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4,081–4,128 of 170,843 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 Ones | Films for young children by name: nursery rhymes, lullabies, preschool. |
|---|---|
| Kids | Cartoons and animation, children's and family films, and educational films, unless they deal with war, propaganda, crime, horror or drugs, or carry racial caricature. |
| Tweens | Documentaries, science, nature and space, classic comedies, newsreels, commercials and lectures. |
| Teens | Everything else, including anything we cannot tell about; war, crime, horror and westerns go no lower. |
| Adult | Sexual themes (such as the old "sex hygiene" films), gore, surgery, slaughter, atrocity footage. |
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Cyrano de Bergerac - värjans mästare (1950)
En filmatisering av Edmond Rostands klassiska pjäs om den skälmske skrytmånsen med vit fjäderbuske i hatten och lång näsa. Cyrano är lika kvick i munnen som…
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More Than Machines
Promotes awareness of the importance of fine honing of engine parts, specifically fine grain fit between pistons and cylinders in combustion engines and…
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Johnny Learns His Manners
A moralizing tale for children in which a little boy turns into a pig because of his slovenly manners, which he has cultivated out of fear of being called a…
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Lost Horizon (restored, colorized) (1937, fantasy, imdb score: 7.7)
Lost Horizon is a 1933 novel by English writer James Hilton . The book was turned into a film, also called Lost Horizon , in 1937 by director Frank Capra and…
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Bat Masterson TV 1958 colorized s01e01 Double Showdown
Bat (Gene Barry) journeys to Arizona to help his friend Shorty Keenan (King Donovan), whose small saloon is threatened by a rival gambling house owned by Big…
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How blood clots.
Human circulatory system and functions are illustrated through animation and cinemicroscopy. Time-lapse photography reveals composition of blood and its…
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Connections 7 -- the Long Chain
Connections 7 -- the Long Chain Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film Summary Traces the connection between…
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The Adventures of William Tell - 1x02
Gessler orders William Tell's arrest, after he steals a cache of arms, and takes six innocent men hostage who will be executed if Tell does not surrender.…
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''Four Star Playhouse'' - The Stand-In
A downbeat episode of "Four Star Playhouse", a popular 1950s anthology TV series. One never knows what to expect with this series. This episode was originally…
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Solo
Producers, David Adams, Mike Hoover; director and writer, Mike Hoover Portrays the efforts and exhilarations that are experienced by the solo mountain…
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Adventures Of Robin Hood (Ep 34 Tables Turned) HQ
British television series that ran from 1955 to 1959 for a total of 143 episodes. The series starred Richard Greene as Robin Hood and Dennis Wheatley as the…
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The Big Picture #511: Army Digest #8
"The original release sheet reads: The "The Mathew Brady Story" brings to the television screen the work of the famed photographer who, during the Civil War,…
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''The Ed Wynn Show'' - 20 October 1949
An episode of "The Ed Wynn Show", a series from the early years of television. His guest in this episode is Victor Moore, along with The Merry Macs.
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''Kraft Music Hall'' - 14 December 1960
A great episode with your singing host, Perry Como, and special guests Betty Grable, Brook Benton, and Brenda Lee, plus Joey Heatherton and Renee Taylor. A…
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All Creatures Great and Small (1978 Series 3)
TVDB episode list and information
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As Young as You Feel (1951)
Sixty-five-year-old John Hodges must retire from Acme Printing. He later impersonates the president of the parent company and arrives at his old plant on an…
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Bakterion (1982)
A scientist's experiment with a deadly bacteria goes awry and leaves him horribly deformed. The monstrous man then runs amok in his town. Watch on RetroFlix:…
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Captain Calamity (1936)
A South Seas skipper fights off thieves and pirates who are after a lost treasure. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/captain-calamity-1936/
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Gypsy Life (1945)
A Gypsy caravan travels across the countrieside. One night, as the Gypsy princess performs a dance, a bat-cat spies on the camp, flies back to his cave, and…
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Tempest (1928)
I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. Winner of the first Academy…
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The Flight Before Christmas
A young reindeer who suffers from vertigo learns to overcome his fear, takes flying lessons from a clumsy flying squirrel and heads to the North pole to save…
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Soap | Episode 1
Soap - s01e01 - Episode 1 aired on ABC: 1977.09.13 Meet the Tates... and the Campbells.
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''Stage 7'' - The Traveling Salesman
An episode of dramatic anthology series "Stage 7", starring George Montgomery, with supporting cast including Alan Hale Jr, Gloria Talbott, Karen Steele,…
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''Four Star Playhouse'' - Ladies on his Mind
An unusual episode of "Four Star Playhouse", a popular anthology TV series of the 1950s. This episode stars Ronald Colman, Elisabeth Fraser, Patricia Morison,…
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Black Water Gold (1970)
A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commercial…
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Svengarlic (1931)
Svengarlic is a short animated film distributed by Columbia Pictures, and one of the many cartoons featuring the comic strip character Krazy Kat. Watch on…
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The Art Of Travel 2008 Dvdrip
Having called off his wedding, a high school graduate journeys alone to Central America, finding adventure with a ragtag group of foreigners who attempt to…
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The Bravados (1958)
Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the convicts escape,…
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The Truck Farmer
Overview of farming practices in South Texas. "Treats the geography of the Rio Grande delta and provides authentic recordings of the problems and activities…
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DANGER UXB (1979) (Full Series)
The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional Royal Engineer Tunnelling Company 97, which has been made a bomb disposal unit to deal with the thousands…
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Doctor Who: Celestial Toymaker part 4 colorized
The only surviving episode of the 4-part Doctor Who story The Celestial Toymaker. In this concluding episode, "The Final Test", the Doctor (William Hartnell)…
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The Light in the Dust, Part I: Corpus Meum
A film by Kate Lee, Lizard & Sherwin Liu PART I: Corpus Meum ("My Body") Jon is a man who has lost all that mattered. The life he had once adored taken in an…
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Benson - Season 3
Benson is an American sitcom television series that originally aired on ABC from September 13, 1979, to April 19, 1986. The show stars Robert Guillaume in the…
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The Promise of Love (1980)
A teenage bride becomes a war widow when her Marine Corps husband is killed in Vietnam, until into her life comes a civilian recreation director who works at…
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Tough Beauty & The Sloppy Slop and Supercop (with Trailers) ☯
Tough Beauty and the Sloppy Slop is a 1995 action film directed by Yuen Bun and Alan Chui . A Hong Kong-Filipino co-production, it stars Yuen Biao , Cynthia…
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Stories of the Century - Chief Crazy Horse
Railroad investigator Matt Clark is called in to help suppress an uprising of Sioux Indians led by Chief Crazy Horse. www.westernmania.com
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BOOTLEGGER'S DRIVE-IN SATURDAY NIGHT - TERROR OF ROME AGIANST THE SON OF HERCULES & TRIUMPH OF THE SON OF HERCULES
A COMPLETE DVD. Custom menu with still shot of the title character and drive-in style audio. SIMPLE BURN INSTRUCTIONS: Download the zipped folder, open it,…
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Golden Dragon Silver Snake (1980)
Golden Dragon, Silver Snake (1980) Review February 19, 2016 Paul Bramhall “Golden Dragon, Silver Snake” Korean Theatrical Poster AKA: A Fight at Hong Kong…
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Minnie's Yoo Hoo (1930)
In this sing-along trailer, Mickey sings "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" while the audiences sing along to the words on the screen. Watch on RetroFlix:…
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Night Ambush (1957)
Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers. Watch on…
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Terror on the Midway (1942)
When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/terror-on-the-midway-1942/
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The Steel Claw (1961)
A Marine stationed in the Philippines loses a hand in an accident and is discharged from the Corps. When the Japanese invade the Philippines, he is called…
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Noozles (Complete Series)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noozles
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''Stage 7'' - The Deceiving Eye
The first episode of "Stage 7", an American anthology television series of 1955, which presented entertaining half-hour stories ranging from drama to comedy.…
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DOPE 018
Frontline "Stopping Drugs Pt. 2," CBS anti-drug crusades, valium abuse, Traci Lords, Koop, NYC crack siege, AIDS Angels, Koop never talked to Reagan about…
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Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the Rhys…
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Earths Final Hours
After dense matter from an imploded white hole hits Earth, the planet's rotation is devastated. A group of government agents must locate a lost satellite…
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Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor, who is…