The world's archives

385–432 of 13,519 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 Painted Desert 1931 · Feature · 1 h 15 min Western pardners Jeff (J. Farrell MacDonald) and Cash (William Farnum) find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants camp, and clash over which is to be… Internet Archive Rough Riders' Round-up 1939 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Windbag the Sailor 1936 · Feature · 1 h 21 min Captain Ben Cutlet (Will Hay) likes to spin yarns about all of his {fake} seafaring adventures, one day his false past comes to bite him as he is bluffed into… Internet Archive Condemned to Live 1935 · Feature · 1 h 7 min After a series of unsolved murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the… Internet Archive Betty Boop and Little Jimmy 1936 · Cartoon · 5 min From The Public Domain Movie Database: Betty Boops efforts to stay in shape backfire when she becomes entangled in the exercise equipment. Jimmy seeks help… Internet Archive Curtain at Eight 1933 · Feature · 1 h An elderly detective (C. Aubrey Smith) sets out to find who murdered a stage actor. Internet Archive Southward, Ho! 1939 · Feature · 53 min Reb soldiers Roy (Roy Rogers) and Gabby (George Hayes) return to Texas after the Civil War. The Union Colonel (Wade Boteler) they find in command is a fair… Internet Archive Outlaws' Paradise 1939 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions 1933 · Cartoon · 6 min From The Public Domain Movie Database: Betty travels to an invention show just full of crazy inventions. Betty and her friends demonstrate various doodads and… Internet Archive Sinners in Paradise 1938 · Feature · 1 h 4 min A seaplane departs for China. On board are a nurse escaping a loveless marriage to do work with refugees, a woman hoping to surprise her estranged son, a… Internet Archive Red River Valley 1936 · Feature · 55 min Bull and his men and their unknown boss are out to stop the completion of the dam being built by Baxter. Gene takes the job of ditch rider, the previous… Internet Archive Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (The Sleeping Cardinal) 1931 · Feature · 1 h 22 min 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 Palooka 1934 · Feature · 1 h 26 min Palooka is a 1934 comedy film based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher. Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong) was… Internet Archive The Courageous Avenger 1935 · Feature · 58 min Lawman Kirk Baxter (Johnny Mack Brown) is called in to hunt down a gang of cutthroats who rob gold shipments as they pass through the desert, murdering the… Internet Archive Under The Big Top 1938 · Feature · 1 h 4 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Dracula (1931) 1931 · Feature · Subtitles Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi… Internet Archive Corruption 1933 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Song at Midnight (夜半歌聲) 1937 · Feature · 1 h 58 min · Subtitles The first Chinese horror film, directed by Ma-Xu Weibang in 1937. Subtitles: VobSub (Chinese Simplified & Traditional, English) Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond's Revenge 1937 · Feature · 54 min http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028670/ Most of the story-line revolves around a secret new explosive that a scientist has invented, which the villains would… Internet Archive Rogue's Tavern 1936 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Bulldog Drummond Escapes 1937 · Feature · 1 h 6 min · Subtitles From IMDb : Captain Hugh (Bulldog) Drummond has just returned to England. As he is driving home in the dark, a young woman jumps out in front of his car. He… Internet Archive Red Blood of Courage, The 1935 · Feature · 46 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Phantom 1931 · Feature · 1 h · Subtitles The Phantom escapes from prison and menaces the residents of an old, dark house. Internet Archive Romance on the Run 1938 · Feature · 53 min The film begins with a super-valuable necklace being stolen and the owner of the insurance company is fretting about how to pay off his client's claim. When a… Internet Archive Rin Tin Tin THE LIGHTNING WARRIOR 1931 · Feature · Subtitles 1931 Serial featuring Rin Tin Tin. Variable video quality from a video master. Also stars Frankie Darro. Chapter Titles Drums of Doom The Wolf Man Empty… Internet Archive [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 2) (Part I) 1939 · Home movie · 18 min · Subtitles Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. (partially on 4156_HM_Medicus_collection_New_York_Worlds_Fair_1939-40_Reel_6) Internet Archive Wives under Suspicion 1938 · Feature · 1 h 8 min A prosecuting attorney treats every homicide case as first degree murder and uses miniature replicas of human skulls to tally the death sentences that he… Internet Archive Winterset 1936 · Feature · 1 h 17 min Years after the execution of his father, a young man convinced of his innocence searches for evidence to prove it. Internet Archive The Invisible Man 1933 colorized (Claude Rains) 1933 · Feature A scientist (Claude Rains) discovers the secret of invisibility, but in rendering himself invisible, he gradually becomes murderously insane, to the horror of… Internet Archive Nancy Drew ...Reporter 1939 · Feature Nancy Drew, reporter for the school newspaper, attempts to clear a girl of murder charges. - IMDB Description Internet Archive The Pharmacist 1933 · Short · 18 min A henpecked but stoic pharmacist (W.C. Fields) tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family. Internet Archive Song of the Gringo 1936 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Rough Riders' Round-up 1939 · Feature · 53 min · Subtitles Now that the Spanish-American was is over, Roy and other Rough Riders become border patrolmen. Their goal is to stop outlaws who are stealing gold from stage… Internet Archive The Lawless Fontier 1934 · Feature · 59 min John Tobin (John Wayne) is after the bandit Zanti (Earl Dwire) who killed his parents. He finds him just as Zanti is about to kill Dusty (George Hayes) and… Internet Archive The Bold Caballero 1936 · Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles NOTE: YOU WILL PROBABLY PREFER TO DOWNLOAD THE COLOR PRINT OF THIS FILM, AT: http://www.archive.org/details/The_Bold_Caballero The first Zorro picture shot… Internet Archive Pecos Kid 1936 · Feature · 54 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Scenes of City Life - 都市风光 1935 · Feature subtitles are available off this site at http://www.archive.org/details/ScenesOfCityLife-SrtSubtitles A heavily didactic 1935 Shanghai movie which plays as a… Internet Archive The Death Kiss 1932 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles Actor killed by a bullet while filming. Was it murder? Bela Lugosi has a small role. Internet Archive Dark Journey 1937 · Feature · 1 h 16 min During World War I, a German spy and a British spy (Conrad Veidt and Vivien Leigh) meet and fall in love. Both are stationed in neutral Stockholm and serve as… Internet Archive Where the Buffalo Roam 1938 · Feature · 1 h 1 min Tex Houston (Tex Ritter) returns to Santa Fe to find his Mother murdered. Foster (John Merton) runs the town and all crimes committed by his gang are blamed… Internet Archive Clearing the Range 1931 · Feature · 1 h 4 min Kildare (Hooper Atchley) kills Curt Fremont's (Hoot Gibson) brother Jim (Edward Hearn). When Curt arrives he poses as a coward in public but sneaks out unseen… Internet Archive Things To Come 1936 · Feature · 1 h 32 min A story of 100 years: a decades-long second world war leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and tries space travel. - IMDB… Internet Archive Lost in the Stratosphere 1934 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Shadows of the Orient 1935 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Cowboy Counsellor 1932 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles A con man posing as a lawyer winds up defending a man falsely accused of robbery. An ex-con is employed by the man who framed him for bank robbery. You can… Internet Archive Ride Ranger Ride 1936 · Feature · 53 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Gene is a Texas Ranger working under cover to protect an Army wagon train full of ammunition and supplies. Internet Archive Moonlight Sonata 1937 · Feature · 1 h 25 min · Subtitles From Imdb; In this romantic tale Paderewski, the famed pianist, and two other plane crash survivors are guests of a Swedish baroness. Interwoven throughout… Internet Archive Border Patrolman 1936 · Feature · 58 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .