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3,889–3,936 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 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 content, pornography, nudity and nudism, striptease, sexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, beheadings, atrocity footage.
Internet Archive Brian Henderson's Bandstand - 28 January 1961 1961 · TV · 40 min An incomplete episode of an Australian pop music television series. Guests include Lonnie Lee, The GR's, Lionel Long, Wayne Cornell, The Lee Men, Judy Stone,… Internet Archive Ray Garner: Sumium, Greece 1963 · Educational · 11 min Outtakes from Ray Garner's NBC film "Greece: The Golden Age," filmed in Sumium, Greece. Internet Archive Home Movie: 98939: Maine, New York, Niagara Falls 1964 · Home movie Maine, New York, Niagara Falls. Internet Archive Herding Cattle on the Niger 1967 · Educational African village life, no. 5 CREDITS: Director and photographer, Hermann Schlenker SUMMARY: Illustrates the cattle dealing of the Peul (Fulani) nomads in… Internet Archive STORY OF STARS AND STRIPES, THE 1960 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 30125 STORY OF STARS AND STRIPES, THE HERBERT MITZGANG OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND FAMED COMMENTATOR BAUKHAGE TELL THE STORY OF THIS… Internet Archive Rising Two 1968 · Educational · 31 min Explains that at age two the child progresses from crawling to running and from single syllables to short sentences, and that he learns to play imaginative… Internet Archive Canuto Cañete y los 40 Ladrones (1964) [1080p] 1964 · Feature Canuto Cañete y los 40 Ladrones (1964) [1080p] Internet Archive Awareness 1969 · Educational · 26 min Traces the development of Buddhism from its origin 2,500 years ago, when a young prince struggled to achieve the highest reaches of human awareness. Includes… Internet Archive Never a Backward Step 1966 · Educational Producer, Guy Glover; photography, Paul Leach, Peter Hennessy, Martin Duckworth; authors, Donald Brittain, Arthur Hammond, John Spotton A portrait of Lord… Internet Archive Brian Henderson's Bandstand - 20 November 1965 1965 · TV · 54 min An episode of an Australian television pop music series. This episode is the third semi-final of the Starlight International contest. Guests include John… Internet Archive Brian Henderson's Bandstand - 7 September 1963 1963 · TV · 44 min An episode of an Australian television pop music series. Guests include the Bee Gees, Warren Williams, Noeleen Batley, De Kroo Brothers, Robyn Alvarez, Steve… Internet Archive The Shop Accident 1968 · Educational Eric Dancy, Laurie Aragon, Thomas Crandall, Jay Wells Dramatizes provisions of the 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act. Stresses sections important to… Internet Archive Silk Makers of Japan 1961 · Educational · 16 min The silk industry, as a vital economic contributor to Japan's prosperity. Silkworm culture is shown, including the hatching and raising of caterpillars to… Internet Archive Los Ratones (aka El Disconforme)(1965) 1965 · Feature Los ratones es una película de Argentina filmada en blanco y negro dirigida por Francisco Vasallo según su propio guion basado en la novela de su autoría que… Internet Archive Home Movie: 10807: Vacation to El Paso, Los Angeles and San Francisco 1961 · Home movie Can labeled: Vacation to El Paso, L.A. & S.F. 3-11 to 20-61 II. Internet Archive 060. Centenari del mestre Lluís Millet (1967) 1967 · Short Reportatge sobre l'acte de descobriment d'una placa posada a la casa d'el Masnou del mestre Lluís Millet, seguit de l'aplec que se li organitzà al Poble… Internet Archive Eleanor Roosevelt 1960 · Educational Eleanor Roosevelt speaks with William Atwood, senior editor of LOOK MAGAZINE, about political obligations of the citizen, practical mechanics of politics, her… Internet Archive Warm-Up to Psychodrama 1968 · Educational "Unrehearsed Group Behavior In An Actual Class." "With Abel K. Fink, Professor of Education." Producer, Frank Hengerer; director, Art Schaefer; chief… Internet Archive A Communication model. [motion picture] 1967 · Educational · 29 min Narrator, James C. Bostain Considers the ways a message is delivered and different ways it can be received or perceived. Explores the role of the perceiver… Internet Archive A Voice Cries Out 1966 · Educational · 28 min Pictures the sculpture and architecture of Florence, Italy. Reviews the history of the Medici family. Exposes the forces which encouraged and undermined the… Internet Archive Home Movie: 98963: Canadian Fishing Trip 1964 1964 · Home movie Reel 10. Canadian Fishing Trip 1964. Internet Archive Brian Henderson's Bandstand - 24 April 1963 1963 · TV · 38 min A heavily incomplete episode of an Australian television pop music series. Guests include Ron Polson, Robyn Alvarez, The Delltones, Patty Markham, the Bee… Internet Archive Brian Henderson's Bandstand - 24 December 1966 1966 · TV · 51 min An episode of an Australian television pop music series. This particular episode was filmed across several weeks on location at a ski resort in mid-1966, but… Internet Archive Automobile Tire Hydroplaning 1969 · Film Shows how and why automobile tires lose contact with wet pavements and the relationship between speed, tire wear and water depth. Emphasizes the dangers of… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Strawberry Ice Cream Cones (Copy 2)" 1968 · Educational SOUND FILMSTRIP IS AN AT-RISK MEDIA FORMAT. I am the only person on earth preserving American filmstrips. The media format is largely forgotten and very… Internet Archive Brian Henderson's Bandstand - 19 August 1963 1963 · TV · 45 min An episode of an Australian television pop music series. Guests include Colin Cooper, Robyn Alvarez, The Hi-Fi's, comedian Steve Stevenson, George Rich, the… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97198: Wisconsin Family Activities 1964 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Bleeding Hearts and Bone Breakers 1967 · Educational John Hurrell Crook, British anthropologist, studies the social organization of Gelada baboons in their natural state in the mountains of Ethiopia. Shows the… Internet Archive AMERICAN NAVY IN VIETNAM, THE 1967 · Educational Department of Defense PIN 25139 AMERICAN NAVY IN VIETNAM, THE A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF THE NAVAL MISSION IN VIETNAM, 1967. BOMBING AND MISSILE STRIKES, A… Internet Archive A HOUSE DIVIDED 1960 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration A HOUSE DIVIDED U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) SCENES FROM AMERICAN HISTORY, NO. 5 - A HOUSE… Internet Archive Anatomy of a Lie 1962 · Film Refutation of the National Right to Work Committee’s And Women Must Weep , an antiunion film dramatizing a strike in Princeton, Indiana, in 1956–57. Internet Archive EOC RADEF Operations 1967 · Film About emergency operations centers, RADEF (Radiation Defense) operations We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at… Internet Archive Disloque En El Presidio (1965) 1965 · Feature Disloque en el presidio es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Julio Saraceni según el guion de Abel Santa Cruz sobre el argumento de… Internet Archive El Campeon Soy Yo (1960) 1960 · Feature El campeón soy yo es una película en blanco y negro de Argentina dirigida por Virgilio Muguerza sobre el guion de Alberto Peyrou y Diego Santillán que se… Internet Archive BP Super Show - June Bronhill 1960 · TV · 25 min An incomplete episode of an Australian television variety series. In this episode opera singer June Bronhill sings. There's also a ballet sequence, and a… Internet Archive November 22nd and The Warren Report 1964 · Educational National Archives and Records Administration November 22nd and The Warren Report U.S. Information Agency. (1982 - 10/01/1999) ARC Identifier 50248 / Local… Internet Archive Debe's Tantrum 1966 · Educational Director, photographer, John Marshall Dilai has planned to gather sweet berries with her sister and to leave her five year old son Debe, behind with his… Internet Archive Judge Ben B. Lindsey 1964 · Educational Presents a profile of Judge Lindsey, who attacked child labor, political corruption, and social conditions in Colorado in 1901. As a result, Lindsay was… Internet Archive Lu Ryden Show on KNTV Channel 11 (circa 1968) 1968 · TV Clips from the Lu Ryden show on San Jose's KNTV Channel 11, circa 1969. Ryden is seated in the studio interviewing a number of guests. After the interviews,… Internet Archive Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969) 1080p BD RIP 1969 · Feature NOW IN HD AKA Cult of the damned Plot: The homely daughter of a rich, vain woman gets mixed up with a kinky, menacing pop singer and his weird friends. Internet Archive Stop, Look And Think 1962 · Film Focuses on pedestrian safety rules for children by pointing out the variables involved in braking an automobile and explaining the importance of crossing only… Internet Archive Home Movie: 97359: Pennsylvania Family 1965 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive Philosophies of Education: Education for Life Adjustment (1961) 1961 · Educational · 28 min Philosophies of Education: Education for Life Adjustment (1961) Professor Florence Stratemeyer explains the twofold purpose of education: first to help young… Internet Archive Brian Henderson's Bandstand - 8 January 1966 1966 · TV · 51 min An episode of an Australian television pop music series. This episode features footage from a 1965 concert held in Perth, Western Australia. Other footage had… Internet Archive Music Scene (1969) 1969 · TV For fans of music back then! Internet Archive Batfink: The Complete Collection (1966-67) 1966 · Cartoon Batfink is an American animated television series, consisting of five-minute shorts, that first aired in April 1966. The 100-episode series was quickly… Internet Archive Los Timidos Visten De Gris (1965) 1965 · Feature Los tímidos visten de gris es una película de Argentina en blanco y negro dirigida por Jorge Darnell según el guion de Jorge Masciangoli que fue producida en… Internet Archive HOF 119 1960 61 Lucy Annie King 1961 · Home movie Ellwood F. Hoffmann (1885-1966) Home Movie Collection Ellwood Hoffmann dropped out of school in 6th grade and went to work sweeping the floors at a hosiery…