The world's archives

625–672 of 43,047 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 Eyes of Texas 1948 · Feature · 1 h 10 min A ranch owner (Francis Ford) turns his place into a home for boys who have lost their fathers in World War II. His evil female lawyer (Nana Bryant) covets the… Internet Archive Uncle Joe 1941 · Feature · 50 min · Subtitles A film that's cheap, silly, and short. And it has Zasu Pitts. Internet Archive One Wonderful Sunday 1947 · Feature This affectionate paean to young love is also a frank examination by Akira Kurosawa of the harsh realities of postwar Japan. During a Sunday trip into… Internet Archive Tuesday in November 1945 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles PLEASE NOTE: A vastly improved version of this film made from a 35mm preserved print is available here: http://archive.org/details/Tuesday_in_November… Internet Archive Divide and Conquer (Part I) 1943 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Shows the German invasion of Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, including the evacuation of the British forces at Dunkirk. From the "Why We Fight"… Internet Archive Devil Riders 1943 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Operation Crossroads (Part I) 1946 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles Documents Able Day and Baker Day blasts of the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Island in the Pacific. Contains footage from many of the ground and aerial cameras… Internet Archive Gamblers Choice 1944 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley's main antagonist is his… Internet Archive Seven Were Saved 1947 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Miracle in Harlem 1948 · Feature · Subtitles There's Danger! Terror! Mystery! With a Killer on the Loose! Julie Weston and her aunt, Hattie, own and operate a candy-store in Harlem. A wealthy business… Internet Archive Breakfast in Hollywood 1946 · Feature · 1 h 27 min · Subtitles Visit the IMDB for more information. Internet Archive The Lost Weekend (1945) Billy Wilder (Dir.), Ray Milland, Jane Wyman 1945 · Feature The Lost Weekend is a 1945 American FILM NOlR drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman. It was based on Charles R.… Internet Archive Dishonored Lady 1947 · Feature · 1 h 24 min Hedy Lamar play fashion editor Madeleine Damien who's social life has given her a quetionalbe reputation. Envitably she succumbs to the pressures of work and… Internet Archive South of Santa Fe 1942 · Feature · 52 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Making of a Shooter 1946 · Short · 24 min · Subtitles This Kodachrome film shows how a teenage boy learns to become a safe and accurate shooter. Famous riflemen appearing include Ned Lilly, Dick Shaughnessy,… Internet Archive Fatal Hour 1940 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Attack in the Pacific 1944 · Feature · 52 min A documentary made in 1944 The cartoon arrows take us from Guadalcanal through Midway to Iwo Jima, without spending any particular time on any of these… Internet Archive Hands Across the Border 1944 · Feature · 52 min Horse breeders Adams (Joseph Crehan) and Brock (Onslow Stevens) are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy… Internet Archive Trocadero 1944 · Feature · 1 h 8 min Judy (Rosemary Lane) and Johnny (Johnny Downs) are orphaned siblings being raised by Tony Rocadero (Charles Calvert), a Hollywood restaurateur who knows no… Internet Archive Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome 1947 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles Title: Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome Summary: Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas. Directed by: John Rawlins Actors: Boris… Internet Archive Olds Minute Movies [Futuramic 1948] 1948 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles Theater advertisements for the first all-new automobile to be placed on the market after World War II, the Oldsmobile Futuramic. Internet Archive Impact 1949 · Feature · 1 h 51 min · Subtitles Title: Impact Summary: A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding,… Internet Archive Test Tube Tale 1941 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles The magic of industrial chemistry and its effects on our immediate environment. Shows new products such as nylon stockings and transparent raincoats, and also… Internet Archive Tom Brown's School Days 1940 · Feature · 1 h 20 min · Subtitles Hollywood's take on the Thomas Hughes' classic about a group of Victorian schoolboys who declare war on the ruthless bullies who run their boarding school… Internet Archive Topper Returns Carole Landis Joan Blondell 1941 · Feature · Subtitles The 1941 Hal Roach comedy Topper Returns starring Carole Landis, Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Billie Burke, Patsy Kelly, and Dennis O'Keefe ~ Learn more about… Internet Archive Waterfront 1944 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive High Powered 1945 · Feature · 1 h 22 min Stars - ROBERT LOWERY - PHYLLIS BROOKS - MARY TREEN - JOE SAWYER - ROGER PRYOR - RALPH SANFORD - EDWARD GARGAN 'A BLOCK-BUSTER OF HIGH TENSION THRILLS!'… Internet Archive Idaho 1943 · Feature · 53 min The story concerns a respected judge (Harry Shannon) who is trying to clean up a saloon run by the notorious Belle Bonner (Ona Munson). Belle has discovered… Internet Archive The Invisible Woman ( 1940) 1940 · Feature Eccentric Professor Gibbs, brilliant but impractical, invents an invisibility machine and advertises for a guinea pig. What he gets is Kitty Carroll, an… Internet Archive Spook Town 1944 · Feature · 57 min Dry Gulch Trading Post owner Kurt Fabian (Robert Barron) advances money on mortgages to the local settlers to finance an irrigation program. Three Texas… Internet Archive The Red House iPod 1947 · Feature Curiosity propels two teens, Meg and Nath (Allene Roberts and Lon McCallister) to explore an apparently abandoned house in the countryside. Of course they are… Internet Archive [Amateur film: New Orleans Carnival Week, February 22, 1941] 1941 · Home movie · 9 min · Subtitles Mardi Gras: Parade of Nor. Internet Archive The Kid Rides Again 1943 · Feature · 56 min Billy (Buster Crabbe) breaks jail in Texas and travels to Sundown at the request of his friend Fuzzy (Al St. John). There he runs into Mort Slade (I. Stanford… Internet Archive The Killers 1946 colorized (Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner) 1946 · Feature After a couple of hit men kill a gas station attendant (Burt Lancaster) who apparently was expecting them, an insurance investigator (Edmond O'Brien) pursues… Internet Archive Avenge December 7 (Pearl Harbor) 1942 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles War bond sales promo stridently advocating vengeance against Japan for bombing of Pearl Harbor. Internet Archive The Song Of Bernadette Part 1 1943 · Feature · 1 h 29 min Bernadette Soubirous is the saint of Lourdes, France. Visionary and messenger of the Immaculate Conception, she told us the very words of the Virgin Mary,… Internet Archive That Brennan Girl 1946 · Feature · 1 h 33 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Big Clock (1948) Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O' Sullivan 1948 · Feature The Big Clock is a 1948 American film noir directed by John Farrow and adapted by novelist-screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from the 1946 novel of the same name… Internet Archive Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day (Part II) 1947 · Home movie · 12 min · Subtitles Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and… Internet Archive Special Delivery 1946 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Airplanes and missions of the U.S. Army Air Forces, emphasizing Operation Crossroads (the Bikini Island atomic bomb tests). Internet Archive Combat America (Part I) 1945 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Follows the Flying Fortress crews of the 351st Bombardment Group from the end of their training at a Colorado training field to actual combat over Germany. Internet Archive Blazing Frontier 1943 · Feature · 56 min Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) and his sidekick Fuzzy (Al St. John) get involved in a land dispute between a crooked railroad and the angry settlers that were… Internet Archive The Snow Man 1940 · Cartoon · 7 min A 1930s cartoon where a group of South Pole animals build a snow man. Then they begin to throw snowballs at him. This makes him come to life, and he wants… Internet Archive Detour (1945) [HD] 1945 · Feature The epitome of the American Film Noir Genre, Detour tells the story of a down-on-his-luck pianist who goes on an ill-fated car ride leaving the driver dead.… Internet Archive Valley Town 1940 · Short · 24 min · Subtitles Social documentary showing the damage visited on the people of a Pennsylvania steel town by the deployment of new technology. Director: Willard Van Dyke.… Internet Archive Gang War 1940 · Feature · 51 min A fight in a diner over the claims of conflicting gangster factions reveals Bob "Killer" Meade (Ralph Cooper) as a rising lawbreaker in Harlem. Internet Archive Home in Oklahoma 1946 · Feature · 53 min Flying U ranch owner Sam Talbot is killed by a fall from a horse. St. Louis reporter Connie Edwards (Dale Evans) comes to check a rumor that he might have… Internet Archive Behind the Lens 1940 · Short · 8 min · Subtitles Scientific and special-purpose cinematography helps reveal what would otherwise be invisible.