The world's archives

145–192 of 14,279 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 A Star Is Born (1937) high quality print 1937 · Feature · Subtitles When a young actress (Janet Gaynor) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of stardom, a chance encounter places her under the wing of older actor Norman Maine… Internet Archive Study in Scarlet 1933 · Feature · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Members of a secret "trust" that meets in Limehouse are being murdered; a victim's widow enlists Sherlock Holmes' help. Internet Archive The Monster Walks 1932 · Feature · 59 min · Subtitles Family and servants gather to hear the reading of a will in a spooky old house on a stormy night. Afterward, the household retires for the night, and a plot… Internet Archive The Mystery of Mr. Wong 1939 · Feature · Subtitles From IMDb : The second in the series of Mr. Wong features starring Boris Karloff finds wealthy gem-collector Brandon Edwards gaining possession of the largest… Internet Archive Sunset Range 1935 · Feature · 1 h · Subtitles Grant hides stolen money in the luggage of Bonnie Shea who is moving west. Later when he and his men arrive to retrieve the money, they also kidnap Bonnie.… Internet Archive White Zombie 1932 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Earthworm Tractors 1936 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles Joe E. Brown as Andrew H. Botts, wreaks havok on a small town after coning his way into a salesman position for the Earthworm Tractor company. Internet Archive Police Patrol 1933 · Feature · Subtitles Also known as "Riot Squad". You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Street Scene 1931 · Feature · 1 h 18 min Street Scene (1931) 80m. Sylvia Sidney in film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Elmer Rice. Director: King Vidor From Wikipedia, the free… Internet Archive Paradise Isle 1937 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles A blind artist is on his way to Java to see a doctor about an operation to restore his sight when the ship sinks and he washes up on a tropical island. Internet Archive Under Western Stars 1938 · Feature · 1 h 5 min Roy Rogers plays the son of a late Congressman who fought on behalf of the small ranchers who are being starved out because of the dam the water power company… Internet Archive The Vampire Bat 1933 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles "These are the TALONS of The Vampire Bat" This copy is sharper than the others that appear on the Internet Archive. Copyright Status: PUBLIC DOMAIN… Internet Archive The Bold Caballero 1936 · Feature · 1 h 7 min This is the Magnacolor print Zorro (Robert Livingston) has been captured and set for execution, charged with the murder of the new Governor (Robert Warwick)… Internet Archive Becky Sharp 1935 · Feature · 1 h 24 min Becky Sharp released in 1935 and based on the play of the same name by Langdon Mitchell, which in turn is based on the William Makepeace Thackeray's novel… Internet Archive U-67 1931 · Feature · 1 h 2 min AKA The Sea Ghost Greg Winters (Alan Hale), a disgraced World War 1 naval officer, is the Captain of a salvage-ship in New Orleans in 1925. He crosses paths… Internet Archive Speak Easily 1932 · Feature · 1 h 20 min · Subtitles Naive, bookish Professor Post (Buster Keaton) inherits a huge amount of money and decides that now he can afford to go out and enjoy life Internet Archive The Evil Mind 1934 · Feature · 1 h 21 min AKA The Clairvoyant Claude Rains stars as Maximus, a phony mind-reader, who finds his predictions coming true. Internet Archive Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel 1937 · Feature · 1 h 16 min Sir Percy Blakeney (Barry K. Barnes), aka the Scarlet Pimpernel, has left off rescuing the French nobility from the guillotine, having promised his wife… Internet Archive Tarzan's Revenge 1938 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge 1937 · Feature · 59 min Parker (LeRoy Mason) steals cattle from the cattlemen and blames it on the turpentiners. Then he incites the cattlemen to burn down the turpentiners trees.… Internet Archive Mr. Wong, Detective 1938 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles Title: Mr. Wong, Detective Summary: When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two… Internet Archive Our Daily Bread 1934 · Short · 1 min Great Depression tale of community, cleverness, and hard work. Tagline: We live! We love! We fight! We hate! What don't we do for - OUR DAILY BREAD Here's the… Internet Archive Hindenburg Explodes 1937 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles Footage from Castle and Pathé coverage of the Hindenburg disaster at Lakehurst. Also shots of the big ships over New York. Internet Archive Come on, Cowboys 1937 · Feature · 53 min Harris (Anne Bennett) and Rigby (Edward Peil Jr.) own a circus. Rigby is a counterfeiter and frames his partner. The Mesquiteers learn Rigby is the culprit… Internet Archive Are We Civilized? 1934 · Feature · 1 h 9 min · Subtitles 1934 drama of man's inhumanity to man, starring William Farnum and Anita Louise, directed by Edwin Carewe, screenplay by Harold Sherman. Internet Archive Thunder in the City 1937 · Feature · 1 h 27 min In this satire of British-American relations, Edward G. Robinson stars as Dan Armstrong, a hard-sell American salesman whose company sends him to England to… Internet Archive Arizona Gunfighter, The 1937 · Feature · 57 min When Colt (Bob Steele) kills the men that murdered his father, he escapes his pursuers and joins Wolf (Ted Adams) and his outlaw gang. After two years Wolf… Internet Archive The Devils Daughter 1939 · Feature · 52 min Sylvia Walton (Ida James) of Harlem inherits a Jamaican banana plantation and returns to manage it. Since her arrival, there's been no sign of her… Internet Archive The Sign Of Four 1932 · Feature · Subtitles From IMDb : A young woman turns to Sherlock Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is… Internet Archive Where There's a Will 1936 · Feature · 1 h 17 min Will Hay plays Benjamin Stubbins a penniless seedy solicitor cum jack of all trades who happens to have rich relations in the country, and a cluttered office… Internet Archive Revolt of the Zombies 1936 · Feature · 1 h 5 min The film is set during World War I. A "French Cambodian" contingent had heard strange stories about zombification--supposedly Angkor Wat was built by… Internet Archive The Milky Way 1936 · Feature · 1 h 27 min · Subtitles After the champion middle-weight boxer is knocked out in a scuffle with milkman Harold Lloyd, Harold gets the chance to fight the champ in the ring. Adolphe… Internet Archive Bank Alarm 1937 · Feature · 1 h · Subtitles An investigator tries to find a gang responsible for a series of bank robberies thus jeopardizing his sister, the girlfriend of the gang's ringleader. You can… Internet Archive Phantom Patrol 1936 · Feature · 53 min · Subtitles Kermit Maynard, Joan Barclay You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Cocaine Fiends 1935 · Feature · 1 h 8 min Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into "cocaine fiends." Internet Archive Scrooge 1935 · Feature · Subtitles Seymour Hicks plays the title role in the first sound version of the Dickens classic about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. This… Internet Archive Lost in the Stratosphere 1939 · Feature · Subtitles Two military pilots are close friends, and share in a lot of hazardous missions while engaging in a series of good-natured romantic rivalries Internet Archive The Last Mile 1932 · Feature · 1 h 10 min Richard Walters (Howard Phillips) is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate… Internet Archive One Rainy Afternoon 1936 · Feature · 1 h 18 min Actor Philippe Martin (Francis Lederer) and his married date Yvonne (Liev De Maigret) plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and… Internet Archive Affairs of Cappy Ricks 1938 · Feature · 55 min · Subtitles Cappy Ricks and his family are stranded on a south sea island, and there his daughters learn that their choice of future husbands is faulty. Based on a story… Internet Archive The Dawn Rider 1935 · Feature · 53 min John Mason (John Wayne), returning home from a long absence, he arrives at the time his father is killed in a bank robbery. His best friend's girl (Marion… Internet Archive Jack Frost 1934 · Cartoon · 8 min Jack Frost arrives in the forest, painting the leaves on the trees, pumpkins and anything else and warning the animals to prepare for the winter. An… Internet Archive Bulldog Courage 1935 · Feature · 1 h http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026157/ A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked… Internet Archive Manhattan Tower 1932 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles A post depression love story that takes place between to people who work in the Empire State building. Internet Archive Ten Minutes to Live 1932 · Feature · 57 min A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a… Internet Archive The Bronze Buckaroo 1939 · Feature · 55 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Bob Blake and his boys arrive at Joe Jackson's ranch to find him missing. While Slim cheats Dusty out of his money using ventriloquism and… Internet Archive Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (The Sleeping Cardinal) 1931 · Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles This rare Sherlock Holmes film was released at the same time as the Raymond Massey picture "The Speckled Band". The story is partly based on two Conan Doyle… Internet Archive Monte Carlo Nights 1934 · Feature · 1 h 1 min A successful roulette player wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer.