The world's archives

3,985–4,032 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 Artemis II Translunar Injection Burn (art002m1200922349-tli-burn-1) 2026 · Short · 2 min art002m1200922349 (April 2, 2026) - One last near view of Earth rolls by between the Orion spacecraft and one of its solar array wings, during the translunar… Commons John Adams (Hillsdale College animation) 2025 · Cartoon · 1 min Step into history like never before. Watch the signers of the Declaration of Independence and the ladies of the American Revolution come alive through vivid,… Commons Tornado caught on CCTV at St Louis Lambert International Airport 4-22-2011 2011 · Short · 2 min A security camera captured the moment a tornado struck St. Louis Lambert International Airport in St. Louis, Missouri. The tornado was rated EF4 with winds of… Commons Vídeo ECA digital e Educação midiática 2026 · Short · 1 min O vídeo fornece informações sobre o ECA digital e a Educação Midiática como instrumento para a cidadania digital. Commons STS-51 IMAX footage part 2 1994 · Short · 1 min "Spectacular footage of Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-51) shot using an IMAX camera! It is part of the footage in a 1994 documentary titled Destiny in Space"… Commons Eclipse de soleil du 12-08-26 - un autre point de vue. 2026 · Short · 1 min Explications au début de la vidéo. La première date est une faute de frappe, c'était le 12 et pas le 15 :-/ Commons The Real Presidential Debate 2020 · Short · 1 min The actual, totally real, final debate between Joe Biden and President Donald Du... Trump. Commons Henryville High Boys Gym Torn Apart by Tornado 2012 · Short · 2 min This Axis Communications IP camera captures what happens to the boys' gymnasium when a tornado strikes this Indiana high school on March 2, 2012. Commons PSUV respalda a la Presidenta Delcy Rodríguez y a los acuerdos firmados entre Venezuela y EE. UU. 2026 · Short · 2 min PSUV respalda a la Presidenta Delcy Rodríguez y a los acuerdos firmados entre Venezuela y EE. UU. Commons Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) Condemns Democratic Socialism 2026 · Short · 1 min Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) condemns the rise of democratic socialism and hails his support for the Russia Sanctions package, championed by the late Sen. Lindsey… Commons One Juror Holding Up Lindsay Clancy Verdict; Judge Won't Remove Them 2026 · Short · 1 min Dramatic moments in the courtroom at the end of the sixth day of jury deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial: The defense asked the judge Thursday… Commons Incubator app walkthrough (Turkish) 2026 · Short · 2 min Walkthrough of Incubator, a free mobile app for contributing to the wikis in incubation on Wikimedia Incubator, with narration in Turkish. Shown on the… Commons Tutorial on starting a sandbox article on Wikipedia 2010 · Educational · 2 min · Subtitles A tutorial that walks through creating a sandbox page as a user subpage on Wikipedia. The script is available at User:Sross (Public Policy)/Sandbox script.… Commons Andromeda and Milky Way collision 2012 · Short · 1 min This animation depicts the collision between our Milky Way galaxy and the Andromeda galaxy. Hubble Space Telescope observations indicate that the two… Commons The-Cell-Collective-Toward-an-open-and-collaborative-approach-to-systems-biology-1752-0509-6-96-S1 2012 · Short · 2 min Additional file 1: Real time simulation example. Video example of a real time simulation of a large-scale model of intracellular signal transduction. Commons Quantifying-and-Tracing-Information-Cascades-in-Swarms-pone.0040084.s004 2012 · Short · 1 min Local transfer entropy (TE) of swarm individuals over time for experiment 2. We start the simulation with the swarm individuals in three squares of checker… Commons Zahod Sonca za Triglavom (4x hitreje) 2011 · Short · 1 min Sunset behind the highest Slovenian mountain Triglav (elevation 2864 m), 21th June 2011, between 18:30 and 18:45 UTC. If we observe the sunset from Sentvid -… Commons How to install and use the diff history userscript 2013 · Short · 1 min A quick walkthrough of how to install and use Writ Keeper's commonHistory.js userscript, for educators who may find it a useful tool to evaluate student… Commons Schiebefenster-Mechanismus 2013 · Short · 3 min TCP benutzt hierzu einen Schiebefenster-Mechanismus (sliding window). Dabei teilt der Empfänger dem Absender mit, wie viele Daten der Empfänger maximal… Commons Edward Snowden speaks about everything 2013 · Short · 2 min Edward Snowden speaks about various topics at the Sam Adams award presentation in Moscow. Commons Drupal 7 Media - insert image 2014-05-03 2014 · Short · 1 min Brief demonstration of the Drupal 7 Media module, used to upload and insert an image into a basic page. Commons Salomonenkakadu Baby 2013 · Short · 1 min Baby Solomons cockatoo (Cacatua ducorpsii), also known as the Ducorps' cockatoo, Solomons corella or broad-crested corella. Commons Postural-Instability-Detection-Aging-and-the-Complexity-of-Spatial-Temporal-Distributional-Patterns-pone.0108905.s001 2014 · Short · 1 min A video animation supports this paper and provides more details on VTC computation and subsequent data analysis. Commons The-KRÜPPEL-Like-Transcription-Factor-DATILÓGRAFO-Is-Required-in-Specific-Cholinergic-Neurons-for-pbio.1001964.s007 2014 · Short · 1 min Movie of a 2-d-old dati homozygous female being courted by a Canton-S male. Note that the female flees quickly from the male, and when she is caught up to by… Commons Using Manifest Advance Search 2014 · Short · 1 min This video describes how to use 'Manifest Advance Search' on the Wikimedia Phabricator. Commons Manifest-Advance-Search 2015 · Short · 1 min The video is a screencast showing how to use Phabricator's Maniphest Advance Search. Commons Spectrum of Gunshots fired at Krudttønden 2015 · Short · 1 min An audio recording of the gunshots fired at Krudttønden has been subjected to various filters using open-source software. A screenshot from Audacity with the… Commons Neratovice, Mládežnická, přejezd - loko 740, autobus Arriva 2015 · Short · 1 min Neratovice, Mělník District, Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic. Mládežnická street, level crossings. Commons Social-Attention-in-the-Two-Species-of-Pan-Bonobos-Make-More-Eye-Contact-than-Chimpanzees-pone.0129684.s002 2015 · Short · 1 min Examples of viewing patterns by a bonobo Vijay and a chimpanzee Natsuki. The lines indicate saccades and the circles indicate fixations (scaled to the… Commons Non-Invasive-Microbial-Metabolic-Activity-Sensing-at-Single-Cell-Level-by-Perfusion-of-Calcein-pone.0141768.s006 2015 · Short · 1 min Intermittant iron supply. After 3.7 hours, the perfusion medium was switched to CGXII medium without iron (CGXII + 4% GLC—iron). The limitation of iron… Commons Swift Survey Finds Smoking Gun of Black Hole Activation 2015 · Short · 1 min Swift Survey Finds 'Smoking Gun' of Black Hole Activation. Astronomers using X-ray data from an ongoing survey by NASA's Swift satellite have solved a… Commons Colonels Reunite to Train Southeast County Young Marines 2013 · Short · 1 min Two friends, who served together during the Gulf War, reunited for a day of training with the Southeast County Young Marines at Camp Pendleton, Calif., July… Commons Juno Captures the 'Roar' of Jupiter 2016 · Short · 1 min Juno Captures the "Roar" of Jupiter NASA's Juno spacecraft has crossed the boundary of Jupiter's immense magnetic field. Juno's Waves instrument recorded the… Commons TorPluggable transports-animation 2016 · Cartoon · 1 min A very brief animated primer on Tor pluggable transports, a censorship circumvention tool. Commons Mathematical-Modeling-Predicts-that-Increased-HSV-2-Shedding-in-HIV-1-Infected-Persons-Is-Due-to-pone.0155124.s010 2016 · Short · 1 min HSV-2 shedding simulation with parameters derived from HIV negative study participants. The upper left panel represents total cell-free HSV DNA copies / mL… Commons BioSig3D-High-Content-Screening-of-Three-Dimensional-Cell-Culture-Models-pone.0148379.s005 2016 · Short · 1 min (BioSig3D: Resource Manager Video): A video presenting the use and application of resource manager. Commons Controlling-the-motion-of-multiple-objects-on-a-Chladni-plate-ncomms12764-s11 2016 · Short · 2 min Supplementary Movie 10 High-speed recording of solder ball motion. Note C#6 (1109 Hz), duration 500 ms. Commons Correlation-of-breaking-forces-conductances-and-geometries-of-molecular-junctions-srep09002-s3 2015 · Short · 3 min Supplementary Information Geometry, conductance, loading and breaking forces for double-molecule junctions of BT2 Commons Correlation-of-breaking-forces-conductances-and-geometries-of-molecular-junctions-srep09002-s5 2015 · Short · 3 min Supplementary Information Geometry, conductance, loading and breaking forces for double-molecule junctions of NH22 Commons Mini Metro Launch Trailer 2015 · Short · 1 min Build a better subway! Mini Metro, the videogame about designing subway networks, is launching out of Early Access on 6th of November 2015 on Steam, GOG, and… Commons Translational-control-of-auditory-imprinting-and-structural-plasticity-by-eIF2α-elife-17197-media2 2016 · Short · 1 min Stimulus B presented to chickens. This animation was played on a screen during training. For auditory and visual imprinting tests only the auditory or the… Commons Héron garde-bœufs et taureau en Savoie (2017) 2017 · Feature · 195 h 11 min Sight of a cattle egret eating flys on the head of a bull, between Aix-les-Bains and Chambéry, in Savoie, France. Commons Video com instruções para o projeto RP-2017 2015 · Short · 1 min video com instruções para o Projeto Commons da Faculdade Cásper Líbero (RP/2017) Commons Pekka Haavisto theology 2017 · Short · 1 min Pekka Haavisto explaining what happened after a Somali warlord said to him: “In God’s name, I will come with you to take Karelia back for Finland!” Commons 3D Interference of Laser Light Through 2 Pinholes Animation 2017 · Cartoon · 1 min Animation of tomography of the interference of monochromatic LED laser light passing through two pinholes (side edges). Image made with custom scanning… Commons Inspiration- A Stop Motion Adventure 2010 · Cartoon · 1 min In this stop motion adventure video, there is a couple of normal objects. Then a different object approaches and is hated at first due to its differences, but… Commons What is Intimate Partner Violence 2018 · Short · 1 min Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious, preventable public health problem. Public health and violence prevention practitioners and researchers are… Commons I Am CDC - Matt Stockton 2017 · Short · 1 min I've been with CDC for fifteen years. I work in the Entomology Branch, in the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria. I am the deputy of the bug branch.…