The world's archives

1,777–1,824 of 12,565 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 Leader, The 1932 · Film · Subtitles Chevrolet sales film about selling new and used cars. Shots of new cars just off assembly line. Various visual effects including montage of question marks… Internet Archive The City (Part 2) 1939 · Film · Subtitles Montage depicting the high paced energy in the streets, transportation, and people of New York City. Excerpt from "The City," directed by Willard Van Dyke and… Internet Archive Far Speaking 1938 · Film · Subtitles telephone company film about history; historical recreation (1877) of the use of one of the earliest telephones in an Eastern town. 1885 - Long Distance… Internet Archive The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) 1939 · Feature On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that… Internet Archive Cross Examination 1932 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles A courtroom drama. Internet Archive [Home Movies: Pittsburgh Flood, 1937] 1937 · Home movie · Subtitles Looks like an assembly reel of Pittsburgh and railroad history, perhaps a kinescope. Railroad / flood / Allegheny River sign and river / Allegheny County /… Internet Archive Radio Lover 1936 · Feature Reggie Clifford masquerades as The Radio Lover a popular crooner, though the voice is actually that of Joe Morrison whom is not considered to have the right… Internet Archive Formations 1936 · Film · Subtitles "THERE ARE FOUR CARS THE DRIVER MUST KEEP IN MIND AT ALL TIMES: THE CAR AHEAD, THE CAR BEHIND, THE CAR AROUND THE CORNER, & THE CAR HE IS DRIVING. IF HE… Internet Archive [Fox Movietone News: Flying Windmill Sees New York] 1930 · Film · Subtitles Title: Flying Windmill Sees New York "Autogiro's even, moderate pace provides a pleasant method of giving big city once-over from the air" air-to-air shot,… Internet Archive [San Francisco Longshore Strike] (Part I) 1934 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles Longshoremen close down the Port of San Francisco in the spring of 1934. Internet Archive Follow Your Heart 1936 · Feature Title: Follow Your Heart Summary: An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions. Directed by: Aubrey Scotto… Internet Archive San Francisco by the Golden Gate 1932 · Film · Subtitles San Francisco scenes: Ferry Building and waterfront piers from air; pan across Ferry Building to San Francisco Bay; aerial of North Beach area; boats at… Internet Archive [Home Movies: X-Country, 1938, No. 2] 1938 · Home movie · Subtitles Woman making ?pastel? drawing of mountain, pan up to mountain, looks at camera apparently near Garden of the Gods, Colorado construction site: POV down… Internet Archive Zorro Rides Again - Chapter 4: Unmasked 1937 · Short · 16 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 Child Bride (1938) 1938 · Feature Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself,… Internet Archive The Bailiffs 1932 · Feature In one of their earliest films, Crazy Gang stars Flanagan and Allen star as a couple of incompetent broker’s men who take possession of the wrong house. Internet Archive Burn Em' Up Barnes: Chapter 2 - The News Reel Murder 1934 · Newsreel Taken from IMBD : Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land… Internet Archive Heights and Depths 1938 · Film · Subtitles Principles of engraving are dramatized, showing that the tones of pictures result from high and low places on the engraver's plate. Internet Archive Those We Love 1932 · Feature Title: Those We Love Summary: A young author meets and marries the woman who bought the first copy of his new book. They live happily with their son, but some… Internet Archive The Return of Chandu - Chapter 3 1934 · Short · 16 min Bela Lugosi is "Chandu" an American raised in the east and possessed of White Magical powers. Chandu must protect an Egyptian princess from being sacrificed… Internet Archive Safety Patrol (1937) 1937 · Film · Subtitles A member of a schoolboy safety patrol in one of our typical cities tells the story of how children can prevent accidents by taking wise and careful traffic… Internet Archive The Vanishing Shadow: Chapter 1 - Accused of Murder 1934 · Short · 21 min Taken from IMDB : A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of… Internet Archive Helping You Sell 1937 · Film · Subtitles SHOWS EXCERPTS FROM DMS (Direct Mass Selling) FILMS. SHOWS AUTO SALESMEN, SALESROOMS, CUSTOMERS. GOOD MEDIA STOCK SHOTS, INCLUDING BROADWAY NIGHT SIGNS. SHOWS… Internet Archive The Return of Chandu - Chapter 10 1934 · Short · 20 min Bela Lugosi is "Chandu" an American raised in the east and possessed of White Magical powers. Chandu must protect an Egyptian princess from being sacrificed… Internet Archive Sagebrush Trail (1933) 1933 · Feature Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, John Brant escapes and ends up out west where, after giving the local lawmen the slip, he joins up with an outlaw… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Paris, Times Square, China, etc.] 1932 · Home movie · Subtitles Begins with fragment of "Ports of the World" by Nomad Pictures. Direction: Sir Oswald Winfield. Photography: Robert Bloch. Continues to amateur footage.… Internet Archive Leni Riefenstal - Triumph Des Willens, restored & enhanced (1934) 1934 · Feature This is the well known "Triumph of the Will" film made by Leni Riefenstal for the 1934 Nazi party congress (" Reichsparteitag") in September1934 in… Internet Archive Skybound 1935 · Feature Title: Skybound Summary: Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate… Internet Archive Tropisch Nederland, Deel 5 [Tropical Dutch East Indies] in color! (1939) 1939 · Feature This is part-5 of a 8 part documentary about the Dutch East Indies (currently Indonesia) just before WW-II. This footage has been meticulously restored,… Internet Archive Power In The Wind Pathe 1932 Balaklava Copied And Colorized 1932 · Feature Power in the Wind 1932 Balaklava Wind Turbine Film In 1932 British Pathé filmed a newsreel of the Soviet Union’s recently installed wind turbine at Balaklava… Internet Archive Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939) 1939 · Feature Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies animated cartoon short directed by Chuck Jones. The cartoon was released on April 22, 1939,… Internet Archive Shadow of Chinatown: Chapter 2 - The Crushing Walls 1936 · Short · 17 min Sonya Rokoff acting as a representative of a European importing firm hires Victor Poten (Bela Lugosi), a Eurasian mad scientist who hates both whites and… Internet Archive [Home Movies: California 1936 - 1940] 1936 · Home movie · Subtitles shots to be logged POV driving north over an almost deserted Golden Gate Bridge. Alcatraz Island seen through moving barrier on south sidewalk of Golden Gate… Internet Archive Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 2) 1936 · Film · Subtitles AUTO-PULLED AQUAPLANE PROVIDES NEW OCEAN-SIDE SPORT. TOMMY CLARK, OF MUSA, FLORIDA WRESTLES WITH HIS PET ALLIGATOR. PUT A NICKEL IN THE SLOT TO PARK FOR AN… Internet Archive Century of Progress Exposition: Wings of a Century 1933 · Film · Subtitles 00:46:00 A Century of Progress - Chicago 1933 50019 00:47:15 Main background of Fair 00:47:48 Pan of Fairgrounds Japanese Pavilion 00:50:22 Animatronic… Internet Archive Honeymoon in Bali 1939 · Feature · 1 h 39 min Internet Archive The Return of Chandu - Chapter 4 1934 · Short · 20 min Bela Lugosi is "Chandu" an American raised in the east and possessed of White Magical powers. Chandu must protect an Egyptian princess from being sacrificed… Internet Archive Just a Second 1939 · Film · Subtitles Tires Some sensational footage of driving and accidents Animated titles To be logged for shots Internet Archive Phantom City: A Retrospect of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, The 1932 · Film · Subtitles From the Frank Vail collection. A 1932 film visiting the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (San Francisco World's Fair). Internet Archive Behind the Bright Lights 1935 · Film · Subtitles SHOWS HOW NEWS IS FLASHED ON THE ELECTRIC SIGN, THE PRINCIPLE OF THE MOTOR GRAPH, AND HOW PRODUCTS OF MODERN INDUSTRY ARE PRESENTED TO THE PUBLIC. SIGN, MADE… Internet Archive President Speaks To The Nation, 1933/05/08 1933 · Newsreel · Subtitles "Washington, DC: In a dramatic newsreel interview at the White House, the Chief Executive reviews the accomplishments of his two-months-old administration,… Internet Archive 1932 1932 · Cartoon Public domain cartoons of 1932. Work in progress. Corrections on copyright status welcome. Internet Archive [Home Movies: Levy collection: Jamaica and Cuba] 1931 · Home movie · Subtitles Crowded street scenes in Kingston, Jamaica. The Levys pose with Jamaicankids and Mrs. Levy gives people money from her pocketbook. A title cardreads "Havana… Internet Archive [San Francisco Longshore Strike] (Part II) 1934 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles Longshoremen close down the Port of San Francisco in the spring of 1934. Internet Archive Shadow of Chinatown: Chapter 10 - The Bomb 1936 · Short · 19 min Sonya Rokoff acting as a representative of a European importing firm hires Victor Poten (Bela Lugosi), a Eurasian mad scientist who hates both whites and… Internet Archive [Universal Newspaper Newsreel: Mystery Plane for Ocean Hop Has Robot Pilot] 1930 · Newsreel · Subtitles title: Universal Newsreel: Oakland, Calif. -- Mystery Plane for Ocean Hop Has Robot Pilot robot plane being tested by Army officials ring direction finder… Internet Archive 1937 - Young and Innocent - The Girl Was Young - Inocencia y juventud - Alfred Hitchcock - VE 1937 · Feature · Subtitles For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive Photographic Studies in Hypnosis, Abnormal Psychology 1938 · Film Depiction of a subject under hypnosis enduring various experiments in a clinical setting. From the Photographic Studies in Hypnosis series. This silent film…