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4,225–4,272 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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Hard Bastard ( A Godfrey Ho Joint)
Hard Bastard 1982 Tian long lan Directed by Godfrey Ho Traveling street peddlers are pressured to pay protection money to the mob and refuse. Meanwhile, a…
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Our Town (1940)
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. We see birth, life and death in this small community. Watch on RetroFlix:…
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The Crooked Web (1955)
Government agent tries to trick a suspect into returning to Germany, the scene of his crimes. Watch on RetroFlix: https://retroflix.org/the-crooked-web-1955/
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Bearcats - The Complete Series 1971
Bearcats! is an American Western television series broadcast on the CBS television network during the fall 1971 television season . It starred Rod Taylor and…
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''Four Star Playhouse'' - Never Explain
An episode of the popular anthology series "Four Star Playhouse". This episode stars David Niven as a man who refuses to have his kids go to regular school.…
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The Kojak-Chronicles S01e16-18 Eighteen Hours Of Fear, Before The Devil Know, & Dead On His Feet
The Kojak-Chronicles S01e16-18 Eighteen Hours Of Fear, Before The Devil Know, & Dead On His Feet
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V The Series (1984-85) s01e10 The Conversion
Warning : This episode contains flashing lights which can trigger seizures in some people. Ham and Kyle are captured by Visitors, and Charles, the Leader's…
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1959 Road Hog, W Richard Chamberlain)
PLOT : A very rude traveling salesman forces a truck off the road, causing a delay in emergency care for an injured young man, who dies. STORYLINE : Ed Fratus…
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Adventures Of Robin Hood (HQ) ep 10 The Ordeal
Television series that ran from 1955-1960 for a total of 144 episodes. Stars Richard Greene, Archie Duncan, Alexander Gauge, Alan Wheatley, Bernadette…
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Adventures Of Robin Hood (HQ) ep 21 The Vandals
British television series that ran from 1955 to 1959 for a total of 143 episodes. The series starred Richard Greene as Robin Hood and Alan Wheatley as the…
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Adventures Of Robin Hood (HQ) ep 24 Will Scarlet
British television series that ran from 1955 to 1959 for a total of 143 episodes. The series starred Richard Greene as Robin Hood and Alan Wheatley as the…
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(Duplicate) Farming Simulator 2017 - Official Trailer
Link to YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE-sKkdFgaE Video created by Machinima Trailer Vault . Rights to the gameplay footage belongs to…
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He Walked by Night (restored, colorized) (1948, noir, imdb score: 7.2)
He Walked by Night is a 1948 American police procedural film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker and an uncredited Anthony Mann. The film, shot in…
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Twilight Zone "Next Week" Promos (Season 2, 1960-61)
Clips of Rod Serling teasing/previewing next week's Twilight Zone episode, as originally seen on the network TV first-run episode broadcasts. S2E02 - "The Man…
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A Bucket of Blood (1959)
Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla,…
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Convict's Code (1939)
On parole after three years in prison, a football player (Robert Kent) encounters the man (Sidney Blackmer) who framed him. Watch on RetroFlix:…
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The Inspector General (1949)
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge. The town's corrupt officials mistake him…
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Soul Train (Season 1, Episode 7)
Soul Train (Season 1, Episode 7) Featuring: Martha and the Vandellas ("Dancing In The Streets", "Love Makes Me Do Foolish Things" & "Bless You") Soul Train…
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Boys Beware (Colorized Version)
This is a special colorized version of the now-infamous 1961 educational film "Boys Beware". Boys Beware was created by educational filmmaker Sid Davis.
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Shotgun Slade - A Flower for Jenny
An accomplished singer hires Slade to be her bodyguard when she begins receiving mysterious gifts and death threats from a man who calls himself her 'Ultimate…
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''Telephone Time'' - The Intruder
An episode of the 1950s half-hour anthology series. This episode aired 1957, and is set in 1956. It is about a housewife and her son, who are held hostage. It…
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Outpost 37
A documentary crew follows an elite unit of soldiers in the wake of an alien invasion.
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Blitz 2011 Bdrip Xvid
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
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Village life in beautiful Tiruchirappalli (Trichy), Southern India in 1900 (AI enhanced & colorized)
Tiruchirappalli, also called Tiruchi or Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of…
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Divide and Conquer (1943)
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940. Watch on RetroFlix:…
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Fallguy (1962)
Hot shot teen Sonny Martin stops to help the victim of an auto accident but quickly realizes he’s stepped into a murder in progress. Watch on RetroFlix.org:…
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Magoo's Private War (1957)
The near-sighted Mr. Magoo takes his duties as an Air Raid Warden, in the civil-defense, cold-war/iron curtain days of the 1950s, seriously. When he stumbles…
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The Child In The Middle
UCLA Department of Theater Arts thesis film on the importance of parent-teacher conferences and how they can help identify behavioral problems in school and…
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Permutations
Computer program by Jack Citron ; music by Balachander A computer-designed graphics film, creates series of mathematical forms that resemble fireworks,…
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Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe colorized
When we are attacked from outer space by an unknown enemy, a masked super-scientist (Judd Holdren) builds an atomic-powered space ship to travel to the source…
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Apollo 17: On The Shoulders Of Giants
A 1973 documentary about the Apollo 17 mission to the moon during December 1972. Produced by A-V Corporation for NASA. The film was distributed both as an…
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Flash Point [2007] (DVDrip)
Flash Point ( traditional Chinese : 導火綫 ; simplified Chinese : 导火线 ) is a 2007 Hong Kong action film directed by Wilson Yip and written by Szeto Kam-Yuen and…
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The Killing Room 2009 Dvdrip Xvid
Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Complete Season 7 (39 Episodes) (restored, colorized) (1961, TV Series)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American television anthology series created, hosted and produced by Alfred Hitchcock , airing on CBS and NBC , alternately,…
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Yankee Doodle Cricket
Uses animation in presenting a story about the experiences of a mouse, a cat, and a cricket during the American Revolution. For elementary grades. The War of…
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Black.pond 2011 Dvdrip
An ordinary British family and their friend are accused of murder when a stranger dies at their dinner table.
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Lady for a Day (1933)
Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New York's high…
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Skeleton Frolic (1937)
Ub Iwerks dusts off the skeletons from his early-Disney days and puts them to work at Columbia… in a graveyard replete with eerie owls and surrealistic bats,…
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The Chase (1946)
Chuck Scott gets a job as chauffeur to tough guy Eddie Roman; but Chuck's involvement with Eddie's fearful wife becomes a nightmare. Watch on RetroFlix:…
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DOPE 092
Great America Smoke-out, "Toxic Zombies" pot farmers sprayed with herbicide. WWII nostalgia. American Werewolf in London. Sid & Nancy heroin scenes.…
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The Kojak-Chronicles S01e12-15 Last Rites For A Dead Priest, Death Is Not A Passing Grade, Die Before They Wake, & Deliver Us From Evil
The Kojak-Chronicles S01e12-15 Last Rites For A Dead Priest, Death Is Not A Passing Grade, Die Before They Wake, & Deliver Us From Evil
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Dark Journey (1937)
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage…
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Four Sons (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. Even though director John…
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If I Were King (1938)
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet…
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Shiver Me Timbers! (1934)
Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy stumble across a ghost ship. They climb aboard, and it proceeds to scare them in various ways. Watch on RetroFlix:…
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The Adventures Of The American Rabbit
The Adventures of the American Rabbit (released in the UK as simply The American Rabbit ) is a 1986 animated film directed by Fred Wolf and Nobutaka…
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Howdy Doody - 1 June 1953
An episode of the popular children's TV series. Includes original commercials for Royal Gelatin Desserts. Also includes original network IDs.
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''Four Star Playhouse'' - Tusitala
Episode of half-hour anthology series. This episode stars David Niven, and is a period drama set in 1893. He portrays a man trying to stop a war from…