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Comedy from the world's archives

193–240 of 10,478 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 Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 · Feature The Wolf Man tries to warn a dimwitted porter that Dracula wants his brain for Frankenstein monster's body. Internet Archive Reaching for the Moon 1930 · Feature · 1 h 6 min Bing Crosby in his first solo film performance. -One of several shortened versions of the film. Internet Archive There Goes the Bride 1932 · Feature · 1 h 17 min A businessman's daughter (Jessie Matthews) runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and suspected of theft after she becomes the… Internet Archive Hold that Woman 1940 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles A skip-tracer doesn't realize that the radio he is trying to repossess contains stolen diamonds. Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "The Cure" Short Charlie Chaplin's 60th Film Released April 16 1917 The Cure is a short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin plays a drunk who checks… Internet Archive Cops 1922 · Short · 18 min A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "Police" 1916 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 49th Film Released May 27 1916 Police was Charlie Chaplin's 14th released film from Essanay. It was made at the Majestic Studio in Los… Internet Archive The Legend of Action Man 2010 · Feature · 1 h 40 min · Subtitles Made on an ultra-low budget of $200, Dingoman Productions proudly presents their first feature film, The Legend of Action Man, a comedy about a mediocre,… Internet Archive Swing Hostess 1944 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Rags-to-riches-to-rags story features Benny Goodman vocalist Martha Tilton as an unemployed big band singer who takes a job as an operator at a jukebox… Internet Archive Judge Priest 1934 · Feature · 1 h 20 min Judge Priest depicting life in Kentucky after the Civil War and Reconstruction Period. It still shows the stereotypes and prejudices which existed at that… Internet Archive King Kelly of the U.S.A. 1934 · Feature · 1 h 6 min A theatrical troupe headed by a flashy showman finds itself in the tiny--and bankrupt--kingdom of Belgardia. The showman falls in love with the daughter of… Internet Archive Mr. Boggs Steps Out 1938 · Feature · 1 h 7 min · Subtitles Oliver Boggs is typical office worker with gift for statistics. After winning a contest he take his money and buys a barrel factory, and falls in loves. Internet Archive The Town Went Wild 1944 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother. Internet Archive Meet The Mayor 1932 · Feature · 1 h 2 min AKA A Fool's Advice An elevator operator (Frank Fay) invents a machine that he believes can help to defeat a corrupt politician (George Diamond) in the city's… Internet Archive 07 Spooks Run Wild 2015 · Feature · Subtitles Spooks Run Wild is an American comedy horror film and the seventh film in the East Side Kids series, starring Bela Lugosi , Leo Gorcey , Huntz Hall , and… Internet Archive Filmography: Woody Allen 1935 · Feature Heywood Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American filmmaker, actor, and comedian whose career spans eight decades (the 1950s to… Internet Archive Daisies 1966 · Feature Maybe the New Wave’s most anarchic entry, Věra Chytilová’s absurdist farce follows the misadventures of two brash young women. Believing the world to be… Internet Archive His Girl Friday iPod 1940 · Feature Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and… Internet Archive 12 Kid Dynamite 2015 · Feature · Subtitles Kid Dynamite is a 1943 American film directed by Wallace Fox and starring the East Side Kids . It was based on the 1942 short story The Old Gang by Paul Ernst… Internet Archive Malice in the Palace 1949 · Short · 15 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Little Annie Rooney 1925 · Feature · 1 h 35 min A tough slum girl, Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney (Mary Pickford), faces a crisis of the heart when the boy she loves (William Haines) is accused of shooting… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "The Knockout" 1914 · Short Charlie Chaplins 17th Film Released June 11 1914 The Knockout was Charlie Chaplin's seventeenth film for Keystone Studios. Chaplin only has a small role, and… Internet Archive The Kid Auto Race in Venice 1914 · Short · 6 min Charlie the Tramp comes to a kid auto race, which a director just happens to be filming. Charlie constantly gets in the way, annoying the director, cameraman,… Internet Archive Manhattan Tower 1932 Restored 1932 · Feature · 1 h 6 min · Subtitles Manhattan Tower 1932 This is a partially restored version of a public domain movie Manhattan Tower, an entertaining depression era film. The movie has several… Internet Archive Kiki 1931 · Feature · 1 h 25 min Mary Pickford plays a French chorus girl in New York trying to make good and survive. Internet Archive His Girl Friday 1940 · Feature · 1 h 28 min A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. - IMDB Description Internet Archive PARLOR, BEDROOM AND BATH video quality upgrade Feature · 1 h 12 min · Subtitles This print is much sharper than the existing IA copy. A sound era Buster Keaton comedy adapted from a 1917 Broadway play by C. W. Bell. It starts off slowly,… Internet Archive 11 Neath Brooklyn Bridge 2015 · Feature · Subtitles ' Neath Brooklyn Bridge is a 1942 film released by Monogram Pictures . The film is the eleventh installment in the East Side Kids series and one of the more… Internet Archive It's A Joke, Son 1947 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Playhouse 1921 · Short · 22 min The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre… Internet Archive American Aristocracy 1916 · Feature · 52 min A young man (Douglas Fairbanks) fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter. Internet Archive Midnight Manhunt 1945 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles Reporter Sue Gallagher (Ann Savage from Detour) finds an infamous gangster's corpse in a wax museum. Her desire for a scoop is hindered by a meddling rival… Internet Archive Something to Sing About 1937 · Feature · 1 h 26 min A New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs. Internet Archive King Arthur Was a Gentleman 1942 · Feature · 1 h 35 min World War II, the plot involves the diminutive Arthur (Arthur Askey) joining the army to prove himself to his girlfriend Susan (Evelyn Dall), who is in the… Internet Archive Earthworm Tractors 720 Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles This version has better video quality, smaller download files and the correct aspect ratio. Joe E Brown as the world's worst tractor salesman comes up against… Internet Archive Dangerous Lady. Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles PRC's attempt at a Thin Man style mystery, co-starring Neil Hamilton and June Storey. Directed by Bernard B Ray (as B B Ray) Released in 1941. Complete print. Internet Archive Three Broadway Girls Feature · 1 h 18 min · Subtitles A trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a… Internet Archive Beat the Devil (1953) Feature A group of crooks are headed to Africa in search of land with Uranium. Mystic Nights Videos Internet Archive TEXAS, BROOKLYN AND HEAVEN video quality upgrade Feature · 1 h 16 min · Subtitles This is a sharper and cleaner print with a smaller download file than the existing IA copy. A cute and quirky romantic comedy with a large supporting cast… Internet Archive All Over Town 1937 · Feature · Subtitles Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson star as vaudevillians who attempt to stage a cursed show. Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's Triple Trouble 1918 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 50th Film released In 1918. (put together by Essanay from unfinished Chaplin films two years after he had left the company) Triple Trouble… Internet Archive My Man Godfrey (1936) Feature · 1 h 34 min A ditzy socialite finds a homeless man for a scavenger hunt and then hires him as their butler. Internet Archive Mr. Wise Guy 1942 · Feature · 1 h 9 min · Subtitles The number eight in the East SIde Kids series. The kids are sent to reform school after being falsely accused of stealing a truck. Internet Archive Angel on My Shoulder 1946 · Feature · 1 h 41 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Killer Dill 1947 · Feature · 1 h 12 min · Subtitles Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil. Internet Archive 01 East Side Kids 2015 · Feature · Subtitles Officially, this is the first entry in the East Side Kids franchise. Made in 1940, this Monogram programmer doesn't yet have the familiar chemistry of Leo… Internet Archive The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles Seymour Krelboin is a hapless sap working in a skid row flower shop. He loves coworker Audrey Fulquard, but is close to losing his job. Luckily, he discovers… Internet Archive Big Bad Mama ( 1974) 1974 · Feature A tough single mother and her two daughters are forced by circumstances into a life of crime, and quickly become outlaws on the run, picking up partners along…