The world's archives

9,505–9,552 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 Bloody Brood [1959] - Trailer 1959 · Commercial Two beatniks get their kicks by dealing drugs and violence. Internet Archive The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive The Big Combo 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive Teenage Caveman 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive Day the World Ended 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive Decameron Nights 1953 · Commercial Internet Archive Roman Holiday 1953 · Commercial Internet Archive Creature with the Atom Brain 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive The Undead 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 · Commercial Internet Archive The Red Skelton Show 1951 · Commercial Internet Archive The Flying Saucer 1950 · Commercial Internet Archive Invasion of the Body Snatchers 1956 · Commercial Internet Archive The Revenge of Frankenstein 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive The Hound of the Baskervilles 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive 8209 MOBILE ARMY SURGICAL HOSPITAL (MASH) 1951 · Educational 8209 MOBILE ARMY SURGICAL HOSPITAL (MASH) Produced: July 1, 1951 https://catalog.archives.gov/id/23300 Internet Archive Hercules Unchained 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive A Hole in the Head 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive A Night to Remember 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive Solomon and Sheba 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive High Noon 1952 · Commercial Internet Archive Alias Jesse James 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive Annie Oakley 1954 · Commercial Internet Archive Trailer for West of Zanzibar 1954 · Commercial · 2 min Theatrical trailer for the 1954 British film. Internet Archive Marty 1955 · Commercial Internet Archive Girls in Prison 1956 · Commercial Internet Archive House on Haunted Hill 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive The Giant of Marathon 1959 · Commercial A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army. Internet Archive The Angry Red Planet 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive Broken Arrow 1950 · Commercial Internet Archive Blood of Dracula 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive War and Peace 1956 · Commercial Internet Archive Teenagers from Outer Space 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive Indiscreet 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive Teenagers from Outer Space 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive The Flying Saucer 1950 · Commercial Internet Archive Macabre 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive Zombies of the Stratosphere 1952 · Commercial Internet Archive Solomon and Sheba 1959 · Commercial Internet Archive Trailer for Noose For A Lady 1953 · Commercial · 1 min Theatrical trailer for a 1953 British crime drama film. Internet Archive The Man Who Knew Too Much 1956 · Commercial Internet Archive The Tin Star 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive 20 Million Miles to Earth 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive Fear and Desire 1953 · Commercial Internet Archive Daughter of Dr. Jekyll 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive The Vikings 1958 · Commercial Internet Archive Monster from Green Hell 1957 · Commercial Internet Archive 3:10 to Yuma 1957 · Commercial