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8,353–8,400 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 Iwo Jima 1945 · Educational Iwo Jima Produced: 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78599 Internet Archive Theatrical trailer - The Barkleys of Broadway 1949 · Commercial · 2 min Theatrical trailer for the 1949 film The Barkleys of Broadway , starring Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Oscar Levant. Internet Archive RADAR MOON EXPERIMENT 1946 · Educational RADAR MOON EXPERIMENT Produced: February 5, 1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23737 Internet Archive THE WAR, NO. 5 1943 · Educational THE WAR, NO. 5 Produced: 1943 Description The original production summary sheet reads as follows: Part 1, Rangers descend nets in debarkation drills at Camp… Internet Archive BATTLE FOR PARIS 1944 · Educational BATTLE FOR PARIS Produced: 1944 Description Members of the French resistance movement erect cobblestone entrenchments in Paris, distribute weapons, battle the… Internet Archive Women on the Warpath 1943 · Educational Women on the Warpath Produced: 1943 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93633 Internet Archive US NAVY DIVERS SALVAGING SILVER BARS OUT OF BAY 1946 · Educational US NAVY DIVERS SALVAGING SILVER BARS OUT OF BAY Produced: April 20, 1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23742 Internet Archive THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY FLEET [ETC.] 1944 · Educational THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY FLEET [ETC.] Produced: 1944 Description Part 1, Merchant seamen parade in New York City. Shows Adm. Emory Land. Part 2, shows… Internet Archive WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN 1948 · Educational WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN Produced: February 11, 1948 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20736 Internet Archive WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN 1948 · Educational WAR CRIMES TRIALS, TOKYO, JAPAN Produced: March 29, 1948 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20820 Internet Archive WAR CRIMES TRIALS (TOJO'S DEFENSE SUMMATION), TOKYO, JAPAN 1948 · Educational WAR CRIMES TRIALS (TOJO'S DEFENSE SUMMATION), TOKYO, JAPAN Produced: April 12, 1948 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/20840 Internet Archive FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT INDUCTEE, NEW YORK AND FT. DIX, NJ 1948 · Educational FIRST PEACETIME DRAFT INDUCTEE, NEW YORK AND FT. DIX, NJ Produced: November 3, 1948 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/21051 Internet Archive "Tokyo Assignment"- Distinguished Japanese: Naval personnel and other executives 1945 · Educational "Tokyo Assignment"- Distinguished Japanese: Naval personnel and other executives Produced: December 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78945 Internet Archive NATIVES PREPARING TO EVACUATE WOTHO WOTHO 1946 · Educational NATIVES PREPARING TO EVACUATE WOTHO WOTHO Produced: June 2, 1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/80904 Internet Archive Shelling of Matsuwa & various sorties 1945 · Educational Shelling of Matsuwa & various sorties Produced: 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78188 Internet Archive FORD RECONNAISSANCE CARS JOIN THE ARMY 1941 · Educational FORD RECONNAISSANCE CARS JOIN THE ARMY Produced: 1941 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93628 Internet Archive Night Monster; VHS COPY 1942 · Film Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths. Internet Archive Robin Hood Of The Picos Northern (1941) Northern Exposure On 90s AE 1941 · Film Here's another tape for you Northern Exposure fans! 'Mike 'The Bubble Man' Monroe is in these so I think jt's season three....Enjoy! ~CW~… Internet Archive Guadalcanal Diary trailer 1943 · Commercial · 2 min IMDb Page Internet Archive Captured Japanese newsreel 1942 · Newsreel Captured Japanese newsreel Produced: 1942 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78848 Internet Archive Italian propaganda 1943 · Educational Italian propaganda Produced: 1943 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78908 Internet Archive Army Negro Paratroopers Fight Fire 1946 · Educational Army Negro Paratroopers Fight Fire Produced: 1946 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23697 Internet Archive Santa Fe Trail 1940 · Commercial As a penalty for fighting fellow classmates days before graduating from West Point, J.E.B. Stuart, George Armstrong Custer and four friends are assigned to… Internet Archive PARIS, FRANCE 1944 · Educational PARIS, FRANCE Produced: August 25, 1944 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/16020 Internet Archive Negro Personnel 1945 · Educational Negro Personnel Produced: April 14, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/17800 Internet Archive Theatrical trailer for Cabin in the Sky 1943 · Commercial · 1 min Theatrical trailer for the 1943 musical Cabin in the Sky , starring Ethel Waters, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, and Lena Horne. Internet Archive filmcollectief-01-562 1945 · Short · 15 min den haag, diverse familiebeelden o.a. van vlak na de bevrijding Internet Archive Micrometer 1941 · Educational · 14 min Micrometer Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film SummaryExplains the care, use and maintenance of micrometers.… Internet Archive TROPICO: NYA AIDS DEFENSE 1941 · Educational TROPICO: NYA AIDS DEFENSE Produced: 1941 Description On NYA activities in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Reel 1, Puerto Rican children and young men idle… Internet Archive Shimobaru U.S. Military Government Camp in Okinawa, Japan 1945 · Educational Shimobaru U.S. Military Government Camp in Okinawa, Japan Produced: March 14, 1945 Description This film examines the documentation of transportation of… Internet Archive TRUE STORY OF LILI MARLENE 1940 · Educational TRUE STORY OF LILI MARLENE 1940–1949 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23418 Internet Archive BRIDGE BOMBING 1940 · Educational BRIDGE BOMBING 1940–1949 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23457 Internet Archive FIELD ACTIVITIES, F4U MAKES PANCAKE LANDING, VELLA LAVELLA 1944 · Educational FIELD ACTIVITIES, F4U MAKES PANCAKE LANDING, VELLA LAVELLA Produced: January 6, 1944 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/76212 Internet Archive THE GLORIOUS ASHIGARA 1940 · Educational THE GLORIOUS ASHIGARA Covers: ca. 1940–ca. 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/81565 Internet Archive BOMBARDMENT & INVASION OF GUAM: ROCKET BARRAGES ON BEACH 1944 · Educational BOMBARDMENT & INVASION OF GUAM: ROCKET BARRAGES ON BEACH Produced: July 21, 1944 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77416 Internet Archive FORD RECONNAISSANCE CARS JOIN THE ARMY 1941 · Educational FORD RECONNAISSANCE CARS JOIN THE ARMY Produced: 1941 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93627 Internet Archive PARTS AND EQUIPMENT. THE WHOLE IS EQUAL TO THE SUM OF ALL ITS PARTS 1949 · Educational PARTS AND EQUIPMENT. THE WHOLE IS EQUAL TO THE SUM OF ALL ITS PARTS Produced: 1949 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93876 Internet Archive Italian propaganda 1943 · Educational Italian propaganda Produced: 1943 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/78909 Internet Archive Watersport in Reeuwijk 1941 · Short · 8 min Watersport in Reeuwijk Internet Archive Topper Returns trailer 1941 · Commercial · 2 min IMDb Page Internet Archive FLYING FORTRESS: 1ST YEAR OVER EUROPE 1940 · Educational FLYING FORTRESS: 1ST YEAR OVER EUROPE Covers: 1940–1949 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23723 Internet Archive KREFELD, GERMANY 1945 · Educational KREFELD, GERMANY Produced: March 3, 1945 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/15598 Internet Archive This Is the Army 1943 · Commercial In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny… Internet Archive The Devil Bat 1940 · Commercial Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge… Internet Archive "FURY IN THE PACIFIC" 1940 · Educational "FURY IN THE PACIFIC" 1940–1949 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23500 Internet Archive Theatrical trailer for In the Good Old Summertime 1949 · Commercial · 3 min Theatrical trailer for the 1949 musical film In the Good Old Summertime starring Judy Garland & Van Johnson. Internet Archive GATEWAY TO VICTORY [ETC.] 1944 · Educational GATEWAY TO VICTORY [ETC.] Produced: 1944 Description Part 1 shows the aerial and amphibious assault on the beaches of Normandy. Part 2, U.S. troops enter Rome… Internet Archive Nostalgia WWII Video Library #11 (1944) 1080p 1944 · Commercial · 2 min Three World War II propaganda films: "Battle Wreckage" (1945), "The War Speeds Up" (1944) and "It Can't Last" (1944)