The world's archives

2,785–2,832 of 42,240 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 The Green Hornet: Chapter 8 - Dead or Alive 1940 · Short · 17 min Taken from IMDB : Faced with rising crime and increased racketeering activity, intrepid newspaper editor Britt Reid (The Lone Ranger's great-nephew.) becomes… Internet Archive The Green Hornet: Chapter 11 - Disaster Rides the Rails 1940 · Short · 18 min Taken from IMDB : Faced with rising crime and increased racketeering activity, intrepid newspaper editor Britt Reid (The Lone Ranger's great-nephew.) becomes… Internet Archive The Underground World (1943) 1943 · Feature Superman has to save Lois Lane from a cult of hawk-people in an homage to Edgar Rice Burroughs's "At the Earth's Core". Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Great Alaskan Mystery: Chapter 11 1944 · Short · 16 min Former marine flyer Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), sidekick Bosun (Edgar Kennedy) and the lovely Ruth Miller (Marjorie Weaver) fight to retrieve a super-weapon… Internet Archive The Green Hornet: Chapter 4 - Pillar of Flame 1940 · Short · 19 min Taken from IMDB : Faced with rising crime and increased racketeering activity, intrepid newspaper editor Britt Reid (The Lone Ranger's great-nephew.) becomes… Internet Archive Holt of the Secret Service Part 2: Ramparts of Revenge 1941 · Short · 19 min In this 15 part serial Secret Service agent Jack Holt, along with his partner, agent R49, are sent to stop a gang of counterfeiters that have kidnapped the… Internet Archive Lust for Gold (1949) 1949 · Feature A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine… Internet Archive Shock (1946) 1946 · Feature In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a next-door… Internet Archive Great Alaskan Mystery: Chapter 10 1944 · Short · 17 min Former marine flyer Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), sidekick Bosun (Edgar Kennedy) and the lovely Ruth Miller (Marjorie Weaver) fight to retrieve a super-weapon… Internet Archive Sherlock Holmes och det hemliga vapnet (1942) 1942 · Feature · Subtitles Under andra världskriget vill det brittiska flygministeriet komma åt ett nytt hemligt raketsikte som den schweiziske vetenskapsmannen Dr Tobel uppfunnit.… Internet Archive Shockproof (1949) 1949 · Feature Jenny Marsh is a hard-luck dame who's just finished five years in the slammer for killing a man. Jenny's not exactly the murdering type -- she did the deed… Internet Archive The Southerner (1945) 1945 · Feature Sam Tucker, a cotton picker, in search of a better future for his family, decides to grow his own cotton crop. In the first year, the Tuckers battle disease,… Internet Archive [Home Movies: "Just 'Round Town"] 1942 · Home movie · Subtitles Roll in intermittently poor condition, but its deficiencies are artistically interesting CU American flag flying in foreground, old car visible; pan to show… Internet Archive Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day 1947 · Film "These pictures were taken by Mr. George T. Fonda, Assistant to the president, Weirton Steel Co., during an investigation of German industrial production. Mr.… Internet Archive Our Town (1940) 1940 · Feature Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive The Inspector General (1949) 1949 · Feature An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him… Internet Archive Mrs. F.D.R. In Red Cross Appeal, 1940/05/22 1940 · Newsreel · Subtitles "Washington, DC: In a stirring appeal to the public to donate $10,000,000 to the Red Cross War Relief Fund, Mrs. Roosevelt says that the horrors of war abroad… Internet Archive Divide and Conquer (1943) 1943 · Feature The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive The Chase (1946) 1946 · Feature Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Preview To Invasion, 1944/03/16 1944 · Newsreel · Subtitles "Great Britain: General Eisenhower, Air Marshall Tedder and General Montgomery view the tons of supplies which have accumulated, they they join the roops who… Internet Archive The Green Hornet: Chapter 7 - Bridge of Disaster 1940 · Short · 21 min Taken from IMDB : Faced with rising crime and increased racketeering activity, intrepid newspaper editor Britt Reid (The Lone Ranger's great-nephew.) becomes… Internet Archive Swamp Woman 1941 · Feature · 59 min Another swamp movie. Internet Archive True Glory 1945 · Educational Department of War True Glory AVA02725VNB1, 1945 General Eisenhower introduces this joint US/British Government film that surveys the entire campaign in… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Building Home in Detroit, June 1941] 1941 · Home movie · Subtitles Scenes in vacation area (Lake Superior, Michigan?) foundation of house house under construction: sign in front says "Winkler & Co., Detroit's Better Builders,… Internet Archive Captain Video and His Video Rangers - Episode 3 of 4 - MKV 1949 · TV · Subtitles Captain Video and His Video Rangers - Episode 3 of 4 - MKV Length: 28:32 Video Size: 720x480 -- Captain Video and His Video Rangers is an American science… Internet Archive Kukla, Fran and Ollie - TV Series - 1947 through 1957 - MP4 1947 · TV Kukla, Fran and Ollie - TV Series - 1947 through 1957 - MP4 Incomplete Video Size: 720x480 Kukla, Fran and Ollie is an early American television show using… Internet Archive Ord I Rättan Tid (1948) 1948 · Feature · Subtitles Ord I Rättan Tid (1948) https://www.svtplay.se/video/e72Ym2o/ord-i-rattan-tid Jag äger ej filmen, anledning för jag väljer att ladda upp den är att bevara… Internet Archive Great Alaskan Mystery: Chapter 6 1944 · Short · 16 min Former marine flyer Jim Hudson (Milburn Stone), sidekick Bosun (Edgar Kennedy) and the lovely Ruth Miller (Marjorie Weaver) fight to retrieve a super-weapon… Internet Archive Max Und Moritz 1941 1941 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1941. Max und Moritz erster Streich. Kurzfilm der Gebrüder Diehl Internet Archive 1948 - Kiss The Blood Off My Hands - Sangre en las manos - Norman Foster - VOSE 1948 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only Internet Archive The Magnetic Telescope (1942) 1942 · Feature When police interfere with a reckless scientist's experiment, it creates a deadly meteor shower only Superman can stop. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive The Green Hornet: Chapter 10 - Bullets and Ballots 1940 · Short · 19 min Taken from IMDB : Faced with rising crime and increased racketeering activity, intrepid newspaper editor Britt Reid (The Lone Ranger's great-nephew.) becomes… Internet Archive The Frog and the Princess (1944) 1944 · Feature As was his usual pattern, Gandy Goose is sleeping. This time he dreams of the story of the princess and the frog and how the frog later turned into a prince… Internet Archive Ding Dog Daddy (1942) 1942 · Feature Ding Dog Daddy is a 1942 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon, directed by Friz Freleng and written by Tedd Pierce. The short was released on December 5,… Internet Archive The Shadow (1940) 1940 · Film A noted scientist and criminologist fights crime using a disguise that allows him to hide himself in the shadows. But now he is up against an evil mastermind… Internet Archive Men of San Quentin 1942 · Feature · 1 h 16 min Corruption and riots plague a prison. Internet Archive 1946 - Terror by Night - Terror en la noche - Roy William Neill - VO 1946 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com t.me/agendasociocultural Internet Archive Farm Frolics (1941) 1941 · Feature Farm Frolics is a 1941 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon supervised by Bob Clampett. The short was released on May 10, 1941. Watch on RetroFlix.org:… Internet Archive Knock On Any Door (BOGART) 1949 · Feature Humphrey Bogart plays an attorney. I can tell you as an attorney the procedure is nonsense. Anyway, great acting, but the theme of the show has a heavy tinge… Internet Archive The Great Flamarion (1945) 1945 · Feature A beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive The Iron Curtain (1948) 1948 · Feature The Iron Curtain is based on the actual 1945 case of Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko, (Dana Andrews), who, after careful training, was assigned to the… Internet Archive Santa Claus' Punch and Judy 1948 · Short · 8 min Santa magically creates a Punch and Judy puppet show to the delight of children at a Christmas party. WARNING! Parents may wish to watch this before exposing… Internet Archive Nosotros... Los Muchachos (1940) 1940 · Feature Nosotros…los muchachos es una película de Argentina dirigida por Carlos Borcosque sobre su propio guion escrito en colaboración con Jack Hall sobre la obra… Internet Archive 1948 - I Love Trouble - S. Sylvan Simon - VOSE 1948 · Feature For Academic - Educational Use Only https://derechonoir.wordpress.com/ Internet Archive Air Victims Come Home, 1946/09/17 1946 · Newsreel · Subtitles 1) "Washington DC: The mortal remains of five American airmen, shot down by Tito's fighter planes over Yugoslavia, arrive by plane from Europe. An honor guard… Internet Archive Doolittle Raid Launch Footage - 1942 1942 · Short · 9 min The Doolittle Raid, April 18, 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese home island of Honshu during World War II. The mission… Internet Archive The Green Hornet: Chapter 6 - Highways of Peril 1940 · Short · 21 min Taken from IMDB : Faced with rising crime and increased racketeering activity, intrepid newspaper editor Britt Reid (The Lone Ranger's great-nephew.) becomes… Internet Archive 1944 - Bluebeard - Barbazul - Edgar G. Ulmer - VE 1944 · Feature · Subtitles For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com