The world's archives

1,585–1,632 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 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 Twilight Zone "Next Week" Promos (Season 5, 1963-64) 1963 · TV Clips of Rod Serling teasing/previewing next week's Twilight Zone episode, as originally seen on the network TV first-run episode broadcasts. S5E02 - "Steel"… Internet Archive 1966 Zontar The Thing From Venus - VOSE 1966 · TV Película realizada en 1966 para la televisión. Ciencia ficción. Subtítulos en español Internet Archive Pop Goes The Whistle 1960 · Commercial Is somebody crazy? Pop Goes the Whistle. Internet Archive President Tours. Kennedy Inspects Nuclear Bases, 1962/12/10 1962 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) JFK arrives at Omaha underground command post; helicopter to Los Alamos (2) snow storm hits East (partial newsreel) Internet Archive The Great religions: Buddhism. 1962 · Educational · 16 min · Subtitles French version released under the title Les grandes religions: Le bouddhisme Producer, James Beveridge; writer and editor, David Millar; animation, Pierre… Internet Archive ''Dream House'' - Misc episode 1968 · TV · 28 min · Subtitles A 1968 episode of game show "Dream House". Complete with original commercials (since this is a daytime show, it features more ads than a prime-time show, but… Internet Archive Have a healthy baby 1969 · Educational · 18 min · Subtitles A brief survey of human reproduction, particularly the sequence of development of the embryo and possibilities of damage Search Educational Film Journals at… Internet Archive Five Minutes to Live (1961) 1961 · Feature A guitar playing killer terrorizes a housewife while his partner robs the bank where her husband works. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive ''The Dinah Shore Show'' - 17 March 1963 1963 · TV · 59 min · Subtitles Dinah Shore, Ella Fitzgerald and Joan Sutherland in an hour-long presentation of music, complete with the original commercials for S&H Green Stamps. Internet Archive Missile Bases. Castro Balks At U.N. Team, 1962/11/01 1962 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) U Thant returns to NY from meeting with Castro regarding Cuban Missile Crisis, speaks to press (2) Salinger at White House (partial newsreel). Internet Archive Black history: Lost, stolen or strayed [Part 1] 1968 · Educational · 28 min · Subtitles This is a dramatic and searching examination of the confrontation between black and white. Narrated by Bill Cosby, the film reviews black American… Internet Archive Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964) 1964 · Feature Hercules is summoned to oppose the evil Queen Samara, who has allied herself with aliens and is sacrificing her own people in a bid to awaken a moon goddess.… Internet Archive As the World Turns - March 31, 1961 1961 · TV · 27 min · Subtitles This is an episode of the CBS-TV soap opera "As the World Turns". Most of the commercials intact, please note that as a daytime series it features more… Internet Archive Discovering the music of Africa. 1967 · Educational · 18 min · Subtitles Explores the rhythmic music of bells, rattles, and drums and shows how they are used today in Africa both as musical instruments and as a means of… Internet Archive Understanding Stresses and Strains 1968 · Educational With study guide Producer, Ken Peterson; director, Les Clark Discusses the mental side of the health triangle, emphasizing how the pressures and worries of… Internet Archive Sound Waves 1969 · Educational Examines the nature of sound waves and demonstrates how to measure the speed of sound and diffraction and interference of sound waves. Internet Archive ''Ozzie And Harriet'' - Little House Guest 1961 · TV · 24 min · Subtitles An episode of the long-running half-hour sitcom. In this episode, Ozzie is friends with a young kid. When the kid's parents are at the hospital with a new… Internet Archive The Big Picture: The Cobra Strikes 1965 · TV · 29 min · Subtitles The episode 10 of the mini series "Army in Action" chronicles the events leading up to the Korean War, the conduct of the war from 1950 to 1953, and the… Internet Archive Have Gun Will Travel TV 1961 colorized s04e35 The Cure 1961 · TV Martha Jane Conroy (Norma Crane) is at rock bottom. With the help of her old friend Paladin (Richard Boone), she tries to recoup some losses from her former… Internet Archive Angela Lansbury: "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1968) 1968 · TV Angela Lansbury performs the title song to the film "Thoroughly Modern Millie" on a television broadcast (possibly on the ABC television show "The Hollywood… Internet Archive ''Camouflage'' - 8 January 1962 1962 · TV · 28 min · Subtitles An episode of the short-lived US game show "Camouflage". Johnny Gilbert is substitute guest host of this episode. Complete with the original commercials (note… Internet Archive Daikyojû Gappa (1967) 1967 · Feature An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground… Internet Archive Tiros II Weatherman Satellite In Orbit Around Earth, 1960/11/24 1960 · Newsreel · Subtitles 1) (poor quality) Thor Delta rocket launched in California carrying Tiros II weather satellite, with 2 TV cameras, in orbit 400 miles out, animation,… Internet Archive Body of the Prey (1967) 1967 · Feature A mad scientist creates man eating creatures from carnivorous plants. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/body-of-the-prey-1967/ Internet Archive La collina degli stivali (1969) 1969 · Feature Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Extraña Ternura (1964) 1964 · Feature Extraña ternura es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Daniel Tinayre sobre el guion de Eduardo Borrás según la novela Cette etrange… Internet Archive Assignment Underwater 1960 · TV The series stars prolific B-movie actor Bill Williams and Diane Mountford. Williams played Bill Greer, the skipper aboard a charter boat named The Lively Lady… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Croft Collection: Can 82: Small Plane] 1960 · Home movie · Subtitles title at head: "Robert Takes Phyllis for an Airplane Ride -- Detroit Metro Airport, Oct. 30, 1960" This is a lackluster reel compared to the rest of the Croft… Internet Archive History At U.N. World Leaders Set New York A-Whirl , 1960/09/26 1960 · Newsreel · Subtitles (1) World leaders in New York for UN meeting, Nasser meets Castro, then to Khrushchev, to Castro at Harlem's Hotel Theresa, Ike waves from convertible, meets… Internet Archive Burke's Law TV 1963 colorized s01e02 Who Killed Mr. X 1963 · TV A body turns up at a merry-go-round. There are no identifying papers on the body and the labels have been removed from the man's clothing. The few clues… Internet Archive Target Luna 1960 1960 · TV Target Luna was a British television serial broadcast by ABC Weekend TV in April 1960. It was written by Malcolm Hulke and Eric Paice, directed by Adrian… Internet Archive Take A Good Look 1960 · Film · Subtitles Internet Archive The Graham Kennedy Show - 19 February 1960 1960 · TV · 55 min · Subtitles Australian variety show with local and overseas performers. Contains the original commercials. A kinescope recording. Produced by station GTV-9 in Melbourne.… Internet Archive 2,000-MPH Jet. Johnson Reveals U.S. Super Plane, 1964/03/02 1964 · Newsreel · Subtitles LBJ press conference, 1st since taking office 100 days ago, speaks about the A-11, tested at 2,000 mph, at 70,000 ft - still pictures of the A-11 - used… Internet Archive I, Leonardo Da Vinci 1966 · Educational · 51 min · Subtitles I, Leonardo Da Vinci reel 2 Film biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the great Renaissance man, points out the enormous influence of his ideas and innovations as… Internet Archive Um Clássico, Dois Em Casa, Nenhum Jogo Fora (1968) 1968 · Feature Um Clássico, Dois Em Casa, Nenhum Jogo Fora (1968) Internet Archive Have Gun Will Travel TV 1962 colorized s06e18 Bob Wire 1963 · TV Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by a man (Woodrow Parfrey) to escort his wagon load of barbed wire. What he doesn't say until they arrive at their… Internet Archive Ercole l'invincibile (1964) 1964 · Feature Hercules battles to save the population from a giant dragon. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/ercole-linvincibile-1964/ Internet Archive ''The Dinah Shore Chevy Show'' - 24 January 1960 1960 · TV · 59 min · Subtitles An episode of Dinah Shore's hour-long variety show. Guests include Carl Reiner, Pearl Bailey, and Ingemar Johansson. Broadcast on NBC. Note: this was… Internet Archive The Big Spender (Window on Main Street) 1961 · TV · 25 min · Subtitles Robert Young (as Cameron Garrett Brooks) in his next series after "Father Knows Best". aired 20 November 1961 Season 1; Episode 8 [The "MPEG4" file is the… Internet Archive Ufa Con El Sexo (1968) 1968 · Feature ¡Ufa con el sexo! es una película de Argentina dirigida por Rodolfo Kuhn , según su propio guion escrito sobre la obra de teatro Hip Hip Ufa de Dalmiro Sáenz… Internet Archive The Mysterious Package (1960) 1960 · Feature A mechanical monster from outer space has been kidnapping the little boys of Mouseville and is sending them to his hideout on an unknown planet. The town's… Internet Archive Johnny Midnight: The Single 1960 · TV · 25 min · Subtitles Season 1, Episode 31 2 Aug. 1960 39 episodes of Johnny Midnight were aired; the copyrights of 38 were renewed. This seems to be the one episode that is in the… Internet Archive The Devil's Hand (1961) 1961 · Feature A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult. Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive Los Siete de la Raza 1969 · Educational (Newsreel #39) "A film about the oppression of the Latino community, living in the Mission district of San Francisco. It deals specifically with the case of… Internet Archive Voodoo Mission 1965 · Short · 10 min This film introduces the McDonnell RF-101 Voodoo Internet Archive 'Somebody To Love' Jefferson Airplane In Studio, AB June 3 1967 720p 1967 · TV AB clip - June 3, 1967. 'Somebody To Love' by Jefferson Airplane, in studio. Plus Dick Clark interview with Jefferson Airplane, on American Bandstand, June 3,… Internet Archive Nature's Strangest Creatures 1963 · Educational · 14 min Nature's Strangest Creatures Early childhood play reflects environment and home life. Close family relationships also emphasized.