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3,409–3,456 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 Talking Magpies (1946) 1946 · Feature The magpies move into a nest in a tree right outside an old man's bedroom window. Chaos ensues as the magpies and the old man each try to best each other, the… Internet Archive Siete Para Un Secreto (1947) 1947 · Feature Siete para un secreto es una película argentina dirigida por Carlos Borcosque sobre guion de León Klimovsky según la novela Seven for a secret de Mary Gladys… Internet Archive 1941 Frau Luna ( Lizzi Waldmüller, Fita Benkhoff, Theo Lingen, Paul Kemp) 1941 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1941. Frau Luna. U.a mit Paul Kemp,Theo Lingen und Fita Benkhoff Internet Archive Dangerous Passage (1944) 1944 · Feature Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel. Watch on… Internet Archive Song of Victory (1942) 1942 · Feature A vulture, a gorilla and a hyena (“with no small resemblances to actual dictators”) bully the woodland animals, who eventually fight back, using the letter V… Internet Archive The Atom Strikes (Reel 1) 1946 · Film "Shortly after the end of the war an American Mission was sent to Japan, to report on the destruction wrought by the atomic bombs." U.S. Army MF 5-1235… Internet Archive Nix on Hypnotricks (1941) 1941 · Feature A hypnotist, frustrated by not having anyone to practice on, cold-calls Olive and hypnotizes her over the phone into coming to his office. Popeye rushes after… Internet Archive The Johnstown Flood (1946) 1946 · Feature Re-enactment of the famous May 31, 1889 Johnstown, Pennsylvania flood where the dam broke and flooded out an entire town! In this version, the town is… Internet Archive Why We Fight: Prelude To War Part 1 1942 · Educational · 26 min · Subtitles Why We Fight: Prelude To War Part 1 Reviews events from 1933 to 1939 including the Japanese conquest of Manchuria, the Italian conquest of Ethiopia, the rise… Internet Archive Sec. Wallace Stirs Foreign Policy Debate, 1946/09/19 1946 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) "Washington, DC: Commerce Secretary Wallace, following his soft-terms-for-Russia speech, goes to the White House, where he agrees to cancel further talks… Internet Archive Zorro's Black Whip: Chapter 2 - Tomb of Terror 1944 · Short · 14 min Barbara Meredith takes on the guise of "The Black Whip" to avenger her brother's murder, in this 12 part Republic serial. Zorro's Black Whip: Chapter 1 - The… Internet Archive Voice of Victory 1944 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Rumors (1943) 1943 · Feature Rumors is part of the Private Snafu series of animated shorts produced by Warner Bros. during World War II. Released in 1943, the cartoon was directed by Friz… Internet Archive Stagecoach to Denver (1946) 1946 · Feature Lambert has the stagecoach wrecked killing the Commissioner so his phony replacement can alter Coonskin's land survey. When Red Ryder exposes the survey hoax,… Internet Archive The Loves of Carmen (1948) 1948 · Feature Gypsy Carmen drives men wild in 1820s Spain, especially the dragoon Don Jose. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/the-loves-of-carmen-1948/ Internet Archive War Comes to America 1942 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Chief Signal Officer. (09/18/1947 - 02/28/1964) ARC Identifier 36073 / Local Identifier 111-OF-7… Internet Archive 1941 Das Andere Ich ( Mathias Wiemann, Hilde Krahl, Erich Ponto) 1941 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1941. Das andere Ich. U.a mit Matthias Wiemann und Hilde Krahl Internet Archive Making a New Day Out of Tuesday 1946 · Film · Subtitles Making a New Day Out of Tuesday Internet Archive You and Your Work 1948 · Film Young Frank Taylor loathes working at a shoe store, but discovers that he is doomed to hate any job unless he changes his attitude. After a motivational… Internet Archive The Fast & The Furry-Ous (Laserdisc) 1949 · Cartoon NTSC Internet Archive At the Circus (1944) 1944 · Feature Some happy mice are listening to an old radio program that features their hero, Mighty Mouse! Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/at-the-circus-1944/ Internet Archive 1947 - Paradine Case - Agonía de amor - Alfred Hitchcock - Leg 1947 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive Here Comes The Circus 1942 · Film Cotton candy, Coke, children, barkers, side shows, women snake charmers & sword swallowers, tent circus, parade, audience, clowns, animals, elephants, Emmett… Internet Archive Me Feelins Is Hurt (1940) 1940 · Feature Olive sends a farewell letter to Popeye: She's over sailors; it's cowboys for her; she's gone out west, to Bar None Ranch. Popeye immediately travels there to… Internet Archive Way Down Yonder in the Corn (1943) 1943 · Feature The fox, determined to keep the Crow away from his garden, reads a box, "How to Fox Crows", which explains, "Crows are allergic to scarecrows." So he offers… Internet Archive Nazi Border Pierced By Allied Might , 1944/12/04 1944 · Newsreel [No audio at all first 3:28. Gamma very erratic at time of film transfer.](1) "British Enter Germany - Geilenkirrhen, pivotal Nazi fortress on the Cologne… Internet Archive Zorro's Black Whip: Chapter 3 - Mob Murder 1944 · Short · 14 min Barbara Meredith takes on the guise of "The Black Whip" to avenger her brother's murder, in this 12 part Republic serial. Zorro's Black Whip: Chapter 1 - The… Internet Archive Hit the Ice (1943) 1943 · Feature After Flash Fulton and Weejie McCoy take pictures of a bank robbery, they're lured to the mountain resort hideout of the robbers, where they meet an old… Internet Archive Scared Stiff (1945) 1945 · Feature A meek reporter happens upon a murder, an escaped gangster and a stolen jade chess set. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/scared-stiff-1945/ Internet Archive Santa's Surprise 1947 · Cartoon · 8 min Christmas Cartoon. Santa has some helpers. You can read about this cartoon on it's Internet Archive 1947 - Ivy - Abismos - Sam Wood - VOSE 1947 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only Internet Archive The Experimental Psychology of Vision 1941 · Film Educational film demonstrating phenomena of human vision relating to motion pictures and the perception of movement, light and dark, and optical illusions.… Internet Archive Sud narodov (1946) 1946 · Feature This riveting Russian documentary takes you inside the trials of the notorious German war criminals, brought to trial to account for their actions. The… Internet Archive The Lost Moment (1947) 1947 · Feature In a long flashback, a New York publisher is in Venice pursuing the lost love letters of an early-19th-century poet, Jeffrey Ashton, who disappeared… Internet Archive Don Winslow of the Navy: Chapter 2 - Flaming Death 1942 · Short · 21 min Taken from IMDB : US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of the islands near Pearl Harbor. He discovers that there is a ring of saboteurs and enemy… Internet Archive Clean Waters 1945 · Film · Subtitles Many great stock shots on water pollution and wastewater treatment. Internet Archive 1942 Gebirgsjäger Teil 1 Biwak Im Winter Schneebauten ( OKH Ausbildungsfilm) 1942 · Feature Film(Filmdokument)aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1942. Gebirgsjäger Teil.1 Biwak im Winter-Schneebauten OKH Ausbildungsfilm Internet Archive Aesop's Fable: The Mosquito (1945) 1945 · Feature Aesop's Fable: The Mosquito is a Terrytoons cartoon directed by Mannie Davis. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/aesops-fable-the-mosquito-1945/ Internet Archive Brideless Groom (1947) 1947 · Feature Shemp has to get married within seven hours in order to inherit $500,000. Now that's incentive! The bumbling threesome set to work right away with hilarious… Internet Archive Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948) 1948 · Feature A doctor hunts a vicious, man-eating tiger that terrorizes a native jungle village. In time the doctor experiences a personal change when he accepts their… Internet Archive Sheriff of Tombstone (1941) 1941 · Feature The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby… Internet Archive 1941 - Paper Bullets - Balas de papel - Phil Rosen - VE 1941 · Feature · Subtitles For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive Frankenstein's Cat (1942) 1942 · Feature In this one, a community of mice and birds are living and playing peacefully until the arrival of the title character: a mechanical cat who wants to eat so he… Internet Archive Loco Lobo (1947) 1947 · Feature Out in the desert, a dopey wolf tries to catch an obnoxious rabbit. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/loco-lobo-1947/ Internet Archive Mighty Mouse in the Trojan Horse (1946) 1946 · Feature A parody of the Greek myth of the conquering of the Trojan people featuring mice and cats. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/mighty-mouse-in-the-trojan… Internet Archive The Bashful Bachelor (1942) 1942 · Feature Lum Edwards is annoyed with his partner in Pine Ridge's Jot-'em-Down general store, Abner Peabody, because Abner has swapped their delivery car for a… Internet Archive The Corpse Vanishes (1942) 1942 · Feature A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Toll Bridge Troubles (1942) 1942 · Feature The fox is gaily driving down the highway on his motor-scooter. The Crow, using his "Sucker Detector", spots the Fox as an obvious sucker. He goes to work…