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1,105–1,152 of 43,573 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 Northwest Trail 1945 · Feature You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page Internet Archive Pursuit To Algiers 1945 · Feature Holmes is recruited to escort the heir to a European throne safely back to his homeland after his father's assassination. Internet Archive Maintaining Classroom Discipline 1947 · Educational · 13 min · Subtitles Good and bad methods of disciplining inappropriate classsroom behavior. Internet Archive March of Progress, The 1945 · Film · Subtitles "THE MARCH OF PROGRESS: A locally made film on the opening of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, which has been modified with added material. Panoramic… Internet Archive Face in the Mirror (I Wonder), The (Part I) 1940 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles Introspective psychology for salespeople: "Would you buy anything from the salesman you see in the mirror?" Internet Archive Nature of Light, The 1948 · Film · Subtitles DEMONSTRATES LIGHT AS A FORM OF RADIANT ENERGY. EXPLAINS THE PRINCIPLES OF REFLECTION & REFRACTION & SHOWS HOW THESE PRINCIPLES APPLY TO THE SCIENCE OF… Internet Archive Gabby: Fire Cheese 1941 · Cartoon · 6 min Gabby, town crier in Lilliput, wants to help the fire department while they put out a fire. - Downloaded from Public Domain Movie Torrents. Internet Archive Forestry and Forest Industries 1946 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Forest rangers at work and people engaged in harvesting, processing, and distributing forest products. Internet Archive Lil Abner 1940 · Feature Daisy Mae hopes to win Lil Abner in the Sadie Hawkins Day race. Internet Archive Framed (1947) Glenn Ford, Barry Sullivan, Janis Carter - Film Noir Full Movie 1947 · Feature Framed is a 1947 American film noir directed by Richard Wallace and starring Glenn Ford. The B movie is generally praised by critics despite its low budget.… Internet Archive Basic Typing, Part I: Methods (Part I) 1944 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles Demonstrates correct posture for typing; proper fingering of the keys; use of the shift key, back spacer, tabulator, carriage return lever, etc.; and… Internet Archive Private Snuffy Smith 1942 · Feature · 1 h 5 min Comic strip mountain man, Snuffy Smith joins the Army. Internet Archive Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat 1941 · Cartoon Scrub Me Mama With A Boogie Beat is a public domain cartoon centering around a port city of black people. The cartoon is satirizing black people in a racist… Internet Archive Jacare 1942 · Feature Psudo-Documentary of the Amazon Jungle with many staged action sequences and hepitological herpetological errors. Internet Archive Librarian, The 1947 · Film · Subtitles "SHOWS THE WORK OF A CATALOGUER, THE SCHOOL LIBRARIAN, THE REFERENCE LIBRARIAN, THE LIBRARIAN WHO WORKS WIITH CHILDREN & THE LIBRARIAN WHO SPECIALIZES IN A… Internet Archive The Dark Tower 1943 · Feature · 1 h 33 min A British circus-drama. Read about it at the IMDb. Internet Archive Tuesday in November 1945 · Film · Subtitles "It is early morning of the first Tuesday in November. This is an American city. A city that is not very large, not very rich, not very old. It is situated in… Internet Archive Combat Firing with Hand Guns 1944 · Short · 17 min A Film Bulletin outlining proper procedures for aiming, firing, etc... of hand guns. Internet Archive Brooklyn Goes to San Francisco 1947 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles Brooklyn native Phil Foster tours San Francisco and comments on many places of interest. Internet Archive Fitting Faces 1940 · Film · Subtitles 00:21:41 Girl in robe in front of vanity, doing nails, lipstick etc. 00:22:40 CU Mary in mirror putting on glasses VO: "Uh-oh, now she's gone and ruined… Internet Archive Story of a City: New York 1946 · Short · 20 min · Subtitles Pictorial explanation of historic & economic causes for emergence of new york as one of world's largest cities & of its vital relation to rest of America.… Internet Archive Gen. Adolf Takes Over, 1942/01/07 1942 · Newsreel "The cleverest anti-Nazi propaganda yet! You will howl with glee when you see and hear what our London newsreel friends have cooked up for Hitler and his… Internet Archive Odd Man Out (1947) James Mason, Kathleen Ryan, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack 1947 · Feature Odd Man Out is a 1947 British film NOlR directed by Carol Reed, and starring James Mason, Robert Newton, Cyril Cusack, and Kathleen Ryan. Set in a Northern… Internet Archive The Powers Girl (1943) Carole Landis Anne Shirley 1943 · Feature · Subtitles The 1943 modeling comedy The Powers Girl with Carole Landis, Anne Shirley, George Murphy, Dennis Day, and Benny Goodman You can learn more about Carole Landis… Internet Archive Modern Guide to Health 1947 · Cartoon · 8 min Animation short promoting general health awareness. NHS in 1947. Public health. Public Health Campaign Films. Post War era. Humorous cartoon treatment of… Internet Archive Tomorrow Television 1945 · Film · Subtitles 05:10:32:09 Model of "Futurama" exhibit by Norman Bel Geddes at 1939-40 New York World's Fair. Model has miniature moving vehicles, but is not an actual… Internet Archive When Work Is Done 1943 · Short · 8 min · Subtitles War plant workers flood the town of Sylacauga, Alabama, and the town constructs facilities and organizes activities to make them feel welcome. Excellent,… Internet Archive Green For Danger 1946 · Feature In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural English hospital. But was the death accidental? A delightful and wholly… Internet Archive Home on the Range 1942 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles The contribution of the Western range country to the World War II effort: wool, mutton, beef and leather. Internet Archive Alias Boston Blackie 1942 colorized (Chester Morris) 1942 · Feature When reformed thief Boston Blackie stages a Christmas show for inmates at a prison, a wrongly-convicted man uses the opportunity to escape. After a murder is… Internet Archive King of the Rocket Men 1949 · Feature Title: King of the Rocket Men Summary: Jeff King in his experimental rocket suit battles the evil Dr. Vulcan. Directed by: Fred C. Brannon Actors: Production… Internet Archive Deadline for Action (Part I) 1946 · Short · 21 min · Subtitles How left-wing labor unions engaged in political activism to combat corporate influence on the U.S. Congress in the years following World War II. Internet Archive The October Man (1947, UK) John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Carey - Film Noir Full Movie 1947 · Feature The October Man is a 1947 British film noir starring John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Joyce Carey, Edward Chapman, Kay Walsh , written and produced by novelist… Internet Archive Hidden Gold 1940 · Feature · 1 h Title: Hidden Gold Summary: Hoppy and Lucky confront a gang of outlaws which has been ravaging stagecoaches and gold mines. The final gunfight is at Ed… Internet Archive Christmas Holiday (1944) Directed By Robert Siodmak, Starring Gene Kelly, Deanna Durbin 1944 · Feature Christmas Holiday is a 1944 FILM NOlR crime film directed by Robert Siodmak starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by… Internet Archive Voice of Victory (Part I) 1944 · Short · 14 min · Subtitles How radio equipment helped to win World War II. Internet Archive Voodoo Man (1944) Bela Lugosi high quality print 1944 · Feature A mad doctor (Bela Lugosi) and his helpers (John Carradine, George Zucco) lure girls to his lab for brain work, to help his wife. Internet Archive Buck Benny Rides Again 1940 colorized (Jack Benny) 1940 · Feature Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of a rival to prove he is a real man by roughing it at a Nevada… Internet Archive Adam and Evalyn 1949 · Feature · 1 h 28 min Title: Adam and Evalyn Summary: When a friend dies, a gambler adopts his daughter. Complications ensue. Directed by: Harold French Actors: Stewart Granger,… Internet Archive Road Show Carole Landis Adolphe Menjou Patsy Kelly 1940 · Feature · Subtitles The 1940 Hal Roach comedy Road Show starring Carole Landis, John Hubbard, Adolphe Menjou, Patsy Kelly, and Margaret Roach ~ You can learn more about Carole at… Internet Archive The Shanghai Gesture 1941 · Feature An archived page of the 1941 movie The Shanghai Gesture, directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Victor Mature and Gene Tierney. Internet Archive Passenger Train, The 1940 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Describes a journey from a large city to the country on a streamline train. Shows duties of many of the people who work in the station and on the train. Internet Archive Drawing Account 1941 · Cartoon · 9 min · Subtitles Behind the scenes in a 1940s animation studio, showing the making of a Chevrolet advertising cartoon. Internet Archive Ridin' Down the Canyon 1942 · Feature · 53 min When a gang of rustlers steal a herd from Alice Blake (Linda Hayes), her kid brother Bobbie (Robert 'Buzz' Henry), sets out to get help from his radio… Internet Archive Springtime In The Sierras 1947 · Feature · 53 min · Subtitles See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039861/ Starring Roy Rogers, Trigger, Jane Frazee, Andy Devine Internet Archive I'll Be Seeing You 1944 · Feature · 1 h 24 min Title: I'll Be Seeing You Summary: A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness… Internet Archive Champion 1949 · Feature Title: Champion Summary: Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people. Directed by: Mark Robson Actors: Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy,… Internet Archive Manhunt of Mystery Island 1945 colorized cliffhanger serial 1945 · Feature The creator (Forrest Taylor) of a scientific device is kidnapped, and his daughter (Linda Stirling) enlists the help of a private detective (Richard Bailey)…