The world's archives

1,249–1,296 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 Granddad 1913 · Short · 29 min A story of the relationship between a young girl (Mildred Harris) and her Civil War vet grandfather (William Desmond Taylor). When the girl's new step mom… Internet Archive 01 East Side Kids 2015 · Feature · Subtitles Officially, this is the first entry in the East Side Kids franchise. Made in 1940, this Monogram programmer doesn't yet have the familiar chemistry of Leo… Internet Archive It's Everybody's Business 1954 · Cartoon · 19 min · Subtitles Corporate Cold War-era cartoon linking Bill of Rights to free-enterprise ideology. Internet Archive Judex (1963) Feature · 1 h 33 min · Subtitles Judex (1963) is a French-language crime film remake of the 1916 French film serial of the same name concerning the adventures of pulp hero Judex. Directed by… Internet Archive Salt of the Earth 1954 · Feature · 1 h 32 min Title: Salt of the Earth Summary: Mexican workers at a Zinc mine call a general strike. It is only through the solidarity of the workers, and importantly the… Internet Archive Keep My Grave Open 1976 · Feature Leslie is slowly losing her mind as she has to keep cleaning up after Kevin's murders . . . or is something even more sinister at play? Find out more about… Internet Archive Detour (iPod) 1945 · Feature "Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme… Internet Archive He Walked by Night 1948 · Feature · 1 h 18 min · Subtitles Title: He Walked by Night Summary: This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and… Internet Archive ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER. Feature · 1 h 41 min · Subtitles This glitch-free 733 MB file has the same video and audio qualities as the 3.4 GB copy found elsewhere at IA. Directed by Archie Mayo Released in 1946… Internet Archive Destroy All Monsters (AIP version - HD reconstruction) 1969 · Feature 2017 HD reconstruction of the AIP dubbed US cut of Destroy All Monsters by Red Menace. This version (v2.0) corrects several errors and problems with the… Internet Archive Horrors of the Red Planet Feature · 1 h 17 min · Subtitles "Buzzard of Mars" "Possibly the most pointless movie ever made" "No doubt the worst Mars movie" "Horse of a different color" "Morons mess up Mars" (IMDB… Internet Archive Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Marching Cigarettes 1948 · Commercial · 1 min · Subtitles Lucky Strike cigarette commercial with stop-motion animation of marching cigarettes. 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 The House I Live In 1945 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Frank Sinatra teaches some young boys a lesson about tolerance. Internet Archive Felix the Cat: The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg 1936 · Cartoon · 7 min Felix's goose, who lays golden eggs, is goose-napped by none other than Captain Kidd. Felix saves the day. A nice swashbuckling cartoon. Produced in 1936. Internet Archive A Fool There Was 1915 · Feature · 1 h 6 min From IMDb : A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman. Stars: Theda Bara, Edward José, Mabel Frenyear, Runa Hodges, May… Internet Archive Big Bad Mama ( 1974) 1974 · Feature A tough single mother and her two daughters are forced by circumstances into a life of crime, and quickly become outlaws on the run, picking up partners along… Internet Archive Corsair 1931 · Feature · 1 h 13 min http://imdb.com/title/tt0021764/ Chester Morris, college football hero, gets a job on Wall Street for Thelma Todd's father. Fed up with the cons and piracy of… Internet Archive Colorado Sundown 1952 · Feature · 1 h 7 min Rancher helps a friend claim a spread he's inherited, only to get involved in his murder. Internet Archive Let's Go Collegiate 1941 · Feature · 1 h 1 min · Subtitles Frankie Darro, Mantan Moreland and Keye Luke in the tale of a college rowing team. It seems that the new guy and hope for the team to win the state… Internet Archive Detour 1945 Colorized 1945 · Feature A NYC piano player hitchhikes to California and gets into trouble along the way. A cult Film Noir movie directed by Edgar G. Ulmer. Internet Archive "Nanook of the North" [1922] Feature · 1 h 17 min · Subtitles Wikipedia... Nanook of the North (also known as Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic) is a 1922 silent documentary film by… Internet Archive Kansas Pacific 1953 · Feature · 1 h 13 min With the Civil War about to begin, Southern sympathizers attempt to sabotage the railroad construction efforts so Army Captain John Nelson (Sterling Hayden)… Internet Archive The Big Combo 1955 · Feature · 1 h 27 min A high-quality p.d. noir. Don't bother downloading the h.264 file or the Ogg Video file; the Cinepack file from which they are derived is smaller. Internet Archive Damon and Pythias 1962 · Feature · 1 h 38 min Spaghetti-sandal version of the classic tales, dubbed into English. Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers, is condemned to death by… Internet Archive Two Gun from Harlem 1937 · Feature · 1 h · Subtitles Taken from IMDB A cowboy is wrongfully accused of murder. He winds up in Harlem, where he assumes the identity of a preacher-turned-gangster who looks like… Internet Archive Wonderful World 1959 · Film · Subtitles PA-2177 ìWonderful Worldî 08:01:14:28 - 08:45:06:23 Color Sound 1959 "Wonderful World" Broad documentary surveying global cultures, lifestyles, emphasizing… Internet Archive American Look (Part I) 1958 · Short · 8 min · Subtitles The definitive Populuxe film on 1950s automotive, industrial, interior and architectural design. (6383_American_Look_M04199_01_22_19_00) Internet Archive Abraham Lincoln Feature · 1 h 24 min · Subtitles This 603MB file has the same runtime, and essentially the same video and audio qualities, as the 3.5GB file found elsewhere at IA. Heavily fictionalized,… Internet Archive Preventing the Spread of Disease 1940 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Health film using unusual imagery and metaphors to impart lessons in hygiene. Internet Archive Omoo-Omoo the Shark God 1949 · Feature · 58 min When a sacred jungle idol is violated, the curse of a shark god follows a group of people. After a sea captain (Trevor Bardette) removes black pearls from a… Internet Archive The Last Woman On Earth Feature After an unknown catastrophe, two men and a woman find themselves the only ones alive anywhere. The men wind up fighting each other for the woman's… Internet Archive The Man on the Eiffel Tower 1949 · Feature · 1 h 27 min · Subtitles Title: The Man on the Eiffel Tower Summary: French police inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a rich Paris widow and ends up chasing the killer up… Internet Archive Sigmaboat willy 1928 · Cartoon Steamboat Willie was the first Mickey Mouse cartoon to be published, but it was the third one to be produced. Internet Archive SHAKE, RATTLE AND ROCK Feature · 1 h 15 min · Subtitles They're trying to stop rock and roll! Some squares need to be enlightened about this new music that they say will ruin the young people of our country! Can… Internet Archive Fighting Caravans (1931) Feature · 1 h 20 min A pioneer wagon train heads west from Missouri. When they are attacked by Indians Gary Cooper fights off the attack. Mystic Nights Videos Internet Archive Touch of Magic, A 1961 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles General Motors 1961 Motorama film presenting new cars, appliances and futuristic ideas at their most banal. Internet Archive The Blacksmith 1922 · Short · 20 min Blacksmiths' assistant inadvertent clowning around in the shop, gets into fight with the smithy who is then arrested and placed in jail. In the meantime, the… Internet Archive The Amazing Transparent Man 1960 · Feature A mad scientist invents an invisibility formula which he plans to use to build an invisible army. Director Edgar G. Ulmer (1904 – 1972) is best remembered for… Internet Archive Caesar The Conqueror 1962 · Feature · 1 h 38 min http://imdb.com/title/tt0057105/ Another spaghetti and sandal flick, this time with Cameron Mitchell desperate for work. Very loose version of Caesar's… Internet Archive Up in the Air Feature · 1 h 1 min Murder mystery at a radio station. Movie features Mantan Moreland and Frankie Darro along with Marjorie Reynolds and Lorna Gray. Internet Archive Sisters of Death 1977 · Feature · 1 h 27 min Six high school girls are involved in initiation ceremonies for their exclusive society, The Sisters. A shot from a presumably harmless pistol, part of the… Internet Archive Tarantula 1955 colorized (John Agar) 1955 · Feature Strange deaths in the Arizona desert intrigue a local doctor (John Agar), who gets help from the new assistant (Mara Corday) to a professor (Leo G. Carroll)… Internet Archive Gunsmoke Ranch 1937 · Feature · 52 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB : Flagg is relocating flood victims to Gunsmoke Ranch. The Three Mesquiteers know Flagg to be a crook and try to warn them. They ignore the… Internet Archive Just The Two Of Us [1970] Feature · 1 h 14 min aka The Dark Side of Tomorrow..Interesting early 70's pro lesbian film. While there husbands are away two housewives experiment with each other. One serious… Internet Archive Captain Scarlett 1953 · Feature · 1 h 15 min In the years following the fall of Napoleon, Captain Scarlett (Richard Greene) returns to France to discover that his lands have been seized by an… Internet Archive His Royal Highness Feature · 1 h 8 min · Subtitles Australia's first musical comedy featuring vaudevillian comic George Wallace the most popular Australian comedian or the era. The video and audio recordings… Internet Archive So's Your Aunt Emma 1942 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles Also known as "Meet the Mob". You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page .