The world's archives

289–336 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 Fighter, The 1952 · Feature · 1 h 18 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Big Combo 1955 · Feature · 1 h 23 min Because a reviewer stated that the audio is out of sync with the video, here's a link to a different transcoding that was derived from a different source… Internet Archive Studio One - There Was A Crooked Man 1950 · Feature · 56 min · Subtitles Season 2 Episode 41 Original Air Date 19 June 1950 CAST Robert Sterling Charles Korvin Virginia Gilmore Richard Purdy Ann Shoemaker Harry Cooke Marion Scanlon… Internet Archive The Crawling Eye 1958 colorized (Forrest Tucker) 1958 · Feature A UN scientist (Forrest Tucker) is invited to a remote observatory in the Swiss Alps to investigate a strange radioactive cloud. He encounters a young woman… Internet Archive It Came From Beneath the Sea 1955 · Feature A giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench to terrorize the North American Pacific Coast. Internet Archive Man in the Attic 1953 · Feature · 1 h 22 min With Jack the Ripper killing women in the Whitechapel district of London, people are on edge. Enter the mysterious Mr. Slade who arrives at the home of Helen… Internet Archive The White-Haired Girl (白毛女) 1950 · Feature · 1 h 46 min · Subtitles One of the most well-known feature films from soon after the foundation of the People's Republic of China, based on a Chinese opera by the same name. Internet Archive Never Wave At A WAC 1953 · Feature · 1 h 25 min Rosalind Russell plays a divorced socialite who joins the army in an effort to see more of her boyfriend. Internet Archive Young Man's Fancy (Part II) 1952 · Short · 14 min · Subtitles Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot pits a… Internet Archive Wonderful World of Wash 'n' Wear, The 1958 · Short · 22 min · Subtitles Synthetic fabrics plus electric laundry equipment make washday a pleasure. Host: Jeffrey Lynn. Internet Archive How Do You Know It's Love? 1950 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles Gives students a basis for thinking clearly about real love and shows that mere conviction of love is not enough to insure lasting happiness. A drama. Internet Archive Report on Puerto Rico, U.S.A. 1955 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Promotes the social and economic benefits of commonwealth status for Puerto Rico. Internet Archive Beginning to Date 1953 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles An insecure young teen boy who has just reached dating age learns how to plan and enjoy a date (with a girl at least one foot taller than him). With Studs… Internet Archive You Asked For It - BelaLugosi 1952 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles This is a rare episode of "You Asked For It", a program that originated in 1950 on the Du Mont Network, moved to the ABC network in the mid 50s, where it was… Internet Archive Road Runners 1952 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Outlaw hotrodders become law-abiding gearheads after a community organizes supervised racing clubs and timing associations. Internet Archive Malta Story 1953 · Feature Title: Malta Story Summary: In World War II, the island of Malta, strategically located and vital to supply lines in the Mediterranean Sea, is fiercely… Internet Archive The Browning Version 1951 · Feature · Subtitles Title: The Browning Version Summary: Forced to retire from an English public school, an unpopular professor must confront his failure as a teacher and… Internet Archive Martin Luther (1953) 1953 · Feature In 1505, Martin Luther (Niall MacGinnis) abandons his law studies to become a monk. After being ordained a priest, Luther grows increasingly troubled by the… Internet Archive Going Steady? 1951 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Attempts to provoke teens into discussion on the complex issue of going steady. Provides little support for the practice. Internet Archive Peter Gunn - Lets Kill Timothy 1959 · Short · 25 min Season One Episode 17 (19 January 1959) After a Jewel robbery, a very nervous man hires Gunn to protect someone named Timothy from being murders. Gunn finds… Internet Archive Tokyo File 212 1951 · Feature · 1 h 23 min · Subtitles From IMDb; A Communist spy ring in Japan is hard at work trying to sabotage the American war effort during the Korean War, using kidnapping, murder and a… Internet Archive Groom Wore Spurs, The 1951 · Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles From Imdb; Lawyer Ginger Rogers is hired to keep dumb cowboy Jack Carson out of trouble. Stars: Ginger Rogers, Jack Carson and Joan Davis Internet Archive Control Your Emotions 1950 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Well-balanced emotions help to create a well-rounded personality, especially in teenagers. Internet Archive Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Shy Ballerina 1954 · TV · 27 min · Subtitles The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "The Case of the Shy Ballerina" Originally aired November 22, 1954. A simple case of mistakenly switched coats suddenly… Internet Archive The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950) 1950 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles Reporters gather as a young man who may be innocent waits to be the first in the prison's history to be killed by the electric chair. Internet Archive The Adventures of Dr Fu Manchu S1E9 1956 · Short · 26 min · Subtitles An Episode of the Fu Manchu TV Series "The Death Ships of Fu Manchu" (air date - Oct 29 1956) Starring Glen Gordon as Fu Manchu and Lester Matthews as Nayland… Internet Archive Revolutionary New Triumph in Tape, A 1958 · Short · 14 min · Subtitles Introducing the giant four-track tape cartridge, an obsolete consumer recording format that survived for eight years. Internet Archive Sherlock Holmes - The Case of Lady Beryl 1954 · TV · 27 min · Subtitles The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes "The Case of Lady Beryl" Originally aired October 25, 1954. Lady Beryl admits to a crime she did not commit. Holmes not… Internet Archive The Last Time I Saw Paris 1954 · Feature UPDATE This movie has been re-uploaded, you can find it here: The Last Time I Saw Paris NOTE: Apparently this is another movie that didn't fully upload for… Internet Archive Popeye: Greek Mirthology 1954 · Cartoon · 6 min From The Public Domain Movie Database: Popeye tells his four nephews the story of his great Uncle Hercules in order to get them to eat spinach. Internet Archive Bigamist, The 1953 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Father Brown The Detective (1954 Mys. Detec. Alec Guiness) 1954 · Feature · 1 h 31 min PLOT : Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.… Internet Archive Marriage Is a Partnership 1951 · Short · 15 min · Subtitles Flashback on the problems, adjustments and transformations occurring in the first year of a couple's married life. Internet Archive Town and the Telephone, The 1950 · Short · 27 min · Subtitles Employee orientation film for telephone company workers explaining structure and corporate values of the Bell System. With excellent footage of communications… Internet Archive Panther Panchali ( Apu Trilogy Pt. 1) 1955 · Feature With the release in 1955 of Satyajit Ray’s debut, Pather Panchali, an eloquent and important new cinematic voice made itself heard all over the world. A… Internet Archive Television Commercials (1950s-1960s) 1950 · Commercial · 24 min · Subtitles Examples of broadcast advertising from the 1950s and 1960s. Internet Archive The Abominable Snowman 1957 colorized (Peter Cushing) 1957 · Feature An English botanist (Peter Cushing) studying rare herbs at a remote lamasery in the Himalayas joins an expedition to find the legendary Yeti, against the… Internet Archive Office Etiquette 1950 · Short · 14 min · Subtitles Do's and don'ts film portraying ways in which office etiquette contributes to success in office relationships. Follows a young woman who is seeking her first… Internet Archive Age 13 (Part I) 1955 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles The inner life of an "at-risk" teenager, told in an idiosyncratic and often surreal manner. A key film by Sid Davis, who is beginning to emerge as one of the… Internet Archive The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail 1952 · Feature The fourth film from Akira Kurosawa is based on a legendary twelfth-century incident in which the lord Yoshitsune and a group of samurai retainers dressed as… Internet Archive Nation at Your Fingertips, The 1951 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles How direct long distance dialing made the U.S. a smaller place, and how instantaneous direct communication between Americans without operator assistance… Internet Archive White Wonder 1958 · Short · 27 min · Subtitles Salt, its extraction and uses in national defense, industry, agriculture, and the home. A feast of late-1950s imagery of everyday life, culture and industry. Internet Archive The Life Of Oharu 1952 · Feature A peerless chronicler of the soul who specialized in supremely emotional, visually exquisite films about the circumstances of women in Japanese society, Kenji… Internet Archive Popeye: Gopher Spinach 1954 · Cartoon · 6 min From The Public Domain Movie Database: Popeye tries to rid his garden of a gopher, in the end the gopher saves Popeye from a bull. Internet Archive The Sun Sets At Dawn 1950 · Feature · 1 h 11 min From IMDb : "A young man is wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed. Reporters covering the execution relate the story, each from his own perspective."… Internet Archive Working Dollars 1957 · Film · Subtitles Many people, like Mr. Finchley, the hero of this film, may have wondered how to go about owning a share of American business, or about the new "pay-as-you-go"… Internet Archive Only The Valiant (widescreen) 1951 · Feature · Subtitles 1951 directed by Gordon Douglas starring Gregory Peck, Ward Bond, Neville Brand, Gig Y oung, Lon Chaney Jr., Jeff Corey, Warner Anderson, Barbara Payton,… Internet Archive A is for Atom 1953 · Film · Subtitles Presents in lay terms what an atom is, how energy is released from certain kinds of atoms, the peace-time uses of atomic energy and the by-products of nuclear…