The world's archives

865–912 of 563,905 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 Beatniks 1960 · Feature · 1 h 12 min Eddie Crane (Tony Travis) is torn between his so called "friends" and a once in a lifetime opportunity to make something of himself. Internet Archive Mooch Goes to Hollywood 1971 · Feature · 51 min Mooch, a stray dog, rides the train to Hollywood to become a star. It would be best if she could find an owner/manager so she tries to ingratiate herself with… Internet Archive Q Planes 1939 · Feature · 1 h 18 min A secret British aviation project is being disrupted by a foreign power, until an effete but supremely confident military-intelligence agent, Charles Hammond… Internet Archive Blood And Sand 1922 · Short · 26 min · Subtitles Features Rudolph Valentino in Ibanez's classic romantic tragedy about the rise and fall of a matador. This is a digest version, part of the "Silents Please"… Internet Archive Despotism 1946 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power… Internet Archive So This is Washingtom 1943 · Feature · 1 h 3 min After Abner accidentally discovers a synthetic rubber he and Lum travel to Washington with the hopes that this new discovery will help the war effort. Internet Archive The Little Shop of Horrors 1960 · Feature · 1 h 13 min · Subtitles Seymour Krelboin is a hapless sap working in a skid row flower shop. He loves coworker Audrey Fulquard, but is close to losing his job. Luckily, he discovers… Internet Archive Star Odyssey (Italian Star Wars) 1979 Feature · 1 h 28 min · Subtitles Third in a series of Italian science fiction films clearly inspired by Star Wars. This entry features a couple of comical robots. Three other films in the… Internet Archive Our Town 1940 · Feature · Subtitles Our Town is a 1940 film adaptation of a play of the same name by Thornton Wilder starring William Holden, Martha Scott, Fay Bainter, Beulah Bondi, Thomas… Internet Archive Back-Room Boy 1942 · Feature · 1 h 19 min After being jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam (Arthur Askey) wants a job where he will encounter no women. He is sent to a lighthouse on a remote Scottish… Internet Archive Old Barn Dance (Gene Autry) Feature · Subtitles 1938 directed by Joseph Kane starring Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Joan Valerie, Sammy McKim, Ivan Miller, Earl Dwire and Hooper Atchley with the Stafford… Internet Archive 2 Or 3 Things I Know About Her ( 1967) 1967 · Feature · Subtitles Two or Three Things I Know About Her ( French : Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'elle ) is a 1967 French New Wave film directed by Jean-Luc Godard , one of… Internet Archive The Bushwhackers 1952 · Feature · 1 h 6 min John Ireland stars as tired ex-soldier Jefferson Waring from Virginia, heading West without a gun and a vow to never use one against men again. Internet Archive The Hoodlum 1951 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles Lawrence Tierney plays an unreformed, hardened criminal who has just been released from prison. While working at his brother's gas station, he becomes very… Internet Archive Frontier Horizon 1939 · Feature · 57 min When ranchers learn their land has been condemned for construction of a new dam, they decide to fight. When they delay the construction, they are promised a… Internet Archive Non-Stop New York 1937 · Feature · 1 h 11 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York. Internet Archive The Violent Years 1956 · Feature · 56 min A newspaper publisher's daughter suffers from neglect by her parents. She and her friends turn to crime by dressing up like men, holding up gas stations,… Internet Archive The Green Glove 1952 · Feature · 1 h 28 min Title: The Green Glove Summary: An ex-soldier and his new girlfriend comb France for a valuable relic...which others are willing to kill for. Directed by:… Internet Archive Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance 1948 · Commercial · Subtitles Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of square-dancing cigarettes. Internet Archive Alimony 1949 · Feature · 1 h 11 min Small town girl Kitty Traves (Martha Vickers) comes to New York with the idea of getting rich fast. Beginning as a 'model' she then becomes a divorce… Internet Archive Spider-Man: The Animated Series (Complete 1994 Series) [1080p AI Upscale] 1994 · Cartoon This upload comprises all 5 seasons ( 65 episodes ) of the 1994-8 Spider-Man animated series, in uncut form & upscaled quite impressively to full HD… Internet Archive Alice's Wonderland Short · 8 min Alice's Wonderland (1923), from the series Laugh-O-Grams. View movies and cartoons on youtube @ PDFREETV View trailers on youtube @ The Trailer Archive Internet Archive Identity Unknown 1945 · Feature · 1 h 11 min A soldier (Richard Arlen) who survived a bombing in which three others, who were burned beyond recognition but who possessed similar physical descriptions,… Internet Archive Never Weaken 1921 · Short · 28 min From Wikipedia: Never Weaken is a 1921 silent comedy film starring Harold Lloyd and directed by Fred Newmeyer. It was Lloyd's last short film, running to… Internet Archive Meet John Doe 1941 · Feature · 2 h 2 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Jennifer.1978.1080p.BluRay.DTS-HD.x264-BARC0DE 1978 · Feature Jennifer is a 1978 American supernatural horror film directed by Brice Mack, starring Lisa Pelikan, Bert Convy, Wesley Eure, Nina Foch, and John Gavin.… Internet Archive The Rise of Catherine the Great 1934 · Feature · 1 h 35 min Also Known As: Catherine the Great Vienna-born Elisabeth Bergner, in her first English-language film, is radiant as the obscure German princess who would… Internet Archive Glorifying the American Girl 1929 · Feature · 1 h 34 min From the Wikipedia entry for "Glorifying the American Girl": "Glorifying the American Girl is a 1929 musical comedy film produced by Florenz Ziegfeld that… Internet Archive Oliver Twist 1933 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Indestructible Man 1956 · Feature · 1 h 10 min · Subtitles Betrayed by his fellow criminals, Lon Chaney, Jr. is executed, but has his chance for revenge when he is reanimated by a scientist. (This copy seems to have… Internet Archive Tomorrow We Live 1942 · Feature · 1 h 3 min Julie Bronson (Jean Parker), whose father, "Pop" Bronson (Emmett Lynn) operates a desert café, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster… Internet Archive Miracle on the Delaware 1955 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles Mid-Fifties slices of life and landscape in Philadelphia and surrounding towns. With excellent color footage of downtown scenes, neighborhoods, the Mummers… Internet Archive The Black Raven 1943 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles George Zucco, Glenn Strange, and Byron Foulger in a poverty row film. The IMDB entry is here . Internet Archive Kept Husbands 1931 · Feature · 1 h 16 min Blue collar steelworker Richard Brunton (Joel McCrea) saves two of his fellow workers after an accident at a factory. In gratitude, his boss, millionaire… Internet Archive Big News 1929 · Feature · 1 h 6 min A early talkie from Pathé, this crime drama starred relative newcomers Robert Armstrong and a very young Carole Lombard, the title credits still spelling her… Internet Archive Invisible Ghost 1941 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles The town's leading citizen becomes a homocidal maniac after his wife deserts him. Internet Archive The Battle Of Midway 1942 · Short · 18 min · Subtitles Academy Award winning documentary on the pivotal naval battle of the war in the Pacific. Filmed while the attack on Midway Island was underway, standout… Internet Archive Cowboy and the Senorita 1944 · Feature · 52 min Chip (Mary Lee) has inherited a supposedly worthless gold mine from her father and Craig Allen is about to buy it. Roy suspects the mine may be valuable and… Internet Archive Man with Two Lives 1942 · Feature · 1 h 5 min A man is brought back from death at the same time a vicious criminal dies in the electric chair. However, the man's soul is now taken over by the electrocuted… Internet Archive Mr. Wong in Chinatown 1939 · Feature · Subtitles From IMDb : A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only… Internet Archive F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The Last of the Belles' 1974 · Feature · 1 h 37 min A semi-fictional account of how writer F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife while he was in the army and stationed in Alabama in 1919. - IMDB Description Internet Archive Chained for Life 1951 · Feature · 1 h 5 min A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do… Internet Archive The General 1927 · Feature · 1 h 45 min Taken from IMDB : When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines. Internet Archive Black Gold 1936 · Feature · 54 min "Wildcat riggers risk their lives in the pursuit of oil. Their jobs get even more dangerous when ruthless oil baron J.C. Anderson (Berton Churchill) sets his… Internet Archive Hard Hombre 1931 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "The Adventurer" 1917 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 62nd Film Released Oct. 22 1917 The Adventurer is a short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It is the last out of the… Internet Archive Street Angel (馬路天使) 1937 · Feature · 1 h 30 min · Subtitles Shanghai, 1935. The beautiful young girl Xiao Hong is a singer at a teahouse. She falls in love with her neighbor, a handsome young musician called Xiao Chen.… Internet Archive Frankenstein 1910 · Feature This is Edison's COMPLETE 1910 silent Frankenstein film.