The world's archives

673–720 of 18,596 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 Barbers 1959 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Shows the jobs of a hairstylist, a barber and a beautician and the transformations they bring about on an entire family. Internet Archive 20 Million Miles to Earth 1957 · Feature The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows… Internet Archive Living Stereo 1958 · Short · 7 min · Subtitles Introducing stereophonic phonograph records. Internet Archive [Frigidaire Imperial Line] 1956 · Short · 20 min · Subtitles Promotional film for Frigidaire dealers showing features of the new Imperial Line of refrigerators. Internet Archive Why Vandalism? 1955 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles Life of a teenage outsider; what makes him that way and how his anger flares into violence. Internet Archive Big Delivery Wagon, The 1951 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Shows transportation system necessary to move agricultural crops from farm to factory, where they are made into Heinz food products, especially ketchup. Internet Archive Emotional Maturity 1957 · Short · 19 min · Subtitles The story of Dave, an emotionally unstable adolescent who cannot accept that his girlfriend has quit going steady with him and the football coach has benched… Internet Archive Deadline U.S.A. 1952 colorized (Humphrey Bogart) 1952 · Feature Learning that his newspaper is about to be sold, a crusading editor (Humphrey Bogart) at first views his impending unemployment as an opportunity to win back… Internet Archive Story of Enterprise 1955 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles How a young couple parlays their frozen custard booth into a multimillion dollar business and constructs a parable of capitalist economics. With Prof. Clifton… Internet Archive The Blue Gardenia 1953 colorized (Anne Baxter) 1953 · Feature After being dumped by her fiancé, a telephone operator (Anne Baxter) ends up drunk and almost raped by a lecherous photgrapher (Raymond Burr), who is found… Internet Archive Plan 9 from Outer Space (1957) 1957 · Feature Plan 9 from Outer Space is often regarded as one of the most infamous cult films in cinematic history, directed by Ed Wood. The story revolves around an… Internet Archive This Life of Mine (我這一輩子) 1950 · Feature · 1 h 48 min · Subtitles Also known as: The Life of a Peking Policeman Based on the novel by Lao She, directed by Shi Hui. Subtitles: VobSub (Chinese Simplified & Traditional, English) Internet Archive Not of This Earth 1957 · Feature Title: Not of This Earth Summary: An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to Earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There, he terrorizes… Internet Archive ''The Adventures of Kit Carson'' - Badman of Briscoe 1951 · TV · 26 min · Subtitles An early example of a filmed television series. A western series. This episode was originally telecast 15 December 1951 according to IMDb. It contains a… Internet Archive Adelante Cubanos (Part I) 1959 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Exhorts the Cuban people to support industrialization on the island and the production of consumer goods. Internet Archive Something New From Something Old 1958 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles Young couple living in a walkup on the Lower East Side in the 1950s with more love than money fixes up their apartment. Internet Archive Black River 1956 · Feature Perhaps Masaki Kobayashi’s most sordid film, Black River examines the rampant corruption on and around U.S. military bases in Japan following World War II.… Internet Archive Fighting Men 1953 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Have Rocket Will Travel 1959 colorized (3 Stooges) 1959 · Feature The 3 Stooges are cleaners at a spaceport when they accidentally take off and land on Venus. The boys encounter a talking unicorn, a giant fire breathing… Internet Archive Tornado 1955 · Film · Subtitles 09:38:36:04 CU raining dripping on glass window. 09:38:39:16 CU alarm clock reads 3:26. 09:38:44:06 CU disembodied hand lifts coffee pot off of stove; LS… Internet Archive Making Films That Teach 1954 · Educational · 18 min · Subtitles Made to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, this film shows the steps in the process of producing educational films, including… Internet Archive Good Wrinkles 1951 · Short · 20 min · Subtitles "Sunny Sweet," a cartoon prune, gives us a tour of prune growing and processing operations in California. Also promotes health effects of prunes. Internet Archive Chance to Play, A 1950 · Short · 18 min · Subtitles Promotes recreation (especially under nighttime lighting) as the answer to boredom, juvenile delinquency and social pathologies. Internet Archive The Men 1950 · Feature Title: The Men Summary: A paralyzed war vet tries to adjust to the world without the use of his limbs. Directed by: Fred Zinnemann Actors: Marlon Brando,… Internet Archive Caltiki, the Immortal Monster 1959 colorized 1959 · Feature A team of archaeologists in Mexico encounter an amorphous, blob-like monster that appears to be connected with the collapse of the Mayan civilization and a… Internet Archive Goodbye, Mr. Roach 1959 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Detailed film about cockroaches, their habits and methods of extermination, with a harrowing sequence of roach nymphs hatching. Internet Archive Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters 1959 · Feature Odds Against Tomorrow is a 1959 film noir produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters. He… Internet Archive Marriage Today 1950 · Short · 23 min · Subtitles Post-World War II film for young couples advising them of means to strengthen their marriages. Directed by Alexander Hammid. Internet Archive Tizoc(1957) 1957 · Feature NOW IN ITS ORIGINAL WIDESCREEN FORMAT PLOT: A white woman enters into a romance with a Mexican Indian. The racial barriers between the lovers prove to be… Internet Archive Midwest Holiday (Part I) 1952 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Auto travelogue through the sights, monuments and mythologies of America's heartland. A jaded newspaper reporter returns from a long stint in Europe, takes to… Internet Archive Teenagers from Outer Space 1959 colorized 1959 · Feature Aliens land on Earth with the intention of turning it into a feeding ground for their lobsteroid "cattle", but one of them (David Love) turns on the others… Internet Archive Quiet Revolution, The 1956 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles Shows how Ford earthmoving equipment helps the builders of Levittown, Pennsylvania achieve great economies of scale. With excellent images of home and… Internet Archive A Fiend Without A Face 1958 · Feature A scientist’s thoughts materialize as an army of invisible brain-shaped monsters (complete with spinal-cord tails!) who terrorize an American military base in… Internet Archive Fiend Without a Face 1958 · Feature · 1 h 13 min Title: Fiend Without a Face Summary: Invisible atomic monsters attack a U.S. Armed Forces base and the local residents. Directed by: Arthur Crabtree Actors:… Internet Archive Wife 1953 · Feature A novel by Fumiko Hiyashi provided that basis for this unusual work by Mikio Naruse -- Wife (aka Tsuma) (1953) tells the story of a decade-old marriage in the… Internet Archive The Flaming Urge 1953 · Feature · 1 h 7 min Harold Lloyd, Jr. plays a young man who has a compulsion to watch burning buildings. Byron Foulger plays the man who hires him. Internet Archive Monster On Campus 1958 · Feature The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid. Internet Archive Pickup On South Street (1953) Richard Widmark, Jean Peters - Film Noir 1953 · Feature Pickup on South Street is a 1953 Cold War spy film noir written and directed by Samuel Fuller. The film stars Richard Widmark, Jean Peters, and Thelma Ritter.… Internet Archive Harriet Craig (1950) Joan Crawford, Wendell Corey - Full Movie. 1950 · Feature Harriet Craig is a 1950 American film drama starring Joan Crawford and Wendell Corey. The screenplay by Anne Froelick and James Gunn was based upon the 1925… Internet Archive 🎭🎥𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓴 𝓛𝓮𝓼𝓽𝓮𝓻🎥🎭 1958 · Feature 🎭🎥 Mark Lester 🎥🎭 Angel-faced child star Mark Lester was the son of British actors Michael and Rita Lester. Mark made his professional debut at age 2 1/2 in a… Internet Archive Highway Dragnet (1954 Richard Conte, Joan Bennett - Film Noir 1954 · Feature Highway Dragnet is a 1954 film noir crime film directed by Nathan Juran from a story by U.S. Anderson and Roger Corman. The film stars Richard Conte, Joan… Internet Archive REO GRANDE 1950 upgared colorized 1950 · Feature A cavalry officer posted on the Rio Grande is confronted with murderous raiding Apaches, a son who's a risk-taking recruit and his wife from whom he has been… Internet Archive Detective Story (1951) Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, George Macready 1951 · Feature Detective Story is a 1951 American film noir directed by William Wyle. It features Kirk Douglas, Eleanor Parker, William Bendix, Cathy O'Donnell, and George… Internet Archive ADT: When Every Minute Counts 1958 · Short · 20 min · Subtitles How ADT alarm systems secure property, with elaborate coverage of alarm and communications technology in the analog era. Internet Archive Practicing Democracy in the Classroom 1953 · Educational · 20 min · Subtitles Points out that democratic techniques are more effective in teaching good citizenship than laissez-faire and authoritarian methods. Internet Archive Park Plaza 605 (1953) colorized (Tom Conway, Eva Bartok) 1953 · Feature After accientally intercepting a secret message about a meeting in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel, a private detective (Tom Conway) escapes with his life… Internet Archive Earth Vs. The Spider 1958 ★★ CC: Sci-Fi/Horror [1:12:39] 1958 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles Earth vs. the Spider (a.k.a. The Spider) is an independently made 1958 American black-and-white science fiction horror film produced and directed by Bert I.… Internet Archive Freedom of the American Road (Part I) 1955 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles Henry Ford II introduces this film designed to encourage private citizens to unite and support road improvement. Part of the lobbying campaign that culminated…