The world's archives

529–576 of 563,907 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 Chasing Trouble 1940 · Feature · 59 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign… Internet Archive Dick Tracy vs. Cueball 1946 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles Title: Dick Tracy vs. Cueball Summary: Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the… Internet Archive Murder on Flight 502 1975 · Feature · 1 h 37 min This film falls firmly in the So Bad You'll Love It. After a plane takes off for London, a note is found in the airport saying that some people are going to… Internet Archive The Hunchback of Notre Dame 1923 · Feature · 1 h 40 min Early adaptation of the novel by Victor Hugo starring Lon Chaney. You can find out more about this movie on its IMDB page . Internet Archive The Speckled Band 1931 · Feature · 50 min · Subtitles Rare Sherlock Holmes film starring Raymond Massey as SHerlock Holmes. Lyn Harding who plays Dr Rylot later appeared as Moriarty in "Silver Blaze"/"Murder at… Internet Archive Ask Dad 1929 · Short · 22 min · Subtitles Comedic short starring Edward Everett Horton. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Texas Terror 1935 · Feature · 51 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Wild Women of Wongo 1958 · Feature · 1 h 12 min · Subtitles Mother Nature and Father Time, as an experiment, put all the beautiful women on one island and all the beautiful men on another. You can find out more about… Internet Archive Napoleon 1955 · Feature · 1 h 59 min Napoléon is a 1955 French historical epic film directed by Sacha Guitry that depicts major events in the life of Napoleon I of France. Yves Montand appears as… Internet Archive Six-Gun Rhythm 1939 · Feature · 57 min · Subtitles When football player Tex Fletcher arrives home he finds his father missing. Jim Davis has killed the father and learning of Tex's identity, sends his men to… Internet Archive Big Show, The 1936 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Southerner 1945 · Feature · 1 h 32 min Jean Renoir's classic tale of a cotton picker (Zachary Scott) who moves his wife (Betty Field) and children to a run down farm in hopes that they can grow… Internet Archive Phantom Planet 1961 · Feature · 1 h 22 min · Subtitles After an invisible asteroid draws an astronaut and his ship to its surface, he is miniaturized by the phantom planet's exotic atmosphere. Internet Archive The Lawless Frontier 1934 · Feature · 49 min A mexican outlaw kills John Tobin's (John Wayne) parents. Eventually, John Tobin meets up with someone else who's life has been bothered ... all » by the same… Internet Archive The Marines Are Coming 1934 · Feature · 1 h 11 min When Lt. "Wild Bill" Traynor (William Haines), bad boy of the Marine Corps, arrives at a San Diego Marine Base, he is surprised to discover he has been… Internet Archive Chelovek s kinoapparatom (Man With A Movie Camera) 1929 · Feature · 1 h 8 min Dziga Vertov's Man With A Movie Camera is considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era. Startlingly modern, this film… Internet Archive The Sheik 1921 · Feature · 1 h 26 min Legendary Valentino picture. Valentino stars as an Arabian who falls in love with an English woman in this classic silent picture. Visit the IMDB page here. Internet Archive Monster Maker, The 1944 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles Mad scientist injects his enemies with acromegaly virus, causing them to become hideously deformed. Internet Archive Bowery at Midnight 1942 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles Bela Lugosi. By day, professor of psychology. By night, proprietor of a soup-kitchen that serves as the base for his criminal activities. Tom Neal of "Detour"… Internet Archive Escape by Night 1937 · Feature · 1 h 4 min · Subtitles From IMDb : A group of criminals on the run hide out in an abandoned farmhouse. They find themselves being "looked after" by a friendly dog, and soon… Internet Archive One Body Too Many 1944 · Feature · 1 h 15 min · Subtitles Taken from the IMDB : Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is… Internet Archive This is the Army 1943 · Feature · 1 h 54 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW… Internet Archive Rain 1932 · Feature · 1 h 32 min Sadie Thompson vs. The Puritans. Maxwell Anderson's screenplay of the W. Somerset Maugham story. Joan Crawford. Walter Huston, William Gargan For more info on… Internet Archive The Lost Jungle 1934 · Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles Clyde Beatty, animal trainer extraordinaire, sets off in a dirigible to find his love who's been shipwrecked on an uncharted island. Feature version of the… Internet Archive Scared to Death 1947 · Feature · 1 h 20 min · Subtitles A woman tells the story of the events leading up to her death. Bela Lugosi's only color film. Internet Archive Nosferatu_DVD_quality 1922 · Feature NOTE: THIS FILM IS SEPARATED INTO FOUR FILES Nosferatu, up elsewhere on archive.org, this is the highest resolution version up so far, a direct DVD rip,… Internet Archive The Front Page 1931 · Feature · 1 h 39 min http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021890/ There's nothing like an original !!! Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien), newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and… Internet Archive Superman: Eleventh Hour 1942 · Cartoon · 8 min Superman is responsible for several acts of sabotage at the Yokohama Navy Yard in Japan. Lois Lane is held hostage but Superman saves the day. Animation by… Internet Archive Half Shot at Sunrse 1930 · Feature · 1 h 18 min · Subtitles Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey are privates in WWI France who chase girls, trade bad jokes and win battles. Internet Archive Why We Fight: Prelude to War 1943 · Feature · 52 min · Subtitles Produced by the U.S. Army Special Service Division, and directed by Frank Capra "Why We Fight" is a seven part propaganda/documentary series that traces the… Internet Archive That Uncertain Feeling 1941 · Feature · 1 h 24 min Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker (Merle Oberon) is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups Internet Archive The Screaming Skull (HD) 1958 · Feature · Subtitles HD version of the 1958 "B" horror feature. A newlywed couple move into the man's old home, which was previously inhabited by him and his previous wife.… Internet Archive Sherlock Holmes - The Man Who Disappeared (Failed Pilot) 1951 · Feature · Subtitles Failed pilot for a proposed British Sherlock Holmes series starring John Longdon (Hitchcock's "Blackmail" and "The Skin Game") as Sherlock Holmes. Campbell… Internet Archive The Sin of Harold Diddlebock 1947 · Feature · 1 h 29 min This final film by silent screen star Harold Lloyd comes nine years after his previous feature. In this film, that reprises a character portrayed by Lloyd in… Internet Archive Sheriff of Tombstone 1941 · Feature · 54 min The mayor (Addison Richards) has sent for a gunslinger (Harry Woods) who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking… Internet Archive Classic Television Commercials (Part I) 1948 · Commercial · 8 min · Subtitles Collection of TV commercials significant to the history and development of TV as an advertising medium. Internet Archive Warriors of The Net 2002 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles Warriors of The Net - An animation explaining the way IP packets flow on the Internet Trailer and full film (12:40) This movie is made available by Ericsson… Internet Archive Carmen 1915 · Feature · 56 min · Subtitles Cecil B Demille's 1915 film of Prosper Merimee's 1845 novella (which was the basis of Bizet's famous opera.) Carmen, a gypsy woman, seduced lawyer Don Jose in… Internet Archive Arizona Days 1928 · Feature · 53 min Bob Custer, cowboy star of the 1920s and '30s, fights rustlers and saves the heroine from a Fate Worse Than Death in this typical B western from the last days… Internet Archive For Health and Happiness 1941 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles Lively children illustrate the results of good nutrition, affection, and intelligent care. Internet Archive Stranger, The 1946 · Feature · 1 h 31 min · Subtitles Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and… Internet Archive The Lady Confesses 1945 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles Mary Beth Hughes, about to be married to Hugh Beaumont, receives a visit from his previous wife, who was presumed dead. And then the woman is found murdered.… Internet Archive How to Be Well Groomed 1949 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Siblings Don and Sue show how they keep themselves well groomed throughout the school week and for their Friday night dates. Internet Archive Symphony of Living 1935 · Feature · 1 h 12 min · Subtitles An aging concert violinist ignored by his grown children who becomes a music teacher. His most promising student, with whom he intends to make a comeback,… Internet Archive Mud and Sand 1922 · Short · 40 min 'Mud and Sand' is a satire on the Rudolph Valentino Classic Blood and Sand .. Stan Laurel plays the Bullfighter (Rubharb Vaseline) who wants to make it to the… Internet Archive Rhythm and Blues Revue 1955 · Feature · 1 h 11 min Musical variety show filmed at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York City featuring a cast of popular African-American performers: Willie Bryant, Freddie… Internet Archive Timetable (aka Time Table) 1956 · Feature · 1 h 20 min After the theft of $500,000 in a carefully executed train robbery, an insurance investigator (Mark Stevens, who also doubled as director and producer) is… Internet Archive Disorder in the Court 1936 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .