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49–96 of 43,561 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 Hitler Dead or Alive 1942 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles A wealthy man offers a million dollars to whoever captures Adolf Hitler dead or alive. A group of gangsters take him up on this offer and after hijacking a… Internet Archive Club Paradise 1945 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles Also known as "Sensation Hunters". You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . How To Make A DVD of this film: 1) Download these… Internet Archive Young Bill Hickok 1940 · Feature · Subtitles A yodeling Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band. Internet Archive Gangsters of the Frontier 1944 · Feature · 54 min · Subtitles Tex put the Kern gang away once but they have returned with reinforcements and have take over the town of Red Rock capturing the townsmen and forcing them to… Internet Archive Behind Green Lights 1946 · Feature · Subtitles The action begins when a car occupied by the corpse of a sleazy private detective glides down a hill and winds up in front of a police station. (The title of… Internet Archive The Scarlet Clue 1945 · Feature · Subtitles Government agent Charlie Chan is investigating a spy ring intent on stealing radar plans, which leads him to a radio station in a building also containing a… Internet Archive Killer Dill 1947 · Feature · Subtitles Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil. You can find more… Internet Archive King of the Zombies 1941 · Feature · 1 h 7 min · Subtitles A plane flying to the Bahamas gets blown off course and crashes on the island of the mysterious Dr. Sangare. Jefferson Jackson (Mantan Moreland) tries to warn… Internet Archive Pot o' Gold 1941 · Feature · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an… Internet Archive Northwest Trail 1945 · Feature · Subtitles Filmed in Cinecolor! You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Terror By Night 1946 · Feature · Subtitles From IMDb: Holmes is hired by Roland Carstairs to prevent the theft of the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond owned by Carstairs' mother, Lady Margaret.… Internet Archive Sherlock Holmes - The Woman In Green 1945 · Feature · 1 h 7 min · Subtitles IMDB - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038259/combined Basil Rathbone & Nigel Bruce played Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson in fourteen films between 1939-1946. Of… Internet Archive The Woman In Green 1945 · Feature · 1 h 4 min · Subtitles The 11th film in the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series, "The Woman In Green" explores Professor Moriarty's plan to blackmail wealthy gentlemen, making… Internet Archive Saddle Mountain Roundup 1941 · Feature · 58 min · Subtitles An old man and his Chinese servant are in danager of becoming victims of the ruthless killer, "The Raven." Internet Archive Kid Dynamite 1943 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles In dis picture Muggs, Danny and da rest of da Bowery Boys is back togeter. Dis time Muggs is a bigger bully den his usual self, always trin to prove he is a… Internet Archive Machine Gun Mama 1944 · Feature · 1 h · Subtitles Music and laughs surround the adventures of two brash Brooklynites (Wallace Ford, El Brendel) as they try to deliver Bunny the elephant to a Mexican carnival… Internet Archive Black Dragons 1942 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles A cabal of American industrialists, all fifth-columnists intent on sabotaging the war effort, are methodically murdered by the malevolent Monsieur Colomb. It… Internet Archive Dead Men Walk 1943 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles After being killed by his twin brother, Elwyn Clayton rises from the grave as a vampire intent on ruining his brother's life. Find out more about this movie… Internet Archive Underground Rustlers 1941 · Feature · 55 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Gold stages are being held up in the far west at a time when the U.S. government needs bullion, just before the famed "Black Friday" attempt… Internet Archive Automotive Service 1940 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Opportunities for employment servicing America's vast motor fleet. Internet Archive Private Life of a Cat 1947 · Short · 22 min · Subtitles Alexander Hammid's intimate study of a female cat and the birth and maturation of her five kittens. Internet Archive The Chase 1946 · Feature · 1 h 26 min Returning a lost wallet gains unemployed veteran Chuck Scott (Robert Cummings) a job as chauffeur to Eddie Roman (Steve Cochran), a seeming gangster whose… Internet Archive The Contender 1944 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles Widower Gary Farrell can't afford, on his $45-weekly salary as a truck driver, to send his young son, Mickey, to a high-priced military school and decides to… Internet Archive State Department: File 649 1949 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution. Internet Archive Last Alarm 1940 · Feature · 53 min · Subtitles Captain Hadley (J. Farrell MacDonald, who also appeared as the City Editor in "Danger Ahead") reaches the age limit for firefighter and is retired. While he… Internet Archive "The Three Stooges" Failed Pilot 1949 · Short · 19 min · Subtitles This is a failed pilot for a "Three Stooges" TV show. The concept of the show was that the Stooges would try a new profession each show. In this episode they… Internet Archive My Pal Trigger 1946 · Feature · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When the Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign… Internet Archive Make Mine Freedom 1948 · Cartoon · 9 min · Subtitles This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism. Internet Archive Second Chorus 1940 · Feature · 1 h 24 min · Subtitles Taken from IlMDB : When perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie… Internet Archive Road To Happiness 1941 · Feature · 1 h 14 min · Subtitles A down-and-out singer turns to radio acting and finds his life turned around. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Scar 1948 · Feature · Subtitles "Harsh tale of an alienated criminal's attempt to impersonate his psychiatrist-double. Important fatalistic noir, with classy visuals and a very fine script… Internet Archive Million Dollar Kid 1944 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles In dis Bowery Boys picture, da gang befrends a wealthe soclite after day save him from a muggin'. Internet Archive Texas to Bataan 1942 · Feature · 53 min · Subtitles The Range Busters hunt down 5th columnist while transporting horses to the Philippines. Internet Archive Midnight Manhunt 1945 · Feature · Subtitles Stolen diamonds are at the heart of a game of body, body, who's got the body played by two reporters, a crook, two employees of a wax museum, and the police.… Internet Archive Superman: The Mechanical Monsters 1941 · Cartoon · 9 min A mad scientist unleashes robots to rob banks and loot museums. Superman saves the day. Animation by Steve Muffati and George Germanetti. Music by Sammy… Internet Archive War of the Wildcats - John Wayne (1943) 1943 · Feature · 1 h 37 min War of the Wildcats or In Old Oklahoma (1943) â John Wayne John Wayne as Daniel Somers Martha Scott as Catherine Allen Albert Dekker as Jim "Hunk" Gardner… Internet Archive Gung Ho! 1943 · Feature · 1 h 28 min Though loaded with clichés such as rousing pre-battle speeches and over-dramatized death scenes, Gung Ho tells a more-or-less true story about the successful… Internet Archive Stork Club, The 1945 · Feature · 1 h 38 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : A hat-check girl at the Stork Club (Hutton) saves the life of a drowning man (Fitzgerald). A rich man, he decides to repay her by… Internet Archive Hemp for Victory 1942 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles US government propaganda film made during WWII touting the virtues of hemp. The film was aimed at farmers at a time when the miltary was facing a shortage of… Internet Archive Japanese Relocation 1943 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles U.S. government-produced film defending the World War II internment of Japanese American citizens. Internet Archive Baby Face Morgan 1942 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles When crime boss Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers, learns that Morgan has a son named Edward living it the country with his mother.… Internet Archive Submarine Alert 1943 · Feature · Subtitles From IMDB : Nazi spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring,… Internet Archive Nabonga 1944 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles Fairly standard "white heiress who was lost in the jungle as an infant, but turns out to be a goddess to local tribe of natives" adventure. The white goddess… Internet Archive Jigsaw 1949 · Feature · 1 h 10 min The plot is about a shadowy group called the Crusaders, which has been organizing itself into a power center. Its poster shows a handsome Aryan lad against… Internet Archive Don't Be a Sucker 1947 · Short · 17 min · Subtitles Admonishes Americans that they will lose their country if they let fanaticism and hatred turn them into "suckers." "Let's forget about 'we' and 'they' --… Internet Archive The Strange Love of Martha Ivers 1946 · Feature · Subtitles "Man is waylaid by chance in old home town, meets a girl down on her luck and a turbulent couple with whom he shares a dark childhood secret. Significant noir… Internet Archive Clancy Street Boys 1943 · Feature · 1 h 29 min · Subtitles Mugs (Leo Gorcey) and his pals must pose as a family to impress a friend of his late father's who is visiting the east side from Texas. Internet Archive The Dawn Express 1942 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles (AKA "Nazi Spy Ring") Lured into a trap by a Mata Hari... the lives of his loved ones was the price demanded for his honor! Description from the IMDb : A Nazi…