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5,473–5,520 of 43,004 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 Thunderbolt 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 63897 / Local Identifier 342-SFP-182 - Thunderbolt - Department of Defense. Department of the… Internet Archive Home movie: 000401: 1940 San Francisco wartime family in Brisbane 1940 · Home movie Home movie: 000401: 1940 San Francisco wartime family in Brisbane Internet Archive Dustbin Parade 1942 · Cartoon · 5 min A 1942 British cartoon about how recycling helps with the war effort. Produced by the Realist Film Unit for the Ministry of Information. Internet Archive Avenge December 7 (Pearl Harbor) 1942 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 20 Avenge December 7 (Pearl Harbor) Department of the Treasury. Public Domain Footage-Short film shown in movie theaters before… Internet Archive A Continent Is Bridged 1940 · Film film highlights the history of the telephone, from Alexander Graham Bell’s invention to the linking of New York City and San Francisco by transcontinental… Internet Archive Home Movie: 10592: Trip East 1947 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive OUR NEIGHBORS DOWN THE ROAD 1942 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 400246, LI 229.1 - OUR NEIGHBORS DOWN THE ROAD - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Office of Inter-American… Internet Archive FUNDAMENTALS OF SMALL ARMS WEAPONS - PART I THE CYCLE OF OPERATION 1945 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 29862 FUNDAMENTALS OF SMALL ARMS WEAPONS - PART I THE CYCLE OF OPERATION PROCESSES OF CHAMBERING, LOCKING, FIRING, AND COCKING… Internet Archive First Flight, Part 1 (1945) 1945 · Feature MN3474d // A US Navy training film for the cadet just beginning primary flight training. Many fledgling pilots had never even been in an aircraft before so… Internet Archive Camouflage Use Of Artificial Materials (1943) 1943 · Feature TF 5-648 // World War II training video on the use of artificial materials for camoflauge. Internet Archive Our National Government 1941 · Film Uses animated maps, cartoons and live photography to explain fundamental principles and organization of our Federal government. Portrays the check and balance… Internet Archive Home Movie: 10370: Family Pictures 1940 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Two Down and One to Go! 1945 · Film Content notice: Nazi iconography, racism, and casualties of war. Documentary short film produced by the army and directed by Frank Capra with creative… Internet Archive Star Identification 1942 · Educational United States Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and Bureau of Naval Personnel United States Naval Academy Star Identification AVA04119VNB1, 1942 (?) Internet Archive Sabotage! 1942 · Short · 1 min A 1942 British theatrical public service announcement informing viewers how to avoid wearing out clothes. Produced for the Ministry of Information. Internet Archive AIR WAR IN EUROPE 1943 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 2870 / Local Identifier 18-C-406-2 - AIR WAR IN EUROPE - War Department. Army Air Forces.… Internet Archive 30 Miles An Hour 1949 · Short · 1 min A 1949 British "public information film" advising how to drive safely. Starring Richard Massingham, and directed by Michael Law. Look carefully and you'll… Internet Archive Fitness Wins: 4 And 20 Fit Girls 1940 · Documentary · 10 min A 1940 British documentary about exercises for women. Directed by Mary Field, with commentary spoken by E.V.H. Emmett. Internet Archive CIVIL AFFAIRS IN GERMANY [ETC.] 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39159, LI 208-UN-1042 - CIVIL AFFAIRS IN GERMANY [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Series: Motion… Internet Archive Soundie-SM 1941 · Short Soundie Internet Archive AMERICA REPORTS ON AID TO ALLIES [ETC.] 1942 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38937, LI 208-UN-30 - AMERICA REPORTS ON AID TO ALLIES [ETC.] - DVD Copied by J. Williams. Series: Motion… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97371: Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Conn. 1940 · Home movie Elizabeth Park, Hartford, Connecticut Internet Archive MARTYRED CZECH VILLAGE LIVES AGAIN IN U.S. [ETC.] 1942 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38912, LI 208-UN-7 - MARTYRED CZECH VILLAGE LIVES AGAIN IN U.S. [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.… Internet Archive Home Movie: 10600: Travels in California and Elsewhere 1940 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98881: Friends, Enid, OK 1942 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Home Movie: 10945: Palm Sunday, Cottage and Flats, 1940-41 1940 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Impossible Map 1948 · Educational Illustrates by examples that a true picture of the world is possible only when constructed on a globe. A grapefruit and a turnip with maps superimposed are… Internet Archive D-DAY CONVOY 1948 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 20338 D-DAY CONVOY ACTIVITIES JUST PRIOR TO AND INCLUDING D-DAY - MOVEMENTS OF AMERICAN TROOPS FROM ALL PARTS TO POE'S PRIOR TO THE… Internet Archive Home Movie: 12325: Grad Trip North 1947 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive ALLIES SET FOR OFFENSIVE [ETC.] 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39141, LI 208-UN-1023 - ALLIES SET FOR OFFENSIVE [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Series: Motion… Internet Archive Medicine In Action 1: Pacific Enemy Number Two (1944) 1944 · Feature MN3726e Navy // Suppressive theory such as malaria discipline and atabrine; control measures such as elimination of pools of water, spraying' of water,… Internet Archive Japanese Paper Balloon (1945) 1945 · Feature MN5083 Navy // Details the paper balloons used by the Japanese during World War Two to deliver explosive devices onto American soil. Internet Archive The Negro Soldier 1943 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 31 The Negro Soldier Frank Capra and the War Activities Committee. Public Domain Footage Total propaganda film narrated by… Internet Archive Air Force Project 223-12040 1945 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984) ARC… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97243: Fishing at Lake Hinshaw, etc. 1941 · Home movie Notes indicate shot in Phoenix, Arizona and elsewhere. Description to come Internet Archive The Five Inch Bather 1942 · Short · 1 min A 1942 British "public information film" advising people to use only five inches of hot water while taking a bath. Directed by and starring Richard Massingham. Internet Archive Home Movie: 97249: Eastern Sierra, etc. 1947 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive EVERYBODY JOINS U.S. WAR EFFORT [ETC.] 1942 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38919, LI 208-UN-14 - EVERYBODY JOINS U.S. WAR EFFORT [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion… Internet Archive Hymn of the Nations - Toscanini 1944 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 127 Hymn of the Nations - Toscanini Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a radio broadcast of Verdi's… Internet Archive P-38: FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS 1943 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration P-38: FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) ARC Identifier 2773 /… Internet Archive 1942 - Lady Gangster - Robert Florey - VOSE 1942 · Feature https://derechonoir.wordpress.com/ Internet Archive The Grassy Shires 1944 · Short · 14 min A 1944 documentary from Britain, produced by Greenpark Productions for the Ministry of Information. Filmed in a part of rural England. Internet Archive Battle of Midway 1942 · Educational Department of the Navy Video 145 Battle of Midway From the Pare Lorentz Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Midway was the… Internet Archive RADIO PROXIMITY FUSE-WEAPON BEHIND VICTORY [ETC.] 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39087, LI 208-UN-179 - RADIO PROXIMITY FUSE-WEAPON BEHIND VICTORY [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.… Internet Archive Adeste Fideles 1941 · Short · 12 min A 1941 British documentary featuring Christmas in wartime. Produced by Strand Films for the Ministry of Information. Please forgive the black bars on the… Internet Archive GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS 1944 · Newsreel National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 43553, LI 242.279 - GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Series: Motion Picture Films… Internet Archive World War II U.S. News Review 1942 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 43 World War II U.S. News Review Demonstration of a plywood airplane Royal Airforce takes over Japanese camps in Milne Bay Home… Internet Archive REPORT FROM THE ALEUTIANS 1943 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 20347 REPORT FROM THE ALEUTIANS AMERICAN SOLDIERS FIGHT IN THE BATTLE OF THE ALEUTIANS, STRUGGLING AGAINST ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE ODDS.