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4,945–4,992 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 Dead End Kids: Junior G-Men Part 5 1940 · Short A gang of street kids work with the FBI in to find and rescue their leader's father, a scientist who has been kidnapped by a terrorist group. Stars include:… Internet Archive Home Movie: 98938: New York & Washington D.C. 1944 1944 · Home movie Home movies shot in New York City and Washington, D.C., 1944 Internet Archive Tres Millones Y El Amor( 1946) 1946 · Feature Tres millones... y el amor es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Luis Bayón Herrera según el guion escrito por Humberto Notari sobre su… Internet Archive Un Señor Mucamo (1940) 1940 · Feature Un señor mucamo es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Enrique Santos Discépolo sobre su propio guion escrito en colaboración con Abel Santa… Internet Archive Battle of Britain 1943 · Educational Documentary film record of the bombing of England by the German Luftwaffe in 1940, and of the defense by the Royal Air Force Produced by Lt. Col. Frank Capra… Internet Archive 1948 - Blonde Ice - Jack Bernhard - VOSE 1948 · Feature For Academic - Educational Use Only https://derechonoir.wordpress.com/ Internet Archive The Abdication of Dutch Queen Wilhelmina in 1948 in color! [A.I.enhanced with New Colorizer!] 1948 · Feature On the 4th of September 1948 Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands abdicated the Dutch throne in favour of her daughter Juliana. In this film you see the famous… Internet Archive This is Robert 1942 · Educational · 45 min This is Robert A drama of the Civil War. Two Union soldiers and a Confederate soldier, facing each other at a battle front, agree on an hour's truce during… Internet Archive Men and Dust 1940 · Film Documentary sponsored by a labor advocacy group to draw attention to the industrial diseases plaguing zinc and lead miners in the tristate region of Kansas,… Internet Archive A Fifth Army Report from the Beachhead 1944 · Short · 9 min This short U.S. Army Signal Corps report shows the fighting and casualties involved in securing Anzio beachhead during World War II. Internet Archive OSS Film: Body Search (1943) 1943 · Feature This classic video – originally titled as "Body Search" – is a dramatized spy training film produced by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the… Internet Archive Market Street 12th To 6th C 1940s LLSF 2016 20 Mbps 1 1940 · Film A trip down Market Street in the 1940s from approximately 12th Street, driving east across Van Ness, past 11th Street and 10th Street where the Merchandise… Internet Archive Casanova Heiratet 1940 (mit Karl Schönböck, Fita Benkhoff, Lizzi Waldmüller) R Viktor De Kowa 1940 · Feature Film.Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1940.. Casanova heiratet. Internet Archive Cuando En El Cielo Pasen Lista( 1945) 1945 · Feature Cuando en el cielo pasen lista es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Carlos Borcosque según el guion de Tulio Demicheli que se estrenó… Internet Archive A Rural Community: Holtville, Alabama 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration A Rural Community: Holtville, Alabama U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 47087 / Local… Internet Archive The Battle of Britain 1943 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) ARC Identifier 36070 / Local Identifier 111-OF-4… Internet Archive Unto Thyself Be True 1949 · Film Provokes discussion on ways parents can help develop honesty and self respect in their teenagers. A kid takes the car out against his father's wishes, wrecks… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Pendleton Roundup, 1941, I] 1941 · Home movie · Subtitles Photography by Chas. Masters; Titles by Louis Moss. Internet Archive 1943 Junges Europa ( Hitler Jugend, Filmdokument) 1943 · Feature Film(Filmdokument) aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1943. Junges Europa Internet Archive 1947 - Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome - Dick Tracy contra Siniestro - John Rawlins - VE 1947 · Feature For Academic - Educational Use Only https://derechonoir.wordpress.com/ Internet Archive Home Movie: 10374: Huntington Library, Japanese Gardens 1940 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive NAZI SPIES AND MURDERERS ARE EXECUTED BY U.S. [ETC.] 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39092, LI 208-UN-184 - NAZI SPIES AND MURDERERS ARE EXECUTED BY U.S. [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.… Internet Archive 1949 - D. O. A. - Con las horas contadas - Rudolph Maté - VO - Versión Original 1949 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only Internet Archive The Case of the Tremendous Trifle 1944 · Short · 20 min In this short documantary the Disney Studios tells the story of the vital importance to the war effort of the pin-point bombing of the ball bearing industry… Internet Archive 1946 - Shock - El susto - Alfred Weker - Leg 1946 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive 16 Años (1943) 1943 · Feature Dieciséis años es una película argentina dirigida por Carlos Hugo Christensen según guion de Francisco Oyarzábal y Julio Porter sobre la obra teatral homónima… Internet Archive Target - Invisible (Radar) 1945 · Film The picture that takes the wraps off the most hush-hush secret of the war, revealing the role of radar. Features a picture epic of an actual flight over… Internet Archive Diary of a Sergeant 1945 · Short · 22 min A Canadian-born, Boston-raised paratroop sergeant in World War II, Harold Russell lost both hands in a demolition accident and later appeared in this Army… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Can 10047: Florida, Wedding] 1948 · Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive La Casa De Los Cuervos (1941) 1941 · Feature La casa de los cuervos es una película argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Carlos Borcosque sobre guion de Gustavo Martínez Zuviría sobre su novela… Internet Archive Private Snafu: Fighting Tools (1943) 1943 · Feature In this installment, Private SNAFU learns the lessons of a weapons maintenance. Private SNAFU (Situation Normal All F*cked Up) was produced as a series of… Internet Archive El Viaje (1942) 1942 · Feature El viaje es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Francisco Mugica según el guion de Sixto Pondal Ríos y Carlos Olivari con adaptación de… Internet Archive Flow Of Electricity 1946 · Film Presents factors that affect the flow of electricity in a simple circuit and application of such a circuit in the home. We digitized and uploaded this film… Internet Archive 1948 - The Big Clock - El reloj asesino - John Farrow - VOSE 1948 · Feature https://derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive LISTEN TO BRITAIN 1942 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration LISTEN TO BRITAIN Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New… Internet Archive The Green Hornet - Chapter 6 - Highways Of Peril 1940 · Short · 21 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 1949 - Shockproof - Más fuerte que la ley - Douglas Sirk - VOSE 1949 · Feature For Academic - Educational Use Only https://derechonoir.wordpress.com/ Internet Archive Truman Lifts Meat Price Controls, 1946/10/14 1946 · Newsreel · Subtitles Truman speaks (partial newsreel). Internet Archive [Home Movies: Can 10701: Alaska #1 - Fair] 1946 · Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive Al Marido Hay Que Seguirlo (1948) 1948 · Feature Al marido hay que seguirlo es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Augusto César Vatteone sobre el guion de César Tiempo según la comedia… Internet Archive Cancion De Cuna (1941) 1941 · Feature Canción de cuna es una película argentina dirigida por Gregorio Martínez Sierra basada en su obra homónima y con guion escrito en colaboración con Enrique… Internet Archive Chingolo (1940) 1940 · Feature Chingolo es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Lucas Demare según la guía de Carlos A. Olivari y Sixto Pondal Ríos que se estrenó el 18… Internet Archive The Lone Ranger - Legion of Old Timers S01 : E04 1949 · TV TV-G Western (USA) The Lone Ranger (TV Series) Bob Kittredge is being forced by Red Devers to sell the ranch he inherited from his father. The Lone Ranger and… Internet Archive Home Movie: 11697: Hamden, CT Family Scenes, Wedding and CA Trip 1940 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Alma De Bohemio (1949) 1949 · Feature Alma de bohemio es una película argentina del género de comedia y musical filmada en blanco y negro dirigida por Julio Saraceni sobre un guion de Rodolfo… Internet Archive 1949 - D. O. A. - Con las horas contadas - Rudolph Maté - VE - Versión En Español 1949 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only Internet Archive Army-Navy Screen Magazine 1942 · Cartoon Cartoon voices, Mel Blanc Pt. 1. An observer company on the Burma-India border during World War II typifies many isolated and unheralded soldiers doing… Internet Archive The Enemy Strikes 1945 · Short · 10 min Documentary short film depicting the breakthrough of Von Rundstedt's German forces in Europe and how complacency on the American homefront may have…