The world's archives

9,265–9,312 of 18,898 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 Abominable Snowman 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive Anatomy of a Murder 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive The African Queen 1952 · Commercial Internet Archive Big Dog Lost aka Lauta mancia (1957) Trailer 1957 · Commercial http://thedukemitchell.uk/ for more weird videos plus strange film nights in London. Trailer for the 1957 family comedy Big Dog Lost aka Lauta mancia,… Internet Archive Three for the Show 1955 · Commercial This musical reworking of Too Many Husbands (1940), features Grable as a top singer and dancer who's been widowed by WW II. She marries her late husband's… Internet Archive 20 Million Miles to Earth 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive The Night of the Hunter 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive The Bridge on the River Kwai 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive Haie und kleine Fische (1957) - Trailer 1957 · Commercial Haie und kleine Fische (1957) - Trailer Internet Archive From Hell It Came 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive The Court Jester 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 · Commercial Internet Archive The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive Shirley Temple's Storybook 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive Sabrina 1954 · Commercial Internet Archive Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 · Commercial Internet Archive Father Knows Best 1954 · Commercial Internet Archive Bride of the Monster 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive The Honeymooners 1952 · Commercial Internet Archive The Big Heat 1953 · Commercial Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate. Internet Archive Funny Face 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive The Man from Planet X 1951 · Commercial Internet Archive The Man Who Could Cheat Death 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive The Court Jester 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive Juvenile Jungle [1958] - Trailer 1958 · Commercial Planned kidnapping goes awry when gang leader falls for the victim. Internet Archive Varietease 1954 · Commercial Internet Archive 1953 The Caddy (1989 Cinemax) 1953 · Film Broadcast recorded to VHS Internet Archive Female on the Beach 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive The Rifleman 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive The Barefoot Contessa 1954 · Commercial Internet Archive Elevator to the Gallows 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive Dial M for Murder 1954 · Commercial Internet Archive The African Queen 1952 · Commercial Internet Archive The Man from Planet X 1951 · Commercial Internet Archive 1958 Mon Oncle (1992 Bravo) 1958 · Film Broadcast recorded to VHS Internet Archive Pork Chop Hill 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive The Giant Claw 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive Moby Dick 1956 · Commercial Internet Archive The Abominable Snowman 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive Trailer for The Man In The White Suit 1951 · Commercial · 2 min Theatrical trailer for a 1951 British film. Internet Archive 1955 Artists And Models (1989 Cinemax) 1955 · Film Broadcast recorded to VHS Internet Archive D.O.A. 1950 · Commercial Internet Archive Theatrical trailer for Dial M For Murder 1954 · Commercial · 2 min Theatrical trailer for the 1954 American film set in London. Internet Archive Blood of Dracula 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive 20 Million Miles to Earth 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive The Big Heat 1953 · Commercial