The world's archives

241–288 of 43,559 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 Battle Of Midway 1942 · Short · 18 min · Subtitles Academy Award winning documentary on the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway, standout… Internet Archive Cowboy and the Senorita 1944 · Feature · 52 min Chip (Mary Lee) has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and… Internet Archive Man with Two Lives 1942 · Feature · 1 h 5 min A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted… Internet Archive Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain 1943 · Feature · 52 min · Subtitles Produced by the U.S. Army Special Service Division, and directed by Frank Capra "Why We Fight" is a seven part propaganda/documentary series that traces the… Internet Archive Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer 1943 · Feature · 56 min · Subtitles Produced by the U.S. Army Special Service Division, and directed by Frank Capra "Why We Fight" is a seven part propaganda/documentary series that traces the… Internet Archive Haunted Ranch 1943 · Feature · 53 min · Subtitles The Range Busters and the bad guys race to find hidden gold bullion at a haunted ranch. Internet Archive Silver_Fleet_The 1943 · Feature · 1 h 24 min · Subtitles From IMDB http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036356/ Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans… Internet Archive The Way Ahead 1944 · Feature · 1 h 50 min A group of conscripts are called up into the infantry during WWII. At first they appear a hopeless bunch but their sergeant and Lieutenant have faith in them… Internet Archive Juke Joint 1946 · Feature · 59 min Hitch-hiking conmen Bad News Johnson (Spencer Williams) and July Jones arrive in a Midwestern small town with a capital of 25 cents. Taking a room with Mama… Internet Archive Meet King Joe 1949 · Film · Subtitles Presents "King Joe" as the average American working man who, by virtue of his high wages and short hours, is king of the world's workers. Internet Archive Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia - Part 2 1943 · Feature · 46 min · Subtitles Produced by the U.S. Army Special Service Division, and directed by Frank Capra "Why We Fight" is a seven part propaganda/documentary series that traces the… Internet Archive Colonel Effingham's Raid 1946 · Feature · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers… Internet Archive The Echo Murders 1945 · Feature · 1 h 14 min · Subtitles David Farrar as Sexton Blake. One of two 1945 Sexton Blake films. This video comes from a VHS source Internet Archive The Perils of Pauline 1947 · Feature · 1 h 36 min Funloving Pearl White (Betty Hutton), working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic… Internet Archive My Dog Shep 1946 · Feature · 1 h 9 min An orphan boy on his way to live with his uncle picks up a stray dog, and the two become fast friends. However, the uncle doesn't want the dog, and when… Internet Archive Inner Sanctum 1948 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 · Feature The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body. Internet Archive Hold that Woman 1940 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles A skip-tracer doesn't realize that the radio he is trying to repossess contains stolen diamonds. Internet Archive To New Horizons 1940 · Short · 22 min · Subtitles Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the "Futurama" exhibit in GM's "Highways and… Internet Archive The Son of Monte Cristo 1940 · Feature · 1 h 41 min · Subtitles Title: The Son of Monte Cristo Summary: In 1865, General Gurko Lanen is dictator of "Lichtenburg" in the Balkans. Rightful ruler Zona hopes to get aid from… Internet Archive Apache Rose 1947 · Feature · 56 min Roy Rogers is an oil prospector who wants to get rights to drill for oil on a promising piece of land. Dale Evans (as Billie) sails a local tugboat named… Internet Archive Wartime Nutrition 1943 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Wartime work of public welfare agencies in the field of nutrition. Internet Archive His Girl Friday ( 1940) 1940 · Feature · Subtitles A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Internet Archive Swing Hostess 1944 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Rags-to-riches-to-rags story features Benny Goodman vocalist Martha Tilton as an unemployed big band singer who takes a job as an operator at a jukebox… Internet Archive The Ape Man 1943 · Feature · 1 h 4 min Conducting weird scientific experiments, crazed Dr. James Brewster (Bela Lugosi), aided by his colleague Dr. Randall (Henry Hall), has managed to transform… Internet Archive Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike 1943 · Feature · 40 min · Subtitles Produced by the U.S. Army Special Service Division, and directed by Frank Capra "Why We Fight" is a seven part propaganda/documentary series that traces the… Internet Archive The Killers (1946) Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O' Brien - Film Noir Full Movie 1946 · Feature The Killers (also known as A Man Alone) is a 1946 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by… Internet Archive The First of the Few 1942 · Feature · 1 h 53 min By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his revolutionary mono-planes winning trophy after trophy. But a… Internet Archive The Strange Woman 1946 · Feature · 1 h 38 min · Subtitles Hedy Lamarr and George Sanders in a movie based on Ben Ames Williams' novel of early 19th-century Maine. The IMDB entry is here . The video files with "_1946"… Internet Archive The Town Went Wild 1944 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother. Internet Archive The Wolf Man - 1941 1941 · Feature Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a… Internet Archive British Intelligence 1940 · Feature · 1 h In 1917 London, elusive German spy Frantz Strendler regularly accesses crucial British military information and relays it to the German government, with… Internet Archive The Adventure of the Speckled Band 1949 · Short · 26 min · Subtitles Originally created as a pilot for a series of Holmes films this became a one off episode for the Lucky Strike sponsored "Your Show Time" series. It was… Internet Archive Mad Youth 1940 · Feature · 1 h 3 min A rich society mother (Betty Compson) and her beautiful daughter (Mary Ainslee) both fall for the same man (Willy Castello). Unfortunately, he's a gigolo who… Internet Archive Money Madness 1948 · Feature · 1 h 13 min A murderous bank robber (Hugh Beaumont) on the run from the law hides out in a small town, where he gets a job as a cab driver. He meets a young girl (Frances… Internet Archive The Stranger (720p HD) 1946 · Feature · Subtitles NOTE: Only the MKV file is HD, the others are derived at lower resolutions. *cough* Kevin VandeWettering *cough* jk... seriously though. MKV is HD, The h264… 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 Princess Iron Fan (鐵扇公主) 1941 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles Produced by the Wan brothers in the midst of war, Princess Iron Fan is the first feature length animation made in China. We follow the Monkey King and his… Internet Archive Eyes in the Night 1942 · Feature · 1 h 20 min · Subtitles Blind detective Duncan Maclain is visited by old friend Norma Lawry, looking for help in getting rid of one of her old beaus, who is courting Norma's 17-year… Internet Archive Laura (1944) Dir: Otto Preminger, Starring Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price, Judith Anderson. 1944 · Feature Laura is a 1944 American film noir produced and directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb along with Vincent Price and… Internet Archive Jungle Siren 1942 · Feature · 1 h 6 min Two Americans with the free French played by Buster Crabbe and Paul Bryar are sent to Carraby, a small village in Africa to build an airfield. They have to… Internet Archive Calendar Girl 1947 · Feature · 1 h 28 min A songwriter finds out that his beautiful girlfriend is going to be an artist's model. Internet Archive 17 Days: The Story of Newspaper History in the Making 1945 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles How a New York City newspaper delivery drivers' strike in 1945 failed to divert readers' interest in their favorite newspapers. Shows the newspapers of the… Internet Archive The Negro Soldier 1943 · Feature · 40 min · Subtitles WWII recruitment film aimed at African Americans. The film opens with an African American minister in church telling his flock why they should join the armed… Internet Archive Amazing Mr. X, The 1948 · Feature · 1 h 18 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. http://imdb.com/title/tt0040829/ Internet Archive Santa Fe Trail--HD quality upgrade 1940 · Feature · Subtitles This is a better copy than others of this movie i've found. This version was sourced from an out of print Spanish bluray, picture quality gained only a little… Internet Archive His Girl Friday iPod 1940 · Feature Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and… Internet Archive Malice in the Palace 1949 · Short · 15 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .