The world's archives

8,353–8,400 of 563,611 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 A Passport to Hell 1932 · Feature Title: A Passport to Hell Summary: A notorious beautiful English woman (Myra) is kicked out of British West Africa to German West Africa, just before the… Internet Archive Blind Date 1987 · Feature Title: Blind Date Summary: A workaholic needs a date for a dinner with new important clientele, but who his brother sets him up with could lead to disaster.… Internet Archive A Trip To The Moon (20 fps) Short · 11 min This is the same Trip To The Moon that you will find in three other places on the Archive, one of them mine. I realized after uploading that those versions… Internet Archive Experimental "Neurosis" In a Dog 1939 · Film · Subtitles 20:53:52:05 Intertitle: “In 1932 a two year old male dog, ‘Nick’, was required to discriminate between tone of 1012 frequency and tone of 1024 for six months.… Internet Archive Marvels of Motion 1930 · Film · Subtitles Newsreel-style novelty or educational film about animal and human locomotion using voiceover, intertitles, and special photographic techniques and tricks,… Internet Archive [Edison Newsreels: San Francisco Earthquake aftermath] 1906 · Newsreel · Subtitles Edison newsreels of San Francisco earthquake / falling buildings / taking away the hurt / troops marching along Van Ness Avenue with relief supplies / pan… Internet Archive Time Pulls the Trigger 1960 · Film · Subtitles Portrays a doctor's concern for the high mortality rate among smokers. Shows the relationship between smoking and the incidence of lung cancer, heart disease… Internet Archive Rawk N Roll 2005 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles Notre 4eme Kino. (Fevrier 2005) Hommage au defunt Wesley Willis, troubadour des temps modernes. Plus un exercice de style qu'un vrai film. www.kino640.org Internet Archive Mr. Wise Guy (1942) Feature · 1 h 9 min · Subtitles The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Mystic Nights Videos Internet Archive Kings Mountain Airplane Crash 1950 · Newsreel · Subtitles Near Woodside, California: Aftermath of air crash on Kings Mountain hillside. Newsreel story. Internet Archive Rest and Health 1949 · Film · Subtitles HIGH SCHOOL TRACK STAR BEGINS TO LAG IN HIS RUNNING BECAUSE OF LACK OF SLEEP. HE IS TIRED & GROUCHY. WHEN HE ESTABLISHES GOOD REST HABITS, HE IS REWARDED… Internet Archive Troubles of a Merchant and How to Stop Them, The (Part II) 1925 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles How a storekeeper's business suffers due to lack of financial controls and how installation of a National Cash Register restores its profitability. One of the… Internet Archive A Days Pleasure (1919) 1919 · Feature A Day’s Pleasure (1919) is Charlie Chaplin’s fourth film for First National Films. It was created at the Chaplin Studio. It was a quickly made two-reeler to… Internet Archive 1993 Schattenwand (Wall of Shadows) 1993 · Feature · Subtitles The shadow of a chimney on a backyard wall. Internet Archive War of the Planets (1977) 1977 · Feature A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his… Internet Archive "Muggsy's First Sweetheart" (1910) director D. W. Griffith with Mary Pickford 1910 · Feature This gem is presented by Silent Hall of Fame. Please visit https://silent-hall-of-fame.org/ to support our non-profit mission and the legacy of silent movie… Internet Archive Lonely Road 1936 · Feature On a drunken drive to the coast, an ex-naval officer interrupts what he believes to be a smuggling operation, and informs Scotland Yard. Internet Archive The Haunted House 1921 · Feature Keaton plays a teller at a successful bank. Unbeknownst to him, the manager at the bank and his gang are planning on pulling off a robbery and hiding in an… Internet Archive City Within a City, A 1964 · Film · Subtitles Film on the Pan Am Building in New York City. 04:04:20:18 VS men working on skyscraper construction site in New York City. Construction workers in hardhats;… Internet Archive cartoon realities: when art imitates life - the Fascist culture of violence 2006 · Cartoon Western cultures have been steeped with visions of murder, cannabalism, infantacide and a cartoon existence of violence. Unlike the illuminating fables of the… Internet Archive Dark Mountain 1944 · Feature · 56 min Read about it at the IMDb. Internet Archive Rogue Male Peter O' Toole Feature Early in 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot misses its mark. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo and… Internet Archive Before I Hang (1940) 1940 · Feature · Subtitles Before I Hang is a 1940 American horror film starring Boris Karloff. It follows Dr. John Garth, played by Boris Karloff, is sentenced to death for performing… Internet Archive Adventures Of Robin Hood (Ep 33 The Inquisitor) HQ 2016 · TV · Subtitles British television series that ran from 1955 to 1959 for a total of 143 episodes. The series starred Richard Greene as Robin Hood and Dennis Wheatley as the… Internet Archive [Parade Celebrating Chinese Republic] 1912 · Film · Subtitles San Francisco, California: Parade celebrating the formation of the Chinese Republic under Sun Yat-Sen / first parade held outside of mainland China /… Internet Archive He Who Gets Slapped 1924 Colorized 1924 · Feature Uniquely weird, compelling silent classic about a scientist who is discredited by a treacherous colleague and, humiliated, decides to join a circus as a… Internet Archive Showdown in Vietnam, 1965/02/08 1965 · Newsreel · Subtitles Pleiku in Vietnam, 8 died in recent attack, but 49 jets struck back, McNamara briefing with map shows response, speaks about retaliatory action approved by… Internet Archive Cartesius (Part 2 of 2 ) 1974 · Feature As profoundly simple as its hero's famous statement "I think, therefore I am," Roberto Rossellini's Cartesius is an intimate, psychological study of obsession… Internet Archive Cobra Verde (1987) 1987 · Feature Cobra Verde is a 1987 German drama film directed by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski, in their fifth and final collaboration. It is a film about… Internet Archive Lady Gangster 1942 colorized (Faye Emerson) 1942 · Feature A woman gets arrested after acting as a decoy in a bank robbery, even though a former childhood sweetheart believes her innocent. But before going to jail,… Internet Archive Law of the Pampas Feature “Better than average Hopalong Cassidy film” (IMDB review quote). Hoppy heads to Argentina in this B-western with more plot than shoot-em-up action. However… Internet Archive Current Flashes 1938 · Film · Subtitles Producer's synopsis: "A vivid explanation of how the generator and electrical system of the modern automobile work."07:28:21:14 Great title sequence of… Internet Archive Murder with Pictures 1936 · Feature · 1 h 10 min Lew Ayres in a comic mystery. Internet Archive Children Must Learn, The 1940 · Film · Subtitles "This film is an authentic record of real people, living their usual lives. It documents one of several experiments carried on by various state universities… Internet Archive A Honeymoon Adventure 1931 · Feature An exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland. Internet Archive The Last House On The Left 2009 Dvdrip 2009 · Feature After kidnapping and brutally assaulting two young women, a gang unknowingly finds refuge at a vacation home belonging to the parents of one of the victims: a… Internet Archive The Cameraman (1928) HD with Score 1928 · Feature A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary. Internet Archive Out of the Inkwell: The Ouija Board Short · 5 min · Subtitles Classic Max Fliescher cartoon made for Bray Studios. Internet Archive Daredevils of the Red Circle 1939 colorized serial feature 1939 · Feature Three heroic daredevils (Charles Quigley, Bruce Bennett, David Sharpe) work with the daughter (Carole Landis) of an industrialist (Miles Mander) being held… Internet Archive Hard Time - Meilani Paul, Jacqueline Lovell 1995 · Feature Cinemax cable broadcast Internet Archive The Square Peg 1958 · Feature A British road repairman gets into a feud with the Army, gets drafted and is mistakenly parachuted into Nazi occupied France where his physical resemblance to… Internet Archive THE BAT WHISPERS (standard 35mm Version) Feature “Masterful cinema” “Totally grand fun!” “Surprisingly scary” “Great atmosphere and impressive sets” “Silly, hokey and Wonderful” (IMDB reviews quotes). Murder… Internet Archive [Amateur film: Medicus collection: New York World's Fair, 1939-40] (Reel 4) (Part II) 1939 · Home movie · 20 min · Subtitles Detailed documentation of the "World of Tomorrow" in beautiful Kodachrome. Internet Archive Idaho's State Hospitals 1960 · Film · Subtitles Early investigative report on the Idaho state hospitals. Interviews with psychiatrists and doctors particularly about the issue of mental and geriatric care.… Internet Archive ''Make Room for Daddy'' - Don't Yell at Your Children 1956 · TV · 29 min · Subtitles An episode of Make Room for Daddy. In this episode, Danny and his wife try to avoid yelling at their children. Originally broadcast 20 March 1956, this copy… Internet Archive Coca-Cola Commercial (Arabic) (3 versions) 1950 · Commercial · Subtitles 11:52:23:04 Film appears to be an Egyptian Coca-Cola commercial in Arabic; commercial takes place in a restaurant with woman singing a song backed by band,… Internet Archive The commander of happy Pike Feature · 1 h 35 min In 1942 when Germans prepared for capture of Murmansk, the Soviet command has decided to stir up activity of Northern fleet. The submarine crew «Щ-721»… Internet Archive 'Till It Helps! 1959 · Film · Subtitles [Much of the footage from this film was in another film made for the United Way] 1959 St. Louis; footage of United Way of Greater St. Louis services for…