The world's archives

3,457–3,504 of 174,172 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 West Wing Week 6-24-16 or, "How Cool Is This-” 2016 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and beyond. This week was full of travel, as the First… Commons West Wing Week- 01-30-15 or, “Namaste Obama” 2015 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the President made history by being the first… Commons Alisa Weilerstein Performs at the White House- 3 of 8 2009 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Cellist Alisa Weilerstein performs Zoltán Kodálys Sonata for Solo Cello, Op. 8 and III. Allegro molto vivace at the White House Evening of Classical Music on… Commons Advancing 21st Century Policing Briefing 2016 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles This is the fourth in a series of convenings of law enforcement officers from around the country aimed at facilitating the implementation of the Final Report… Commons President Obama Speaks at the 2010 National Prayer Breakfast 2010 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles The President speaks about the power of prayer to foster civility and bridge divisions in remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington, DC. February… Commons West Wing Week- 3-25-11 or "OCONUS II - Mamalluca" 2011 · Short · 8 min · Subtitles This week, President Obama remained focused on Libya, receiving secure communications from his national security team as the first family visited Latin… Commons President Obama Speaks on the Importance of Job Training 2015 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles President Obama delivers remarks in Louisville, KY on his TechHire initiative and the investments his budget makes in job training and employment services.… Commons West Wing Week- 11-14-14 or, "The Future That We See" 2014 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles This week, the President issued a statement on net neutrality, convened both congressional leaders & his Cabinet to discuss the agenda in the years ahead,… Commons West Wing Week- 06-08-12 or "Roll Up Our Sleeves and Never Quit" 2012 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles This week, the President traveled to Honeywell International in Minnesota, to highlight efforts to help veterans find good paying jobs, urged Congress to… Commons West Wing Week 9-20-13 or, "Every Moment of Every Day" 2013 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles This week, the President responded to the shootings at the Navy Yard in DC, invited small business owners to the White House as he spoke on the 5 year… Commons West Wing Week- 06-21-12 or "Dreamers" 2012 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles This week, the President talks about an important policy change on immigration that more closely aligns our policy with our values, and traveled to the Group… Commons West Wing Week- 01-18-13 or "-NowIsTheTime" 2013 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles This week, President Hamid Karzai came to the White House, as did nine newly posted foreign ambassadors and the President held the final news conference of… Commons West Wing Week- 08-16-13 or "Summer Mailbag- A Break from Tradition" 2013 · Short · 6 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week. This week, we broke from tradition a bit and took to our social media networks to ask our followers about what they would like… Commons West Wing Week- 05-17-13 or "We the Geeks" 2013 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles This week, the President honored fallen officers and top cops, spoke on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, invited both the Prime Minister of the… Commons West Wing Week 12-06-13 or, "Olde English" 2013 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, the President spoke on the importance of… Commons West Wing Week- 01-04-13 or "Welcome to 2013- The Annual Resolutions Edition!" 2013 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President spent several days in talks with… Commons President Obama Speaks on Expanding Oil and Gas Pipelines 2012 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles President Obama announces an order to expedite a pipeline project that will help move oil more quickly and efficiently from Cushing, Oklahoma to refineries in… Commons West Wing Week- 09-07-12 or "Engage!" 2012 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President visited Fort Bliss two years after… Commons West Wing Week- 11-16-12 or "That's Who We Are" 2012 · Short · 6 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President invited fourteen middle-class… Commons West Wing Week 1-15-16 or, “Science the Heck Out of This” 2016 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles Welcome to this special State of the Union edition of West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This week, we… Commons West Wing Week- 06-19-15 or, "Her Map & Compass" 2015 · Short · 6 min · Subtitles This week was Maker Week and Pollinator Week! The President was a busy bee himself. He stopped by a Congressional baseball game and a Congressional picnic,… Commons West Wing Week- 07-31-15 or, “Jambo Kenya” 2015 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Welcome to West Wing Week Dispatches, your guide to the President's historic trip to East Africa. This week, the President became the first sitting U.S.… Commons West Wing Week- 06-01-12 or "Each of Them Loved This Country . . . More Than Life Itself." 2012 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Welcome to the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that's happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, the President honored Memorial Day and the 50th… Commons President Obama Speaks on Jobs in America’s Solar Energy 2015 · Short · 7 min · Subtitles President Obama traveled to the Hill Air Force Base in Salt Lake City, Utah to discuss his initiative to connect veterans with jobs in the burgeoning solar… Commons West Wing Week- 11-21-14 or, "Mingalarbar!" 2014 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles This week, the President visited Burma for the second time in his presidency, attended the G20 Summit in Australia, worked to expand access to broadband and… Commons A Conversation with President Obama and The Wire Creator David Simon 2015 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama and David Simon, the creator of HBO’s The Wire, sat down to talk honestly about the challenges law enforcement face and the… Commons 2017-01-07 President Obama's Weekly Address 2017 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles President Barack Obama's Weekly Address "President Obama’s Farewell Address to the Nation" from January 7, 2017. Original description of the speech: "In this… Commons Household Incomes Rising- Facebook Live with President Obama 2017 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles President Obama and Jason Furman, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, discuss some good news for our economy. Originally published September 13, 2016. Commons Robin Williams tribute video (354881) 2014 · Short · 6 min · Subtitles Video compilation of Robin Williams visiting with and performing for U.S. troops overseas. Includes interview in which he explains why supporting the troops… Commons Medie och informationskunnighet i undervisningen 2017 · Short · 3 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 Hubblecast 11 2007 · Short · 5 min · Subtitles The galaxy Messier 74 lies at a distance of over 30 million light years. In this latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope the enormous swirls of… Commons A technofix for the climate- Marine geoengineering 2018 · Short · 4 min · Subtitles Large-scale technological interventions to “fix” the climate crisis are moving up on the political agenda. Some climate scientists are now proposing… Commons Net neutrality explained! Why we need to savetheinternet.eu 2016 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles http://www.savetheinternet.eu European Regulators are about to decide whether to give big telecoms corporations the power to influence what we can (and… Commons Flashmob DieRevolutionRollt 1918 in Hannover 2018 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles DieRevolutionRollt is a Flashmob by Weimarar Republik e.V. and supported by the German ministry of Justice. It is a recreation of the events of November 1918,… Commons Благоустройство Канавинского сквера 2019 · Short · 3 min · Subtitles 1 августа мы приехали в Канавинский сквер (это самый конец Московского шоссе, у вокзала). Часть сквера благоустраивается в этом году по программе… Commons WIKITONGUES- Vira speaking Ukrainian 2019 · Short · 7 min · Subtitles This video was recorded by Kristen Tcherneshoff in Sweden. The modern Ukrainian language has existed since the late 1600s and descends from the Old East… Commons Die Weltkarte von Mercator 2019 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles In 1569, Gerhard Mercator presented his world map to the public for the first time. The 1 meter 34 by 2 meter 12 meter card was given the title addition: "for… Commons Wie aus Flusswasser Trinkwasser wird 2020 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles The managing director of the Hengsen waterworks explains the work steps involved in extracting drinking water from the river water of the Ruhr. This process… Commons Was ist ein Permafrostboden? 2021 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles About a quarter of the non-glaciated earth is permafrost. Is the ground there permanently frozen or can it thaw again? Commons Impfreihenfolge bei Corona 2021 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles The primary goal is to protect those who are particularly at risk: people who become very sick and could die from being infected with the virus, or who work… Commons Braucht der Mensch Fleisch? 2021 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles Do we humans need meat for a balanced diet? Our ancestors, the ancestors and early humans, were predominantly fruit-eaters. Today, Germans eat around 60… Commons So entstand das letzte Eiszeitalter 2021 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles The Pleistocene lasted nearly 2.5 million years. At that time, North and South America were not yet connected, and the climate was still warm. Due to the… Commons Finance and Administration Department Highlights from the Wikimedia Foundation 2021-2022 Annual Plan 2021 · Short · 6 min · Subtitles Jaime Villagomez, Chief Financial Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation gives a quick overview of what is coming up for the Finance and Administration… Commons Shortcutting the Identify topics for impact 2021 · Short · 9 min · Subtitles The lightning talk Shortcutting the Identify topics for impact by reusing free content. Commons Where is all the plastic in the ocean video 2020 · Talk · 14 min · Subtitles We have only mapped 1% of all the plastic in the ocean. The other 99% is missing. That's a problem, because if we don’t know where the plastic is, we cannot… Commons How could your holiday help the reefs 2021 · Talk · 15 min · Subtitles Coral reefs worldwide are under a lot of stress due to climate change. Locally, tourism has a great impact as well. Lisa Becking (Wageningen University &… Commons Wie schützt man sich vor Geschlechtskrankheiten? 2021 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles What are sexually transmitted diseases, what are the most common diseases and how can you protect yourself from them? Commons Kulturgeschichte des Herzens 2021 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles Organically speaking, the heart is just a muscle that pumps blood around the body. But it has always had a special meaning.