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2,449–2,496 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 The Glass Slipper (1938) 1938 · Feature Cinderella, with some modern touches: The Brooklyn-accented Cinderella is on the phone to her girlfriend Sadie telling her about the ball. The fairy godmother… Internet Archive You're Too Careless with Your Kisses! (1932) 1932 · Feature You’re Too Careless with Your Kisses! is a 1932 Merrie Melodies short directed by Rudolf Ising. Watch on RetroFlix.org:… Internet Archive Grief Street (1931) 1931 · Feature A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing room with… Internet Archive Organ Grinder's Swing (1937) 1937 · Feature Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their… Internet Archive Wild Men of Kalahari 1930 · Educational · 36 min 'Wild Men of Kalahari' (1930) 30m, prod. C. Ernest Cadle. One of the earliest "talking pictures" shot in South-West Africa (now Namibia), this film documents… Internet Archive 1938 Rätsel Der Urwaldhölle 1938 · Feature Filmdokumentation aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1938 Filmdokumentation der Amazonas Expedition von 1935 bis 1937 unter der Leitung von Otto… Internet Archive Disorder in the Court (1936) 1936 · Feature The Stooges are key witnesses at a murder trial. Their friend Gail Tempest, who dances at the Black Bottom cafe where the Stooges are musicians, is accused of… Internet Archive Die Welt Ohn Maske 1934 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1934.. Von und mit Harry Piel Die Welt ohne Maske Internet Archive The Neighbor's Wife And Mine (1931) 1931 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Unidentified] 1932 · Home movie · Subtitles Add description when log sheet for 10540 is found. Pan New York City / Manhattan skyline tiles with letters rotate, form title: "Broadway at Night" VS… Internet Archive 1935 Kirschen In Nachbars Gartenn ( Adele Sandrock, Max Gülstorff, Karl Valentin) 1935 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1935. Kirschen in Nachbars Garten. U.a mit Adele Sandrock,Max Gülstorff und Karl Valentin Internet Archive New York, Manhattan Waterfront in 1937 in color 1937 · Feature You may have already seen my film about New York in 1937: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpXnEvW0XD0 This newly uploaded film, made in the same year 1937,… Internet Archive U.S. Recognizes Soviet Russia, 1933/11/20 1933 · Newsreel · Subtitles "Washington, DC: In a striking interview Maxim Litvinoff, Communist emissary to America, expresses his pleasure at President Roosevelt's move establishing… Internet Archive Internes Can't Take Money (1937) 1937 · Feature Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up gangster… Internet Archive Why 1930 · Feature Howard Lanin and his Orchestra perform the foxtrot "Why" at The Poinciana Breakers Casino , in Florida. Internet Archive No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (1935) 1935 · Feature Betty Boop and Freddie appear on stage in a melodrama, wherein Betty sings the title song to the villain. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive ¡Tango! ( 1933) 1933 · Feature ¡Tango! es una película musical argentina en blanco y negro que se estrenó el 27 de abril de 1933 dirigida por Luis Moglia Barth . Es la primera producción de… Internet Archive Is My Palm Read (1933) 1933 · Feature For customer Betty Boop, psychic reader Prof. Bimbo conjures up an adventure on a haunted tropical island in his crystal ball. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee (1932) 1932 · Feature Everyone loves the wheat cakes served by short-order cook Betty, but they have a drawback. With Bimbo and Koko; no bee is involved. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive House Cleaning Blues (1937) 1937 · Feature Housecleaning blues are just what Betty Boop has the morning after a wild party. Grampy to the rescue! Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg (1936) 1936 · Feature Felix is handing out relief, thanks to a goose that lays golden eggs. The evil Captain Kidd sees the goose and breaks into Felix's house to get it. He brings… Internet Archive Chicago 1936 · Film · Subtitles scenes of city of Chicago Internet Archive Great Guy (1936) 1936 · Feature A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive War Babies (1932) 1932 · Feature A group of soldiers in a café watch a dancer as she entertains them, but later two of them become rivals over her. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Ye Olde Toy Shop (1935) 1935 · Feature Ye Olde Toy Shop is a Terrytoons cartoon directed by Frank Moser, Paul Terry. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/ye-olde-toy-shop-1935/ Internet Archive A Ride for Cinderella (1937) 1937 · Feature Cinderella must arrive home in her new coach by midnight, or else she will lose her coach, her new dress, and the prince. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Tropisch Nederland, Deel 8 [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 Let's You and Him Fight (1934) 1934 · Feature Bluto is the boxing champ, Popeye his challenger, Wimpy the timekeeper. Popeye is pounded mercilessly until Olive comes by with a can of spinach. Watch on… Internet Archive You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935) 1935 · Feature Popeye and Olive are attending a football game; Bluto's team takes the field, and Olive is swept off her feet, becoming a cheerleader for him. Popeye signs up… Internet Archive High, Wide and Handsome (1937) 1937 · Feature The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon… Internet Archive The Thoroughbred 1930 Wesley Barry, Nancy Dover, Pauline Garon, Larry Steers 1930 · Feature The Thoroughbred 1930 Wesley Barry, Nancy Dover, Pauline Garon, Larry Steers Internet Archive One Romantic Night 1930 · Feature Internet Archive [Home Movies: Washington & Gettysburg] 1930 · Home movie · Subtitles Film shot on various charter bus trips People hanging around chartered bus and walking past / clowning by camera. Alexandria (Virginia) monument Group walking… Internet Archive 1938 Der Unmögliche Herr Pitt( Harry Piel, Hilde Weissner, Ursula Grabley, Hans Stiebner, Hans Junnkermann) 1938 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1938. Der unmögliche Herr pitt. U.a mit Hilde Weissner und Ursula Grabley. Internet Archive Manga: Chinkoro heibei tamatebako (1936) 1936 · Feature Cheeky Chinkoroheibei travels to the ocean floor and tries to steal the fish king’s treasure box. Watch on RetroFlix.org:… Internet Archive British Intelligence (1939) 1939 · Feature During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to… Internet Archive Happy Birthday (1938) 1938 · Feature Scrappy is very happy when he discovers his friends are giving him a birthday party. An uninvited little girl crashes the party and proceeds to dominate and… Internet Archive I Never Changes My Altitude (1937) 1937 · Feature Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's… Internet Archive My Artistical Temperature (1937) 1937 · Feature Popeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to fight,… Internet Archive G-Man Hoover Blasts Lenient Parole Boards, 1937/10/04 1937 · Newsreel · Subtitles "Washington, DC: J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, attacks the methods of lenient parole boards in releasing known criminals."… Internet Archive Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935) 1935 · Feature A mining engineer teams up with a crusty deputy sheriff to solve the mystery killings at an old mine where the owner's family waits for him to die, and where… Internet Archive Animal Crackers 1930 · Feature Internet Archive [Home Movies: Medicus Collection: New York World's Fair 1939-40 (Additional Footage)] 1939 · Home movie · Subtitles good roll, including day and night shots, lots of shots of people, fireworks Internet Archive 1936 Sommersonntag In Berlin ( Filmdokument) Albert Baumeister 1936 · Feature Film(Filmdokument) aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1936. Sommersonntag in Berlin. Internet Archive [National Recovery Administration (NRA) Promo] 1933 · Film · Subtitles NRA Promo with Jimmy Durante Internet Archive Bulldozing the Bull (1938) 1938 · Feature Popeye visits the bullfight only because of lovely Senorita Olive. He finds himself accidentally in the toreador box, even though he doesn't want to fight… Internet Archive Balbo Nears American Goal, 1933/07/12 1933 · Newsreel · Subtitles "Chicago IL: Graphic and exclusive views of the Century of Progress Exposition as thrilled throngs watch repairs for the Italian Air Fleet making progress in… Internet Archive The Bat Whispers 1930 · Feature