The world's archives

1,249–1,296 of 13,646 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 The Shock of the New: View From the Edge part 2 1979 · Educational · 28 min · Subtitles Nineteenth-century romanticism gave way to 20th-century expressionism and the angst-ridden works of Die Brucke, Munch, Soutine, and Francis Bacon. But with… Internet Archive Thriller 1973 - Complete Series 1973 · TV Thriller 1973 - Complete Series Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Filmstrip 1: Introduction to the Heimlich Maneuver" 1977 · 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 [New Haven May 6, 1970] (Reel 3) 1970 · Film "Documentary footage shot in New Haven, Connecticut during the days surrounding the May Day trial of members of the Black Panther Party accused of murder and… Internet Archive Nobleza Ranchera(1977) 1977 · Feature Movie adaptation of Juan Gabriel's song "Nobleza Ranchera" Internet Archive The World at War: 6 -- Banzai! Japan 1931-1942 1974 · Educational · 30 min · Subtitles The World at War: 6 -- Banzai! Japan 1931-1942, Reel 1 Reel 2 available here An elderly Japanese couple are shown going through the religious ritual they have… Internet Archive FAR OUT SPACE NUTS "Fantastic Journey" 1975 · TV Two astronauts adventures on other planets. Download all episodes for free! https://mega.nz/#F!Oy5lCaxB!Ff64TDGoYUxunRSaviaM0g Internet Archive Mole and the Christmas Tree 1976 · Cartoon Made in Czechoslovakia Producer and writer, Zdenek Miler An animated film about a mole who brings a Christmas tree home and invites his friend Mouse to… Internet Archive Collectie KNBRD - Gerrit Rietveld Academie Film 1976 · Cartoon · 10 min promotiefilm voor de KNBRD, gemaakt door het Het Komies Realisties Produkzie Team '76 van de Rietveld Academie. De film laat aan de hand van geanimeerde… Internet Archive [Misc TV Commercials - Ivory Soap] 1970 · Commercial · Subtitles Compilation reel of TV commercials for Ivory Soap brand products Internet Archive The Secrets of Isis Ep3 "Spots of the Leopard" 1975 · TV Young teacher digs up an amulet that gives her the power to become goddess Isis. Internet Archive Soul Train (Season 3, Episode 3)(Partially Full Episode)(ft. Questlove) 1973 · TV Soul Train (Season 3, Episode 3) Featuring: Fred Wesley & the JB's ("Doin' It to Death" and "You Can Have Watergate") Lyn Collins ("Take Me As I Am") The Sly,… Internet Archive A Home run for love. 1979 · Educational · 46 min · Subtitles From WorldCat: A drama set in the 1940's about a fatherless white boy who learns about friendship and love by sharing his preoccupation with baseball with an… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Romeo and Juliet Acts III, IV & V: "Thus with a kiss I die" (Copy 1)" 1975 · 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 Remember 1973 · Educational · 53 min from WorldCat: For many men and women the war was the most memorable experience of their lives. This program asks whether it was worth it. Written and… Internet Archive [Home Movies: "Lake George 1972"] 1972 · Home movie · Subtitles Internet Archive The Spoils Of Poynton (Period Dramady Ep 4 of 4 ~ 1971-04-25) Retribution 1971 · TV · 43 min PLOT : Mrs Gereth returns all the best furniture to Poynton, just before Owen and Mona get married, and they go abroad on their honeymoon. Owen writes to… Internet Archive FAR OUT SPACE NUTS "Dangerous Game" 1975 · TV "Dangerous Game" Download every episode! https://mega.nz/#F!Oy5lCaxB!Ff64TDGoYUxunRSaviaM0g Internet Archive Glass houses. 1972 · Educational · 21 min · Subtitles A series of deeply personal testimonies from individuals recounting their experiences with drug use and addiction, likely part of a 1970s or 1980s drug… Internet Archive A Horseman Riding By (1978 Ep02) 1902 The Party 1978 · TV · 51 min STORYLINE : 1902 T he Party - Paul has achieved his aim: Shallowford House is his. Now he must learn his job of being Squire. John Rudd is a help and so, in… Internet Archive Collage. 1972 · Educational · 15 min · Subtitles With guide Director and cameraman, Stellos Roccos; art director, Herbert Paston Summary Presents the work of John Sennhauser, an artist and craftsman who is… Internet Archive Kifaru --The Black Rhinoceros 1970 · Educational · 51 min Follows biologist John Goddard in the first major scientific study of the black rhinoceros, a "prehistoric relic" believed to be facing extinction. Includes… Internet Archive Birleşen Yollar, Turkish Movie 1970 · Feature Birleşen Yollar, Turkish Movie https://www.tsa.org.tr/en/film/filmgoster/1753/birlesen-yollar Internet Archive Disputas En La Cama (1972) 1972 · Feature Disputas en la cama es una película filmada en colores de Argentina dirigida por Mario David según el guion de Mario David y Alejandro Faccio que se estrenó… Internet Archive Toute La Bande, Episode 9: Bricolage 1970 · Educational · 15 min A French language teaching film. Presents a dramatization in which a boy and a girl tour a French workshop after their washing machine breaks down. Internet Archive The Writer in America: John Gardner 1975 · Educational · 29 min · Subtitles "Art gropes. It stalks like a hunter lost in the woods, listening to itself and to everything around it, unsure of itself, waiting to pounce." In his novels,… Internet Archive Einstein 1979 · Educational · 58 min Portrait of Albert Einstein moves from his early years as a brilliant intellectual, through two world wars, to a lonely voice preaching nuclear disarmament in… Internet Archive AB ' 78 ELO Electric Light Orchestra — Turn To Stone 🥌 Feb 11 1978 Special Mix 1978 · TV Feb 11 1978 - Classic rock song 'Turn To Stone' by Electric Light Orchestra. Special mix with extra verse, seems more satisfying with the extra first verse.… Internet Archive The Ascent of Man: 1 -- Lower Than the Angels 1974 · Educational · 52 min Producer and director, Adrian Malone; writer and narrator, Jacob Bronowski Explores the anatomical and intellectual changes giving rise to man's superiority… Internet Archive The Smith Family (Season 1) 1971 · TV The Smith Family is an American family drama television series starring Henry Fonda and Ron Howard and produced by Don Fedderson Productions. The series aired… Internet Archive [Untitled: Anywhere But Here] 1970 · Film · Subtitles Teenagers c. 1970s wanting to leave home and boredom Internet Archive Felipa: North of the Border 1971 · Educational · 16 min A bilingual girl of Mexican-American parents has ambitions to be teacher. She helps her injured uncle take the drivers test so he can maintain his dignity as… Internet Archive Arde baby, arde (1971) 1971 · Feature A traveling gravedigger during an (unspecified) war adopts a orphan he finds alone in the desert. After the war with the orphan grown and business slow, the… Internet Archive Olga, La Hija De Aquella Princesa Rusa (1972) 1972 · Feature Olga, la hija de aquella princesa rusa es una película argentina dirigida por Diego Santillán sobre su propio guion basado en su novela del mismo nombre, que… Internet Archive Chemical Munitions Testing 1970 · Educational Department of Defense. Department of the Army. U.S. Army Materiel Command. U.S. Army Pictorial Center. (08/01/1962 - 12/1972) ARC Identifier 599938 / Local… Internet Archive The Forbidden City 1975 · Educational · 19 min · Subtitles The Forbidden City, Reel 2 Reel 1 available here Explores the history and culture of China as reflected in the art and architectural treasures of the… Internet Archive It's a lovely day tomorrow: Burma, 1942-1944 1973 · Educational · 56 min "Jagged mountain and fetid swamp, a steam bath shutting out the sky, endless green growth spawning every kind of disease...especially in the monsoon. After… Internet Archive Two Centuries of Black American Art 1976 · Educational Producer and director, Carlton Moss A survey of the history of art produced by Blacks in America, from the initial African influences, the importance of… Internet Archive The Devil and Leroy Bassett (1973) 1976 · Feature Leroy Bassett and his dim-witted brothers go on the lam after freeing their friend Keema from jail. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/the-devil-and-ler… Internet Archive How to Cure Inflation. 1979 · Educational · 28 min · Subtitles Examines the causes of inflation and how it can be cured, using the U.S., Great Britain, West Germany, and Japan as examples of good and bad practices Summary… Internet Archive Langston Hughes. 1971 · Educational · 27 min · Subtitles With study guide Narrator, Dallie Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film Summary Walter Kerr interviews… Internet Archive TFARORP S 1 E 3 1976 · TV The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin, series 1 Internet Archive Soul Train (Season 1, Episode 26) 1972 · TV Soul Train (Season 1, Episode 26) Featuring: Dance Songs: "Eeny-Meeny-Miney-Mo" by The 8th Day, "Talking Loud and Saying Nothing" by James Brown Wilson… Internet Archive Archies Funhouse EP 3 (1970) 1970 · Cartoon Archies Funhouse EP 3 (1970) WATCH AND DOWNLOAD ALL EPISODES! https://www.wco.tv/anime/archies-funhouse Internet Archive Filmstrip: "The Growing Trip" 1975 · 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 Si può fare... amigo (1972) 1972 · Feature An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The… Internet Archive California Highways: Planning for Progress 1970 · Film · Subtitles Great California highway footage. Internet Archive The World at War: Part 7--On Our Way, U.S.A. 1939-1942 1974 · Educational · 21 min · Subtitles The World at War: Part 7--On Our Way, U.S.A. 1939-1942 reel 2 Covers the U.S. entry into the war. Roosevelt's speeches, shortages, rationing, blackouts, the…