - Kermit Maynard A thug robs and kills a fur trapper. He is caught and locked up by the Mounties, but is soon broken out by his partner.… Internet Archive Ladies in Love 1930 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles * 1930-05-15 *Pre-code Film * MUSICAL/COMEDY/ROMANCE (USA Eng) * Chesterfield Motion Picture Corp * STARRING: Alice Day (Brenda), Johnnie Walker (Harry),… Internet Archive Sing, Sinner, Sing 1933 · Feature · 1 h 6 min Glamorous torch singer Lela Larson (Leila Hyams) runs away to marry the moneyed Ted Rendon (Don Dillaway), but when he's murdered, she becomes the prime… Internet Archive The Big Chance 1933 · Feature · 1 h Frankie (John Darrow), a young prizefighter, wins a fixed boxing match as part of a crime boss's (Matthew Betz) plan to have him build up a following and then… Internet Archive A Man's Land 1932 · Feature Title: A Man's Land Summary: Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and he has Triple X hand Joe let… Internet Archive Tangled Destinies 1932 · Feature · 56 min After an airliner makes a forced landing at night in the desert, the passengers take refuge in a large unoccupied house. It is not long before one of them is… Internet Archive Little Pal 1935 · Feature · Subtitles Also Known As "The Healer". You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Galloping Romeo 1933 · Feature · 52 min Money is mysteriously disappearing from a locked trunk atop the stage even though the trunk arrives still locked. When pals Bob Rivers (Bob Steele) and… Internet Archive The Old Dark House (1932) 1932 · Feature · Subtitles The Old Dark House is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy horror film directed by James Whale. Based on the 1927 novel Benighted by J. B. Priestley. It follows… Internet Archive Mariners of the Sky 1936 · Feature · 1 h 7 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Skull and Crown 1935 · Feature · 57 min Bob Franklin (Regis Toomey), Border Patrolman on the Mexican border, is preparing for the homecoming of his sister Barbara (Lois January) from a fashionable… Internet Archive Way Down South 1939 · Feature Title: Way Down South Summary: In the pre-Civil War South, a plantation owner dies and leaves all his possessions, including his slaves, to his young son.… Internet Archive The Woman Between 1931 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles * Released: 1931-08-08* Drama (Eng USA) * RKO Radio Pictures* RCA Photophone * PRODUCER: William LeBaron * DIRECTOR: Victor Schertzinger * WRITER: Howard… Internet Archive Secret Valley 1937 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Betty Boop's Big Boss 1933 · Cartoon Internet Archive Morocco 1930 · Feature With this romantic reverie, Marlene Dietrich made her triumphant debut before American audiences and unveiled the enthralling, insouciant persona that would… Internet Archive High Gear 1933 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive In My Merry Oldsmobile 1932 · Cartoon · 6 min · Subtitles Surprisingly licentious advertising cartoon produced by the Fleischer brothers. Internet Archive The Crooked Trail 1936 · Feature · 1 h After Jim Blake (Johnny Mack Brown) saves Harve Tarlton's (John Merton) life, they become partners in a gold mining claim. After a while Harve reverts to his… Internet Archive Hats Off 1936 · Feature · 1 h · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Highlights of the 1936 Olympics (Berlin) 1936 · Film · Subtitles Contents. Brief sketches of the important events of the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. Opening scenes show Berlin's huge stadium in which the games were held.… Internet Archive Round and Round (Widgets) 1939 · Cartoon · 5 min · Subtitles Highly simplified explanation of free-enterprise economics that fails to mention the idea of profit. Internet Archive The Reckoning 1932 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles * Released: 1932-02-15 * (Eng US) * Crime Thriller 1930s Pre-Code B&W Film * J.H. Hoffberg Company Inc. * PRODUCER: J.H. Hoffberg * DIRECTOR: Harry Fraser *… Internet Archive Outer Gate 1937 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Prison Shadows 1936 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Going Spanish 1934 · Short · 20 min Bob Hope, his fiancée (Vicki Cummings) and prospective mother-in-law (Frances Halliday) pass through Los Pochos Eggos, South America. In which, on a certain… Internet Archive Harmony Lane 1935 · Feature · 1 h 22 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive They Never Come Back 1932 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Public Cowboy No. 1 1937 · Feature · 53 min Shannon (Arthur Loft) is running a modern rustling operation using an airplane to spot the cattle, short wave radio to alert the rustlers, and trucks to haul… Internet Archive The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen 1937 · Feature · 1 h Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to be… Internet Archive Kentucky Blue Streak 1935 · Feature · 59 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Tough To Handle 1937 · Feature · 58 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Betty Boop: Betty in Blunderland 1933 · Cartoon Internet Archive Law Rides, The 1936 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Country Gentlemen 1936 · Feature · 55 min Title: Country Gentlemen Summary: McAllister ( Ole Olsen and Hamilton ( Chic Johnson )are a couple of con-men who travel about the country selling worthless… Internet Archive Inside Information 1934 · Feature · 48 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemum 1939 · Feature This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the first full realization of the hypnotic long takes and… Internet Archive Klondike 1932 · Feature · 1 h 6 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Our Gang Follies of 1938 1937 · Feature · 1 h 2 min Title: Our Gang Follies of 1938 Summary: The gang is putting on a show with Alfalfa billed as "King of the Crooners." But Alfalfa abandons the show saying his… Internet Archive Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus 1938 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive [Pan American Clipper] 1935 · Commercial · 3 min · Subtitles Scenes of Pan American's China Clippers flying in and around San Francisco Bay, including through the incomplete towers of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Internet Archive Marie Galante 1934 · Feature · 1 h 24 min · Subtitles An early Spencer Tracy outing in this spy thriller set in Panama. Internet Archive Betty Boop: The Old Man Of The Mountain 1933 · Cartoon Internet Archive Escape To Paradise 1939 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Rose of Washington Square 1939 (Alice Faye, Tyrone Power, Al Jolson) colorized 1939 · Feature A singer (Alice Faye) becomes a star in New York's Ziegfeld Follies, but her marriage to a con man (Tyrone Power) causes her much grief. The story is so close… Internet Archive The Gay Nighties 1933 · Short · 20 min Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough team up in this comedy short in a hotel during a political convention. Internet Archive The Hound of the Baskervilles 1939 · Feature Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that… Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police 1939 · Feature · 54 min · Subtitles Title: Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police Summary: Captain Drummond and his girlfriend want to marry but a hidden treasure in the house in which they want to…