The world's archives

6,049–6,096 of 10,816 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.
Open Images Men vs women 2011 · Short · 1 min Video remix made during a workshop at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam, 11-12 March 2011. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Snow Works 2011 · Short · 1 min Video remix made during a workshop at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam, 11-12 March 2011. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Stay'in alive in Jo'burg 2011 · Feature · 55 min Johannesburg is the largest economic metropolis in Africa. Downtown Johannesburg, however, is one of the world's most violent places. Most offi ce buildings… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images I am Gurgaon: the new city in India 2011 · Feature · 49 min Gurgaon is a satellite city outside of New Delhi. Its shiny facades symbolize India's unparalleled economic growth. Gurgaon was built at the turn of this… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images metropolis coming to the city 2011 · Feature · 48 min Andala, Maria, Nick and Dong Bing live in four different continents, but they all have one thing in common: they have decided to start a new life in the big… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Aalsmeer winterbeelden 1966 1967 2011 · Short · 2 min Amateur filmbeelden uit de jaren '60 gemaakt op de Westeinderplas te Aalsmeer. Oorsprong 8 mm film. Auteur: onbekend Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Tigerblood 2011 · Short · 1 min Video remix made during a workshop at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam, 11-12 March 2011. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Fashionable Soccer Animals 2011 · Short · 1 min Video remix made during a workshop of Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam, 11-12 March 2011. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Car Race Mashup 2011 · Short · 1 min Video remix made during a workshop at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam, 11-12 March 2011. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Back to Nature 2011 · Short · 1 min Video remix made during a workshop at Video Vortex #6 in Amsterdam, 11-12 March 2011. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Aalsmeer Watersport jaren '60 2011 · Short · 6 min Compilatie van 8mm amateuropnamen gemaakt in de jaren '60 van de vorige eeuw. Filmlocatie :Westeinder Plas Aalsmeer Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Aalsmeer kwekersdorp 1960 · Short · 3 min Impressie van Aalsmeerse kwekersfamilie in de jaren '60 van de vorige eeuw. In deze film o.a. opnamen van het werken op het land, het enten van seringen en… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 9.Andreas Haugstrup Pedersen 2010 · Talk · 1 h 3 min Video sharing sites, most notably YouTube, offer video commenting features, but these features break with fundamental traditions of the web. They rely on a… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 3.Dominic Pettman 2010 · Talk · 54 min There is a popular conception amongst many Zeitgeist watchers, especially in places like the US, Western Europe and Australia, of the urbanized East as… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 11.Sarah Kesenne 2010 · Talk · 44 min What a thrill to see the videos Latin-American U2 fans uploaded on the web. They show the same Vertigo tour shows of the concertfilm ‘U23D’ I saw the evening… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 6.Vera Tollman 2010 · Talk · 1 h 5 min How does one address these banally profound issues of everyday life? It seems to me approporiate to use the medium of television, which in its most familiar… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 2.Aras Özgün 2010 · Talk · 42 min “User generated content” has been a buzzword that defines certain technological developments gathered under the label “Web 2.0,” as well as a key element of… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 4.Kylie Jarret 2010 · Talk · 26 min Encapsulated within YouTube’s exhortation ‘Broadcast Yourself’ is the essence of the site’s promise to users. When engaged with the site they will have the… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 7. Michael Liegel 2010 · Talk · 36 min Most research on interaction features discourse in one way or another (interviews, conversation, talk in interaction). Furthermore, it often focuses on… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 8.Martin Koplin 2010 · Talk · 26 min Mobile media are a part of todays eCulture: they are potentially interactive and can support to create citizens participation in themes and questions of our… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 12.Başak Şenova 2010 · Talk · 37 min The presentation evolves around the notion of "space" along with the perpetual and spatial considerations in the context of digital art. Basak Senova is a… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 14.Gülsen Bal 2010 · Talk · 25 min The starting point of this presentation resides in analyzing differential structures in their multiplicity through focusing on the new aesthetic constitution… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 15.Dan Oki 2010 · Talk · 45 min This paper aims to discuss the influences of digital technology and the internet on filmmaking process. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 13.Elizabeth Losh 2010 · Talk · 44 min Politics of online video Elizabeth Losh (US) Losh is Writing Director of the Humanities Core Course at the University of California and recently published… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 10.Michael Verdi 2010 · Talk · 33 min Over the last four years the means of producing and distributing video content over the web have become nearly ubiquitous, leading to the beginning of the… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 8.Stefaan Decostere 2010 · Talk · 30 min Categories of enactment / Strategies of resistance Stefaan Decostere (BE) Decostere is a Belgian artist, has been producing documentaries for tv since 1979.… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 12.Simon Yuill 2010 · Talk · 34 min Politics of online video Simon Yuill (GB) Simon Yuill is an artist based in Glasgow, was involved in hacklabs and Free Media Labs and has written on aspects… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 14.Stephen Crocker 2010 · Talk · 50 min Politics of online video Stephen Crocker (CA) Crocker is an associate professor of sociology and assistent director of the Humanities Program at Memorial… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #3 5.Sabine Niederer 2010 · Talk · 4 min Presentation of the Video Vortex Reader at the Ankara Edition of the Video Vortex conference series Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 11.Constant Dullaart 2 2010 · Talk · 46 min Artist practices: (sub)versioning Constant Dullaart (NL) Dullaart is an artist and teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, and curates several events in… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 10.Albert Figurt 2010 · Talk · 38 min Categories of enactment / Strategies of resistance Albert Figurt (IT) Video Vortex #5: DAY 2 International conference, Atomium, Brussels 20-21 November 2009 Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 9.Constant Dullaart I 2010 · Talk · 22 min Artist practices: (sub)versioning Constant Dullaart (NL) Dullaart is an artist and teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, and curates several events in… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 7.Keith Sanborn 2010 · Talk · 50 min Categories of enactment / Strategies of resistance Keith Sanborn (US) Sanborn is media artist and theoretician focusing on the investigation of public images… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 6.Andrew Clay 2010 · Talk · 42 min Online cinema Andrew Clay (GB) Andrew Clay is lecturing in Critical Technical Practices at De Montfort University, Leicester and programme leader of BSc… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 5.Johan Grimonprez 2010 · Talk · 1 h 8 min System flaws and tactics Johan Grimonprez (BE) Grimonprez is an internationally renowned artist best known for his seminal DIAL H-I-S-T-O-R-Y. Video Vortex… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 1.Geert Lovink 2010 · Talk · 17 min Introduction by Geert Lovink Video Vortex #5: DAY 1 International conference, Atomium, Brussels 20-21 November 2009 more information can be found at… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 2.Liesbeth Huybrechts/Rudi Knoops 2010 · Talk · 39 min System flaws and tactics Liesbeth Huybrechts / Rudi Knoops (BE) Both Huybrechts and Knoops teach at the Media & Design Academy in Genk. Video Vortex #5: DAY 1… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 3.Brian Willems 2010 · Talk · 45 min System flaws and tactics Brian Willems (CR) Brian Willems teaches literature and media culture at the University of Split. Video Vortex #5: DAY 1… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images VideoVortex #5 4.Rosa Menkman 2010 · Talk · 42 min System flaws and tactics Rosa Menkman (NL) Menkman is an artist and currently doing a PhD at the KHM on the subject of Artifacts. Video Vortex #5: DAY 1… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Aalsmeer Bloemencorso 1966 2010 · Short · 4 min Amateurbeelden van het Bloemencorso te Aalsmeer. Opnamelocatie: o.a. hoek Marktstraat - van Cleeffkade Aalsmeer. Jaar: 1966 Oorspronkelijk fimformaat 8 mm Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Make Up Your Mind 2010 · Short · 6 min Live videoregistratie van het nummer "Make Up Your Mind" van de band Guaranteed a Lifetime*. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Groningen mei 1945 (2) 2010 · Short · 1 min Opnamen (vermoedelijk privé-) van de verwoeste binnenstad van Groningen, vlak na de bevrijding. Beelden van verwoeste huizen waar vaak alleen nog de façade… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Bevrijding Rotterdam (1945) 2010 · Short · 5 min Beelden van de bevrijding van Rotterdam. Toeschouwers juichen voertuigen toe. Ook beelden gefilmd vanaf de voertuigen zelf. Verpleegsters klimmen bij… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images De terugkeer van de koningin - Middelburg en Walcheren (1945) 2010 · Short · 2 min Koningin Wilhelmina keert terug in Nederland na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In het fragment bezoekt zij Middelburg en de overstroomde gebieden in Walcheren. Open Images is not answering just now Open Images De terugkeer van de koningin - Eede (1945) 2010 · Short · 1 min Koningin Wilhelmina keert terug in Nederland na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In het dorp Eede in Zeeuws-Vlaanderen zet zij voor het eerst weer voet op Nederlandse… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images De terugkeer van de koningin - Den Haag (1945) 2010 · Short · 1 min Koningin Wilhelmina keert terug in Nederland na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In het fragment haar aankomst in Den Haag. Zij verschijnt op het bordes van het… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Bevrijdingsherdenking in Veghel (1959) 2010 · Short · 1 min Oorlogsherdenking in Veghel. Optocht van Amerikaanse miltairen, enthousiast ontvangen door de bevolking. Prinses Irene onthult het Airborne-monument. Fragment… Open Images is not answering just now Open Images Met de 'Jan Pieterz Coen' naar Indië (1921) 2010 · Short · 3 min Vertrek van het schip Jan Pieterszoon Coen vanaf de Javakade in Amsterdam. De opvarenden worden uitgezwaaid door de thuisblijvers. Producent: Nationale… Open Images is not answering just now