The world's archives

4,177–4,224 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 Swing It, Sailor! 1938 · Feature · 1 h 2 min Husky Stone (Ray Mayer), strongest man in the Navy, and as short on brains as he is as long on muscle, has an urge to get married, as his enlistment is up.… Internet Archive When the Circuit Breaks: America's Energy Crisis (Part I) 1975 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Explains that all forms of energy have circuit breakers; when demand exceeds supply, the circuit breaks; when several circuits break at the same time, we have… Internet Archive Take Aim At The Police Van 1960 · Feature At the beginning of Seijun Suzuki’s taut and twisty whodunit, a prison truck is attacked and a convict inside murdered. The penitentiary guard on duty,… Internet Archive Old Overland Trail Feature It’s cowboys vs Indians and brother vs brother in this action-packed B-oater staring Rex Allen and his horse Koko. Leonard Nimoy is featured as a renegade… Internet Archive News Magazine of the Screen, The (Vol. 2, Issue 6) 1952 · Newsreel · 22 min · Subtitles Newsreel stories reformatted for classroom presentation. Includes: Dwight D. Eisenhower enters 1952 Republican party primary; blizzard at California's Donner… Internet Archive His Girl Friday 1940 colorized (Cary Grant) 1940 · Feature A newspaper editor (Cary Grant) uses the temptation of a big story to keep his ace reporter ex-wife (Rosalind Russell) from leaving and getting married to a… Internet Archive Our Town (1940) William Holden 1940 · Feature For the residents of Grover's Corners, daily life proceeds at a predictable pace. The milkman (Stuart Erwin) arrives like clockwork, the neighbors perpetually… Internet Archive Charlie Chaplin's "The Cure" (1917) 1917 · Feature This gem is presented by Silent Hall of Fame. Please visit https://silent-hall-of-fame.org/ to support our non-profit mission and the legacy of silent movie… Internet Archive What a Wonderful World It Would Be 1965 · Film · Subtitles Great color - sitcom (drama?) about product reliability & job performance. Dog enters thru special door. Man & woman sleeping in bed. CU sleeping man. CU… Internet Archive Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer 1948 · Film · Subtitles "AN ANIMATED CARTOON FOR CHILDREN, TELLING THE STORY OF RUDOLPH, A SMALL REINDEER, WHOSE NOSE IS SO RED & SHINY THAT SANTA CLAUS SELECTS HIM TO BE HIS HEAD… Internet Archive Fontane Effi Brest (1974) 1974 · Feature In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost,… Internet Archive Ghost Walks - Weirdness Bad Movie Feature · 1 h 36 min · Subtitles Public Access TV show "Weirdness Really Bad Movie" hosts public domain movies and ads clean comedy sketches enjoyable for the whole family. Today's film is… Internet Archive Fireball XL5 - 1x01 - Planet 46 1962 · TV · Subtitles Fireball XL5 intercepts a planetomic missile sent to destroy Earth. On Planet 46 Steve and Venus are captured by the Subterrains –who promptly launch a second… Internet Archive Combat America (Part III) 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 Phantom Ranger 1938 · Feature · 52 min A Treasury Department engraver is being held captive by a counterfeiting gang that wants him to make counterfeit plates for them. A lawman is sent to rescue… Internet Archive Falling Hare 1943 · Cartoon · 8 min Title: Falling Hare Summary: Bugs encounters wartime sabotage and takes to the air to do battle. Directed by: Robert Clampett Actors: Production Company: Leon… Internet Archive The Show 1922 · Short · 21 min A harried propman (Larry Semon) backstage at a theater must put up with malfunctioning wind machines, roosters that spit nitroglycerine, and a gang planning… Internet Archive Science Fiction Theatre season 2 eps 1-13 (1956) colorized 1956 · Feature In this groundbreaking anthology series, host Truman Bradley introduces stories extrapolated from actual scientific data of the era. Episodes 1-13 of 39 in… Internet Archive Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter Feature Legendary outlaw of the Old West Jesse James, on the run from Marshal MacPhee, hides out in the castle of Baron Frankenstein's granddaughter Maria, who… Internet Archive Personal Hygiene (Part II) 1950 · Short · 17 min · Subtitles Military training drama showing how the residents of a barracks convince a sloppy soldier to clean up his act. With many folk songs on cleanliness. Internet Archive Ten Gentlemen from West Point 1942 colorized (George Montgomery) 1942 · Feature The West Point military academy, which trained officers for the American Revolutionary War, is re-established in the early 19th century on a trial basis,… Internet Archive The Unseen 1945 · Feature Title: The Unseen Summary: A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the… Internet Archive [Anatomy of a Murder Premiere Story] 1959 · Short · 2 min · Subtitles Promotional trailer showing premiere activities and publicity surrounding release of Otto Premingers film ANATOMY OF A MURDER (United Artists), which was… Internet Archive Passenger Train, The (Second Edition) 1955 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles A young boy travels from Chicago, Illinois to Lamy, New Mexico via passenger train. Internet Archive Escape to Paradise 1939 · Feature · 1 h You can find more information regarding this film on it's IMDB page. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031278/ Internet Archive Weird-O-Rama weird-cast #1: The Screaming Skull 2011 · Feature Victor Von Psychotron hosts "The Screaming Skull" from 1958. Weird-O-Rama is a horror host show from northern Indiana that features B-films, interviews with… Internet Archive The Sand Pebbles (1966) 1966 · Feature "The Sand Pebbles" is a 1966 American film directed by Robert Wise, based on the novel of the same name by Richard McKenna. It stars Steve McQueen, who plays… Internet Archive Barbers 1959 · Short · 13 min · Subtitles Shows the jobs of a hairstylist, a barber and a beautician and the transformations they bring about on an entire family. Internet Archive The Spider and the Butterfly 1909 · Short · 1 min The original French title for the print fragment is Le papillon fantastique . IMDb Page Internet Archive Shocker Internet Drive In - Week 16: A "Karloff Kristmas" Feature · 3 h 10 min · Subtitles Welcome Back! Well after a slight delay for some more much needed maintenance here at the good ole drive in, we are pleased to present a very special "Karloff… Internet Archive Early Settlers of New England (Salem 1626-1629) 1940 · Short · 10 min · Subtitles Dramatized impressions of the life of the pioneer settlers in a New England colony. Internet Archive Now or Never 1935 · Feature · 54 min Title: Now or Never Summary: A visitor to a big city gets involved in intrigue when a look-alike jewel thief sets out to doublecross his gang. Directed by:… Internet Archive "Camille" (1921) 1921 · Feature This gem is presented by Silent Hall of Fame. Please visit https://silent-hall-of-fame.org/ to support our non-profit mission and the legacy of silent movie… Internet Archive [Amateur films: Ivan Besse collection: Britton, South Dakota 1938-39] (Part X) 1938 · Home movie · 9 min · Subtitles Daily life in a South Dakota town during the Great Depression, shot by Ivan Besse. Internet Archive 20 Million Miles to Earth 1957 · Feature The first U.S. spaceship to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily on its return trip. A dangerous, lizard-like creature comes with it and quickly grows… Internet Archive High Tide 1947 colorized (Don Castle, Lee Tracy) 1947 · Feature Private detective Tim Slade (Don Castle) is hired by an old friend, newspaper editor Hugh Fresney (Lee Tracy), to protect him from a gangster (Anthony Warde),… Internet Archive Man from Headquarters Feature · 1 h 4 min · Subtitles A Monogram re-make of the 1935 Monogram movie, The Mystery Man (http://archive.org/details/Mystery_Man_1935) with different actors. A brash newspaper man is… Internet Archive Living Stereo 1958 · Short · 7 min · Subtitles Introducing stereophonic phonograph records. Internet Archive The Monkees complete series including head 1966 · TV thanks for 60,000 views feel free to check out my tiktok: tiktok.com/@mintymilke Internet Archive Them Twickenham Knights 2006 · Cartoon Rarely you see a Brickfilm where the actors really talk! Them Twickenham Knights do! They don't seem the brightest, but they're oh so cute. This is a joke for… Internet Archive Combat America (Part II) 1945 · Short · 13 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 Broadway Limited 1941 · Feature IMDB movie information A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited creates problems because of an unknown baby that was part of the stunt. Internet Archive [Kinograms Newsreel] 1925 · Newsreel · 6 min · Subtitles Typical newsreel from the silent era, featuring Jack Dempsey, a balloon race, women dancing in chilly breezes, a juggler, and opium being confiscated and… Internet Archive [Frigidaire Imperial Line] 1956 · Short · 20 min · Subtitles Promotional film for Frigidaire dealers showing features of the new Imperial Line of refrigerators. Internet Archive Fanny by Gaslight Feature “Pioneering, innovating film” “Very engrossing” “Part Dickens, part soap opera” “Entertaining” “Overblown Gainsborough gloop” (IMDB reviews quotes). Victorian… Internet Archive Why Vandalism? 1955 · Short · 16 min · Subtitles Life of a teenage outsider; what makes him that way and how his anger flares into violence. Internet Archive A Bridge Too Far (1977) 1977 · Feature A Bridge Too Far is a war film that dramatizes the ambitious Allied operation known as Operation Market Garden during World War II. The operation, devised by… Internet Archive Walk A Crooked Mile (1948, USA) Louis Hayward, Dennis O' Keefe - Film Noir Full Movie 1948 · Feature Walk a Crooked Mile is a 1948 anti-communist film noir crime film directed by Gordon Douglas and starring Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Raymond Burr.The film…