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6,577–6,624 of 18,638 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 Nuremberg - Reel 5 - German 1950 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 35957 / Local Identifier 111-M-7596 Nuremberg - Reel 5 - German This film was made as an… Internet Archive The Jack Benny Program - first episode - 1950-10-28 - Dinah Shore 1950 · Commercial Jack Benny's first TV broadcast, from 28 October 1950. Jack's TV programs were only once every eight weeks in his first year, and he traveled from California… Internet Archive [Kilker Family Films - Trips - Reel 9] 1957 · Home movie Robert Leo Kilker, Jr. of Kansas City organized ski trips by the Kansas City Ski Club and other trips to Europe and the Middle East. 8mm film of ski trip… Internet Archive AIR FORCE STORY, VOL 2, CHAPTER 3 -- ON TO THE YALU, JUNE 1950 1959 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 38549 AIR FORCE STORY, VOL 2, CHAPTER 3 -- ON TO THE YALU, JUNE 1950 PICTURES AIR FORCE PARTICIPATION IN A PLAN TO PUSH COMMUNIST… Internet Archive LOOK TO THE SKIES 1951 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 26137 LOOK TO THE SKIES DEFINES MISSION OF TACTICAL AIR COMMAND. Internet Archive Man and His Culture 1954 · Educational Internet Archive Collectie KNBRD - Het werk der Kustbrigades 1955 · Short · 23 min In deze film wordt het werk van de reddingsbrigades aan de kust nader toegelicht. Te zijn zijn de Noordwijkse Reddings brigade, de Haagse Vrijwillige Reddings… Internet Archive Welcome Your Majesty 1958 · Short · 32 min A 1958 Australian short film about the visit of the Queen Mother. Filmed in Eastmancolor. This is not a classroom film; per a search of newspapers it was… Internet Archive Nuremberg - Reel 4 - U.S. Army Version 1950 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 35957 / Local Identifier 111-M-7596 Nuremberg - Reel 4 - U.S. Army Version This film was made as… Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SIR OLIVER FRANKS 1952 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95729 / Local Identifier LW-LW-50 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SIR OLIVER FRANKS - TELEVISION… Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SEN. BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER 1951 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95959 / Local Identifier LW-LW-404 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SEN. BOURKE B. HICKENLOOPER -… Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SCOTT LUCAS 1952 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95974 / Local Identifier LW-LW-420 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SCOTT LUCAS - TELEVISION… Internet Archive Nuremberg - Reel 5 - U.S. Army Version 1950 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 35957 / Local Identifier 111-M-7596 Nuremberg - Reel 5 - U.S. Army Version This film was made as… Internet Archive ICECAP I 1953 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 20524 ICECAP I THE STORY OF THE ARMY TRANSPORTATION CORPS EXPEDITION ACROSS THE GREENLAND ICECAP IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER 1952. Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH MRS. EUGENIE ANDERSON 1951 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95711 / Local Identifier LW-LW-25 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH MRS. EUGENIE ANDERSON - TELEVISION… Internet Archive COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 110 REDS LAUNCH SPRING OFFENSIVE 1951 · Educational Department of Defense COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 110 REDS LAUNCH SPRING OFFENSIVE PIN 20273 1951 COMBAT ACTIVITIES IN KOREA, 20 APRIL THROUGH 20 MAY 1951 --RED… Internet Archive MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CASUALTIES 1959 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 29778 MANAGEMENT OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CASUALTIES SORTING PSYCHOLOGICAL CASUALTIES FOLLOWING NUCLEAR ATTACK - SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT OF… Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SEN. HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR. 1952 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95753 / Local Identifier LW-LW-85 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SEN. HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR. -… Internet Archive Nuremberg - Reel 2 - U.S. Army Version 1950 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 35957 / Local Identifier 111-M-7596 Nuremberg - Reel 2 - U.S. Army Version This film was made as… Internet Archive PREAMBLE TO PEACE 1957 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 30110 PREAMBLE TO PEACE AN EXAMINATION OF THE MEANING AND APPLICATION OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND ITS PREAMBLE. Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH MRS. CLARE BOOTHE LUCE 1952 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95791 / Local Identifier LW-LW-155 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH MRS. CLARE BOOTHE LUCE -… Internet Archive MSTS ARCTIC OPERATIONS, 1955 1956 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 24305 MSTS ARCTIC OPERATIONS, 1955 INITIAL SEALIFT OPERATIONS CONDUCTED BY MSTS IN 1955 FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DEWLINE STATIONS,… Internet Archive Eleanor Roosevelt in Montpellier, France 1955 · Educational FDR Presidential Library Video 200 Eleanor Roosevelt in Montpellier, France ER in Montpellier, France, 1955 Source unknown 2 mins. (50 ft), silent, b & w,… Internet Archive Arthur H. Smith - Captains Day 1951 · Home movie · 4 min Arthur Smith was born in Silver Spring, Nevada in 1909 and passed away in 2000 after having lived in the Bay Area and Big Bear Lake, California. According to… Internet Archive COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 112 KOREAN CEASE-FIRE TALKS 1951 · Educational Department of Defense COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 112 KOREAN CEASE-FIRE TALKS PIN 20275 1951 ACTIVITIES IN KOREA DURING 20 JUNE THROUGH 20 JULY 1951 WITH EMPHASIS ON… Internet Archive Protecting Poultry Profits (Part I) 1952 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Now available as a better-quality one-part file. Drugs to keep chickens healthy. Includes disturbing images of necropsies and sick chicks. Internet Archive Collectie IISG - Heet van de Naald 1956 · Short · 25 min Film over de Arbeiderspers met de titel: Heet van de naald. Commentaarstem: Wim Povel Ter gelegenheid van de 300.000-ste abonnee op Het Vrije Volk, destijds… Internet Archive Nuremberg - Reel 3 - U.S. Army Version 1950 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration ARC Identifier 35957 / Local Identifier 111-M-7596 Nuremberg - Reel 3 - U.S. Army Version This film was made as… Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SEN. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY 1952 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95741 / Local Identifier LW-LW-69 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH SEN. HUBERT H. HUMPHREY -… Internet Archive COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 111 U.N. COUNTERATTACK 1951 · Educational Department of Defense COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 111 U.N. COUNTERATTACK PIN 20274 1951 COMBAT ACTIVITIES IN KOREA, 20 MAY THROUGH 20 JUNE 1951 --ALLIED UNITS PUSH… Internet Archive THE ENGINEER MISSION 1954 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 69352 THE ENGINEER MISSION OUR CAMERA TURNS TO THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS TO THE STORY OF PAST AND PRESENT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND WHAT THE… Internet Archive Suspects and Witnesses 1956 · Educational National Archives - Suspects and Witnesses - National Security Council. Central Intelligence Agency. (09/18/1947 - 12/04/1981). - This U.S. Army training film… Internet Archive New York, 1956/06/18 1956 · Newsreel · Subtitles Avery Dulles ordained in New York by Archbishop Spellman, pictured with his father John Foster Dulles and Spellman (partial newsreel). Internet Archive INTRAMAXILLARY MULTIPLE LOOP WIRING IN TREATMENT OF JAW FRACTURES 1951 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 25876 INTRAMAXILLARY MULTIPLE LOOP WIRING IN TREATMENT OF JAW FRACTURES TECHNIQUE OF APPLYING INTRAMAXILLARY MULTIPLE LOOP… Internet Archive Ellwood F. Hoffmann - Florida 1954-1956 1956 · Home movie Florida, 1954-1956 Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the… Internet Archive The Dutch Cotton Industry (org.16mm) 1950 · Film This 16mm film from 3 minutes was found recently. Probably from the fifties. This is the unedited version which we have digitally cleaned with thanks to Fred… Internet Archive Black and White in South Africa 1958 · Educational A documentary about South Africa, covering the period from the 1800s to 1957 Internet Archive WINGED VICTORY ON FOOT - 43D INFANTRY DIVISION 1950 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 20348 WINGED VICTORY ON FOOT - 43D INFANTRY DIVISION ACTIVITIES OF THE DIVISION IN THE PACIFIC DURING WORLD WAR II AND AS OCCUPATION… Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH W. AVERELL HARRIMAN 1952 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95793 / Local Identifier LW-LW-157 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH W. AVERELL HARRIMAN - TELEVISION… Internet Archive The Wages Of Fear (1953) 1953 · Film · Subtitles The Wages Of Fear (1953) Internet Archive Puna (1954) 1954 · Feature cortometaje Internet Archive Santa Teresita (1950) 1950 · Feature cortometraje Internet Archive EISENHOWER INAUGURATION (Reel 3 of 11) 1953 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 37025 / Local Identifier 111-X-1 - EISENHOWER INAUGURATION (Reel 3 of 11) - Department of… Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH DR. V. K WELLINGTON KOO 1952 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95759 / Local Identifier LW-LW-92 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH DR. V. K WELLINGTON KOO -… Internet Archive COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 109 U.N. FORCES CROSS 38TH PARALLEL 1951 · Educational Department of Defense COMBAT BULLETIN NO. 109 U.N. FORCES CROSS 38TH PARALLEL PIN 20272 1951 COMBAT ACTIVITIES IN KOREA, 20 MARCH THROUGH 20 APRIL 1951--U.N.… Internet Archive Arthur H. Smith - Tense Moment Trailer 1953 · Home movie · 2 min This is the trailer for Arthur H. Smith's amateur drama "Tense Moment." Arthur Smith was born in Silver Spring, Nevada in 1909 and passed away in 2000 after… Internet Archive LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH DR. CHARLES FRANCIS POTTER 1951 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 95722 / Local Identifier LW-LW-40 - LONGINES CHRONOSCOPE WITH DR. CHARLES FRANCIS POTTER -… Internet Archive EISENHOWER INAUGURATION (Reel 7 of 11) 1953 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration - ARC Identifier 37025 / Local Identifier 111-X-1 - EISENHOWER INAUGURATION (Reel 7 of 11) - Department of…