The world's archives

1,969–2,016 of 563,904 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 Sinful Cargo 1936 · Feature · Subtitles Also known as "Yellow Cargo" You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive A Bride for Henry 1937 · Feature · 58 min You can find more information regarding this film on it's IMDB pages Internet Archive ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET THE INVISIBLE MAN Feature · 41 min Two bumbling private eyes help a man wrongly accused of murder who has become invisible to help clear his name.....Boxer Tommy Nelson is accused of killing… Internet Archive Studio One - There Was A Crooked Man 1950 · Feature · 56 min · Subtitles Season 2 Episode 41 Original Air Date 19 June 1950 CAST Robert Sterling Charles Korvin Virginia Gilmore Richard Purdy Ann Shoemaker Harry Cooke Marion Scanlon… Internet Archive Hawaii Calls 1938 · Feature · 1 h 2 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Betty Boop: Poor Cinderella 1934 · Cartoon · 10 min The Betty Boop Cinderella cartoon is already up on this site (http://www.archive.org/details/bb_poor_cinderella). This new copy isn't perfect, but it might be… Internet Archive Murder on the Orient Express (1974) 1974 · Feature Murder on the Orient Express , directed by Sidney Lumet , is a classic mystery film based on Agatha Christie 's novel of the same name. Released in 1974 , it… Internet Archive Noveltoon: The Stupidstitious Cat 1946 · Cartoon · 6 min A very superstitious cat tries to catch Buzzy for breakfast but Buzzy outsmarts him. Animation by Graham Place and John Walworth. Story by Carl Meyer and Jack… Internet Archive One Body Too Many 2016 · Feature · Subtitles 1944 directed by Frank McDonald starring Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi, Lyle Talbot, Blanche Yurka, Douglas Fowley, Fay Helm, Lucien Littlefield,… Internet Archive The Crawling Eye 1958 colorized (Forrest Tucker) 1958 · Feature A UN scientist (Forrest Tucker) is invited to a remote observatory in the Swiss Alps to investigate a strange radioactive cloud. He encounters a young woman… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "The Bond" 1918 · Short Charlie Chaplin's 64th Film Released Sept. 29 1918 The Bond was a propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee… Internet Archive Range Defenders 1937 · Feature · 56 min Range Defenders is a Three Mesquiteers Western that teams up Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune. When George Brooke (Thomas Carr) is framed for… Internet Archive SPEAK EASILY video quality upgrade Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles This glitch-free print is sharper than the existing IA copies, and with a smaller download file. A lively, pre-code show business comedy that's one of Buster… Internet Archive The 13th Man 1937 · Feature · 1 h 9 min · Subtitles The murder of a district attorney is investigated by two reporters, one of whom is played by Milburn Stone (Doc Adams in "Gunsmoke"). Internet Archive Reet, Petite and Gone 1947 · Feature · 1 h 7 min There isn't so much story here that it gets in the way of the music. If you're a Louis Jordan fan, this one's for you. This one's all about the music, with… Internet Archive It Came From Beneath the Sea 1955 · Feature A giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench to terrorize the North American Pacific Coast. Internet Archive Kansas City Confidential (720p HD) Feature · Subtitles For other intermediate derivations of this file look here: archive.org/details/Kansas_City_Confidential_1952 Internet Archive Man in the Attic 1953 · Feature · 1 h 22 min With Jack the Ripper killing women in the Whitechapel district of London, people are on edge. Enter the mysterious Mr. Slade who arrives at the home of Helen… Internet Archive Assault on Precinct 13 1976 · Feature The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang. Internet Archive Hi Diddle Diddle Feature · 1 h 12 min The bride's mother is swindled out of her money and the groom's father cooks up a scheme to make things right. Mystic Nights Videos Internet Archive Prairie Pals 1942 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Don't Look in the Basement Feature Nurse Charlotte Beale arrives at the isolated Stephens Sanitarium to work, only to learn that Dr. Stephens was murdered by one of the patients and his… Internet Archive Rogues Gallery 1944 · Feature · 57 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Truth About Taxes, The 1940 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Republican party campaign film on behalf of Wendell Willkie for U.S. president in the 1940 elections. Internet Archive Topper Returns 1941 · Feature · 1 h 28 min · Subtitles Title: Topper Returns Summary: A fun-loving young woman finds herself murdered after trading bedrooms with her wealthy friend. Her ghost seeks aid from a… Internet Archive The White-Haired Girl (白毛女) 1950 · Feature · 1 h 46 min · Subtitles One of the most well-known feature films from soon after the foundation of the People's Republic of China, based on a Chinese opera by the same name. Internet Archive Daniel Boone (1936) Feature · 1 h 15 min The story of Daniel Boone in 1775 Kentucky and the hardships that they faced. Mystic Nights Videos Internet Archive Three_Men_From_Texas 1940 · Feature · 1 h 12 min · Subtitles A Hopalong Cassidy Movie. See more at... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033160/ Writers: Clarence E. Mulford (characters), Norton S. Parker (screenplay) Stars:… Internet Archive Never Wave At A WAC 1953 · Feature · 1 h 25 min Rosalind Russell plays a divorced socialite who joins the army in an effort to see more of her boyfriend. Internet Archive La Dentellière 1977 · Feature La Dentellière La Dentellière est un film franco-suisse réalisé par Claude Goretta et sorti en 1977. Il est inspiré du roman éponyme de Pascal Lainé qui reçut… Internet Archive City, The (Part II) 1939 · Short · 15 min · Subtitles The Regional Planning Association of America's plea for community chaotic cities and urban sprawl. Directors: Ralph Steiner and Willard Van Dyke. Script:… Internet Archive [San Francisco Earthquake Aftermath, Part 3 1906 · Short · 7 min · Subtitles Chilling post-earthquake footage, shot in the Western Addition and on Market Street in San Francisco. The first sequence (Western Addition) shows a great deal… Internet Archive The Gods Must Be Crazy 3 - Crazy Safari 1991 · Feature Fei zhou he shang - The Gods Must Be Crazy 3 Two guys, one of them a magician, are transporting an ancient chinese vampire who can only be controlled by a… Internet Archive The Other Dragon 2003 · Short · 23 min · Subtitles A black and white german existential sci-fi action movie. "Der Andere Drache" is in german with english subtitles. Internet Archive Track of the Moon Beast 1976 · Feature A young man is transformed into a hideous "moon beast" due to a meteor fragment lodged in his body. (from IMDB) Internet Archive Paradise in Harlem 1939 · Feature · 1 h 24 min Between swing and blues musical numbers, the story of comedian Lem Anderson, whose long-awaited chance to act dramatically vanishes when he witnesses a mob… Internet Archive Young Man's Fancy (Part II) 1952 · Short · 14 min · Subtitles Astonishing sitcom-style sponsored film encouraging increased consumption of electricity by an ever-increasing number of appliances. The plot pits a… Internet Archive Shadows Over Shanghai 1938 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Bells of Rosarita 1945 · Feature · 1 h 8 min Sue Farnum (Dale Evans) inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy Rogers and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on… Internet Archive Challenge of Ideas, The (Part I) 1961 · Short · 25 min · Subtitles John Wayne, Edward R. Murrow and others discuss the ideological battle between U.S. and Soviet Union. Internet Archive From Moscow To Cassiopeia (Moskva-Kassiopeya) 1973 · Feature · 1 h 19 min The best Soviet fantastic film for children. The second part of a film is called "Teenagers in the Universe" (Otroki vo vselennoj) Director: Richard Viktorov… Internet Archive Leave It to Roll-Oh 1940 · Short · 8 min · Subtitles Tongue-in-cheek film showing a domestic robot freeing housewives of their chores (and intimating that their work is hardly necessary); actually a promo… Internet Archive Rustlers' Hideout 1945 · Feature · 59 min Bringing a herd of cattle to Dave Crockett (Hal Price), Billy (Buster Crabbe) halts before going through the pass where many herds have been rustled. He is… Internet Archive My Favorite Brunette 1947 · Feature · 1 h 27 min Title: My Favorite Brunette Summary: Shortly before his execution on the death row in San Quentin, amateur sleuth and baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, tells… Internet Archive Printing 1947 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Printing occupations, opportunities and technologies before electronics and computers changed the world. Internet Archive Wonderful World of Wash 'n' Wear, The 1958 · Short · 22 min · Subtitles Synthetic fabrics plus electric laundry equipment make washday a pleasure. Host: Jeffrey Lynn. Internet Archive Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle 1925 · Feature Internet Archive King of Jazz 1930 · Feature Title: King of Jazz Summary: American Pre-Code color film starring Paul Whiteman and his Jazz orchestra. Directed by: John Murray Anderson Actors: Paul…