The world's archives

7,393–7,440 of 609,145 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 Letter to A Pilot 1950 · Film · Subtitles Great footage of airline operations circa 1950. Stock shots to be logged. 21:27:55:28 VS, CU disembodied hands shuffle through mail; cuts to same letters in… Internet Archive Toby The Pup: In The Museum 1930 · Cartoon · 5 min The first cartoon in a series of twelve with Toby the Pup. The series was produced by Charles Mintz 1930-1931 and distributed through RKO Radio Pictures.… Internet Archive Going Straight (1916 Classic, Silent, Film Noir (tinted), Drama) 1916 · Feature · 58 min TAGLINE : Have we killed him? PLOT : A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of… Internet Archive Jazzbo & The Beanstalk 2008 · Cartoon Al 'Jazzbo' Collins climbs up Ub Iwerks bean stalk. This is a copy of one of the first video mash-ups we did at the now closed Suburban World Theater cartoon… Internet Archive Sunnyside Up 1929 · Feature Title: Sunnyside Up Summary: Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack… Internet Archive Brotherhood of Man, The 1946 · Film · Subtitles Based on the pamphlet The Races of Mankind, by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish. An animated cartoon. Explains that there are no basic differences between the… Internet Archive Three Men In A Boat 1933 · Feature An adaptation of Jerome K. Jerome’s classic story charting the comic misadventures of three friends – and a dog – as they take a boating holiday on the Thames. Internet Archive Swords and Hearts Short · 16 min Swords and Hearts, D W Griffith 1911. Griffith returns to the Civil war, this time with a story of a Southern officer, who when he returns from the war, finds… Internet Archive THE TIP OFF image quality upgrade Feature This version has improved contrast and brightness. “Comedy-drama with some good moments” “Likable” “Lively and fun” “Slight but fun” (IMDB reviews quotes).… Internet Archive The Colossus Of Rhodes (1961) 1961 · Feature The Colossus of Rhodes is a 1961 Italian sword and sandal film co-written and directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Rory Calhoun. It is a fictional account of… Internet Archive Food for America (Part II) 1941 · Short · 22 min · Subtitles This Kodachrome film is a travelogue of epic length in which the camera rarely leaves the factory floor. Mrs. Harwood, a lady of a certain social position,… Internet Archive Goliathon, Mighty Peking Man, Xing Xing Wang 1977 1977 · Feature The Shaw Brothers take on King Kong. They don't physically fight him, they just retell the story with Chinese actors and a very much not Chinese heroine. Much… Internet Archive America Goes Over (Part I) 1918 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Government-produced historical record of major World War I battles. Internet Archive Better Use of Leisure Time 1950 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles How to make the most of your free time. Internet Archive BBC Television received in New York - November 1938 TV · 3 min · Subtitles The four-minute compilation from 1938 exists only because of a technological fluke and the enthusiasm of two television buffs, one in Britain and the other in… Internet Archive The Violent Men (1955) 1955 · Feature The Violent Men is a 1955 American CinemaScope Western film directed by Rudolph Maté and starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson, Dianne… Internet Archive Chance to Play, A 1950 · Film · Subtitles Film about the need for Americans to have more places to participate in sports, recreation, and other leisure activities. Considers the special needs of young… Internet Archive Death Valley Days - Dear Teacher TV · 26 min · Subtitles Death Valley Days featured stories of the old American West, primarily the Death Valley, California area. It began as a radio drama, which ran from 1930 until… Internet Archive Miracle on the Delaware 1953 · Film · Subtitles PA-0807 shotlist: 07:10:56:15 Philadelphia as seen across Delaware River. 07:11:07:23 Great shot from car on Delaware Bridge. 07:11:13:10 Pan up industrial… Internet Archive Good Night Nurse Short A silent short comedy from 1928 directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle with help from Buster Keaton and Al St John. Internet Archive Frontier Revenge 1948 colorized (Lash Larue) 1948 · Feature Marshal Lash LaRue and his partner Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John) are sent to a town to see if a respectable businessman (Ray Bennett) is actually leading the gang… Internet Archive Education for Excellence 1964 · Educational · Subtitles The film "Education for Excellence" highlights the educational programs for gifted children in New York City's public elementary schools. It showcases the… Internet Archive The Man Who Finally Died 1963 · Feature Title: The Man Who Finally Died Summary: A mysterious call summons Joe Newman to Bavaria in search of the father he believed dead for 20 years. Directed by:… Internet Archive [Home Movies: 1971 San Francisco Vacation] 1971 · Home movie · Subtitles Pan around State Line Hotel and Casino, West Wendover Nevada State Line neon sign Unfocused shot of sign with "Wendover Will," hand-waving cowboy (unfocused… Internet Archive Quatermass and the Pit - Episode 4 1958 · TV · 32 min · Subtitles The fourth episode of Nigel Kneale's third Quatermass serial from 1959. Other episodes can be viewed at the following links. Episode 1 (start) Episode 2… Internet Archive Heart, The 1950 · Film · Subtitles Another in the astonishing series of science and nature films narrated by writer/naturalist John Kieran, The Heart achieves a surreal effect from the… Internet Archive [Kidnapping in San Francisco] 1950 · Newsreel · 1 min · Subtitles Captive for 64 Hours, Wealthy Realtor Saved. Realtor Leonard Moskowitz kidnapped; journalists are in on the story but keep it out of the press to lessen the… Internet Archive Major Barbara 1941 · Feature Title: Major Barbara Summary: A young and idealistic woman, who has adopted the Salvation Army and whose father is an armament industrialist, will save more… Internet Archive [Television Commercials: Color: Camera Only] Commercial · Subtitles [The following titles and shotlists may be elsewhere on PA-0649; this description may therefore need revision after viewing.] Tape 0649 Film 8184 [Untitled]… Internet Archive The Shadow 1933 · Feature · 1 h 10 min The Shadow knows, and he'll tell unless you fork over a princely sum. Internet Archive Radio and Television 1940 · Film · Subtitles Appraisal. Good for (1) showing occupations in radio and television, (2) giving impressions of the nature of the work and the training required in various… Internet Archive Toonerville Trolley: Trolley Ahoy 1936 · Cartoon · 7 min From The Public Domain Movie Database: Mr. Bang makes a bet that the Toonerville Trolley can't get to the main train line on time. The bet is accepted without… Internet Archive Tales Of The Unexpected Series 2 1979 · TV Tales of the Unexpected ( Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected ) is a British television series which aired between 1979 and 1988. Each episode told a story,… Internet Archive [Home Movies: Medicus Collection: New York, 1934] 1934 · Home movie · Subtitles Some good shots to be logged.Selected list of contents:New York City schoolchildren in street outside school family picnic roller skating in Central Park1934… Internet Archive Spectacular footage of D-Day, the 6th of June 1944 in color (Enhanced and A.I. colorized) 1944 · Feature This is a compilation of rare and familiar footage about the D-day landings in Normandy, France on the 6th of June 1944. This "Operation Overlord" was the… Internet Archive Lady and the Stock Exchange, The 1962 · Film · Subtitles Begins with B&W prologue about new female staff at Stock Exchange. In style of dramatic sitcom, about a woman who investigates the stock market and tries to… Internet Archive Um Preço para Cada Crime (1951) 1951 · Feature · Subtitles Um Preço para Cada Crime é um filme noir americano de 1951 co-dirigido por Bretaigne Windust e um Raoul Walsh não creditado, que filmou a maioria dos momentos… Internet Archive Black Cat, Gatto Nero 1981 Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, David Warbeck, Al Cliver, Dagmar Lassander, Bruno Corazzari, Daniela Doria, Vito Passeri + Lucio Fulci 1981 · Feature From IMDB: "A professor with the psychic ability to communicate with the dead uses his powers on his pet cat in order to take vengeance upon his enemies."… Internet Archive Jungle Street Girls 1960 · Feature Title: Jungle Street Girls Summary: Terry Collins mugs an old man, who subsequently dies. Joe Lucas finds out about it and blackmails him, threatening to turn… Internet Archive American Look 1958 · Film · Subtitles A "tribute to the American stylist," American Look shows families at leisure, children dressed in cowboy and cowgirl outfits watching television, a father… Internet Archive Hubert's Brain 2001 · Cartoon · 1 min Cornered by a bully on a class trip to the natural history museum, Hubert Stinkler, gets locked into a laboratory where he literally stumbles onto a talking… Internet Archive Going Places 1948 · Film · Subtitles Defines the profit motive and dramatizes the part it has played in the economic development of our country. Stresses the need for continued industrial profits… Internet Archive And Then There Were Four 1950 · Film · Subtitles 05:19:16:13 Carnation Ice Cream truck drives down suburban neighborhood street in the City of Los Angeles; VS Los Angeles residential neighborhoods.… Internet Archive Plow that Broke the Plains, The 1937 · Film · Subtitles 16:32:11:14 Animated map of the U.S. Writing appears on the map identifying the Great Plains Area which is then outlined in dotted lines. CU of Great Plains… Internet Archive Atomic Power at Shippingport (Part I) 1958 · Short · 14 min · Subtitles Tour of the first commercial nuclear power plant. Internet Archive 2014 Mafia-Xu, ein trauriger Chinese (Mafia-Xu, a sad chinese man) 2014 · Feature At the invitation of Xu Lujing we traveled in China in return for his guest studies in Germany and for a given loan. In the Beijing Film Academy, there is a… Internet Archive Daredevils of the Red Circle 1939 · Feature Title: Daredevils of the Red Circle Summary: Using a diabolical disguise, Harry Crowel embarks on a vengeful career of destruction...opposed by three heroic… Internet Archive Kwaidan (1964) 1964 · Feature Kwaidan is a 1964 Japanese anthology horror film directed by Masaki Kobayashi. It is based on stories from Lafcadio Hearn's collections of Japanese folk…