The world's archives

2,833–2,880 of 609,158 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 Mister Ed Season 1 1961 · TV · Subtitles The First Season of Mister Ed Mister Ed (Himself) is a horse who is owned by Wilbur Post (Alan Young). Mister Ed is not just any horse, he talks to Wilbur.… Internet Archive Dragnet ( 1951) 1951 · TV · Subtitles All the episodes of the original Dragnet I have, most gotten from here. If you have one that I am missing please let me know. Note: as long as this note is… Internet Archive Some Prefer Cake (1997) - Desi del Valle Film 1997 · Feature Heidi Arnesen is a Norwegian filmmaker that directed the 1991 short Dual of the Senses , the first queer Norwegian short. She would later do 7 more shorts… Internet Archive Mental Health: Keeping Mentally Fit 1952 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles The four steps in acquiring, maintaining and improving mental health: express emotions naturally, respect yourself, respect others, and solve problems as they… Internet Archive Atomic Alert 1951 · Film · Subtitles Instruction on care and behavior in case of radiation exposure and atomic attack. "Illustrates the basic methods by which each child can best protect himself… Internet Archive The Three Stooges in Three Little Beers Short · 16 min Short 11 In theatres 11/28/1935 The stooges are hired to deliver beer, but when they go to deliver beer to a golf course, they get distracted and play a round… Internet Archive That Junior Miss Spirit 1970 · Film · Subtitles Shows contestants, contests and judging of America's Junior Miss Pageant. 03:01:01:26 VS Pan down blooming cherry tree to CU young woman looking at branch… Internet Archive 1990 Keeping Up Appearances Complete Series 1990 · TV Hyacinth Bucket (whose name she insists is pronounced "bouquet") continually looks for opportunities to climb the social ladder, though she's wedged on a rung… Internet Archive Sharmilee 1971 · Feature Sharmilee is a hit 1971 Hindi movie produced by Subodh Mukherjee and directed by Samir Ganguly. The film stars Shashi Kapoor, Raakhee, Narendra Nath, Nazir… Internet Archive The Reptile 1966 · Feature In a Cornish village, various locals die from mysterious snake bites, but the coroner rules the deaths as heart attacks, until a family of newcomers starts an… Internet Archive The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) Short · 12 min · Subtitles This adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale was directed by James Sibley Watson & Melville Webber. It is a silent movie, with a run time of just… Internet Archive W.C. Fields - The Dentist Short · 21 min · Subtitles One of a number of shorts that W.C. Fields made before he went into feature films. The scene where he extracts the woman's tooth may be one of the funniest he… Internet Archive The General (1926) HD with Score 1926 · Feature During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and… Internet Archive President's Mystery, The 1936 · Feature · 52 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive What You Should Know About Biological Warfare 1952 · Short · 7 min · Subtitles How can we protect ourselves against the threats of germs and toxins? Cold War America gears up to fend off threats from unconventional bioweapons. Internet Archive American Engineer (Part I) 1956 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles A 1956s promotional and recruiting film about American engineering. It opens with radio-telescope "sounds of the sun and the stars" and issues a repeated… Internet Archive Little Lord Fauntleroy 1936 · Feature · 1 h 40 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Living Stereo 1958 · Film · Subtitles 21:02:50:09 CU spinning RCA Victor record on record player. 21:03:06:07 Animation illustrates the basics of one-track recording; sound waves spread from… Internet Archive Sentinel in the Sky 1955 · Cartoon · 14 min · Subtitles Modern radar for passenger aircraft. Shows how man has always reached for vision of the things beyond his sight, beginning, perhaps, with the ancient sailor… Internet Archive The Big Clock (1948) Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O' Sullivan 1948 · Feature The Big Clock is a 1948 American film noir directed by John Farrow and adapted by novelist-screenwriter Jonathan Latimer from the 1946 novel of the same name… Internet Archive 1967 Tanzschleife (Danceloop) 1967 · Feature In the lower half of the screen the legs of a dancing girl can be seen, in the upper half of the screen we have perforated movie - in a butterfly way.… Internet Archive Invisible Invaders 1959 colorized (John Agar) 1959 · Feature Aliens able to make themselves and their spaceships invisible issue an ultimatum to the Earth and start committing murder and sabotage by occupying the bodies… Internet Archive Postwar Germany: 28 Months After V-E Day (Part II) 1947 · Home movie · 12 min · Subtitles Investigation of German industrial production capabilities after the devastation of World War II. With striking images of destroyed German cities and… Internet Archive The Roaring Road 1919 · Feature · 57 min A young man (Wallace Reid) pursues a young lady (Ann Little) with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing. Internet Archive The Intruder ( 1962) 1962 · Feature A charismatic stranger (William Shatner) stirs up racist sentiments in a small town to prevent school integration from happening there. Internet Archive Special Delivery 1946 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Airplanes and missions of the U.S. Army Air Forces, emphasizing Operation Crossroads (the Bikini Island atomic bomb tests). Internet Archive A Year To Remeber - 1935 TV · 22 min · Subtitles This is an episode from an early Australian documentary series produced by the Cinesound Movietone News Company in the late fifties. About 20 episodes were… Internet Archive Combat America (Part I) 1945 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Follows the Flying Fortress crews of the 351st Bombardment Group from the end of their training at a Colorado training field to actual combat over Germany. Internet Archive Blazing Frontier 1943 · Feature · 56 min Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) and his sidekick Fuzzy (Al St. John) get involved in a land dispute between a crooked railroad and the angry settlers that were… Internet Archive When A Woman Ascends The Stairs 1960 · Feature When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse's finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly… Internet Archive The Snow Man 1940 · Cartoon · 7 min A 1930s cartoon where a group of South Pole animals build a snow man. Then they begin to throw snowballs at him. This makes him come to life, and he wants… Internet Archive All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) 1979 · Feature · Subtitles "All Quiet on the Western Front" (1979) is an anti-war television film directed by Delbert Mann, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. It follows the… Internet Archive Last Holiday 1950 · Feature Told by his doctor he has no more than a few months to live, drab British workingman George Bird (Alec Guinness) decides to spend his savings on lodging at a… Internet Archive As Others See Us 1953 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles Etiquette for teenagers as demonstrated by well-dressed youth of Webster Groves (Missouri) High School. Internet Archive Detour (1945) [HD] 1945 · Feature The epitome of the American Film Noir Genre, Detour tells the story of a down-on-his-luck pianist who goes on an ill-fated car ride leaving the driver dead.… Internet Archive Movie Trailers: 1950 · Cartoon · Subtitles Tongue-in-cheek horror movie trailer. No narration, information conveyed by written words. Internet Archive The Insect Woman 1963 · Feature Born in a rural farming village in 1918, Tomé survives decades of Japanese social upheaval, as well as abuse and servitude at the hands of various men. Yet… Internet Archive Yongary Monster From the Deep 1967 · Feature · 1 h 23 min · Subtitles Hosted by The Cinemated Man Directed by Ki-duk Kim Written by Ki-duk Kim, Yun-sung Special Effects by Kenichi Nakagawa Internet Archive L'étang Enchanté 1907 · Short · 1 min Sadly, only a fragment of this film seems to have survived. Fortunately, we are here to view it. I don't know about you but watching this made me want to go… Internet Archive Precisely So (Part II) 1937 · Cartoon · 10 min · Subtitles Surreal film on measurement of tiny quantities, made as soft-sell promotional piece for Chevrolet automobiles. Excellent stop-motion march of slide rules,… Internet Archive Tales of Tomorrow #16: Frankenstein 1952 · TV · 23 min · Subtitles A live tv production of Frankenstein from the anthology series Tales of Tomorrow. Legend has it that Lon Chaney Jr. (playing the monster) was unaware that it… Internet Archive Bride of the Gorilla 1951 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive 22 - Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman 1971 · Feature It’s East meets East when one of Japan’s action idols crosses paths with an iconic kung-fu hero from Hong Kong. While traveling the countryside, Zatoichi… Internet Archive 1921 Camille 1921 · Feature · Subtitles Camille is a 1921 silent film starring Rudolph Valentino and Alla Nazimova. It is one of numerous screen adaptations of La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre… Internet Archive Valley Town 1940 · Short · 24 min · Subtitles Social documentary showing the damage visited on the people of a Pennsylvania steel town by the deployment of new technology. Director: Willard Van Dyke.… Internet Archive Cult Of The Damned( 1969) 1969 · Feature The overweight debutante daughter of the world's wealthiest couple falls in with a gang of tripped out, skydiving pseudo-reactionary pop stars, who take their… Internet Archive Gang War 1940 · Feature · 51 min A fight in a diner over the claims of conflicting gangster factions reveals Bob "Killer" Meade (Ralph Cooper) as a rising lawbreaker in Harlem. Internet Archive International Crime 1938 · Feature · 1 h 3 min · Subtitles Taken from IMDB: Lamont Cranston, amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a…