The world's archives

5,665–5,712 of 563,642 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 Blackhawk 1952 colorized cliffhanger serial (Kirk Alyn) 1952 · Feature A flying squadron of WW2 veterans led by that fearless champion of freedom Blackhawk (Kirk Alyn) and hid sidekick Chuck (John Crawford) uncovers a gang of… Internet Archive Car of Dreams (1935) Feature · 1 h 8 min Rich boy Robert Miller (John Mills) meets and falls for poor girl Vera Hart (Grete Mosheim). He secretly buys her a Rolls Royce and then appoints himself as… Internet Archive 30 Segundos Para Morir ( 1981) 1981 · Feature Mexploitation narco film about 3 friends who sell drugs across the border and their desire to get out of the business Internet Archive 1985 Marmor bleibt immer kühl (Marble always remains cool) 1985 · Feature Gustaf Gründgens (Off), Peter Rübsam (Sculptor, On), Ingrid Lutz and Jürgen Kuhfuß (Sound) The film is a late payoff with a Genius, who took his job more… Internet Archive Lassie A Christmas Story (1958 Film Noir Christmas Special) 1958 · Feature · 1 h 15 min PLOT : While the Martin's are Christmas shopping, Lassie saves a child from getting hit by a truck and is struck herself. Dr. Weaver is uncertain if he can do… Internet Archive [Amateur Film: Golden Gate International Exposition] 1939 · Home movie · 9 min · Subtitles Kodachrome footage of the San Francisco World's Fair, held on Treasure Island. Internet Archive That Night's Wife 1930 · Feature In noirish darkness, a man commits a shocking robbery. But, as we soon learn, this seeming criminal mastermind is actually a sensitive everyman driven to… Internet Archive Break And Enter / Rompiendo Puertas (aka Squatters) 1970 · Film · Subtitles Made by the Newsreel collective in New York City, this film shows "Operation Move-in," in which Puerto Rican and Dominican families actively reclaimed unused,… Internet Archive The Black Rider 1954 colorized (Jimmy Hanley) 1954 · Feature When a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike appears in the English countryside near a ruined castle, a young reporter decides to invetigate. Jimmy Hanley… Internet Archive Fawlty Towers Complete 1975 · TV Fawlty Towers is a British television sitcom written by John Cleese and Connie Booth , originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1975 and 1979. Two series of six… Internet Archive Chevrolet Leader News (Vol. 2, No. 1) 1936 · Newsreel · 8 min · Subtitles Promotional newsreels featuring a variety of Chevrolet-centric stories, including: Miami, Florida police practice shooting at stationary targets from moving… Internet Archive Plowshare (Part II) 1961 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles Argues for peaceful uses of nuclear weapons in construction, civil engineering and extraction of natural resources. A document of the U.S. Atomic Energy… Internet Archive Secret Mission 1942 · Feature · 1 h 30 min Title: Secret Mission Summary: Three British spies and a French resistance fighter sneak into occupied France to gather information about the German forces… Internet Archive Betty Boop: The Impractical Joker 1937 · Cartoon Internet Archive The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1921 · Feature · 2 h 10 min Rudolph Valentino Stars in this epic set during the First World War. Internet Archive Treasure Island 1939 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles Dignitaries open up the World's Fair on Treasure Island (Kodachrome, missing soundtrack). Internet Archive 1967 Markeneier (Trademark eggs) 1967 · Feature Hard-boiled eggs turn against black background. In "Trademark eggs" many eggs rotate continuously, as if by magic. The effect is achieved by a simple trick:… Internet Archive [Home Movies: NY Central and NYNH&H Electric Operations, July 1961] 1961 · Home movie · Subtitles Mouth of Park Avenue tunnel at 96th Street; rail traffic in and out of tunnel Activity shot from 125th Street station platform Activity shot from an outside… Internet Archive White Magic 1940 · Short · 7 min · Subtitles The physics, science and applications of light. Internet Archive THE TRUE GLORY restored. Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles A postwar documentary recounting of the allies' World War 2 victory on the western front, beginning with the preparations for D-day. Introduced and partially… Internet Archive Popeye The Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves 1937 · Cartoon · 17 min Classic Fleischer Studios Technicolor Popeye cartoon from 1937. This is the better copy John_boy asked for back in 2005. This copy has the original Paramount… Internet Archive Holiday in Heidelberg, Germany and Schaffhausen, Switzerland 1930 · Short · 16 min We got this movie anonymous and sent in a box by mail. It is a homemovie, probably recorded in de 30's from the last century. Thanks to everyone who solved… Internet Archive The British Royal Family (banned documentary) 1969 · Feature Royal Family (also known as The Royal Family) is a British television documentary about the family of Queen Elizabeth II. It originally aired on BBC 1 and ITV… Internet Archive The Thirsty Dead 1974 1974 · Feature Beautiful young girls are kidnapped off the streets of Manila by a death cult that needs their blood to remain immortal. Internet Archive The Prowler 1951 · Feature Title: The Prowler Summary: When Susan Gilvray reports a prowler outside her house police officer Webb Garwood investigates and sparks fly. If only her… Internet Archive Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars - Chapter 10 (1938) colorized 1938 · Feature Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) Universal Pictures Chapter 10 "Incense of Forgetfulness" AI colorized and image enhanced, mostly by Iain Petrie. Flash,… Internet Archive Jack and the Beanstalk (1902 silent film) Short · 10 min From Edison films catalog: A grand spectacular performance in nine scenes and one tableau, illustrating the most popular fairy story ever written.... From… Internet Archive Hear and Now 1958 · Film · Subtitles A film about the history and importance of radio. The film covers the development of radio and its impact on people's lives, from its use as a tool for… Internet Archive To The Fair (Pt 1) 1965 · Film · Subtitles Provides a trip to the New York World's Fair of 1965, showing the various activities at the fair. Internet Archive Home, Sweet Home 1914 · Feature · 55 min Title: Home, Sweet Home Summary: John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some… Internet Archive Our Town (1940 Pulitzer Prize Winning Story Of Small Town Life) 1940 · Feature Plot : Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get… Internet Archive Boy of the Streets Feature · 1 h 16 min · Subtitles A young teen in New York City grapples with a deadbeat father, and the law of the big city streets. Internet Archive Schindler's List (1993) Feature Schindler's List (1993) Internet Archive Frankenstein ( 1931) Doblada Al Español FULL HD 1931 · Feature El doctor Henry Von Frankenstein acomete un experimento tenebroso: construir, a partir de fragmentos de cadáveres, un nuevo ser humano. Con la ayuda de su… Internet Archive Technicolor for Industrial Films 1949 · Short · 8 min · Subtitles Film promoting use of Technicolor process to industrial film producers. Internet Archive Image of Bruce Lee 1978 · Feature Internet Archive [Kay Stinson, Aviator] 1917 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles Kay Stinson, noted woman aviatrix, breaks the speed record from San Diego to San Francisco with an average speed of 66 mph. Internet Archive [Texas City, Texas Explosion] 1947 · Film · Subtitles TEXAS BLAST! SPECIAL RELEASE! FIRST PICTURES Footage of the Texas City explosion of 1947 great disaster footage Internet Archive Medal for the General Feature “Touching story of the home front” “Solid comedy-drama” (IMDB reviews quotes). Godfrey Tearle has the title role of an old warrior embittered by being refused… Internet Archive [Farewell to Treasure Island] 1940 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles Conclusion of the Golden Gate International Exposition on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay, California. Internet Archive Red, White and Zero 1967 · Feature · 47 min Title: Red, White and Zero Summary: An impassive young girl is taken from her suicidal London life, back to her home in North England, on a bizarre bus trip.… Internet Archive The Black Abbot (1963 Film Noir THRILLER! Crime) 1963 · Feature · 1 h 24 min PLOT : Several employees on a nobleman's estate show up at a former abbey, reputed to be haunted, to search for a hidden treasure. Howver, a mysterious hooded… Internet Archive Oil for Aladdin's Lamp (revised version) 1949 · Short · 20 min · Subtitles The romance of the petroleum industry, showing how dependent our society is on oil and petrochemical products. Remake and update of the original (1933) version. Internet Archive Unfinished Business 1948 · Short · 19 min · Subtitles Postwar adjustment is easy for a young World War II veteran who is welcomed back to his job at U.S. Steel with a position, training courses, and counseling. Internet Archive 99 River Street 1953 · Feature Title: 99 River Street Summary: A former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was… Internet Archive The Play House 1921 · Short Starring Buster Keaton. "This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show" Keaton displays his many talents in this one. This comedic short displays not only… Internet Archive Tales from the Darkside 1990 · Feature "Tales from the Darkside" is a horror anthology film that consists of three main stories, woven together by a framing narrative. The film explores themes of… Internet Archive Warriors of the Net in Tamil Feature · Subtitles This is the tamil version of the video "Warriors of the Net" available in www.warriorsofthe.net