The world's archives

3,841–3,888 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 MARTIN KANE, PRIVATE EYE - The District Attorney Killer Short · 29 min · Subtitles Original Air Date: 1 March 1951 Series 2 Episode 20 William Gargan as Martin Kane Ads, credits and network logos intact. Internet Archive Le Dirigeable Fantastique ou le Cauchemar d'un Inventeur 1905 · Short · 2 min "The Inventor Crazybrains and his Wonderful Airship" (Le Dirigeable Fantastique ou le Cauchemar d'un Inventeur) A Jules Verne-like flying airship soars the… Internet Archive Cry Of The City (1948) 1948 · Feature UMA VIDA MARCADA (Cry of the City, 1948 - USA) (Filme Completo / Legendado em Português) Data de Lançamento: 29 September 1948 (New York City, New York) »… Internet Archive English Children: Life in the City 1949 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Typical events in the daily life of an English urban family just after World War II. Internet Archive Murder with Music 1941 · Feature · 57 min Night club singer Nelle Hill has many suitors an escaped convict, a piano player and a newspaper man. One is killed. With musical shorts such as “Murder in… Internet Archive The Intruder 1962 · Feature · 1 h 22 min Title: The Intruder Summary: A man in a gleaming white suit comes to a small Southern town on the eve of integration. He calls himself a social reformer. But… Internet Archive Aluminum on the March (Part II) 1956 · Cartoon · 13 min · Subtitles How aluminum contributes to everyday living and national defense: appliances, packaging, airplanes, etc. With great stop-motion animation and excellent… Internet Archive Color Harmony for Your Home 1956 · Short · 20 min · Subtitles The Colorizer system of paint matching and mixing, with a tribute to the role color consciousness plays in everyday life and modern design. Internet Archive GUNFIGHTERS Feature · 1 h 24 min · Subtitles Gunfighters (1947) is a first rate Scott western, from the era when his best westerns were made. Scott takes his many problems in stride, such as attempting… Internet Archive The Story Of The Last Chrysanthemum 1939 · Feature This heartrending masterpiece by Kenji Mizoguchi about the give-and-take between life and art marked the first full realization of the hypnotic long takes and… Internet Archive Klondike 1932 · Feature · 1 h 6 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive Arizona Round-Up Feature · 53 min · Subtitles A standard Monogram matinee western starring Tom Keene. The glitch-free print has good audio and viewable image quality. Directed by Robert Emmett Tansey (as… Internet Archive Our Gang Follies of 1938 1937 · Feature · 1 h 2 min Title: Our Gang Follies of 1938 Summary: The gang is putting on a show with Alfalfa billed as "King of the Crooners." But Alfalfa abandons the show saying his… Internet Archive 1963-68 Early Interviews Lutz Mommartz 1968 · Feature MR. MOMMARTZ, PLEAS DESCRIBE YOUR RELATIONSHIP TO CINEMA? I rarely go to the cinema. I do not like Western, nor problem movies or comedies. Sometimes, out of… Internet Archive Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus 1938 · Feature · 1 h 5 min · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Revenge Of Dr. X Feature · 1 h 33 min [1970] aka Venus Flytrap or The Revenge Of Doctor X...A NASA scientist vacations in japan where he uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into… Internet Archive Shadows of Death 1945 · Feature · 59 min With the railroad coming to Red Rock, trouble is expected and Billy (Buster Crabbe) has been sent ot help his friend Fuzzy (Al St. John) who is the town's… Internet Archive [Pan American Clipper] 1935 · Commercial · 3 min · Subtitles Scenes of Pan American's China Clippers flying in and around San Francisco Bay, including through the incomplete towers of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Internet Archive The Studio Murder Mystery Feature “Not bad for an early talkie” “Obvious but fun early murder mystery” “A real creaker” (IMDB reviews quotes). Yeah it’s a creaker but an entertaining creaker… Internet Archive Marie Galante 1934 · Feature · 1 h 24 min · Subtitles An early Spencer Tracy outing in this spy thriller set in Panama. Internet Archive The Blue Gardenia (1953) Dir: Fritz Lang, Featuring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Raymond Burr, Ann Sothern - Film Noir Full Movie 1953 · Feature The Blue Gardenia is a 1953 film noir crime film directed by Fritz Lang and based on a novella by Vera Caspary, starring Anne Baxter, Richard Conte, Raymond… Internet Archive Command Performance 1942 · Short · 18 min · Subtitles How shellac records were produced and manufactured. Internet Archive Hollywood Man 1976 · Feature · 1 h 24 min Hollywood action film star Rafe Stoker has sunk $130,000 of his own money into his own production, but can't find legitimate financing to complete the film. -… Internet Archive Dynamic American City, The (Part I) 1956 · Short · 14 min · Subtitles Advocates urban redevelopment and renewal, 1950s-style. Supports many planning strategies which are criticized today: the destruction of "blighted"… Internet Archive Wolves of the Range 1943 · Feature · 57 min Dorn (I. Stanford Jolley) is after the rancher's land and is trying to stop Banker Brady (Ed Cassidy) from helping them. When his man Hammond (Jack Ingram)… Internet Archive Baby Huey: Quack-A-Doodle-Doo 1950 · Cartoon · 6 min The first Baby Huey cartoon - see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Huey From The Public Domain Movie Database: Baby Huey is disliked by all the other… Internet Archive On Guard! The Story of SAGE 1956 · Short · 12 min · Subtitles Innovations in computer technology as weapons in the Cold War. Internet Archive The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) 1964 · Feature The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb is a British horror film directed by Michael Carreras. Set in Egypt in 1900, the story follows three Egyptologists—John Bray,… Internet Archive Tulsa (1949) Feature · 1 h 27 min Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil… Internet Archive Tiger Fangs 1943 · Feature · 57 min A big-game hunter (Frank Buck) travels to Malaya to help stop the Nazis and Japanese from destroying the rubber industry. Internet Archive Movietone News: "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Version II) 1944 · Newsreel · 1 min · Subtitles Patriotic montage of scenes accompanying performance of U.S. national anthem as sung by Merrill Miller. Internet Archive The Martyred Presidents - Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley 1901 · Short · 1 min From an Edison film company catalog: "The scene opens with a beautiful woman who represents Columbia seated at the altar of Justice. As if from out of space… Internet Archive Betty Boop: The Old Man Of The Mountain 1933 · Cartoon Internet Archive [Lincoln Highway Dedication] 1915 · Short · 1 min · Subtitles Dedication of the western terminus of the Lincoln Highway (old U.S. 30), the legendary transcontinental route, in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. Internet Archive Diesel Story, The 1952 · Film · Subtitles The history of the Diesel engine, from the Pre-Dioesel engines of the late 1800s (Hot Bulb, Steam, Gas and Gasoline) to Rudolph Diesel and recreated 1890s… Internet Archive A Canterbury Tale 1944 · Feature Title: A Canterbury Tale Summary: Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury. Directed by: Actors:… Internet Archive [Dream Hospital] 1950 · Newsreel · 1 min · Subtitles Scenes at the brand-new, $2 million Kaiser Hospital somewhere in California. Newsreel story. Internet Archive Three Steps North 1951 · Feature · 1 h 20 min Complications ensue when Lloyd Bridges returns to Italy after the war to retrieve his loot. Internet Archive Bonanza - Feet Of Clay 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 Sawmill 1922 · Short · 21 min This got famous for the most expensive short silent comedy that was ever produced. A bumbling sawmill employee (Larry Semon) tries to win the hand of the… Internet Archive Escape To Paradise 1939 · Feature · Subtitles You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page . Internet Archive The Black Castle (1952) 1952 · Feature · Subtitles The Black Castle is a 1952 horror film set in a mythical European locale during the 18th century. The story follows Lord Edward, portrayed by Richard Greene ,… Internet Archive Town, The 1945 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Shows life during wartime in an American town (Madison, Indiana). Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Internet Archive I Cover the Waterfront (1933) Feature · 1 h Reporter Joe Miller is sure that fisherman Eli Kirk is smuggling illegal Chinese immigrants into the country, but can't obtain enough evidence to satisfy his… Internet Archive The Leopard Man 1943 · Feature Title: The Leopard Man Summary: A seemingly tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New… Internet Archive Banks And Credits 1948 · Educational · Subtitles Coronet Instructional Films (a division of Esquire Inc.) presents Banks and Credit. Educational collaborator James Harvey Dodd, PhD., Professor of Economics… Internet Archive Rocketship X-M (1950) 1950 · Feature · Subtitles "Rocketship X-M" is a 1950 black-and-white science fiction film directed by Kurt Neumann, telling the story of a crew on a mission to the Moon who… Internet Archive The Man Who Knew Too Much Feature “Fast-paced, witty and atmospheric” “Vastly underrated” “Early gem by the master of suspense” (IMDB reviews quotes). A worthy suspense drama in which a…