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3,457–3,504 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 X Marks the Spot (1942) 1942 · Feature A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his prime… Internet Archive Big Four Turns Down Austria on Tyrol, 1946/06/24 1946 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) Council of Foreign Ministers meeting in Paris turned down transfer of Tyrol (2) Vinson new Chief Justice of Supreme Court sworn in on White house portico.… Internet Archive Broadway Limited (1941) 1941 · Feature A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited gets out of control, as no one wants to be responsible for the baby that was brought in for… Internet Archive Doing Impossikible Stunts (1940) 1940 · Feature Mystery Pictures is looking for a stunt man. Swee'pea tags along with Popeye, but he sends the tot home. Popeye shows clips of his stunts to the director, who… Internet Archive Moss Rose (1947) 1947 · Feature When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the… Internet Archive Women in the Night (1948) 1948 · Feature During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the… Internet Archive Valley Town - A Study of Machines and Men 1940 · Educational · 28 min A documentary study of workers displaced by automatic machinery in a typical American steel town in the 1920's and 1930's. Follows the development of the town… Internet Archive 1947 - Calcutta - Calcuta - John Farrow 1947 · Feature 1947 - Calcutta - Calcuta - John Farrow Internet Archive Pappa Sökes (1947) 1947 · Feature · Subtitles Jag äger ej filmen, anledning för jag väljer att ladda upp den är att bevara svenska äldre filmer. All musik, ljud och bild går till dess rätta ägare. Svensk… Internet Archive Paratroops 1944 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive Byrnes Sets U.S. Policy for Germany, 1946/09/10 1946 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) Byrnes speaks [partial sound] (2) Strike Ties Up All U.S. Ports (3) Puerto Rico governor takes office - Pinero first native Puerto Rican governor, sworn… Internet Archive Marshall Succeeds Byrnes, 1947/01/09 1947 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) Washington, DC: "Because of poor health, State Secretary James Byrnes steps down after the arduous task of fighting for peace. General Marshall, returning… Internet Archive The Burning Of The SS Normandie in 1942 in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized] 1942 · Feature In 1939 the famous French Ocean liner SS Normandie made its last voyage to New York. Due to the start of WWII in Europe the Normandie was confiscated by the… Internet Archive Beautiful but damaged Vienna (Wien) just after WW-II in color! [A.I. enhanced & colorized] 1945 · Feature This is a very high quality film that shows Austria's capital Vienna (Wien) just after World War II. It consists of raw footage, probably made for a post-war… Internet Archive Happy Go Lucky (1947) 1947 · Feature Heckle and Jeckle try to steal food from under the watchful eye of Dimwit the dog. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/happy-go-lucky-1947/ Internet Archive Make Mine Freedom (1948) 1948 · Feature This Cold War-era cartoon uses humor to tout the dangers of Communism and the benefits of capitalism. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Ghost of Zorro (1949) 1949 · Film Clayton Moore of "Lone Ranger" fame plays the grandson of Don Diego Vega, who in 1865 is an engineer laying line for the telegraph. So when unscrupulous men… Internet Archive Junior G-Men: Chapter 1 - Enemies Within 1940 · Short · 19 min Taken from Wikipedia : A group of saboteurs who are trying to undermine the government kidnap several prominent scientists, including the father of a local… Internet Archive Star Gazing 1946 · Film · Subtitles MAN'S SEARCH INTO WONDERS OF UNIVERSE INCLUDING HIGHLIGHTS OF GALILEO'S CAREER. Internet Archive 1943 Spuk Im Schloss ( Albert Matterstock, Paul Kemp, Fritz Odemar) 1943 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1943. Spuk im Schloß. U.a mit Paul Kemp und Albert Matterstock Internet Archive Return to Guam (1944) 1944 · Feature Return to Guam is a 1944 short propaganda film produced by the US Navy about the taking and recapture of the island of Guam. The film starts when a convoy of… Internet Archive Spoilers of the North (1947) 1947 · Feature When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who have… Internet Archive 1949 - Chicago Deadline - El misterio de una desconocida - Lewis Allen 1949 · Feature 1949 - Chicago Deadline - El misterio de una desconocida - Lewis Allen Internet Archive Volunteers Unload UNRRA Food Supplies, 1946/08/26 1946 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) Italian student volunteer to unload UNRRA food from ships bound for Austria (2) War Criminal Trials Draw Towards End, at Nuremberg, after 10 months of… Internet Archive A Cold Romance (1949) 1949 · Feature That most treacherous of all the treacherous cats, Oil Can Harry, tricks Might Mouse with just a tiny bit of sneering-and-leering treachery and, after binding… Internet Archive A Few Quick Facts: Air Transport/Ships/China/Fire (1944) 1944 · Feature A Few Quick Facts: Air Transport/Ships/China/Fire is a 1944 animated short directed by George Gordon. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Coo-Coo Bird Dog (1949) 1949 · Feature A self-promoted and bragging mongrel is trying to prove his status to a doubting-parrot and accidentally swallows the cuckoo from a clock. The parrot tries to… Internet Archive Deep Waters (1948) 1948 · Feature A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/deep-waters-1948/ Internet Archive The Magic Fluke (1949) 1949 · Feature The Fox and Crow have a band-act in a nightclub, but the Fox walks out on his partner when he gets the position of a symphony-orchestra conductor. The Fox… Internet Archive Flies Ain't Human (1941) 1941 · Feature Popeye is trying to take a nap, but he's plagued by house flies that keep landing on him. He gets rid of most of them, but one in particular seems bent on… Internet Archive The Monster Maker (1944) 1944 · Feature Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/the-monster-maker… Internet Archive Tooth or Consequences (1947) 1947 · Feature The Fox, once again, is plagued with a toothache, and once again is in search for a dentist to relieve his agony, and he, once again, finds Mr. Crow,… Internet Archive Two for the Zoo (1941) 1941 · Feature Gabby is forced to take care of a strange animal called a Kango. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/two-for-the-zoo-1941/ Internet Archive Baby Bonds For Defense, 1941/04/17 1941 · Newsreel 1) "Washington, DC: First of the Treasury Department's 'defense' financing stamps and bonds roll off the presses, prelude to a nation-wide campaign to pay for… Internet Archive Queen Lauds 'Soldierettes', 1940/06/19 1940 · Newsreel · Subtitles "England: Queen Elizabeth is an interested spectator at a colorful parade of 'Wats,' Women Auxiliary Territorial Service units, and cheers them with a… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97500: Travels in Southwest and California 1946 · Home movie Can marked: Summer 46 #2 Thomas wedding Family in Okla City In country meal Lawton Seattle California Arizona Fort Lawton Ft. Worth Botanical garden Internet Archive Mighty Mouse and the Kilkenny Cats (1945) 1945 · Feature Mighty Mouse" cartoon. Cat and gang are ousted by Mighty Mouse. The mice in a big city are being ravaged by a vicious gang of cats led by notorious gang… Internet Archive The Last Roundup (1943) 1943 · Feature Private Gandy Goose and Sergeant Sourpuss go in hot pursuit of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, depicted respectively as a hog and an oversized monkey.… Internet Archive Rough Road to Panama 1947 · Educational · 37 min This film documents the Sullivan C. Richardson Pan American Highway Expedition of 1940-1941, the first of a two-part series describing the first successful… Internet Archive The Lone Ranger 1949 (S01E02) The Lone Ranger Fights On 1949 · TV · 24 min PLOT : The origin of the Lone Ranger's horse Silver and his use of silver bullets is explained. STORYLINE : Still fighting the man who betrayed the Texas… Internet Archive 82nd Airborne Parades for GI Victory, 1946/01/14 1946 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) parade (2) Gen. Ike Honored By Canada (sound of Ike speaking at college in academic robes, received honorary doctorate at Toronto University) (3) Airmen… Internet Archive WWII GERMAN NEWSREEL UBOAT U-29 CREW AWARDED FOR SINKING HMS COURAGEOUS TYPE IX U-BOAT 2035a 1943 · Newsreel · 4 min This German newsreel was sold for the home market to civilians who wanted to track the progress of WWII. This particular film celebrates the German U-boats,… Internet Archive Outpost in Morocco (1949) 1949 · Feature Captain Gerard, greatest lover in the Foreign Legion, is assigned to escort an emir's daughter to her father's mountain citadel and find out what he can about… Internet Archive West Front Activities, 1945/03/08 1945 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) Combat scenes (some sound missing) 2 planes crash on icy runway in snow, flooded rivers, muddy roads, infantry clear rubble-strewn streets, German… Internet Archive ALASKA HIGHWAY 1944 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 23086 ALASKA HIGHWAY 1944 CONSTRUCTION OF THE 1,500 MILES OF THE ALASKAN HIGHWAY.. Internet Archive 1944 - Dead Man's Eyes - Reginald Le Borg - VO 1944 · Feature For Academic / Educational Use Only derechonoir.wordpress.com Internet Archive Zorro's Black Whip: Chapter 5 - Take Off That Mask! 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 1942 Hände Hoch ( Erich Dunskus, Willy Witte, Johannes Schütze) Alfred Weidenmann 1942 · Feature Film aus dem deutschen dritten Reich von 1942. Hände Hoch. U.a mit Erich Dunskus und Willy Witte.