The world's archives

97–144 of 18,883 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 Sherlock Holmes - The Man Who Disappeared (Failed Pilot) 1951 · Feature · Subtitles Failed pilot for a proposed British Sherlock Holmes series starring John Longdon (Hitchcock's "Blackmail" and "The Skin Game") as Sherlock Holmes. Campbell… Internet Archive Rhythm and Blues Revue 1955 · Feature · 1 h 11 min Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie… Internet Archive Timetable (aka Time Table) 1956 · Feature · 1 h 20 min After the theft of $500,000 in a carefully executed train robbery, an insurance investigator (Mark Stevens, who also doubled as director and producer) is… Internet Archive Lady Says No 1952 · Feature · 1 h 22 min · Subtitles Features David Niven. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Yellowneck 1955 · Feature · 1 h 23 min 5 Confederate soldiers desert, make their way through the Everglades, against snakes, disease and all the other and try to make it to Cuba.The scenes that… Internet Archive All About Eve (1950) 1950 · Feature From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the reins of power away from the great actress Margo Channing.… Internet Archive The Big Trees 1952 · Feature · 1 h 29 min Title: The Big Trees Summary: A Quaker colony tries to save the giant sequoias from a timber baron. Directed by: Felix E. Feist Actors: Production Company:… Internet Archive Warning From Space 1956 · Feature · 1 h 27 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : UFO's are seen around Tokyo. Because they look like giant starfish the aliens cannot approach us without creating panic. Hence one of them… Internet Archive Teenage Devil Dolls 1955 · Feature · 58 min AKA One Way Ticket to Hell Pert and pretty high school teen Cassandra Leigh (Barbara Marks) opts for the easy life of a pot-smoking biker in order to avoid… Internet Archive Born to the Saddle 1951 · Feature · 1 h 14 min · Subtitles While investigating his father's death, a man become friendly with the rancher he thinks killed his father. You can find more information regarding this film… Internet Archive A is for Atom 1953 · Cartoon · 14 min · Subtitles Animated classic presenting what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peacetime uses of atomic energy and the byproducts of… Internet Archive Teenagers From Outer Space 1959 · Feature · 1 h 25 min · Subtitles A young alien (David Love) falls for a pretty teenage Earth girl (Dawn Anderson) and they team up to try to stop the plans of his invading cohorts. NOTE: This… Internet Archive I Killed Wild Bill Hickok 1956 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles Told in flashback, this is the story of the man that shot Wild Bill Hickok. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Atomic Man 1955 · Feature · 1 h 17 min A man is fished out of a river and taken to a hospital where he briefly dies. After he revives, it's discovered that he is a nuclear research scientist, has… Internet Archive Rocky Jones, Space Ranger - Crash of the Moons 1954 · Feature · 1 h 12 min Cruising the galaxy in his space ship "The Orbit Jet" Space Ranger, Rocky Jones (Richard Crane), Vena Ray (Sally Mansfield), Winky (Scotty Beckett) and 10… Internet Archive Popeye: Taxi-Turvy 1954 · Cartoon · 6 min Popeye and Bluto both run a taxi service. Bluto bullies Popeye and gets him to turn over all of his cab fares. Popeye eventually gets the better of Bluto.… Internet Archive Wild Women of Wongo, The 1958 · Feature · 1 h 12 min · Subtitles On the tropical island of Wongo, a tribe of beautiful women discover that the other side of the island is inhabited by a tribe of handsome men. They also… Internet Archive Day the Earth Stood Still 1951 colorized (Michael Rennie) 1951 · Feature When a flying saucer lands on the mall in Washington, DC, the lone occupant (Michael Rennie) is shot by a jumpy soldier. The wounded alien escapes and moves… Internet Archive Invisible Avenger 1958 · Feature · 57 min Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow (Richard Derr), investigates the murder of a New Orleans bandleader. Internet Archive Throne Of Blood 1957 · Feature A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood, directed by Akira Kurosawa, sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly,… Internet Archive Colgate Comedy Hour - Abbott and Costello and Company 1951 · Feature · 41 min · Subtitles This is the 7 January 1951 Episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour hosted by Abbott and Costello. IMDB page here . Internet Archive My Outlaw Brother 1951 · Feature · 1 h 22 min Mickey Rooney plays a young New Yorker who heads to the southwest to find his brother, only to find out that his former idol has changed significantly. Internet Archive The Killing (1956) 1956 · Feature The Killing is a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by James B. Harris. It was written by Kubrick and Jim Thompson and based on the novel… Internet Archive Indestructible Man 1955 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles Stars Lon Chaney Jr. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Go for Broke 1951 · Feature · 1 h 30 min · Subtitles The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II. Internet Archive Rage at Dawn 1955 · Feature · 1 h 27 min Terrorizing 1866 Indiana, the Reno brothers gang (The first train robbers in American history) uses the town of Seymour as a safe haven, paying off three… Internet Archive Suddenly 1954 · Feature · 1 h 15 min Three killers commandeer a house on a hill in order to terminate a politician. This is a sharper copy than the two versions that were already here. Internet Archive Popeye: Fright To The Finish 1954 · Cartoon · 6 min Popeye the Sailor and his arch enemy Bluto fight over Olive Oyl on Halloween. Animation by Al Eugster and William B. Pattengill. Music by Winston Sharples.… Internet Archive Captain Z-ro 1955 · Short · 25 min · Subtitles Captain Z-ro (starring and created by Roy Steffens) was a children's television space opera featuring the eponimous time traveller and his companion, Jet… Internet Archive Day of Thanksgiving, A 1951 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles An American family unable to afford a Thanksgiving turkey reviews the things for which they feel thankful. This patriotic film is unusual in that it does not… Internet Archive Mr. Imperium 1951 · Feature · 1 h 27 min Lana Turner plays the sexy nightclub singer that a European prince (Ezio Pinza) falls in love with, and although she's already got a boyfriend, she slowly… Internet Archive Popeye The Sailor Man: Ancient Fistory 1952 · Cartoon · 6 min A Cinderella like tale in which Olive is the princess and Popeye is the prince. Bluto is the shopowner brute who bullies Olive, only to get taught a lesson by… Internet Archive Raiders of Old California 1957 · Feature · 1 h 12 min Grand Ole Opry western with country western singers Faron Young and Marty Robbins. Evil former US Army officers threaten Mexican soldiers out of their land.… Internet Archive Two Dollar Bettor 1951 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles New to betting on the horses, a middle-aged man has good fortune at first and thinks that gambling is a good source of income. Then his luck turns. Finding… Internet Archive Popeye The Sailor: Big Bad Sinbad 1952 · Cartoon · 6 min Popeye takes nephews to the Nautical Museum and tells them a story about how he "knocked the tar out" of Sinbad, the greatest sailor in the world. Animation… Internet Archive Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla 1952 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Entertainers Duke Mitchell and Sammy Petrillo parachute into the jungles of the Pacific island of Cola-Cola, where they meet primitive tribesmen, the chief's… Internet Archive Killers From Space 1954 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles Attack by monsters from another planet! IMDB page Internet Archive Del odio nace el amor (The Torch) 1950 · Feature · 1 h 23 min A revolutionary and his band take over a small Mexican town. The townspeople begin to take sides over whether to fight him, join forces with him or just try… Internet Archive Jack and the Beanstalk 1952 · Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles Abbott and Costello's version of Jack and Beanstalk Internet Archive Date With Your Family, A 1950 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Advises children to do whatever is necessary -- even lie -- to achieve harmonious family relations. This portrait of manners among the affluent places a… Internet Archive The Bushwhackers 1952 · Feature · 1 h 6 min John Ireland stars as tired ex-soldier Jefferson Waring from Virginia, heading West without a gun and a vow to never use one against men again. Internet Archive The Hoodlum 1951 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles Lawrence Tierney plays an unreformed, hardened criminal who has just been released from prison. While working at his brother's gas station, he becomes very… Internet Archive The Violent Years 1956 · Feature · 56 min A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations,… Internet Archive The Green Glove 1952 · Feature · 1 h 28 min Title: The Green Glove Summary: An ex-soldier and his new girlfriend comb France for a valuable relic...which others are willing to kill for. Directed by:… Internet Archive Indestructible Man 1956 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles Betrayed by his fellow criminals, Lon Chaney, Jr. is executed, but has his chance for revenge when he is reanimated by a scientist. (This copy seems to have… Internet Archive Miracle on the Delaware 1955 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles Mid-Fifties slices of life and landscape in Philadelphia and surrounding towns. With excellent color footage of downtown scenes, neighborhoods, the Mummers… Internet Archive Chained for Life 1951 · Feature · 1 h 5 min A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do… Internet Archive Survival Under Atomic Attack 1951 · Short · 8 min · Subtitles "Explains" the dangers of the atomic bomb, the effects of radiation and how to protect oneself if caught in the open or in the home.