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1,249–1,296 of 12,291 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 Three Men In A Boat 1933 · Feature An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames. Internet Archive The Shadow 1933 · Feature · 1 h 10 min The Shadow knows, and he'll tell unless you fork over a princely sum. Internet Archive Toonerville Trolley: Trolley Ahoy 1936 · Cartoon · 7 min From The Public Domain Movie Database: Mr. Bang makes a bet that the Toonerville Trolley can't get to the main train line on time. The bet is accepted without… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Medicus Collection: New York, 1934] 1934 · Home movie · Subtitles Some good shots to be logged.Selected list of contents:New York City schoolchildren in street outside school family picnic roller skating in Central Park1934… Internet Archive Plow that Broke the Plains, The 1937 · Film · Subtitles 16:32:11:14 Animated map of the U.S. Writing appears on the map identifying the Great Plains Area which is then outlined in dotted lines. CU of Great Plains… Internet Archive Daredevils of the Red Circle 1939 · Feature Title: Daredevils of the Red Circle Summary: Using a diabolical disguise, Harry Crowel embarks on a vengeful career of destruction...opposed by three heroic… Internet Archive Under The Cock-eyed Moon (1930 Short, Film Noir, Comedy) 1930 · Feature PLOT : Harve & Chester search for peace & quiet in the Arizona desert, with Lizzy, their personality jalopy. Arriving in town they run into antics and… Internet Archive Shanghai 1935 · Feature Title: Shanghai Summary: Shanghai is a 1935 film directed by James Flood, produced by Walter Wanger, distributed by Paramount Pictures, and starring Loretta… Internet Archive The Shadow Strikes 1937 colorized (Rod La Roque) 1937 · Feature Caught lurking at a crime scene, the Shadow is forced to pretend to be an attorney and help an aging millionaire re-write his will. When the old man is… Internet Archive Nonesuch Coffee Ad 1934 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles Screen ad for Nonesuch Coffee, featuring "Movie Week" special. Internet Archive Harvest of the Years: A Story of the Triumph of an Idea, The 1938 · Film · Subtitles Shows mass production of Ford cars in an assembly line; the research necessary to carry on the work; design, styling and modeling of new automobile models;… Internet Archive The Criminal Code (1931) 1931 · Feature · Subtitles The Criminal Code is a 1931 American pre-Code romantic crime drama film directed by Howard Hawks and starring Walter Huston and Phillips Holmes. The… Internet Archive Laburnum Grove 1936 · Feature A respectable suburban householder shocks unwelcome visiting relatives by telling them that he is now a forger working for a criminal gang. Internet Archive Dinner at the Ritz 1937 · Feature Title: Dinner at the Ritz Summary: The daughter of a murdered financier is working as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks those among her father's… Internet Archive Midshipman Easy 1935 · Feature A young man who runs away from home, joins the navy and goes to sea in the 1790s. He rescues a captive woman from a Spanish ship and battles pirates and… Internet Archive Mad Love (1935) 1935 · Feature Mad Love is a psychological thriller that revolves around the character of Dr. Paul Sereno, a talented and ambitious surgeon portrayed by Peter Lorre . The… Internet Archive Over the Waves 1938 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles How the Chevrolet suspension system smooths out a rough ride. Internet Archive Roamin' Wild 1936 · Feature · 57 min Trouble has been reported in Placerville where Tom Barton's (Tom Tyler) brother (Wally West) is the Marshal. Arriving Tom finds a phoney Marshal in his… Internet Archive Manhattan Tower 1932 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive About Bananas 1935 · Film · Subtitles This film takes the place of an earlier one titled "Banana Land." Complete presentation of the banana industry from the clearing of the jungle and the… Internet Archive Penny Paradise 1938 · Feature A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large… Internet Archive Toonerville Trolley: Toonerville Picnic 1936 · Cartoon · 6 min Mr. Bang is a bundle of nerves and is advised by a doctor to go down to the seashore and relax. - Downloaded from Public Domain Movie Torrents. Internet Archive From Trees to Tribunes (Part II) 1931 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Everything that happens to produce an issue of the Chicago Tribune, from logging to newswriting and cartooning. Internet Archive Hot Curves 1930 · Feature · 1 h 3 min Title: Hot Curves Summary: Revolving around a baseball team, one player lets his ego run his life, and in turn looses the girl he is dating (who happens to be… Internet Archive Rain for the Earth (Part I) 1937 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles Drought in the Dust Bowl and efforts to combat it. Internet Archive 1937 - You Only Live Once - Solo se vive una vez - Fritz Lang - VOSE 1937 · Feature · Subtitles For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive Gangway ( 1937) 1937 · Feature · 1 h 30 min Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster. Internet Archive Birds of Prey 1938 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Study of owls, vultures, hawks and eagles. Internet Archive Sanders of the River 1935 · Feature A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal… Internet Archive You Don't Know What You're Doin'! 1931 · Feature Title: You Don't Know What You're Doin'! Summary: Piggy was the Harmon/Ising studio's second attempt to create a star for the Merrie Melodies cartoon series.… Internet Archive Baby's Day at 12 Weeks, A 1935 · Film · Subtitles "In this picture the infant is followed through his domestic day from the time of his waking at six o'clock in the morning until the final breast feeding at… Internet Archive Zorro Rides Again - Chapter 1: Death from the Sky 1937 · Short · 29 min Taken from wikipedia.org J. A. Marsden aims to take over the California-Yucatan Railroad with the aid of his henchman El Lobo. The rightful owners, Joyce and… Internet Archive Queen of the Jungle 1935 · Feature A 12-chapter serial built around stock footage from a 1922 silent serial, "The Jungle Goddess",young David Worth and Joan Lawrence are children with a group… Internet Archive Picture Brides 1934 Colorized 1934 · Feature Lurid interesting Pre-Code movie about a group of young women from New Orleans who travel to a mine in the Brazilian jungle to become mail-order brides. Stars… Internet Archive News Digest No. 4 1938 · Film · Subtitles Crisis: Hitler Alarms Nervous Europe map showing German incursions into Central and Eastern Europe VS 10 Downing Street Neville Chamberlain, Anthony Eden… Internet Archive The Phantom Light 1935 · Feature Title: The Phantom Light Summary: A lighthouse keeper has been murdered in mysterious circumstances and, during the ensuing investigation a Phantom Light… Internet Archive Fighting Thru Jeanette Loff Ken Maynard 1930 · Feature · Subtitles Jeanette Loff, Ken Maynard, Wallace McDonald, and Carmelita Geraghty star in the 1930 western Fighting Thru. It was also known as California in 1878. There… Internet Archive The Ghost Camera 1933 · Feature Title: The Ghost Camera Summary: When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and… Internet Archive Story Of Our Flag 1938 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Follows the evolution of the flag of the United States from the colonial flags to the stars and stripes of today. Shows by animation the development of the… Internet Archive Balance 1935 · Film · Subtitles DRAMATIZES THE BALANCE PERFORMANCE OF THE MODERN AUTOMOBILE, SHOWING HOW ALL PARTS WORK TOGETHER. Onscreen footage: horse-drawn Borden's milk wagon… Internet Archive Algiers 1938 Colorized 1938 · Feature From IMDB: Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029855/reference Public Domain movie. Colorized… Internet Archive The Kennel Murder Case (1933) 1933 · Feature Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken… Internet Archive See (No. 6) 1930 · Film · Subtitles Monkey Whoopee! Monkey circus. Costumed chimpanzees. A modern William Tell. Archer shoots balloon out of woman's mouth Giants Tumble! Daredevil lumberjacks… Internet Archive Glacier International Park 1930 · Film · Subtitles Great scenic footage in Glacier National Park Montana. 1930s (?) tourism in the National Park, and modern hotels. 15:42:13:22 Great shot CU spinning… Internet Archive Safe Roads 1935 · Film · Subtitles The driving of an automobile is compared with running a train on the railroad. The driver is an engineer on whose observance of the rules of driving and the… Internet Archive Born To Be Wild 1938 · Feature · 53 min Ralph Byrd and Ward Bond in a movie about truckers. Don't bother downloading the h.264 file; the Cinepack file from which it is derived is smaller. Internet Archive Midnight 1934 · Feature Title: Midnight Summary: The foreman of a jury asks questions that send a woman to the electric chair for a murder committed in the heat of passion. On the… Internet Archive [San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge Groundbreaking] 1932 · Short · 7 min · Subtitles Dignitaries celebrate the beginning of construction on this important structure.