The world's archives

3,697–3,744 of 563,648 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 Carry On Cruising 1962 · Feature A sea captain about to set sail discovers that his regular shipmates have all defected. In their place are an inexperienced and over-eager bunch who wreak… Internet Archive The Crazy Ray Feature · 51 min The Crazy Ray (Paris Qui Dort) a 1927 silent comedy by Rene Clair is the story of a mad scientist who devises a ray which puts all people to sleep. It has a… Internet Archive Wallace and Gromit - A Grand Day Out UK VHS (1993) 2020 · Cartoon "That's it, Gromit.......cheeeese! We'll go somewhere where there's cheese!" Wallace likes a nice bit of cheese with his crackers, so when this eccentric… Internet Archive Belo Horizonte 1949 · Short · 17 min · Subtitles Development of Brazil's planned city. Internet Archive Death in Venice - Morte a Venezia (1971) Short · 3 min Synopsis Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost all vestiges of humanity.… Internet Archive Mullinaires, The 1953 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles A chorus of kitchen salesmen sings an inspirational song to rally the rest of the troops. Internet Archive 1970 Das Atem des Schafes und Das Meer ist unendlich schön (the breath of the sheep and the see is endless beautiful) 1970 · Feature · Subtitles The sea is infinitely beautiful Description of a film installation with 5 projectors on 3 walls. The breath of the sheep 9,35’ N8 mm Tour trough Scotland with… Internet Archive Der Traum der Bildhauers AKA The Sculptors Dream 1906 · Feature Internet Archive Head (1968) 1968 · Feature Head is a 1968 American satirical musical adventure film written and produced by Jack Nicholson and Bob Rafelson , directed by Rafelson, starring television… Internet Archive [News Magazine of the Screen, December 1950] (Part I) 1950 · Newsreel · 14 min · Subtitles Newsreel stories reformatted for educational presentation, including the assassination attempt on President Harry S. Truman. Internet Archive The Wild Ride 1960 · Feature · Subtitles Found this one on Google(As PD). From IMDB: A rebellious punk of the beat generation, who spends his days as an amateur dirt track driver in-between partying… Internet Archive Robot Pilot 1941 · Feature · 1 h 4 min AKA Emergency Landing A test pilot and his weather observer develop a "robot" control so airplanes can be flown without pilots, but enemy agents get wind of… Internet Archive In My Merry Oldsmobile 1932 · Cartoon · 6 min · Subtitles Surprisingly licentious advertising cartoon produced by the Fleischer brothers. Internet Archive Sudden Fear (1952) Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame - Film Noir 1952 · Feature Sudden Fear Is a 1952 American film noir thriller directed by David Miller, and starring Joan Crawford, Gloria Grahame and Jack Palance. The screenplay by… Internet Archive Combat America (Part IV) 1945 · Short · 16 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 Bonanza - The Last Trophy TV · 49 min · Subtitles Set in Nevada in the 1860s, Bonanza chronicled the adventures of the Cartwright family who owned a large ranch called The Ponderosa. Ben Cartwright and his… Internet Archive The Crooked Trail 1936 · Feature · 1 h After Jim Blake (Johnny Mack Brown) saves Harve Tarlton's (John Merton) life, they become partners in a gold mining claim. After a while Harve reverts to his… Internet Archive This Happy Breed 1944 · Feature Title: This Happy Breed Summary: Noël Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after World War I, the Gibbons family… Internet Archive Enemy At The Gates 2001 · Cartoon · 2 min Perhaps the greatest challenge that Enemy at the Gates presented to Double Negative was how to serve the film's narrative flow whilst staying as faithful as… Internet Archive This is Coffee 1961 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Loving tribute to America's favorite stimulant. Internet Archive Laurel & Hardy ' A Chump At Oxford' 1940 Movie 1940 · Feature A Chump at Oxford, directed in 1939 by Alfred J. Goulding and released in 1940 by United Artists, was the penultimate Laurel and Hardy film made at the Hal… Internet Archive Whispering City (1947) Feature · 1 h 30 min A reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress, who tells the… Internet Archive Tonightandeverynight Feature · Subtitles otr Internet Archive The Ten Commandments / Blu-ray / x264 / MKV / 720p / With Commentary 1923 · Feature The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The… Internet Archive Candlelight in Algeria. Feature · 1 h 21 min · Subtitles A British espionage thriller set in French North Africa which costarrs James Mason and Carla Lehmann backed by a worthy supporting cast. The entirely… Internet Archive Alchemist In Hollywood, The (Part II) 1940 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Explains chemical processes used in the motion picture laboratory. Diagrams and demonstrations of exposure, photochemical reactions, development, and… Internet Archive Open Road B 1951 · Film · Subtitles Educational film about how steel is used to make highways, including problems that occur with time and use. Internet Archive Fireball XL5. (Complete Series) 1962 · TV Fireball XL5 is a science fiction themed children's television show following the adventures of spaceship Fireball XL5, and crew members from the World Space… Internet Archive Mujer De Cabaret ( 1991) 1991 · Feature Alicia Conde is famous and successful cabaret singer is going to marry Octavio and quit her career. But this Octavio turns to be a gambler and in a few months… Internet Archive Rock River Renegades 1942 · Feature · 56 min Having trouble with outlaws, Marshal Graham (Kermit Maynard) sends for his friends the Range Busters. Newspaper editor Ross (Christine McIntyre), dissatisfied… Internet Archive The Flavor Of Green Tea Over Rice 1952 · Feature One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing… Internet Archive Flying with Arthur Godfrey (Part II) 1953 · Commercial · 24 min · Subtitles TV host Arthur Godfrey takes controls of a passenger plane to demonstrate airline operations. Internet Archive The Balloonatic Short · 21 min The Balloonatic with Buster Keaton. 1923. This Keaton filkm is already in the Archive but this is a better print and I have added a music track. Internet Archive 1985 Anziehen (To dress) 1985 · Feature Image rotation produced by a black diaphragm circling in the compendium. Internet Archive Great Railroad at Work, A (Part I) 1942 · Short · 24 min · Subtitles Everything there is to know about the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. Internet Archive Facing Reality 1954 · Short · 11 min · Subtitles Surreal presentation of the common ways in which people escape from reality -- daydreaming, identification, suppression and malingering. Internet Archive The Brain That Wouldn't Die 1962 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Midnight Girl 1925 · Feature · 1 h 1 min 1925 directed by Wilfred Noy starring Lila Lee, Gareth Hughes, Dolores Cassinelli and Bela Lugosi. A shady opera patron, (Lugosi), is in love with the same… Internet Archive Activity Group Therapy (Part I) 1950 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Shows socially-maladjusted boys 10 to 11 years old being benefitted therapeutically by "acting out" their disturbances upon their environment and each other… Internet Archive Lady Frankenstein Ultimix Feature · Subtitles In the grand tradition of every other "Frankenstein" movie, this "Ultimix" was cobbled together: "a few scenes were ripped from uncut VHS and an Italian… Internet Archive Helping Johnny Remember 1956 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Surreal social guidance film showing the problems of a boy rejected by other children because he is selfish, uncooperative and domineering. Internet Archive Hats Off 1936 · Feature · 1 h · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Behind the Freedom Curtain 1957 · Short · 17 min · Subtitles Sales film for voting machines, promoting them as engines of governmental efficiency and practical democracy. Internet Archive Walk the Dark Street (1956) Feature · 1 h 11 min Check out the IMDb page for this film for more details. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049932/ Internet Archive Highlights of the 1936 Olympics (Berlin) 1936 · Film · Subtitles Contents. Brief sketches of the important events of the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. Opening scenes show Berlin's huge stadium in which the games were held.… Internet Archive Round and Round (Widgets) 1939 · Cartoon · 5 min · Subtitles Highly simplified explanation of free-enterprise economics that fails to mention the idea of profit. Internet Archive Three Ressurected Drunkards 1968 · Feature A trio of bumbling young men frolic at the beach. While they swim, their clothes are stolen and replaced with new outfits. Donning these, they are mistaken… Internet Archive Hay Foot 1942 · Feature · 46 min The third film of four featuring Sergeant 'Dodo' Doubleday (William Tracy) and his adventures and mishaps in the US military service Colonel J. A. Barkley…