The world's archives

2,257–2,304 of 128,642 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.
Commons 2010-03-13 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: President Obama to Send Updated Elementary and Secondary Education Act Blueprint To Congress on Monday. The President discusses his blueprint… Commons 2010-04-10 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: Recovery Act Benefiting American Families During Tax Season. As April 15th approaches, the President discusses several of the tax breaks for… Commons 2010-04-17 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Weekly Adderess: President Obama Says We Must Move Forward on Wall Street Reform. The strongest consumer protections ever. Bringing transparency to financial… Commons 2010-10-30 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: President Obama Calls on GOP Leadership to Put Aside Partisan Politics and Focus on Strengthening the Economy. Ahead of the elections, the… Commons 2010-11-20 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: Senators Opposing New START "Want to Trust But Not Verify". The President says ratifying the New START, a pivotal treaty with Russia on… Commons 2010-11-25 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: President Obama Delivers Thanksgiving Greeting. The President expresses gratitude to America’s military men and women and their families, and… Commons 2010-12-18 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: START is About the Safety and Security of America; Not Scoring Political Points. President Obama urges the Senate to heed the calls from… Commons 2011 GLAMcamp Amsterdam - Lightning Talk by Daniel Mietchen (2) 2011 · Talk · 2 min · Subtitles Daniel Mietchen (Mietchen) presenting "Commons Open Access File of the Day", part 2. Commons 2012-07-21 President Obama's Weekly Address 2012 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "Remembering the Victims of the Aurora, Colorado Shooting" from July 21, 2012. Original description of the speech:… Commons 2013-03-30 President Obama's Weekly Address 2013 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "President Obama Offers Easter and Passover Greetings" from March 30, 2013. Original description of the speech:… Commons 2013-04-27 President Obama's Weekly Address 2013 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "Time to Replace the Sequester with a Balanced Approach to Deficit Reduction" from April 27, 2013. Original… Commons 2013-05-25 President Obama's Weekly Address 2013 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "Giving Thanks to Our Fallen Heroes this Memorial Day" from May 25, 2013. Original description of the speech: "In this… Commons 2013-05-25 President Obama's Weekly Address 2013 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "Giving Thanks to Our Fallen Heroes this Memorial Day" from May 25, 2013. Original description of the speech: "In this… Commons 2013-06-22 President Obama's Weekly Address 2013 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "Time for Congress to Pass Commonsense Immigration Reform" from June 22, 2013. Original description of the speech:… Commons 2013-07-04 President Obama's Weekly Address 2013 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "Celebrating Independence Day" from July 4, 2013. Original description of the speech: "President Obama commemorates… Commons Partido X, Partido del Futuro Rueda de prensa de presentación 2014 · Short · 6 min · Subtitles El Partido X, Partido del Futuro es un partido político aparecido públicamente a comienzos de 2013. Se presentaron por twitter y a través de un video en… Commons Measuring Elevation Changes on the Greenland Ice Sheet 2014 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles This narrated animation shows the accumulated change in the elevation of the Greenland ice sheet between 2003 and 2012. Commons Drone Photography of Versailles - Lionel Allorge 2015 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles France-based photographer Lionel Allorge was drawn to Wikimedia Commons from the appeal of free and open licensing. Now, his images illustrate articles of… Commons This is the Wikimedia Foundation 2016 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles This is the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that hosts Wikipedia and several other open-source projects. Support Wikimedia: https://donate.wikimedia.org/ Commons 2016-07-30 President Obama's Weekly Address 2016 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles In this week's address, retired Federal Judge Timothy Lewis joined Vice President Joe Biden to discuss the nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the… Commons President Obama Meets with President-Elect Trump 2016 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles President Obama Meets With President-Elect Trump (20161110_POTUS_Meets_President_Elect_Trump_HD) Commons West Wing Week- 08-28-15 or, "From the Telegraph to the Smartphone" 2015 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles This week, the President spoke with clean energy powerhouses in Las Vegas, WNBA superstars back at the White House, and the leaders who rebuilt New Orleans.… Commons West Wing Week- 09-23-16 or “We’ll Photoshop ‘Em In” 2016 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the President visited the Big Apple, where he… Commons Yolanda Adams Performs at the White House- 1 of 11 2010 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles Gospel Music star Yolanda Adams performs the Sam Cooke classic, "A Change is Gonna Come", a song that became an anthem for the civil rights movement at the… Commons West Wing Week 3-25-16 or, “¡Hola, Cuba!” 2016 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles This week, the First Family traveled to both Cuba and Argentina in a history-making trip, to deepen the ties between the United States and Cuba, and the rest… Commons West Wing Week- 09-11-2015 or, “Heads Up America” 2015 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles This week, the President welcomed to the White House the Saudi Arabian king, champions in athletic excellence, and awardees in artistic prowess. He also… Commons West Wing Week- 7-09-10 or "Independence" 2010 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles Thanks for checking out the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, walk step by step with the… Commons West Wing Week 2-26-16 or, "Let’s Go Ahead and Get This Thing Done” 2016 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the President hosted governors from across… Commons West Wing Week- 09-18-15 or, "FAFSA! (fafsa, fafsa, fafsa, fafsa)" 2015 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles This week, the President marked the 14th anniversary of 9/11, met with troops around the world at a multimedia town hall at Fort Meade, crashed a… Commons President Obama Speaks to Troops at Marine Corps Base Hawaii - 2015 2015 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles On Christmas Day, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama visited servicemembers and military families at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, and thanked them for… Commons Senator Elizabeth Warren questions Tom Price about Medicare and Medicaid Cuts 2017 · Educational · 4 min · Subtitles Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned Rep. Tom Price, nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, about his support of Medicare and Medicaid cuts at a… Commons Lärande och källkritik med yngre elever 2017 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles Video about the project "This is my area" (WikiWelcome), with Wikimedia Sverige, Stockholm Digital Archives and The Swedish National Heritage Board from 2016… Commons Using Wikipedia to accelerate climate knowledge. Africa’s first edit-a-thon on climate change 2019 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and Future Climate for Africa (FCFA) have launched a video on Africa’s first Wikipedia edit-a-thon on… Commons Petra, Hauptstadt der Nabatäer (CC BY-SA 4.0) 2020 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles The millennia-old city of Petra was hewn out of rocks. With its palaces, temples and tombs, it was the capital of the Nabataean people. Commons Patricia Janečková La Danza (Rossini) 2020 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles The time we are experiencing is unique and specific in many ways. That requires an original and uncoventional approach for artists who want to keep in touch… Commons Wikisalon Wikidata Adding Finding Aids 2020 · Educational · 12 min · Subtitles This is "Wikisalon Wikidata Adding Finding Aids" by Doreva Belfiore on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Commons 11 Years Charting Edge of Solar System ZY8D71NW1wM 2020 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Far, far beyond the orbits of the planets lie the hazy outlines of the magnetic bubble in space that we call home. This is the heliosphere, the vast bubble… Commons Creative Commons-Clips zur freien Nutzung – einfach erklärt (Terra X, ZDF) 2020 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles Das Terra X Creative Commons-Angebot der ZDF-Mediathek wird die Art, wie Ihr mit Wissen umgeht, verändern. Hier stellen wir Euch unsere besten Wissensinhalte… Commons Function of the thymus - Inside the Thymus 2017 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles ThymiStem in collaboration with animator Cameron Duguid have created a beautiful, hand drawn animation explaining the function of the thymus, an essential… Commons Warum sind Wahlen in einer Demokratie wichtig? 2021 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles In a democracy, the citizens decide who is allowed to decide. And that works through elections. It is very important that these elections are free and secret. Commons Discovery Story - Genome Engineering with CRISPR-Cas9 (Doudna, Jinek, Charpentier) 2019 · Documentary · 12 min · Subtitles Jennifer Doudna, Martin Jinek, and Emmanuelle Charpentier describe their collaboration and influential experiment that led to the use of CRISPR as a genome… Commons President Biden Delivers Remarks on Efforts to Address Global Transportation Supply Chain Bottleneck 2021 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles President Biden Delivers Remarks on Efforts to Address Global Transportation Supply Chain Bottleneck Commons President Biden Delivers Remarks on a Successful Counterterrorism Operation (Mtw D4dltLQ) 2022 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles US President Joe Biden speaking about raid on leader of IS Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi Commons Arne Duncan Reacts to the Citizen's Briefing Book 2009 · Educational · 4 min · Subtitles Arne Duncan, Secretary-designate of Education, responds to some of the top ideas submitted to the Citizen's Briefing Book. Commons 2011-07-30 President Obama's Weekly Address 2011 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: Acting Responsibly on Behalf of the American People. President Obama urges both Republicans and Democrats to take action to avoid defaulting… Commons 2010-01-09 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: President Obama Outlines Benefits of Health Reform to Take Effect This Year. The President discusses the benefits of health reform that… Commons 2010-10-02 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: President Obama Lauds Clean Energy Projects as Key to Creating Jobs and Building a Stronger Economy. The President points to a revolutionary… Commons 2010-12-04 President Obama's Weekly Address 2010 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Weekly Address: Vice President Biden Calls on Congress to Preserve the Middle Class Tax Cuts and to Extend Unemployment Insurance This Year. With President…