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913–960 of 21,552 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 Ones | Films for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool. |
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| Kids | Cartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature. |
| Tweens | Documentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures. |
| Teens | Everything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower. |
| Adult | Sexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage. |
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Blood And Black Lace 1964
A masked, shadowy killer stalks and brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.
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Kanotocht op De Swalm
kort filmpje over een kano-tocht over De Swalm; zo staat het althans op het filmblik. Film is opgenomen begin jaren '60 en komt uit de nalatenschap van…
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Mao Tse Tung
Mao Tse Tung Introduces secondary school students to the career of Marco Polo, showing how he, as a lad of 17, set out from Venice for the empire of the…
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That Girl (1966-71) ABC, first single-girl-in-the-city Sitcom
That Girl (1966-71) ABC, first single-girl-in-the-city Sitcom - 30 of 136 eps Marlo Thomas, Ted Bessell, Bonnie Scott, Warren Berlinger, Dabney Coleman, Dick…
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Missile Named Mac, A
Summary: A Missile Named Mac is an animated Bell Telephone Laboratories film that explains how modern electronics guide an intercontinental ballistic missile…
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Hangman
A parable about the consequences of being a bystander to evil, from a disturbing poem by Maurice Ogden, read by Herschel Bernardi. Shadows and shifting…
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Excerpt from 'Art Linkletter's House Party'
Excerpt from the TV series "Art Linkletter's House Party", featuring guest Lucille Ball. I'm hoping to find some complete episodes, but this excerpt is all…
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Juan Colorado( 1966)
Juan, a charro from northern Mexico, is in love with young Silvia, but her father wants her to marry Rafael, who filled with envy and jealousy wants to do…
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Search for Zest, The
00:02:01:06 CU elevator door open to CU to depressed man’s face wearing Malcolm X 1960s style glasses; Audio track “Boredom is this man’s problem. Boredom at…
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Consumers Want to Know (Part I)
Inside the testing labs of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports.
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Les Enquêtes De Maigret - Ep 09 - La Nuit Du Carrefour
Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret est une série télévisée française en 88 épisodes, dont 18 en noir et blanc, d'une durée de 90 minutes en moyenne, créée…
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Boredom at Work: The Empty Life
The film explores the issue of boredom and how it affects different characters. The main character, Hugh, goes to a doctor seeking help for his boredom. The…
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The Andy Griffith Show - Opie and the Spoiled Kid in 3D
The Andy Griffith Show, Season 3, Episode 21: Opie and the Spoiled Kid. Air Date February 18, 1963. When a spoiled kid moves to town, he thinks he can walk…
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What Really Happened to Baby Jane? (1963) Drag Parody
Spearheaded by filmmaker Ray Harrison, the Gay Girls Riding Club (GGRC) took California’s 1960s underground gay scene by storm with drag spoofs of classic…
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Blindfold
"Blindfold" is a 1965 American comedy-thriller film directed by Philip Dunne and starring Rock Hudson and Claudia Cardinale. In the movie, Rock Hudson plays…
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Susuz Yaz, Turkish Movie
Susuz Yaz, Turkish Movie https://www.tsa.org.tr/en/film/filmgoster/6438/susuz-yaz
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Branded
Branded is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1965 through 1966. It was sponsored by Procter & Gamble in its Sunday night, 8:30 p.m.…
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Turkey: A Nation in Transition
Summarizes Turkish history. Surveys modern Turkey from the days of Kemal Ataturk to the present. Describes the progress Turkey has made.
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Beech-Nut Baby Food Commercial
Beech-Nut Baby Food TV Commercial
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[Home Movies: San Francisco and Pacific Coast Highway, 1962]
Shot from plane landing in SFO; POV from automobile driving up US 101 from SF airport to downtown; Golden Gate Bridge; cable cars; drive down south along…
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Pursuit Of Profit
Presents a survey of independent businesses to show how free enterprise operates and contributes to the strength and stability of the country.
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The Nut House!!
An unsold pilot from 1964. A sketch comedy show. Produced by Jay Ward Productions for the CBS Television Network. Although not picked up, the pilot was…
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Missile Milestone. First Polaris Firing By Submerged U-Boat, 1960/07/21
Polaris missile loaded from truck to sub at Cape Canaveral, missile hatches opened on USS George Washington, missile fired 1100 miles to its target, then 2nd…
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[Funeral Procession for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from Ebenezer Baptist Church to Morehouse College, Atlanta, April 9, 1968]
Super 8 home movie showing mourners and marchers in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral procession, April 9, 1968. Many civil rights activists and national…
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Les Enquêtes De Maigret - Ep 06 - Félicie Est Là
Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret est une série télévisée française en 88 épisodes, dont 18 en noir et blanc, d'une durée de 90 minutes en moyenne, créée…
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Radiation Safety in Nuclear Energy Explorations
DEPICTS ACTIVITIES OF DIVISION OF RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH OF PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE SHOWING HEALTH PROGRAMS DESIGNED FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION. Shot in the…
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Department S - Complete Series 1970
Department S is a British spy-fi adventure series, produced by ITC Entertainment . It consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in 1969 and 1970. It…
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Carnival of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and…
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Communism In Action: Part One
Part 1 of a polemical political documentary detailing the birth and rise of Soviet-style Communism in the twentieth century. See item 201344 for Part 2.…
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes • And TV Remake
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes • and it's TV remake from 15 years later. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Wore…
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The Big Picture: D-Day Anniversary
Episode #762 of the TV show The Big Picture : "The original agency catalog description reads: Synopsis: Replays the drama and battle action of the period of…
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Help Wanted: Secretary
Driven to the psychiatrist's couch, a harried executive relates his traumatic search for the perfect secretary. His tale is illustrated by three humorous…
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Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm
Children visit their uncle's dairy farm.
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Drop Out, The
Depicts various factors that stimulate teenagers to drop out of school, using several case histories for illustration. Lists various reasons for dropping out,…
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Beyond the Law (1968)
"Beyond the Law" is a 1968 Spaghetti Western film directed by Giorgio Stegani, featuring Lee Van Cleef as a bandit who becomes a sheriff after robbing a…
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Devil By The Tail, The, Le Diable Par La Queue 1969
Another comedy with a very gentle sense of humor. Three generations of women inn keepers are facing a hard time due to lack of customers. The youngest…
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Day in America, A (Part II)
Patriotic mosaic of American scenes at the height of the Vietnam War.
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Cliché Family in Televisionland
This outrageous parody of the prototype 'commercial' family was apparently made as an in-house joke by one of the largest producers of television commercials.…
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''The Frank Sinatra Timex Show'' - 12 May 1960
This episode is also known "Frank Sinatra's Welcome Home Party for Elvis Presley", and was the forth in a series of specials hosted by Frank Sinatra. His…
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Damn the Defiant (1962)
"Damn the Defiant!" is a 1962 British naval war film set during the Napoleonic Wars, focusing on Captain Crawford, who faces a mutiny aboard the HMS Defiant…
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Dinah Shore New Years Eve 1961
Dinah Shore hosts a New Year's Eve special with guests Ginger Rogers, George Burns and Nat King Cole.
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Three to Get Ready: A Progress Report from BART
Shows stages in the construction of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit system.
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Misc. Stock Shots #1
1) The Type-A-Matic automatic typewriter (si); 2) Young Ted Kennedy debates a rival for Massachusetts senator; 3) Gordon Terry's new single (kinescope); 4)…
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Basic Brown, Basic Blue
Ever wonder how Matt Groening of 'The Simpsons' got his quirky sense of humor? Probably from his filmmaker dad, Homer Groening, who passed away in 1996.…
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One Eyed Jacks (1961)
Running from the law after a bank robbery in Mexico, Dad Longworth finds an opportunity to take the stolen gold and leave his partner Rio to be captured.…
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Rochester: A City of Quality
Presents a survey of the city of Rochester, N.Y., its history, culture and economic advantages. Explains the role of good planning in the city's development.
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The Outer Limits TV 1964 colorized s02e05 Demon with a Glass Hand
Several days ago, Trent (Robert Culp) awoke with no memory of his past. Since then, sinister men have pursued him constantly. He manages to stay one step…
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Censorship: A Question of Judgment?
Discusses two basic issues--whether or not it is good reporting or good taste to print in a high school newspaper a picture of a fight involving students, and…