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2,737–2,784 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 La Muerte De Sebastián Arache Y Su Pobre Entierro (1977) 1972 · Feature La muerte de Sebastián Arache y su pobre entierro es una película de Argentina filmada en Eastmancolor dirigida por Nicolás Sarquís sobre su propio guion… Internet Archive Christians: 5 -- People of the Book 1976 · Educational Credits: Director, Carlos Pasini; writer, Bamber Gascoigne Summary: Examines the relationships of Christianity, Judaism and Islam, all referred to in the… Internet Archive City of London 1973 · Educational Producer, Edward Barnes; director, Peter Ridsdale Scott; narrator, Valerie Singleton; editor, John Bush; photographer, Ian Hilton Container title: Touring… Internet Archive Requiem for Tina Sanchez 1976 · Educational · 23 min Director and writer, Patricia K. Lynch Examines the problem of runaway teenagers. Shows the actual case of Tina Sanchez, who left home when she was 11 years… Internet Archive The Planet Earth: A Scientific Model 1978 · Educational · 25 min Speakers, Mike Pentz, Keith Hodgkinson Series producer, Tony Jolly ; editor, Michael Flynn ; graphic design, Sue Dix Intended audience: high school,… Internet Archive Velocity Diagrams 1979 · Educational VHS Produced by the BBC for the British Open University Explains how the drawing of velocity diagrams for a mechanism helps to isolate all information about… Internet Archive Can parents be human? 1971 · Educational · 11 min How can parents make better contact with their children? Discussion among teenagers compares ways parents frighten children with ways they make successful… Internet Archive Food Gathering 1972 · Educational Both the Waika and Makiritare Indians gather food in the jungle. A snake is caught and cooked. Fish are caught by mixing beaten leaves with mud which are… Internet Archive The Unusual Properties of Liquid Helium 1977 · Educational · 17 min Photographer, director, Michael Rudnick This award winning film focuses on the outstanding properties of the superfluid component--its zero viscosity and… Internet Archive The Ballad of Crowfoot 1970 · Educational In the Challenge for change program, in cooperation with departments and agencies of the Government of Canada Director and songwriter, Willie Dunn Utilizes… Internet Archive Today, the Information Explosion; Tomorrow ...? 1977 · Educational · 15 min Examines the vastness of media and its effect on daily life. Explains that since the invention of the printing press, the availability of information has… Internet Archive On the Run 1979 · Educational Summary: Arthur Lydiard is a distinguished athletics coach who has trained some of the world's best long distance runners. Photographed on location in New… Internet Archive Time Bokan(1975) 1975 · Cartoon Copyright Disclaimer: Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting,… Internet Archive Prairie Fire 1976 · Educational · 30 min Directed by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson A history of the Non-Partisan League, a grassroots farmers' organization founded in 1915 on the North Dakota plains… Internet Archive El Habilitado (1970) 1970 · Feature El habilitado es una película filmada en colores de Argentina dirigida por Jorge Cedrón según su propio guion escrito en colaboración con Miguel Briante que… Internet Archive Botanic Man: 9 -- Extinction Is Forever 1978 · Educational Looks at the interrelationship of members of the plant and animal kingdoms as it applies to extinction. Discusses the extinct dodo birds of Mauritius and the… Internet Archive Investigatory Procedures: Stop and Frisk, Lineups, and statements 1973 · Educational Informs law enforcement officers on basic principles of law and case decisions pertaining to stop and frisk, lineups, and statements relating to confessions… Internet Archive Life at Salt Point: Salt Water Ecology 1978 · Educational · 15 min Identifies and compares open-sea, wave-swept, and tidal marine ecosystems at Salt Point, Calif. Shows the inhabitants of each ecosystem and how their… Internet Archive The OK Classroom 1973 · Educational CLICK HERE TO SEE THE STUDY GUIDE FOR THIS FILM Presents Dr. Thomas Harris describing and demonstrating the Transactional Analysis techniques which form the… Internet Archive Filmstrip: "Area: Square Centimeters" 1974 · 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 Understanding Aggression 1971 · Educational · 29 min Combines artwork depicting man's aggressive behavior throughout the centuries with live-action sequences in order to examine the problem of the possible… Internet Archive Algebra 1978 · Educational Produced by the BBC for the British Open University Introduces the use of algebraic symbols, equations, and formulas to solve science and mathematics… Internet Archive Home Movie: 11832: Phal Family, Oakland A's Playoffs, Hank Aaron, World's Series, Monroe, LA 1973 · Home movie To come. Internet Archive My Main Man 1975 · Educational · 13 min Shows reconciliation within a family by giving an account of a Black family's experiences in which a son attempts to help his father, fails, runs away,… Internet Archive Turner 1972 · Educational Produced by the Arts Council of Great Britain. David Thompson, director and writer; Elisabeth Luytens, music Michael Hordern, narrator An examination of the… Internet Archive Eskimos - A Changing Culture 1971 · Educational · 16 min Features the Alaskan Eskimos in Mekoyuk village, Nunivak Island, Bering Sea. The film debates the extent to which changes in family patterns, values and other… Internet Archive The Big Red Barn 1972 · Educational With study guide Based on the book of the same title by Margaret Wise Brown Producers, Joe Hayward, John Churchill; director and cameraman, Robert Ennis;… Internet Archive TV News: Behind the Scenes 1973 · Educational · 26 min With teacher's guide Producer, John Barnes Identifies characteristics of television as a communications medium. Focuses on the planning, preparing, filming,… Internet Archive I Guess I Got the Job 1975 · Educational Vladimir J. Konecni, Daiva K. Konecni Contrasts the attitudes expressed by two individuals applying for the same job. Shows how the outcome of each interview… Internet Archive The Music of Man: 6 -- The Parting of the Ways 1979 · Educational · 30 min Producers, John Thomson, Curtis W. Davis, Richard Bocking ; writers, Yehudi Menuhin, Curtis W. Davis In America, the synthesis of cultures and musical forms… Internet Archive What Do You Want Me to Say? 1974 · Educational Producer, director, writer, Tom Lazarus Janet Wood, Judd Laurance A dramatization of a young girl who has been pressured into seeing a psychologist. Shows… Internet Archive Project Universe - Uranus, Neptune, Pluto 1978 · TV Episode of educational science series "Project Universe" : "Uranus, Neptune, Pluto". (Note: This episode aired in 1978 so scientific knowledge, technology,… Internet Archive Mole and the Hedgehog 1972 · Educational · 9 min Animated. A mole and a mouse rescue a hedgehog who has been caught by a hunter. Internet Archive Moonwalk, Episode 2: Adapting to Space 1970 · Film Episode 2 of Moonwalk examines the testing procedures Apollo operators used to simulate the space environment. Also details the functions of the different… Internet Archive Route One 1976 · Film Shows an eighth grade science class and its study of different kinds of alcohol. Presents factual information on alcohol and discusses hangover cures. Uses… Internet Archive Wide Open Marriage, Hausfrauen Report 4 1973 1973 · Feature A German "report" film, this time about Housewives. There were also report films done about husbands and most famously schoolgirls. This one passes on the… Internet Archive China, a class by itself. [Motion picture] 1979 · Educational · 50 min Presents an introduction to the highly stylized dance of China, of Korea, and of Japan; points outs the many similarities, and the differences of the three… Internet Archive These People 1976 · Educational Mental health professionals, patients, and community residents respond to the phasing out of a state hospital near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and the… Internet Archive Listen To This 1978 · Educational · 15 min Shows the production of a film which traces the history of the sound motion picture and the role of the Bell System within this development. Internet Archive Japan: The Land and the People 1973 · Educational Shows modern Japan as a nation enjoying its role as an economic power but also experiencing problems common to other industrial nations, such as pollution and… Internet Archive Verbstar 1979 · Educational · 17 min Dr. Verbose, an interstellar authority on verbs, reveals secrets of English grammar such as how to conjugate verbs and when and how to use auxiliary and… Internet Archive Finite Elements 1975 · Educational 438 feet Executive producer, Jean Crow The training of engineering students in the technique of finite elements analysis has frequently presented certain… Internet Archive The Art of Silence: Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death 1975 · Educational One in a series of twelve films in which the great French mime Marcel Marceau performs some works from his repertoire. In his introduction Marceau calls mime… Internet Archive It Ain't City Music 1973 · Educational Producer and director, Tom Davenport; camera, Tom Davenport, Jan Welt; editor, Lee Stieg Presents a look at the meaning of country music to rural America.… Internet Archive Television and Politics 1970 · Educational With study guide Outlines the history of political television commercials, beginning in 1948. Examines many campaign commercials that use Madison Avenue… Internet Archive The Back Street Six [motion picture] 1978 · Educational · 33 min Director, Andre Melancon Using the city as their playground, six children in search of summer adventures learn together, developing tolerance, self-reliance,… Internet Archive Our Class Makes a Film: We Travel with Marco Polo 1975 · Educational · 13 min This film follows each step in the production of a 16mm film on the travels of Marco Polo made by seventh graders, and shows the motion picture the students… Internet Archive Play and Cultural Continuity: Part 4 -- Montana Indian Children 1975 · Educational · 28 min · Subtitles On the Flathead Indian Reservation and surrounding countryside, the play of Indian children ranges from the universal domestic activities and "monster" play…