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5,569–5,616 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 Woodenhead 1949 · Short · 1 min A short 1949 British "public information film" about safe driving. Produced for the Central Office of Information. Internet Archive BEGINNING OF TRIALS AGAINST GERMAN DOCTORS, NUREMBERG 1947 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) ARC Identifier 23843 / Local Identifier… Internet Archive Worth The Risk? 1948 · Short · 9 min A 1948 British road safety film. Was given a cinema release. Produced by the government-owned Crown Film Unit for the Central Office of Information. Internet Archive Fighting Men: Kill or Be Killed 1943 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 4713682 / Local Identifier 111-TF-3076 - Fighting Men: Kill or Be Killed - Department of… Internet Archive THE YEAR 1944 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39152, LI 208-UN-1034 - THE YEAR 1944 - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Series: Motion Picture Films from… Internet Archive U.S. AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY SHOWS LATEST INVENTIONS [ETC.] 1946 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39098, LI 208-UN-191 - U.S. AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY SHOWS LATEST INVENTIONS [ETC.] - DVD Copied by J. Williams.… Internet Archive Shades of Gray (Reel 1) 1948 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 36102 / Local Identifier 111-PMF-5047 Shades of Gray (Reel 1) Department of Defense. Department of… Internet Archive WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 218 [July 9] 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39219, LI 208-WP-218 - WAR PICTORIAL NEWS, NO. 218 [July 9] - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Series: Motion… Internet Archive NATIVE SONGS 1948 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration NATIVE SONGS War Department. Military Intelligence Division. (08/26/1918 - 04/19/1947) ARC Identifier 44142 /… Internet Archive NAVY LAUNCHES WORLD'S MIGHTIEST BATTLESHIP [ETC.] 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38995, LI 208-UN-88 - NAVY LAUNCHES WORLD'S MIGHTIEST BATTLESHIP [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.… Internet Archive BATTLE FOR PARIS 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 39135 / Local Identifier 208-UN-1016 - BATTLE FOR PARIS - Office for Emergency Management.… Internet Archive Jigsaw 1949 · Feature · 1 h 11 min Title: Jigsaw Summary: New York Assistant District Attorney Howard Malloy investigates a series of murders and uncovers an extremist group. Directed by:… Internet Archive How to Fly the P-47: Ground Handling, Take-Off, Normal Flight, Landing 1943 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration How to Fly the P-47: Ground Handling, Take-Off, Normal Flight, Landing War Department. Army Air Forces.… Internet Archive LET THERE BE LIGHT (Reel 3) 1946 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 35924 / Local Identifier 111-M-1241 LET THERE BE LIGHT (Reel 3) Department of Defense. Department… Internet Archive COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 4 1944 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 20302 COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 4 THE BATTLE FOR CASSINO--JAPANESE AND JUNGLE--TANKS AND INFANTRY FACE ENEMY FIRE. Internet Archive ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA BATTLE JAPANESE ON WIDE FRONT [ETC.] 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39007, LI 208-UN-100 - ALLIED ARMIES IN BURMA BATTLE JAPANESE ON WIDE FRONT [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas… Internet Archive WAR IN THE PACIFIC [ETC.] 1942 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38913, LI 208-UN-8 - WAR IN THE PACIFIC [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion Picture Films… Internet Archive KNOW YOUR ALLY: BRITAIN 1943 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) ARC Identifier 36080 / Local Identifier 111-OF-16… Internet Archive AAF REPORT 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration AAF REPORT War Department. Army Air Forces. (06/20/1941 - 09/26/1947) ARC Identifier 2835 / Local Identifier… Internet Archive Nation's Capital 1947 · Educational National Archives - Nation's Capital - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). - This "March of Time" film provides… Internet Archive THE THUNDERBOLTS: RAMROD TO EMDEN 1943 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 3483 / Local Identifier 18-CS-757 - THE THUNDERBOLTS: RAMROD TO EMDEN - War Department. Army Air… Internet Archive U.S. MARINES ON GUADALCANAL PUSH BACK JAPANESE TROOPS [ETC.] 1942 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38932, LI 208-UN-27 - U.S. MARINES ON GUADALCANAL PUSH BACK JAPANESE TROOPS [ETC.] - DVD Copied by J.… Internet Archive U.S.TROOPS CONSOLIDATE PACIFIC ISLANDS [ETC.] 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39023, LI 208-UN-116 - U.S.TROOPS CONSOLIDATE PACIFIC ISLANDS [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series:… Internet Archive THE WAR ENDS IN EUROPE 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38936, LI 208-UN-29A - THE WAR ENDS IN EUROPE - DVD Copied by J. Williams. Series: Motion Picture Films… Internet Archive Cairo and Teheran Conference 1943 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 231 Cairo and Teheran Conference From the Pare Lorentz Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum.… Internet Archive Ketcham Home Movies: Mexico 1949 1949 · Home movie · 59 min 1949 Ketcham family trip through Mexico. Rodney K. Ketcham Collection: This large collection of 8mm and 16mm amateur films by Rodney Kenneth Ketcham is… Internet Archive News Parade of 1945 1945 · Educational Battleship destroyed. Nazi V-2 Rockets. Roosevelt dies. Axis War Criminals captured. Germany Surrenders. Atomic bombing of Japan. Yanks in Tokyo Internet Archive ALLIES PIERCE SIEGFRIED LINE [ETC.] 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39156, LI 208-UN-1039 - ALLIES PIERCE SIEGFRIED LINE [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Ann Galloway. Series: Motion… Internet Archive Cornish Valley 1944 · Documentary · 16 min A 1944 British documentary showing farming in a rural part of Britain. Produced by Greenpark Productions for the Ministry of Information. Internet Archive Auschwitz [Oświęcim] 1946 · Short · 21 min This document were used for the war crime tribunal in Nürnberg 1945-46 to show the atrocities in the Auschwitz complex All footage were taken some month after… Internet Archive Little Annie's Rag Book 1942 · Cartoon · 1 min A 1942 British stop-motion/puppetry (it uses both techniques) film about how recycling old clothes can help with the war effort. Produced for the Ministry of… Internet Archive Another Case Of Poisoning 1949 · Short · 13 min A 1949 British short film showing how a man got food poisoning. Produced by Public Relationship Films for the Central Office of Information. I don't know if… Internet Archive ARMY AIR FORCES--PACIFIC 1946 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 2765 / Local Identifier 18.13 - ARMY AIR FORCES--PACIFIC - War Department. Army Air Forces.… Internet Archive U.S. MARINES BATTLE JAPANESE IN PACIFIC! [ETC.] 1942 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38917, LI 208-UN-12 - U.S. MARINES BATTLE JAPANESE IN PACIFIC! [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.… Internet Archive [Home movie: 098960: Golf links at Mohawk Country Golf Course in Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1942] 1942 · Home movie Men playing golf in 1942, at Mohawk Park in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Internet Archive Armed Forces Screen Report, Issue 94, Reel 1 1948 · Educational Department of Defense Local Identifier 111-AFSR-94 1948 Armed Forces Screen Report, Issue 94, Reel 1 Not listed in NARA ARC catalog. Topic is Korea Today. No… Internet Archive HELL FOR LEATHER 1946 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 20366 HELL FOR LEATHER THE HISTORY OF THE FIRST CAVALRY DIVISION AND ITS COMBAT ACTIVITIES IN WORLD WAR II. Internet Archive THE INVASION OF SICILY! 1943 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 38967, LI 208-UN-60 - THE INVASION OF SICILY! - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion Picture Films… Internet Archive Ketcham Home Movies: 1947 Home Mix 1947 · Home movie Ketcham family home scenes, New York and Pennsylvania, 1941-1947. Rodney K. Ketcham Collection: This large collection of 8mm and 16mm amateur films by Rodney… Internet Archive Home movie: 000427: 1944 Fairview Poultry Farm, IL 1944 · Home movie Internet Archive FIRST PICTURES INSIDE BOMB BLASTED JAPAN [ETC.] 1945 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39080, LI 208-UN-172 - FIRST PICTURES INSIDE BOMB BLASTED JAPAN [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon.… Internet Archive The Backyard Front 1940 · Short · 16 min A 1940 British comedy short film about growing vegetables in the backyard. Starring C.H. Middleton and.Claude Dampier. Internet Archive LAST LIBERTY SHIP LAUNCHED [ETC.] 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39018, LI 208-UN-111 - LAST LIBERTY SHIP LAUNCHED [ETC.] - DVD Copied by Thomas Gideon. Series: Motion… Internet Archive GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS 1943 · Newsreel National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 43486, LI 242.173 - GERMAN NEWSREEL EXCERPTS - DVD Copied by Nick Stoller. Series: Motion Picture Films… Internet Archive NAZI EXODUS FROM ROME [ETC.] 1944 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC 39130, LI 208-UN-1011 - NAZI EXODUS FROM ROME [ETC.] - DVD Copied by J. Williams. Series: Motion Picture… Internet Archive 7th Infantry Division 1949 · Short · 21 min Follows the 7th Infantry Division from the Aleutian Islands to Seoul Internet Archive Your Children And You 1946 · Documentary · 27 min 1946 British educational film, intended for parents. Produced by the Realist Film Unit for the Central Office of Information. Internet Archive Your Children's Sleep 1948 · Educational · 21 min A 1948 British instructional film for parents. Produced by the Realist Film Unit for the Central Office of Information.