The world's archives
3,025–3,072 of 22,400 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. Nothing is left out for being sexual: sexual content and nudity are for adults, placed by what the archive files a film as, never by a word of its title alone (The Naked City is a police film). A film filed as pornography is listed for adults without its picture and plays nowhere yet, as the law where it would play asks for a proof of age this site does not have. A sexual depiction of a child, drawn ones too, is listed nowhere.
| 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 content, pornography, nudity and nudism, striptease, sexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, beheadings, atrocity footage. |
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The Secretary: A Normal Day
Follows a secretary through a normal day in a modern office, emphasizing the personal qualities of self-direction, tact, willingness to learn, judgment, and…
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Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 67 12 31 2 16 Eddie Albert, Judy Collins, Irish Rovers
Timecoded, broadcast version of S2E16 of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" as prepared (with original commercials) for CBS. From a damaged tape source. It…
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Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 68 11 24 3 09 Tony Randall, Jennifer Warren (Warnes), Ed Sullivan
Broadcast version of S3E09 of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" as prepared (with original commercials) for CBS, recorded on September 13, 1968, and…
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Angiosperms: The Flowering Plants
With teachers guide Collaborator, Howard Arnott Examines the structural and reproductive characteristics which distinguish the angiosperms from other…
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Death
Examines some of the customs associated with death in different societies Camera, John Hooper ; film editor, Peter Evans
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The Great Toy Robbery
Producer, Wolf Koening, Bob Verrall ; Director, Jeff Hale ; Story, Derek Lamb ; Animation, Jeff Hale, Cameron Guese ; Music, Don Douglas An animated cartoon…
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Fiber Optics
Fiber Optics Spotlights the remarkable achievements of a quartet of great film pioneers--Edwin S. Porter, George Melies, Thomas H. Ince and D.W. Griffith.
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Diver Dan: Ep 18 The Trap
Ep 18 The Trap from the 1961 series Diver Dan
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Free at Last (1965)
Free at Last (1965) Examines early childhood education and its role in a school-oriented society. Considers the relationship between theories of education and…
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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (1966)
Uses animation, sound, and color to demonstrate the basic working principles of nuclear magnetic resonance, the operation of the analytical instrument, and…
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Un Muchacho Como Yo (1968)
Un muchacho como yo es una película de Argentina filmada en colores dirigida por Enrique Carreras sobre el guion de Ariel Cortazzo según argumento de Manuel…
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Diver Dan: Ep 19 The Trap Is Sprung
Ep 19 The Trap Is Sprung from the series Diver Dan
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Time Dilation : An Experiment With Mu-Mesons
Depicts an experiment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and on top of Mt Washington, New Hampshire, using radioactive decay of cosmic ray mu-mesons to…
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The Blood Beast Terror 1968
In 19th century London, macabre murders shock the local countryside.
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Everybody's prejudiced
Credits: Producer, Peter Jones; director, Donald Brittain; script, Donald Brittain; music, Eldon Rathburn; cameraman, Robert Humble; film editor, John KemenyA…
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61 12 24 The Jack Benny Program S 12e 10 Christmas Party
To prove he's not a cheapskate, Jack throws a Christmas party for his cast and crew; he even hands out surprise gifts. Frank Nelson, there with his "wife,"…
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Le Palais De Versailles
Lesson 84 in Encyclopaedia Britannica's 'Je Parle Français' French language instruction series of 1961. Austere in its grandeur, this most Gallic of films…
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Friendship 7
This 58-minute movie depicts events of the day when astronaut John Glenn orbited the Earth three times. It documents Project Mercury and offers a look at the…
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La Boda (1964)
Pelicula
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Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour 68 10 27 3 04 David Steinberg, The Everly Brothers, Jack E. Leonard
Timecoded, broadcast version of S3E04 of "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" as prepared (with original commercials) for CBS. It has been uploaded for…
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Home Movie: 10806: New York Central and New Haven Railroad Electric Operations
Label on can states: N.Y.C. N.Y. N.H. & H. Electric Operations July 1961.
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Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Episode 10: Herbert Manana
South African singer, dancer, songwriter Herbert Manana sings and dances several African songs including "Zula", "Wimoweh" and "Tinasizsw" (We Africans).…
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61 04 02 The Jack Benny Program S 11e 24 Variety Show
Jack introduces newcomer Ann-Margret and George Burns walks out. Since Jack saw her in Burns' Vegas show, he wants to introduce her. She performs "I Ain't Got…
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Shakespeare: Soul of an Age
Narrator, Ralph Richardson Pictures various landmarks which were significant in the life of William Shakespeare and which invoke the atmosphere of the age of…
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Doing Business in a Revolution
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China's industrial revolution
Intended audience:Junior high school through adult Contrasts pre-1949, agrarian China with the industrially oriented regime of the 1960's. Surveys problems of…
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A Car Is Born
Tells the story of the automobile, showing the manufacture of the parts of a car and the details of the assembly line. We digitized and uploaded this film…
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Pete Seeger's Rainbow Quest, Episode 35: Children from the Downtown Community School
Children from the Downtown Community School, whom Pete Seeger hosted earlier in episode 7, sing and dance with Seeger playing "Skip to My Lou," "Beans in Your…
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Diver Dan: Ep 17 Horaces Dilemma
Ep 17 Horaces Dilemma from the 1961 series Diver Dan
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[Home Movies: Croft Collection: Reel 80, House Ext and Int]
John F. Kennedy campaign rally in Cadillac Square, downtown Detroit
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Anatomy of a Lie
Presents the background story and exposes the outrageous lies in the anti-labor national right-to-work committee film. This film can be purchased on DVD and…
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Alias Gardelito (1961)
Alias Gardelito es una película argentina en blanco y negro, dirigida por el chileno Lautaro Murúa , e interpretada por Alberto Argibay y Walter Vidarte .…
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El Centroforward Murio Al Amanecer(1961)
El centroforward murió al amanecer es una película argentina dramática en blanco y negro de 1961 dirigida por René Mugica y protagonizada por Luis Medina…
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La Culpa ( 1969)
La culpa es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Kurt Land según el guion de Ariel Cortazzo que se estrenó el 30 de abril de 1969 y que…
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Un Soltero En Apuros(1964)
Un soltero en apuros es una película hecha en coproducción entre Argentina y Venezuela dirigida por Alberto Du Bois , según un guion de Pastor y Rojas, la…
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Day after Day (1962)
Day after Day (1962) Covers events surrounding the Dec. 7, 1941 bombing of the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by the Japanese.
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The Beverly Hillbillies - Meanwhile, Back At The Cabin S01 E03
TV-PG Comedy : Family (TV Episode) Filmways Television , CBS Television Network : The Clampetts find that the comforts of the mansion do not always compare to…
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1969 400 m IFF
IFF is the name for the available, already superimposed film material, from which approximately 400 m where used for this film and the rest for "Social…
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60 03 06 The Jack Benny Program S 10e 12 Natalie Wood Robert Wagner Show
Jack badgers network executives into letting him direct an episode of their prestigious drama series Playhouse 90 . Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner are the…
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The Blue Dashiki
With teacher's guide Collaborator, Roach Van Allen Also issued in b & w Follows the adventures of a young boy as he seeks to earn money in order to buy a…
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Diver Dan: EP 30 Secret Of The Throne
EP 30 Secret Of The Throne from the 1961 series Diver Dan
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Lu Ryden interviews Robert Young on KNTV, circa 1969
Lu Ryden interviews actor Robert Young on a segment from Ryden's show on San Jose's KNTV Channel 11. Young talks about his role on the television show Marcus…
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Mark Twain Gives an Interview
Hal Holbrook's classic impersonation of Mark Twain is re-created in this interview with the author of some of the most beloved and widely-read works in…
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Psychopath
Filmed at Verdun Protestant Hospital, Montreal Consultant, H.E. Lehmann ; editor, Fergus McDonell Interviewer and commentator: H.B. Durost A study of…
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Toys
French version released under the title Jouets Producer and director, Grant Munro; scenario, Margaret Westcott; camera, Jean Roy, Paul Leach; editor, Roy…
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Diver Dan: Ep 32 The Strange Fish
Ep 32 The Strange Fish from the 1961 series Diver Dan
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Communication Revolution
"Presents Edgar Dale, Marshall McLuhan, Gilbert Seldes, and I. Keith Tyler in a lively discussion of the impact of the information explosion and the mass…
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067. Campionat d'Espanya de Vela - El Masnou (1969)
Reportatge sobre les regates de vela de la classe 470 que tingueren lloc al Masnou el 1969, promocionat pel Club Náutico Masnou. Images on the sailing…