The world's archives

769–816 of 609,162 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 The Green Promise 1949 · Feature · 1 h 33 min Walter Brennan plays the part of a father raising four children, but has his own ideas about how to run a farm. Internet Archive Great Expectations (1946) Feature · 1 h 53 min The classic story of Pip the British orphan. Great Expectations (1946) Fall's Under The Transitional Aspects Of UK Law. http://www.archive.org/post/285670/are-… Internet Archive The Sinking of the Lusitania 1918 · Short · 9 min The Sinking of the Lusitania, released in 1918, is an animated short film by American artist Winsor McCay. It features a short 12 minute explanation of the… Internet Archive Jack Frost 1934 · Cartoon · 8 min Jack Frost arrives in the forest, painting the leaves on the trees, pumpkins and anything else and warning the animals to prepare for the winter. An… Internet Archive Why Play Leap Frog? 1949 · Cartoon · 9 min · Subtitles Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power. Internet Archive the Scar 1948 · Feature · Subtitles "Harsh tale of an alienated criminal's attempt to impersonate his psychiatrist-double. Important fatalistic noir, with classy visuals and a very fine script… Internet Archive BODY OF THE PREY 1966 · Feature · 1 h 34 min · Subtitles From the IMDb: "The credits on the version of this movie which exists today are actually for the movie "Mad Doctor of Blood Island" and bear no relation to… Internet Archive Popeye: Fright To The Finish 1954 · Cartoon · 6 min Popeye the Sailor and his arch enemy Bluto fight over Olive Oyl on Halloween. Animation by Al Eugster and William B. Pattengill. Music by Winston Sharples.… Internet Archive Bulldog Courage 1935 · Feature · 1 h http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026157/ A miner who was swindled out of his mine by a banker turns to robbing stagecoaches. Several years after he is tracked… Internet Archive Manhattan Tower 1932 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles A post depression love story that takes place between to people who work in the Empire State building. Internet Archive That Gang of Mine 1940 · Feature · 59 min · Subtitles Title: That Gang of Mine Summary: A street kid has dreams of becoming a jockey. He gets his chance when he and his gang discover a poor old man who has a… Internet Archive I Accuse My Parents 1944 · Feature · 1 h 8 min Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson (Robert Lowell) starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer… Internet Archive The Days of Limbo 2004 · Feature · 1 h 39 min The story of Jerry, a young widower, escaping the memory of his formerly abusive wife. The original full-length version, minus the copyright-restricted… Internet Archive Lost Honeymoon 1947 · Feature · 1 h 8 min When an Englishwoman dies, leaving behind two children, her devoted friend (Ann Richards) decides to take the children to find the woman's husband (Franchot… Internet Archive Why We Fight: The Battle of China 1943 · Feature · 1 h 2 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 Angels Flight Film · Subtitles Bunker Hill, LA - "waiting to be leveled, to make way for a new world of concrete steel and glass" Shows old homes on Bunker Hill, destruction and… Internet Archive Ten Minutes to Live 1932 · Feature · 57 min A movie producer offers a nightclub singer a role in his latest film, but all he really wants to do is bed her. She knows, but accepts anyway. Meanwhile, a… Internet Archive To Know a Jedi - Movie 2003 · Feature "To Know a Jedi", a fan-made movie inspired by the Star Wars movies of George Lucas. The movie was made by the late Derek Lake, a film student who died in a… Internet Archive The Bronze Buckaroo 1939 · Feature · 55 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Bob Blake and his boys arrive at Joe Jackson's ranch to find him missing. While Slim cheats Dusty out of his money using ventriloquism and… Internet Archive White Pongo 1945 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles A white gorilla-like creature is hiding in the woods, only to be pursued by scientists hoping to discover if this creature is the missing link between mankind… Internet Archive The Big Cat 1949 · Feature · 1 h 15 min During the Great Depression, a young man leaves his Eastern home for his late mother's birthplace in the Utah hills. He finds that things are far from… Internet Archive Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour (The Sleeping Cardinal) 1931 · Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles This rare Sherlock Holmes film was released at the same time as the Raymond Massey picture "The Speckled Band". The story is partly based on two Conan Doyle… Internet Archive Monte Carlo Nights 1934 · Feature · 1 h 1 min A successful roulette player wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. Internet Archive Captain Z-ro 1955 · Short · 25 min · Subtitles Captain Z-ro (starring and created by Roy Steffens) was a children's television space opera featuring the eponimous time traveller and his companion, Jet… Internet Archive David and Goliath 1960 · Feature · 1 h 31 min The story of the film is adapted from the Old Testament: The Philistines declare war on the Israelites and wrench the Arch of the Allience from them. Saul… Internet Archive Special Agent 1949 · Feature · 1 h 9 min Johnny Douglas (William Eythe) investigates a train robbery, committed by brothers Paul (George Reeves) and Edmond Devereaux (Paul Valentine), in which… Internet Archive Death From a Distance 1935 · Feature · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A… Internet Archive Island of Lost Women Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles A farfetched, south seas island, mad scientist adventure. The main attractions are three pretty girls, Venetia Stevenson, Dianne Jergens and June Blair. The… Internet Archive Neath The Arizona Skies 1934 · Feature · 52 min Neath The Arizona Skies finds John Wayne as the guardian of little Shirley Jean Rickert who is a half Indian little tyke who stands to inherit some really big… Internet Archive Jane Eyre 1970 · Feature · 1 h 40 min Made-for-TV adaptation of the Bronte classic starring Susannah York and George C.Scott Internet Archive Day of Thanksgiving, A 1951 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles An American family unable to afford a Thanksgiving turkey reviews the things for which they feel thankful. This patriotic film is unusual in that it does not… Internet Archive The Amazing Mr. X 1948 · Feature 1948 B thriller shot by renowned cinematographer John Alton , who was also involved with the following films already available on the archive: T-Men (1947),… Internet Archive One Week 1920 · Short · 22 min Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week Internet Archive Rocky Mountain Mystery 1935 · Feature · 1 h 5 min An early Randolph Scott western, based on a novel by Zane Grey. Also known as "The Fighting Westerner". Don't bother downloading the h.264 file. The Cinepack… Internet Archive Mr. Imperium 1951 · Feature · 1 h 27 min Lana Turner plays the sexy nightclub singer that a European prince (Ezio Pinza) falls in love with, and although she's already got a boyfriend, she slowly… Internet Archive Popeye The Sailor Man: Ancient Fistory 1952 · Cartoon · 6 min A Cinderella like tale in which Olive is the princess and Popeye is the prince. Bluto is the shopowner brute who bullies Olive, only to get taught a lesson by… Internet Archive Raiders of Old California 1957 · Feature · 1 h 12 min Grand Ole Opry western with country western singers Faron Young and Marty Robbins. Evil former US Army officers threaten Mexican soldiers out of their land.… Internet Archive Murder at the Baskervilles 1937 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles Title: Murder at the Baskervilles Summary: Sherlock Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he… Internet Archive Father's Little Dividend 1941 · Feature Starring Spencer Tracy, Elizibeth Taylor, Billie Burke, this entertaining movie tells the tale of a grumpy, soon-to-be grandfather who does not look forward… Internet Archive The Light of Western Stars 1940 · Feature · 1 h 5 min Easterner Madeline Hammond (Jo Ann Sayers) has decided to buy a cattle ranch not knowing that there is an ammunition smuggling ring operating off her land.… Internet Archive Uptown New York 1932 · Feature · 1 h 20 min Patricia Smith (Shirley Grey) is a middle-class New York City gal in love with Max Silver (Leon Waycoff), but Max is forced by his ambitious Jewish family… Internet Archive Messiah of Evil 1973 · Feature · 1 h 30 min In order to live, they will take you one by one ... and no one will hear you scream! Internet Archive Against a Crooked Sky (1976) 1976 · Feature · 1 h 28 min · Subtitles Feature Film: "Against A Crooked Sky" Strange Indian tribe kidknapps a beautiful young pioneer woman.Her brother attemps to find and rescue her with the help… Internet Archive Mr. Wong, Detective 1938 · Feature · Subtitles From IMDb: When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He… Internet Archive The Human Monster 1939 · Feature · 1 h 15 min · Subtitles Title: The Human Monster Summary: Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he… Internet Archive Sintel 2010 · Cartoon · 14 min Sintel is an open movie from the Blender Foundation licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Internet Archive Manhattan Love Song 1934 · Feature · 1 h 10 min A couple rich sisters Geraldine and Carol Stewart (Dixie Lee and Helen Flint) have just found out that their financial planner has stolen all their money.… Internet Archive And Then There Were None 1945 · Feature Title: And Then There Were None Summary: Seven guests, a newly hired personal secretary and two staff are gathered on an isolated island by an absent host and…