The world's archives

3,601–3,648 of 128,639 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 Wikipedia LiveHelp screencast 2010 · Short · 2 min Screencast presentation by Sage Ross of the LiveHelp concept, based on the slideshow File:Wikipedia LiveHelp.pdf designed by Frank Schulenburg. Commons Can-Hippocampal-Neurites-and-Growth-Cones-Climb-over-Obstacles-pone.0073966.s005 2013 · Short · 3 min Video of hippocampal GC 24h after plating on PDMS lines 100 nm high and exposed to 300 ng/ml Netrin-1 gradient for 1h. Images were acquired every 60 s. GC was… Commons The-KRÜPPEL-Like-Transcription-Factor-DATILÓGRAFO-Is-Required-in-Specific-Cholinergic-Neurons-for-pbio.1001964.s006 2014 · Short · 1 min Movie of a 2-d-old Canton-S female being courted by a Canton-S male. Note that although the female flees to some degree, she does so slowly and eventually… Commons Simulation-of-Invertebrate-Aggregation-Shows-the-Importance-of-Stable-Personality-over-Diversity-in-pone.0165082.s001 2016 · Short · 1 min Animation of single experiment with f r = 0 over a simulated time of 5 minutes. Each agent is represented by a circle of radius 2.5mm, distinguished by a… Commons Surface-enabled-propulsion-and-control-of-colloidal-microwheels-ncomms10225-s10 2016 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 10 Stepwise Assembly: Wheel assembly can be directed via keyboard control. Commons Correlation-of-breaking-forces-conductances-and-geometries-of-molecular-junctions-srep09002-s2 2015 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Information Geometry, conductance, loading and breaking forces for single-molecule junctions of BT2 Commons Simultaneous-observation-of-the-quantization-and-the-interference-pattern-of-a-plasmonic-near-field-ncomms7407-s1 2015 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 1 Simulation of the continuous polarization dependence of the photoinduced SPP field distribution in a silver nanoresonator of 5.7 μm… Commons El-Niño-and-coral-larval-dispersal-across-the-eastern-Pacific-marine-barrier-ncomms12571-s7 2016 · Short · 2 min Supplementary Movie 6 Monthly larval trajectories from Clipperton Island, November 2003 to June 2011. Density of larval paths by month of release from… Commons Strength-of-Neisseria-meningitidis-binding-to-endothelial-cells-requires-highly-ordered-CD147β2-ncomms15764-s4 2017 · Short · 2 min Supplementary Movie 3 Actn4 depletion alters CD147 clustering at bacterial adhesion sites.Typical 2D-STORM reconstruction sequence of CD147 distribution at… Commons Hurricane Preparedness 2017 · Short · 1 min Hurricane Preparedness Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: https://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.html… Commons CDC- Tips From Former Smokers - Christine- I Have to Quit 2018 · Short · 1 min Christine started smoking in high school to fit in, and continued to smoke for many years. She was diagnosed with oral cancer in her early 40s. She lost her… Commons CDC WHRC- 'Show and Tell' 2018 · Short · 1 min Enhance your employees’ career wellness with the CDC Workplace Health Resource Center. CDC’s new website makes it easy for employers to design, put in place,… Commons Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Online Training Module 1 3of7 2018 · Short · 1 min Adverse Childhood Experiences commonly known as ACEs—affect children and families across all communities. ACEs can impact kids’ health and well-being, and… Commons Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Online Training Module 2 12of12 2018 · Short · 1 min Adverse Childhood Experiences commonly known as ACEs—affect children and families across all communities. ACEs can impact kids’ health and well-being, and… Commons Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Online Training Module 1 Lesson 3- Video 1 of 2 AD 2018 · Short · 1 min Adverse Childhood Experiences commonly known as ACEs—affect children and families across all communities. ACEs can impact kids’ health and well-being, and… Commons Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Online Training Module 2 Conclusion AD 2018 · Short · 1 min Adverse Childhood Experiences commonly known as ACEs—affect children and families across all communities. ACEs can impact kids’ health and well-being, and… Commons Wahl's "Gerhard Morell, Keeper of the Royal Danish Kunstkammer" - a researcher's view 2011 · Short · 1 min Senior researcher Eva de la Fuente Pedersen tells about Johann Salomon Wahl's painting "Gerhard Morell, Keeper of the Royal Danish Kunstkammer" Commons 100m Race - Girls - Racing Events, Inter-house Sports of Annunciation Sec. Sch. Enugu - Play and Africa 2019 · Feature · 27 h 6 min The Senior female students, representing various houses of Annunciation Secondary School are in motion during the race for the 100 meters racing title at the… Commons 4 animacja siec lingwistyczna 2019 · Short · 1 min Animacja wizualizująca sposób tworzenia sieci sąsiedztwa słów z tekstu. Przedstawionym tekstem jest początek "W pustyni i w puszczy" Sienkiewicza (pierwsze… Commons Freiburg Stadtgarten Vatertag 2020 2020 · Feature · 6 h 5 min Freiburger Stadtgarten an Himmelfahrt 2020 nach Lockerung der Corona-Vorschriften. Commons Animation of Huygens clock power maintaining mechanism 2020 · Cartoon · 1 min A pendulum clock should not stop while being rewound; Christiaan Huygens already invented one mechanism the working of which is shown here, as an illustration… Commons Polarizing Filter 2021 · Feature · 49 h 22 min See how the light changes as it travels through the polarizer. Scientists can make devices that emit photons one at a time, all with the same polarization.… Commons Lunar Eclipse Time Lapse 16 05 2022 2022 · Short · 1 min This is a time lapse of the Lunar Eclipse on 16 May 2022. This only happens every 2.5 years. Commons Eumenes species with caterpillar 2022 · Short · 1 min Potter wasp bringing a caterpillar into an amphora in which eggs were previously laid. Commons Apa jadinya dunia tanpa matematika? 2025 · Short · 1 min ​你有沒有想過，「沒有數學，世界會是什麼樣子？數學是學校里最難的科目，也是學生討厭的科目，但你知道嗎，數學是」科學女王“，你知道的。那麼，如果數學從未存在過呢？讓我們看下面的視頻，它解釋了一些關於沒有數學的影響 Commons Mengapa Bom di Gaza dapat merusak iklim 2025 · Short · 1 min Reference Al-Jazeera, Is Israel’s Gaza bombing also a war on the climate? CC BY SA Commons 2025 Shandong chemical explosion on CCTV 2025 · Short · 1 min A CCTV footage of the major chemical plant explosion in Weifang, Shandong province, China, on May 27, 2025, which resulted in at least five fatalities, 19… Commons Black margined flower fly 2025 · Short · 2 min Black-margined Flower flies on Zinnia flowers. A portion in close-up is played at one-fifth speed. Commons マイナポータル｜マイナポータルへログインする方法 2025 · Short · 1 min マイナポータルにログインすると、自分の情報の確認や行政手続きができます。 詳しくはマイナポータルのサービス紹介サイトをご参照ください。 https://services.digital.go.jp/mynaportal/login/ Commons Aurora borealis from Slovenia, 2023 April 23-24 - Polarni sij iz Slovenije 23. april 2023 2023 · Short · 1 min Aurora borealis from Veliki Raven, Slovenia, 2023 April 23/24. Equipment: Canon 40D with 17-mm f/2.8 lens, 30 s exposure at ISO 1600. Contents 00:00 – Intro… Commons Moon Over Orion (art002m1010940907) 2026 · Short · 1 min art002m1010940907 (April 4, 2026) - The Orion spacecraft is pointed straight at its destination – the Moon – on flight day 3 of the Artemis II mission. This… Commons Reichelt 1912 · Short · 1 min WARNING: DISTRESSING FOOTAGE Gaumont newsreel footage, unused/unissued, of the fatal fall of Franz Reichelt from the Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 4th… Commons A-Motion-Illusion-Reveals-Mechanisms-of-Perceptual-Stabilization-pone.0002741.s001 2008 · Short · 1 min Demonstration of peripheral drift illusion. This video demonstrates the effects of central drift patterns (congruent, neutral, incongruent) on the percept of… Commons Depending-on-Its-Nano-Spacing-ALCAM-Promotes-Cell-Attachment-and-Axon-Growth-pone.0040493.s007 2012 · Short · 1 min Time-lapse movie of a growth cone on a 70 nm pattern functionalized with ALCAM. Images were taken after 1 day in culture every 10 sec. The movie playback is… Commons MT Slamet Volcano eruption on August 26,2014 2014 · Short · 1 min Raised to Level III at Aug 12,2014. Mt Slamet still ongoing, and Build the Baby of Volcano inside of Main Crater, Eruption type: Strombolian Produce Lava Bomb… Commons Kinetochore-independent-chromosome-segregation-driven-by-lateral-microtubule-bundles-elife06462v002 2015 · Short · 1 min Super-resolution view of spindle organization in mid-anaphase. Super-resolution image of a fixed oocyte spindle stained for DNA (blue), tubulin (green), and… Commons Kinetochore-independent-chromosome-segregation-driven-by-lateral-microtubule-bundles-elife06462v005 2015 · Short · 1 min Super-resolution view of spindle organization in mid-anaphase. Super-resolution image of a fixed oocyte spindle stained for tubulin (green) and ring marker… Commons How-Lovebirds-Maneuver-Rapidly-Using-Super-Fast-Head-Saccades-and-Image-Feature-Stabilization-pone.0129287.s001 2015 · Short · 1 min Slow motion video of a rosy-faced lovebird (Agapornis roseicollis) performing a turning on a dime maneuver. The bird performed a saccadic gaze behavior timed… Commons TDCS and Depression 2015 · Short · 3 min Multimedia presentation for the Motivation and Emotion Book Chapter tDCS and Depression References American Psychiatric Association. (2013). Diagnostic and… Commons High-performance-mussel-inspired-adhesives-of-reduced-complexity-ncomms9663-s3 2015 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 2 Spreading of coacervates over a glass substrate recorded on an inverted microscope. Commons Simultaneous-observation-of-the-quantization-and-the-interference-pattern-of-a-plasmonic-near-field-ncomms7407-s2 2015 · Short · 1 min Supplementary Movie 2 Simulation of the continuous excitation energy dependence of the photoinduced SPP field distribution in a silver nanoresonator of 2.0 μm… Commons Hydroprêtre 2017 · Short · 1 min Hommage à Classiccardinal et à sa création hydroprêtre sur le Wiktionnaire. Par Lucas Lévêque. Commons Kayaking in the Bioluminescent Bay Vieques 2017 · Short · 1 min Kayaking in the Bioluminescent Bay, Vieques, Puerto Rico (shots taken at ISO 409,600 with post-processing to reduce noises) Commons Dr.ShwetaYadav 2018 · Short · 1 min Dr. Shweta Yadav sharing her experiences during Hindi Wikipedia Conference 2018. Commons Hurricane Preparedness Spanish 2017 · Short · 1 min Hurricane Preparedness Spanish Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: https://www.cdc.gov/SocialMedia/Tools/CommentPolicy.h… Commons Dr. Wolynn Explains Why HPV Vaccine Is Recommended For Preteens 2018 · Short · 1 min “What do you tell parents who think their kids don’t need HPV vaccine at age 11 or 12?” During this segment of the “How I Recommend HPV Vaccine” series, Dr.… Commons CDC- Tips From Former Smokers - Sharon’s Diagnosed at 37 Story 2018 · Short · 1 min Sharon started smoking at 13. In her late 30s, she was diagnosed with throat cancer. She was a busy mom with two children. She made their lunches, took them… Commons CDC- Tips From Former Smokers - Christine- Time They’ll Never Get Back 2018 · Short · 1 min In this video, Christine talks about how her smoking affected her children, particularly her 17-year-old son. While she was going through treatment, she says…