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4,801–4,848 of 42,410 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 Case of Spring Fever 1940 · Film Advertising short for Chevrolet combining live action and animation. The film relates the story of Gilbert Willoughby, who, exasperated by his stubborn… Internet Archive 1943 - Ostpreußen Kurenfischer ( Ein Tag Auf Der Nehrung) 1943 · Feature Film(Filmdokument)aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1943.?? (Nicht sicher,finde leider keine Informationen zu,kann aber sein dass erst nach 45🤔). Ostpreußen… Internet Archive Camino Del Infierno (1946) 1946 · Feature Camino del infierno es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Luis Saslavsky y Daniel Tinayre según guion de Saslavsky escrito en… Internet Archive Captured German War Films 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration Captured German War Films Department of Defense. Department of the Air Force. (09/26/1947 - ) ARC Identifier… Internet Archive 1948 - He Walked By Night - Orden: caza sin cuartel - Alfred L. Werker - Anthony Mann - VOSE 1948 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive [Home Movies: Bedford Air Show] 1946 · Home movie · Subtitles Shot at Hanscom Field, near Bedford, Mass. Internet Archive Injun Talk 1946 · Talk Interpreted by Col. Tim McCoy. Talks about Indian Sign Language. A chief signs a story and a white soldier interprets. This film can be purchased on DVD and… Internet Archive 1944 Findigkeit Ist Keine Hexerei ( Werbefilm) 1944 · Feature Film(Werbefilm) aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1944. Findigkeit ist keine Hexerei. Internet Archive Playland LLSF 2015 1940 · Film From "Lost Landscapes #7, 2012, courtesy Prelinger Archive. Footage of Playland in its heyday. Internet Archive COAXIAL 1940 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 89091 / Local Identifier BTL-BTL-190 - COAXIAL - Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. On the value… Internet Archive F6F Hellcat: Pilot Instruction 1943 · Short · 20 min The carrier-based fighter Grumman F6F Hellcat was designed from the beginning to take back the skies over the Pacific from the Japanese Zero. Successor to the… Internet Archive Holo Holo Kaa 1947 · Educational · 2 min Lani McIntire and the Aloha Islanders, with legendary steel guitarist Hal Aloma, performing 'Holo Holo Kaa.' The Lani McIntire group was the resident band in… Internet Archive FUNDAMENTALS OF BALLISTICS 1949 · Educational Department of Defense FUNDAMENTALS OF BALLISTICS PIN 29866 1949 PRINCIPLES OF PHYSICS INVOLVED IN DESIGN AND FUNCTIONING OF WEAPONS AND AMMUNITION, WITH… Internet Archive Amor (1940) 1940 · Feature Amor es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Luis Bayón Herrera según su propio guion sobre la obra de Oduvaldo Vianna que se estrenó el… Internet Archive Casa De Muñecas (1943) 1943 · Feature Casa de muñecas es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Ernesto Arancibia según el guion de Alejandro Casona sobre la obra homónima de Henrik… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Can 10346: Trip to Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, July-August 1946] 1946 · Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive Brought to Action 1945 · Educational · 21 min This U.S. Navy documentary depicts the sea battle at Leyte Gulf during the Allied landings at Mindoro in the Phillipines during World War II. During this… Internet Archive Rudolf Heß Ich Bereue Nichts! ( Schlußwort Nürnberger Prozesse Am 31. August 1946) 1946 · Feature .. Internet Archive DIESEL ENGINE GOVERNORS - PART 1 1942 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 23546 DIESEL ENGINE GOVERNORS - PART 1 OPERATION OF DIESEL ENGINE GOVERNORS, OVERSPEED, OVERSPEED TRIP AND REGULATING GOVERNORS. Internet Archive [Home Movie: Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, June 1942] 1942 · Home movie · Subtitles Skeletal Entry Internet Archive 1949 - Jigsaw - Fletcher Markle - VO 1949 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive 1948 - The Street with No Name - La calle sin nombre - William Keighley - VO 1948 · Feature For Academic - Educational Use Only https://derechonoir.wordpress.com/ Internet Archive THE TURBOSUPERCHARGER: MASTER OF THE SKIES 1943 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration THE TURBOSUPERCHARGER: MASTER OF THE SKIES War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) ARC… Internet Archive Act Your Age 1949 · Film Presents various types of infantile reactions--temper, weeping, inability to take a joke, etc. Reveals the basic reasons for continuance of emotional… Internet Archive How To Fly The B-26 Airplane 1944 · Short · 48 min The Martin B-26 bomber was popularly known as the Marauder. This wartime training film shows how to handle the versatile craft, with Hollywood actor Don… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Can 10889: San Francisco] 1947 · Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive 1945 - The Great Flamarion -El gran Flamarion - Anthony Mann - VE 1945 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive Maridos Modernos(1948) 1948 · Feature Maridos modernos es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Luis Bayón Herrera según el guion de Julio F. Escobar y Nicolás Viola sobre la… Internet Archive Corazon (1947) 1947 · Feature Corazón es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Carlos Borcosque sobre su propio guion escrito según la novela Corazón: Diario de un niño de… Internet Archive De Un Tango Nacio Un Querer (1940) 1940 · Feature Del tango nació un querer es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro del género de comedia dirigida por Julio Irigoyen según su propio guion que se filmó… Internet Archive Peiping Family 1948 · Educational · 20 min Peiping Family Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film SummaryProtrays middle - class Chinese family life prior… Internet Archive L.T.A. HISTORY BALLOONS 1944 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 23740 L.T.A. HISTORY BALLOONS A HISTORY OF BALLOON EXPERIMENTATION COVERING PROBLEMS, AND DEVELOPMENT - OUTSTANDING MEN, AND MODERN… Internet Archive The Nazis Strike 1943 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) ARC Identifier 36068 / Local Identifier 111-OF-2… Internet Archive 24 Horas En La Vida De Una Mujer ( 1944) 1944 · Feature Veinticuatro horas en la vida de una mujer es una película argentina del género de drama filmada en blanco y negro dirigida por Carlos Borcosque sobre el… Internet Archive Action at Anguar 1945 · Short · 28 min Action at Anguar tells the story of the invasion and capture of Anguar Island by the US 81st Infantry Division in September 1944 Internet Archive THEORY OF SIMPLEX AND PHANTOM CIRCUITS - PART I - BALANCED CONDITIONS 1944 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 28317 THEORY OF SIMPLEX AND PHANTOM CIRCUITS - PART I - BALANCED CONDITIONS INTRODUCTION TO SET UP AND PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION -… Internet Archive Danza Del Fuego (1949) 1949 · Feature Danza del fuego es una película argentina dirigida por Daniel Tinayre , protagonizada por Amelia Bence y Francisco de Paula . Estrenada en Buenos Aires el 27… Internet Archive Isabelita (1940) 1940 · Feature Isabelita es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Manuel Romero sobre su propio guion que se estrenó el 31 de julio de 1940 y que tuvo como… Internet Archive The Green Hornet - Chapter 4 - Pillar Of Flame 1940 · Short · 19 min "Britt Reid," the millionaire publisher, dons a mask and goes out to fight crime in his famous automobile, "The Black Beauty." "Kato," the Korean science… Internet Archive 1948 - Ruthless - Traición - Edgar G. Ulmer - VOSE 1948 · Feature For Academic - Educational Use Only https://derechonoir.wordpress.com/ Internet Archive Tierra Del Fuego(1948) 1948 · Feature Tierra del Fuego es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Mario Soffici sobre guion de Ulyses Petit de Murat que se estrenó el 30 de noviembre… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Can 10693: Oregon] 1948 · Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive THEORY OF SIMPLEX AND PHANTOM CIRCUITS - PART II - UNBALANCED CONDITIONS 1944 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 28318 THEORY OF SIMPLEX AND PHANTOM CIRCUITS - PART II - UNBALANCED CONDITIONS PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION - HOW TO DETECT AND LOCALIZE… Internet Archive Blame It on Love 1940 · Film Narrative promoting the sponsor’s Hotpoint appliance line. The plot involves a wealthy manufacturing heir who elopes with a nightclub singer who can’t cook.… Internet Archive Navidad De Los Pobres (1947) 1947 · Feature Navidad de los pobres es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Manuel Romero sobre su propio guion escrito en colaboración con Nicolás Viola… Internet Archive Truman Asks One Year's Army Service, 1945/10/25 1945 · Newsreel · Subtitles Truman speaks to Congress (silent except Truman's speech) (partial newsreel) Internet Archive Doll Face 1945 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles A former burlesque queen needs to acquire some culture to give herself some legitimacy. Internet Archive 1946 - Shock - El susto - Alfred Werker - VE 1946 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com