The world's archives

2,785–2,832 of 171,229 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 Killer's Wife 1953 · TV · 25 min · Subtitles «The Abbott and Costello Show» (№32). Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Mary Beth Hughes, Max Baer, and Lou Nova in «Killer's Wife». Produced and Directed by Jean… Internet Archive Mr. Moto Films (restored, colorized) (1937-1939 period, suspense) Feature Mr. Moto is a fictional Japanese secret agent created in a series of spy and adventure novels by the American author John P. Marquand . He appeared in six… Internet Archive Frank Capra's Why We Fight #1 Prelude To War CC: [00:52:15] Feature · 52 min · Subtitles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_War Prelude to War examines the difference between democratic and fascist states and covers the Japanese invasion of… Internet Archive Voices And Visions: Walt Whitman 1988 · Film · Subtitles "Brilliant readings of Whitman's poems demonstrate his American vision and style and vividly convey their poignance and sheer power. Whitman's sources,… Internet Archive Billion Dollar Limited (1942) 1942 · Feature Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman! Watch on RetroFlix:… Internet Archive The Terror (1963) 1963 · Feature The Terror is a 1963 American independent horror film produced and directed by Roger Corman. The film stars Boris Karloff and Jack Nicholson, the latter of… Internet Archive Things to Come (1936) 1936 · Feature The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.… Internet Archive The Open Sea 1968 · Film · Subtitles A group of children explore tide pools and find a message in a bottle amongst the waves. Internet Archive The Little Brown Burro (1978) 1978 · Feature A sad little burro who feels that no one wants him and that he doesn't belong anywhere finds out differently when he is bought by Joseph to transport Mary on… Internet Archive Amen: Season 5 1990 · TV Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that aired on NBC from September 27, 1986, to May 11, 1991. Set in Sherman Hemsley's… Internet Archive Girls at 12 1974 · Educational With teacher's guide and resource book Producer, director, and editor, Joyce Chopra; camera, Joan Weidman Uses a cimema-verité look at the lives of three… Internet Archive Viagrafix - Using Word for Windows, Beginners 1992 · Feature · 1 h 18 min ViaGrafix Video training Services presents: Using Word for Windows, Beginners. This instruction video from 78 minutes gives you an impression from the very… Internet Archive Old Westerns 1966 · TV Old Westerns 1. The Monroes - 26-episode Western television series which originally aired on ABC during the 1966-1967 . Starring Michael Anderson Jr. Barbara… Internet Archive Hard Knox (1984) 1984 · Feature A retired fighter pilot becomes the head of his alma matter military high school for two weeks with hilarious consequences. He shapes up the school and raises… Internet Archive Tarzan the Fearless (1933) 1933 · Feature Mary Brooks' father, who has been studying ancient tribes, falls into the hands of "the people of Zar, god of the Emerald Fingers." Tarzan helps Mary locate… Internet Archive Operation CASTLE Commander's Report 1954 · Short · 13 min Operation CASTLE was a six-detonation test series held at the Atomic Energy Commission's (AEC) Pacific Proving Ground in the Spring of 1954. This test series,… Internet Archive The Merry Widow (1925) 1925 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, along with other pictures of the era that I find interesting, so I'm uploading the best… Internet Archive Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) 1972 · Feature On Christmas Eve 1950, Wilfred Butler dies in a burning accident outside his mansion in East Willard, Massachusetts. The residence is bequeathed to his… Internet Archive Ivanhoe - Murder at the Inn 1958 · TV · Subtitles Ivanhoe tries to help a village being terrorized by a bullying lord. Comes from a VHS source - sorry for any issues. Internet Archive The Funny Manns, Episode 68 1961 · TV · 9 min · Subtitles This was a children's TV show featuring silent shorts. Stars: Cliff Norton, Harry Langdon IMDb Page Internet Archive The Better 'Ole (1926) DVD MKV 1926 · Feature DVD remux of the 1926 Vitaphone film "The Better 'Ole." IMDb TMDB Wikipedia The Better 'Ole is a 1926 American synchronized sound World War I comedy drama… Internet Archive ''Lassie'' - The Tree House 1956 · TV · 25 min · Subtitles Popular entertainment from the 1950s. Two kids build a tree house. Problems ensue. Naturally, Lassie saves the day. Internet Archive MYSTERY CADFAEL 1995 · Film · Subtitles MYSTERY: CADFAEL 1-13-1995 “The Leper of St Giles” Tape 1. Cadfael (Derek Jacobi) is a 12 th -century monk apothecary who solves mysteries. Aconite “Monk’s… Internet Archive WKRP In Cincinnati: Season 03 Episode 22 Clean Up Radio Everywhere TV · Subtitles SONGS: "(THEY LONG TO BE) CLOSE TO YOU" - THE CARPENTERS (RESTORED STATIC SPEAKER MUSIC), "NEITHER ONE OF US (WANTS TO BE THE FIRST TO SAY GOODBYE)" - GLADYS… Internet Archive Lucky To Me 1939 · Feature Work colleagues Potty and Minnie marry in secret. Then on the wedding night they are sent to give financial advice to a wealthy client who also has romantic… Internet Archive The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) 1946 · Feature Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a… Internet Archive Unacknowledged (2017) 2017 · Feature "Unacknowledged" is a 2017 documentary directed by Michael Mazzola that explores the historic files of the Disclosure Project, presenting evidence of… Internet Archive Oliver Twist (1948) 1948 · Feature Oliver Twist is a 1948 British film and the second of David Lean's two film adaptations of Charles Dickens novels. Following his 1946 version of Great… Internet Archive Hollow Triumph ("The Scar") (1948) [P&M] 1080p Blu-ray (6.3GB) 1948 · Feature Note: This version features the 'Hollow Triumph' title card as opposed to 'The Scar'. As far as I can tell, both versions are identical except for the title… Internet Archive Dwight David Eisenhower 1963 · Educational · 25 min Dwight David Eisenhower Basic education concerns itself with those matters which, once learned, enable the student to learn all the other matters, whether… Internet Archive MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2013 2013 · Talk · Subtitles View the complete course: http://ocw.mit.edu/8-04S13 Instructor: Allan Adams This course covers the experimental basis of quantum physics. It introduces wave… Internet Archive One Step Beyond: Night of April 14 1959 · TV · Subtitles ONE STEP BEYOND: Night of April 14 Season 1, episode 02. Airdate: Jan 27 1959. This file is a complete restoration including the original Alcoa Presents… Internet Archive Kindred - The Embraced - Complete Series 1996 1996 · TV Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television . Loosely based on the role-playing game… Internet Archive Wilderness. 2006. DVDRip. Xvi D 2006 · Feature Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they have to fight for survival. Internet Archive Complete Broadcast: COLUMBO ("Any Old Port in a Storm")—WNYW-TV5 New York—February 7, 1993 1993 · TV · Subtitles Here's one of Fox 5's airings of one of the NBC-era episodes of COLUMBO, all of which aired under the station's Big Apple Movie banner. This one stars Donald… Internet Archive Father Frags Best 1999 · Cartoon · 24 min A classic returns. One of the first machinima “hits” - before it was called machinima - is now available in a variety of video formats, as well as the… Internet Archive The Rig (2010) 2010 · Feature In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat. Internet Archive The Lost Dream 1947 · Cartoon Little Audrey (1947) Animation, short Color USA Director: Bill Tytla Little Audrey is discovered reading by moonlight when she should be sleeping. She gets… Internet Archive Echo of the Elephants 1993 · TV Follows a family of African elephants led by their matriarch Echo, whose newest calf, Ely, was born unable to walk. Set in Kenya's Amboseli National Park… Internet Archive Cat Women Of The Moon Feature This film has fallen into the Public Domain. Internet Archive One Week in October 1963 · Film · Subtitles U.S. Department of Defense Civil Preparedness Film DDCP 20-223 about the Cuban Missile Crisis, Oct. 16-29, 1962. "(For Nationwide Exhibition) Story of the… Internet Archive God's Little Acre (1958) 1958 · Feature In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to… Internet Archive The Young Savages (1961) 1961 · Feature A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. Watch on RetroFlix.org:… Internet Archive Bedknobs, Broomsticks and Beyond 1998 · TV Angela Lansbury in Vault Disney's "Behind the Ears" segments from the 1998 television premiere of the extended 25th anniversary edition of "Bedknobs &… Internet Archive Excerpts from 1951 Television 2014 · TV · 29 min · Subtitles I don't know if this video is legal or not, but here's a collection of excerpts from public domain United States television programming from 1951. I give a… Internet Archive The Monster (1925) 1925 · Feature 1925 Roland West film starring Lon Chaney Internet Archive Amen: Season 3 1988 · TV Amen is an American television sitcom produced by Carson Productions that aired on NBC from September 27, 1986, to May 11, 1991. Set in Sherman Hemsley's… Internet Archive Earth Satellites — Explorers of Outer Space 1958 · Film · Subtitles "Explains how man-made satellites stay aloft, presents launching of a satellite, describes what we may learn from satellites, and suggests what to look…