The world's archives

1–48 of 829 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 White Sun of the Desert 1970 · Feature · 1 h 20 min "White Sun of the Desert" (Beloye solntse pustyni). It is the Soviet film, easterly "western". In the movie narrate about adventures of Red Army man Fyodor… Internet Archive Ivan The Terrible Part One Feature · Subtitles 1944 directed by Sergei Eisenstein starring Nikolai Cherkasov as Ivan IV, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya as Czarina Anastasia, Serafima Bermin as Boyarina Efrosinia… Internet Archive Evenings on the farm near Dikanka, the. 1961 · Feature · 1 h 6 min It is an immortal masterpiece of great Russian writer Nikolay Vasilevich Gogol (1809â1852). Action is developed on the eve of Christmas in Malorussia (so in… Internet Archive Teenagers in the Universe (Otroki vo vselennoj) 1974 · Feature · 1 h 19 min The best Soviet fantastic film for children. Film continuation "From Moscow To Cassiopeia" (Moskva-Kassiopeya) Director: Richard Viktorov Cast: Misha Ershov,… Internet Archive The Addams Family (Season 1) Feature English Русский NOTICE! The source files have two language tracks embedded in them: Russian and English. Most likely these files were encoded by a native… Internet Archive From Moscow To Cassiopeia (Moskva-Kassiopeya) 1973 · Feature · 1 h 19 min The best Soviet fantastic film for children. The second part of a film is called "Teenagers in the Universe" (Otroki vo vselennoj) Director: Richard Viktorov… Internet Archive Karavan smerti (The caravan of death) 1991 · Feature · 1 h 14 min Karavan smerti The fight of group of frontier guards with a gang which has got for terrorism on southern border of Russia. A life and death, love and… Internet Archive Goryachaya tochka (Flashpoint) 1998 · Feature · 1 h 9 min Goryachaya tochka The fighting officer, the veteran of war in Afghanistan, major Larin, should receive, at last, holiday after long service on frontier.… Internet Archive Chipollino 1961 · Short · 37 min Characters of fairy tale are vegetables or fruit: shoemaker Vinogradinka (Grape), the godfather the Pumpkin, the girl the Radish, boy Vishenka (Cherry) etc.… Internet Archive Old man Hottabych 1956 · Feature · 1 h 20 min The fantastic comedy is removed on the fairy tale of Lazar Lagin with the same name. 12-year-old Moscow schoolboy Volka, bathing in the Moskva River, finds… Internet Archive Glass Harmonica (Masters of Russian Animation) 1968 · Feature The state comes into confrontation with director Andrei Khrjanovsky, who gives new vision to the masses and shows them a different horizon. Glass Harmonica… Internet Archive The Addams Family (Season 2) Feature English Русский NOTICE! The source files have two language tracks embedded in them: Russian and English. Most likely these files were encoded by a native… Internet Archive Youth of Peter the Great, The 1980 · Feature The original nane of this film (Germ.) - "Peters Jugend" The Russian name is "Yunost Petra". Director: Sergey Gerasimov Cast: Dmitri Zolotukhin, Tamara… Internet Archive Lieutenant Kizhe Restored then Enhanced 1934 · Feature · Subtitles 1934 directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer starring Mikhail Yanshin, Boris Gorin-Goryainov, Nina Shaternikova, Sofiya Magarill, Erast Garin and Mikhail… Internet Archive The Adventures Of Lolo The Penguin(1986) ENGLISH HARDSUB VERSION 1986 · Feature DISCRETION: THIS IS THE ORIGINAL RUSSIAN LANGUAGE VERSION! THIS VERSION IS COMPLETELY UNEDITED! WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS SCENES OF VIOLENCE! THERE IS BLOOD… Internet Archive Aerograd (Аероград) 1935 · Feature · 1 h 17 min · Subtitles Aerograd (Russian: Аероград, also referred to as Air City or Frontier), is a 1935 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko, Mosfilm-VUFKU… Internet Archive Mountain of Dinosaurs (Masters of Russian Animation) 1967 · Feature The story follows the lives of dinosaurs as they fall in love and have children, their eggs hatched by the hot sun as their parents look on. As the weather… Internet Archive In the beginning of the glorious deeds 1980 · Feature The Russian name is "V nachale slavnykh del". This film is the continuation of "Youth of Peter the Great" Director: Sergey Gerasimov Cast: Dmitri Zolotukhin,… Internet Archive Dnevnik Glumova (Glumov's Diary) 1923 · Short · 5 min From IMDb : Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa… Internet Archive Man in the Frame (Masters of Russian Animation) 1966 · Feature “Man in the Frame” is about a single man who spends his days boxed in by a frame, hanging as a picture on the wall of life. The first frame he has is simple… Internet Archive The Forty First (1927) 1927 · Feature · Subtitles 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 The Sword And The Dragon (1956) 1956 · Feature Ilya Muromets, also known as The Sword and the Dragon and The Epic Hero and the Beast, is a 1956 Soviet fantasy film by noted fantasy director Aleksandr… Internet Archive Viy 1967 (Eng Sub) 1967 · Feature While on a vacation in a remote village, a young priest is summoned to guard the corpse of a witch. His faith is soon put to the test. (Russian with English… Internet Archive O Encouraçado Potemkin (1925) 1925 · Feature Bronenosets Potyomkin é um filme mudo soviético dirigido por Serguei Eisenstein, produzido pela Mosfilm e lançado em 1925. Ele apresenta uma versão… Internet Archive The Club Of The Big Deed (1927) 1927 · Feature · Subtitles 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 The Stolen Sun (Краденое солнце, Kradenoye solntse) 1944 · Cartoon A 1944 film by Soyuzmultfilm; made in the Soviet Union in the darkest days of World War 2. See its page at animator.ru for more info (though they got the year… Internet Archive Alexander Nevsky (1938) Feature ALEXANDRE NEVSKY ( Aleksandr Nevsky, 1938 - URSS ) ( Filme Completo / Legendado em Português ) Data de Lançamento: 25 de novembro de 1938 » SOBRE O FILME:… Internet Archive Baltiytsi (Балтийцы) 1937 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles Alexander Fayntsimmer, 1934. Soviet Union Internet Archive Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot (1958) Feature IVAN, O TERRÍVEL - PARTE II ( Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot, 1958 - URSS ) ( Filme Completo / Legendado em Português ) Data de Lançamento: 1 de… Internet Archive Ivan The Terrible, Part I (1944) Feature IVAN, O TERRÍVEL - PARTE II ( Ivan the Terrible, Part I, 1944 - URSS ) ( Filme Completo / Legendado em Português ) Data de Lançamento: 30 de dezembro de 1944… Internet Archive Raskolnikow (1923) 1923 · Feature · 1 h 10 min Also known as Raskolnikov and Crime and Punishment Internet Archive El acorazado Potemkin 1925 · Feature La película soviética El acorazado Potemkin subtitulada al español Internet Archive Battleship Potemkin 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Storm Over Asia (1928) 1928 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This Soviet propaganda film… Internet Archive Aelita: Queen of Mars 1924 · Feature Internet Archive Tenderness to roaring animal 1 Feature · 1 h 4 min Tenderness to roaring animal Internet Archive The Dying Swan 1917 · Feature Internet Archive Revival of Stalingrad, the Feature vozrozhdenie stalingrada Internet Archive The House On Trubnaya (1928) 1928 · Feature I've been researching newly public domain films from 1929 and earlier, so I'm uploading the best possible copies that I can find. This Russian comedy follows… Internet Archive Twilight of a Woman's Soul 1913 · Feature Internet Archive After Death 1916 · Feature Internet Archive Race 713th asks landing Feature Race 713th asks landing. Internet Archive Luch smerti 1925 · Feature Internet Archive Kino-pravda no. 1 1922 · Feature Internet Archive Tenderness to roaring animal 2 Feature Tenderness to roaring animal Internet Archive Arsenal 1929 · Feature Internet Archive Tenderness to roaring animal 3 Feature · 1 h 3 min Tenderness to roaring animal Internet Archive The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom 1924 · Feature