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7,873–7,920 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 SCENES ABOARD USS CATOCTIN OF ADM. HEWITT, SEC.FORRESTAL, GENS. PATCH & SAVILLE & Fr. ADM. LEMMONIER 1944 · Educational SCENES ABOARD USS CATOCTIN OF ADM. HEWITT, SEC.FORRESTAL, GENS. PATCH & SAVILLE & Fr. ADM. LEMMONIER Produced: August 14, 1944… Internet Archive BOMBS EXPLODE ON BEACH, LVTs IN RENDEZVOUS AREA: ASSAULT FORCE ASSEMBLING OFF SHORE, PELELIU 1944 · Educational BOMBS EXPLODE ON BEACH, LVTs IN RENDEZVOUS AREA: ASSAULT FORCE ASSEMBLING OFF SHORE, PELELIU Produced: September 1944 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77579 Internet Archive Japanese PLANE SHOT DOWN; BOMBARDMENT OF SAN FERNANDO, LUZON, P.I 1945 · Educational Japanese PLANE SHOT DOWN; BOMBARDMENT OF SAN FERNANDO, LUZON, P.I January 11, 1945–January 12, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77972 Internet Archive BRITISH MARINE INSTRUCTS US & BRITISH SAILORS IN USE OF ROCKET GUNS 1943 · Educational BRITISH MARINE INSTRUCTS US & BRITISH SAILORS IN USE OF ROCKET GUNS Produced: April 16, 1943 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75707 Internet Archive POWs on Iwo Jima; ammunition dump explodes 1945 · Educational POWs on Iwo Jima; ammunition dump explodes Produced: 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78550 Internet Archive Ammunition dump on Iwo Jima burns 1945 · Educational Ammunition dump on Iwo Jima burns Produced: March 1, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78551 Internet Archive Marine casualties on Iwo Jima 1945 · Educational Marine casualties on Iwo Jima Produced: 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78570 Internet Archive U.S. SOLDIERS BECOME CITIZENS AT BATTLEFRONT [ETC.] 1944 · Educational U.S. SOLDIERS BECOME CITIZENS AT BATTLEFRONT [ETC.] Produced: 1944 Description Part 1, Gen. Clark presides as men of the 5th Army receive naturalization… Internet Archive [DYNAMIC KERNELS: HARVESTING WHEAT] 1944 · Educational [DYNAMIC KERNELS: HARVESTING WHEAT] Produced: 1944 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Dymanic… Internet Archive [PARADE OF CHAMPIONS, WITH GRANTLAND RICE, PART III, THE] 1941 · Educational [PARADE OF CHAMPIONS, WITH GRANTLAND RICE, PART III, THE] Produced: 1941 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads… Internet Archive [NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH] 1940 · Educational [NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUTH] Produced: 1940 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Scenes of Camp… Internet Archive [AMPHIBIOUS ARMY CARS] 1943 · Educational [AMPHIBIOUS ARMY CARS] Produced: 1943 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Soldiers in full… Internet Archive [AMPHIBIOUS CAR] 1942 · Educational [AMPHIBIOUS CAR] Produced: 1942 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Many views of amphibious… Internet Archive [MAKING FORD ADVERTISING PICTURES] 1948 · Educational [MAKING FORD ADVERTISING PICTURES] Produced: 1948 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: View of… Internet Archive YOUTH LENDS A HAND; A STUDY OF VOLUNTEER WORK CAMPS 1940 · Educational YOUTH LENDS A HAND; A STUDY OF VOLUNTEER WORK CAMPS Produced: 1940 Description Documentary: On American Friends Service Committee work camps. Reel 1: Shows… Internet Archive Dressed to Kill 1946 · Commercial A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers… Internet Archive THE YALTA CONFERENCE 1945 · Educational THE YALTA CONFERENCE February 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23466 Internet Archive Forest Conservation 1949 · Film Calls attention to the many ways in which man has depleted the forest by greedy and ignorant exploitation for his own gain. Forecasts the dire results of this… Internet Archive SELECTED SCENES FROM "CITIZEN SOLDIER" 1949 · Educational SELECTED SCENES FROM "CITIZEN SOLDIER" Produced: 1949 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23954 Internet Archive CONFERENCE OF GENERALS, MYITKYINA, BURMA ; GENERALS INSPECTION, NAMKHAN VALLEY, BURMA ; EXECUTION OF SPIES, TOUL, FRANCE 1945 · Educational CONFERENCE OF GENERALS, MYITKYINA, BURMA ; GENERALS INSPECTION, NAMKHAN VALLEY, BURMA ; EXECUTION OF SPIES, TOUL, FRANCE Produced: January 16, 1945… Internet Archive QUEBEC CONFERENCE, CANADA 1944 · Educational QUEBEC CONFERENCE, CANADA Produced: September 8, 1944 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17339 Internet Archive QUEBEC CONFERENCE, CANADA 1944 · Educational QUEBEC CONFERENCE, CANADA Produced: September 10, 1944–September 11, 1944 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17344 Internet Archive 7TH ARMORED DRIVES INTO RHUR POCKET, WESTFELD (?), GERMANY ; TASK FORCE BEATY, NEAR SALWEY (?), GERMANY ; ROAD TO BERLIN, DEDELEBEN (?), AND GR OLTERSTEBEN (?), GERMANY 1945 · Educational 7TH ARMORED DRIVES INTO RHUR POCKET, WESTFELD (?), GERMANY ; TASK FORCE BEATY, NEAR SALWEY (?), GERMANY ; ROAD TO BERLIN, DEDELEBEN (?), AND GR OLTERSTEBEN… Internet Archive C-47S SPRAYING MANILA WITH INSECTICIDE SOUTH WEST LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 1945 · Educational C-47S SPRAYING MANILA WITH INSECTICIDE SOUTH WEST LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Produced: April 17, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17801 Internet Archive Third Army Birthday, Kammer, Austria; Decoration Ceremony and Review, Kaufbeuren, Germany 1945 · Educational Third Army Birthday, Kammer, Austria; Decoration Ceremony and Review, Kaufbeuren, Germany Produced: May 19, 1945–May 15, 1945… Internet Archive 37TH DIV ADVANCE, LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 1945 · Educational 37TH DIV ADVANCE, LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS Produced: June 11, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18571 Internet Archive "FRANCE RETURNS!", ELBE - DESSAU, GERMANY 1945 · Educational "FRANCE RETURNS!", ELBE - DESSAU, GERMANY Produced: June 3, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18729 Internet Archive PRESENTATION OF THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR, CAMP OKLAHOMA, NORTH OF RHEIMS, FRANCE 1945 · Educational PRESENTATION OF THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR, CAMP OKLAHOMA, NORTH OF RHEIMS, FRANCE Produced: July 27, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/18850 Internet Archive ROBERT MURPHY ARRIVES AT TEMPLEHOF AIRPORT, BERLIN, GERMANY ; USO SHOW, BERLIN, GERMANY ; UNVEILING CEREMONY, ST. RAPHAEL, FRANCE 1945 · Educational ROBERT MURPHY ARRIVES AT TEMPLEHOF AIRPORT, BERLIN, GERMANY ; USO SHOW, BERLIN, GERMANY ; UNVEILING CEREMONY, ST. RAPHAEL, FRANCE Produced: August 10,… Internet Archive GENERAL MACARTHUR RECEIVES DEGREE OF HONORARY DR. OF LAWS, UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS, MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ; GENERAL WAINWRIGHT SPEAKS FROM YOKOHAMA, JAPAN 1945 · Educational GENERAL MACARTHUR RECEIVES DEGREE OF HONORARY DR. OF LAWS, UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS, MANILA, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ; GENERAL WAINWRIGHT SPEAKS FROM YOKOHAMA,… Internet Archive MUNICH. [No.] 48, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY 1946 · Educational MUNICH. [No.] 48, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY Produced: March 13, 1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19606 Internet Archive MUNICH. [No.] 72, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY ; MUNICH. [No.] 97 ; MUNICH. [No.] 98, ARMY DAY REVIEW, BERLIN, GERMANY 1946 · Educational MUNICH. [No.] 72, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY ; MUNICH. [No.] 97 ; MUNICH. [No.] 98, ARMY DAY REVIEW, BERLIN, GERMANY Produced: March 28, 1946–April… Internet Archive MUNICH. [No.] 128, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY 1946 · Educational MUNICH. [No.] 128, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY Produced: April 26, 1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19703 Internet Archive MUNICH. [Nos.] 211-222, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY 1946 · Educational MUNICH. [Nos.] 211-222, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY Produced: July 1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19879 Internet Archive MUNICH. [No.] 318, ENVOY PAULEY'S ARRIVAL, VIENNA, AUSTRIA ; MUNICH. [No.] 319, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY 1946 · Educational MUNICH. [No.] 318, ENVOY PAULEY'S ARRIVAL, VIENNA, AUSTRIA ; MUNICH. [No.] 319, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY Covers: July 24, 1946–July 26, 1946… Internet Archive MUNICH. [No.] 327, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY 1946 · Educational MUNICH. [No.] 327, WAR CRIMES TRIALS, NUREMBERG, GERMANY Covers: July 29, 1946–July 30, 1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/19897 Internet Archive MUNICH. [No.] 219, GERMAN FOOD STORY, NEUKOLLN AND DAHLEM DISTRICTS IN BERLIN, U.S. SECTOR 1946 · Educational MUNICH. [No.] 219, GERMAN FOOD STORY, NEUKOLLN AND DAHLEM DISTRICTS IN BERLIN, U.S. SECTOR Covers: May 29, 1946–June 3, 1946… Internet Archive WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN 1947 · Educational WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN Covers: April 10, 1947–April 11, 1947 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20274 Internet Archive WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN 1947 · Educational WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN Produced: October 9, 1947 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20516 Internet Archive WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN 1947 · Educational WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN Produced: November 6, 1947 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20556 Internet Archive AIR TRANSPORTATION OF FOOD INTO BERLIN, TEMPLEHOF AIRFIELD, BERLIN, GERMANY 1948 · Educational AIR TRANSPORTATION OF FOOD INTO BERLIN, TEMPLEHOF AIRFIELD, BERLIN, GERMANY Produced: July 2, 1948 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20936 Internet Archive SELECTED SCENES FROM "PEACETIME ACTIVITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES", GARRISON DAM, NORTH DAKOTA ; FT PECK, MONTANA 1949 · Educational SELECTED SCENES FROM "PEACETIME ACTIVITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES", GARRISON DAM, NORTH DAKOTA ; FT PECK, MONTANA Produced: August 1949… Internet Archive MOTOR TORPEDO BOATS IN ACTION IN DANIPER STRAIT, NEW GUINEA 1943 · Educational MOTOR TORPEDO BOATS IN ACTION IN DANIPER STRAIT, NEW GUINEA Covers: July 6, 1943–August 2, 1943 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75810 Internet Archive Bombardment of Iwo Jima 1945 · Educational Bombardment of Iwo Jima Produced: March 28, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/79054 Internet Archive CARRIER AIRCRAFT SERVICE UNIT ACT., TUTU LA ISL., SAMOA MINESWEEPING OPS. FROM LCV, KISKA HARBOR 1943 · Educational CARRIER AIRCRAFT SERVICE UNIT ACT., TUTU LA ISL., SAMOA MINESWEEPING OPS. FROM LCV, KISKA HARBOR Produced: 1943 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75903 Internet Archive FLAG RAISING CEREMONIES ON OKINAWA MARINES ON SNIPER HUNT 1945 · Educational FLAG RAISING CEREMONIES ON OKINAWA MARINES ON SNIPER HUNT Produced: July 11, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/79528 Internet Archive USMC AIR GROUP ACTIVITIES, TURTLE BAY, ESPIRITO SANTO 1943 · Educational USMC AIR GROUP ACTIVITIES, TURTLE BAY, ESPIRITO SANTO Produced: 1943 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75964 Internet Archive V-J PARADE AT HONOLULU, T.H 1945 · Educational V-J PARADE AT HONOLULU, T.H Produced: September 3, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/79812