The world's archives

289–336 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 Sons of Steel 1934 · Feature · 1 h 4 min Chadburne Steel is run by two brothers, old men. They each have different plans for their sons. Curtis (Holmes Herbert) has put Ronald (William Blakewell)… Internet Archive Below the Deadline 1936 · Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles A young jewelry store employee and her policeman boyfriend get entangled with jewel thieves. Internet Archive Hittin' the Trail 1937 · Feature · 58 min Tex Randall (Tex Ritter) gets arrested for murder and horse rustling but it's all a case of mistaken identity. The town's big-shot gets him off the hook and… Internet Archive Rawhide 1938 · Feature · 58 min Baseball superstar Gehrig (Lou Gehrig) is one of several ranchers being coerced by a bunch of bandits. His sister (Evalyn Knapp) and her lawyer/lover (Smith… Internet Archive Blake of Scotland Yard 1937 · Feature · 1 h 13 min Sir James Blake has retired from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir… Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond's Peril 1938 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles Another trip to the altar for Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond and Phyllis Clavering is averted when, at a pre-wedding gathering at the Clavering estate in… Internet Archive Boothill Brigade 1937 · Feature · 52 min Rancher Reynolds (Frank LaRue) has fired his men and hired killers and is now using a crooked land deal to put the other ranchers off their land. Calico… Internet Archive Mysterious Mr. Wong, The 1934 · Feature · 50 min · Subtitles Taken form IMDB : Investigating a series of murders in Chinatown, wise-guy reporter Jason Barton is captured by the megalomaniacal Mr. Wong, desperately… Internet Archive With Words and Music 1937 · Feature · 1 h 17 min · Subtitles A gangster revives the careers of a faded Gilbert and Sullivan troupe in an elaborate scheme to get back at the girl who rejected him. The plot is farfetched,… Internet Archive Klondike 1932 · Feature · 1 h 6 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Dr. Robert Cromwell performs a delicate operation, that has never been done before, and the patient dies. Charged with malpractice and… Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police 1939 · Feature · 54 min · Subtitles Captain Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond and his fiancée, Phyllis Clavering, are at his ancestral home preparing it for their wedding when a historian arrives to… Internet Archive Felix the Cat: The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg 1936 · Cartoon · 7 min Felix's goose, who lays golden eggs, is goose-napped by none other than Captain Kidd. Felix saves the day. A nice swashbuckling cartoon. Produced in 1936. Internet Archive Corsair 1931 · Feature · 1 h 13 min http://imdb.com/title/tt0021764/ Chester Morris, college football hero, gets a job on Wall Street for Thelma Todd's father. Fed up with the cons and piracy of… Internet Archive Two Gun from Harlem 1937 · Feature · 1 h · Subtitles Taken from IMDB A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like… Internet Archive Gunsmoke Ranch 1937 · Feature · 52 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Flagg is relocating flood victims to Gunsmoke Ranch. The Three Mesquiteers know Flagg to be a crook and try to warn them. They ignore the… Internet Archive Border Vengeance 1935 · Feature · Subtitles A rancher is murdered after discovering that his cattle have been rustled. A neighboring family is accused of the crime and flees across the border and tries… Internet Archive Ten Nights in a Barroom 1931 · Feature · 1 h A man's (William Farnum) heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter (Peggy Lou Lynd). Internet Archive Scrooge 1935 · Feature · 1 h 17 min Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit.… Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond's Peril 1938 · Feature · 1 h 5 min http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029952/ The intended wedding of Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond (John Howard) to Phyllis Clavering (Louise Campbell) at her villa… Internet Archive Aces and Eights 1936 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Sunset Murder Case 1938 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Time Savers for House Makers 1936 · Film · Subtitles Screen ad for instant laundry starch. Internet Archive The Scarlet Letter 1934 · Feature · 1 h 9 min · Subtitles Title: The Scarlet Letter Summary: In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a… Internet Archive City, The (Part I) 1939 · Short · 15 min · Subtitles The Regional Planning Association of America's plea for community chaotic cities and urban sprawl. Directors: Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke. Script:… Internet Archive Code of the Cactus 1939 · Feature · 56 min · Subtitles Lightning Bill Carson tries to stop cattle rustlers by posing as a Mexican. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive One Frightened Night 1935 · Feature · 1 h 6 min In this film Charley Grapewin has the lead role as Jasper Whyte, a crotchety head of a family, who are planning how to spend his money before he is dead.… Internet Archive Springtime in the Rockies 1937 · Feature · 55 min Ranch owner Sandra Knight (Polly Rowles), fresh from a Chicago animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't… Internet Archive Swing! 1938 · Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles Mandy Jenkins, an African American cook for a wealthy white family in Birmingham, Alabama, discovers her husband Cornell is having an affair with Eloise… Internet Archive No Man's Range 1935 · Feature · 55 min Summoned by Ed Oliver (Charles K. French), Jim Hale (Bob Steele) and sidekick Fuzz (Buck Connors) arrive at Oliver's ranch to find a range war in progress.… Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond's Revenge 1937 · Feature · 54 min · Subtitles While driving to Rockford Manor with Algy and Tenny to join others in the wedding party before they leave for Switzerland, Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond comes… Internet Archive Streamline Express 1935 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles As of 202 there is now a better restored copy of this movie from Grapevinevideo.com, but it still has some missing video that had to be filled in with stills… Internet Archive Wrong Road 1936 · Feature · 53 min · Subtitles Spoiled young lovers rob bank and hide the loot. Lionell Atwill tries to find it. With Richard Cromwell and Helen Mack. Internet Archive The Scarlet Letter 1934 · Feature An early sound adaptation of Hawthorne's novel about social mores, intolerance, and ostracism in 17th Century Massachussetts. Internet Archive Around the Corner 1937 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles How the automobile differential allows a vehicle to turn a corner while keeping the wheels from skidding. Internet Archive The Sin of Nora Moran 1933 · Feature · 1 h 4 min Nora Moran (Zita Johann), a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit. She could easily reveal… Internet Archive Betty Boop: Snow White 1933 · Cartoon Memorable rendition of "St James Infirmary" by Cab Calloway Internet Archive Girl o' My Dreams 1934 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Old Corral 1936 · Feature · 53 min Starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Irene Manning (billed as "Hope Manning"), and Lon Chaney, Jr., and featuring an uncredited and unshaven Roy Rogers as… Internet Archive Shanghai Express 1932 · Feature An intoxicating mix of adventure, romance, and pre-Code salaciousness, Shanghai Express marks the commercial peak of an iconic collaboration. Marlene Dietrich… Internet Archive White Zombie 1932 · Feature · 1 h 6 min · Subtitles "With These Zombie Eyes he rendered her powerless - With This Zombie Grip he made her perform his every desire!" This is a slightly clearer print that the… Internet Archive Assassin Of Youth 1937 · Feature · Subtitles A high-school girl gets involved with a ring of teenage marijuana smokers, not realizing that she is being framed by greedy relatives out to prevent her from… Internet Archive Sexton Blake and the Hooded Terror 1938 · Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles Sexton Blake and Tinker foil criminal plot connected with the Tongs, and master-minded by "famous stamp collector" and millionaire. Internet Archive The Desert Trail 1935 · Feature · 54 min Just after John Scott (John Wayne) gets his rodeo prize money, the Official is robbed and murdered by Pete (Al Ferguson). Pete then says he just saw John and… Internet Archive Silver Trail, The 1937 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Mandarin Mystery 1936 · Feature · 53 min This adaptation of an Ellery Queen mystery concerns the theft of a rare Chinese stamp (the Mandarin of the title), which takes place in a hotel with several… Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond in Africa 1938 · Feature · 58 min · Subtitles From IMDb : As his wedding to Phyllis Clavering approaches, Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond has taken extreme precautions to avoid getting caught up in another… Internet Archive Three Broadway Girls 1932 · Feature · 1 h 19 min Three "former chorus girls" team up to capture rich husbands. But they spend as much time fighting with each other as they do the men they try to snare. This… Internet Archive The Zero Hour 1939 · Feature · 50 min · Subtitles Frieda Inescort and Otto Kruger play two stars of the theater in this tear-jerker.