Piper
A baby sandpiper learns to face the waves. Six minutes, no words, and one of the most loved shorts ever made.
Hosted on YouTube · Pixar, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
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Free videos to watch, and free video clips to download and use in your own projects. The watching shelves are hand picked and hosted on YouTube, free forever. No account. No paywall. We host nothing ourselves: YouTube does the hosting, we do the choosing.
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First time? Start with Piper, six perfect minutes.
First time? Start with Piper, six perfect minutes.
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Make, do not just watch
Free video assets for your own projects
The shelves below are for watching. These sites are for making: download the clips, drop them into your own films, websites, ads and school projects, and build something. Most are free for commercial use with no credit needed. Two honest rules that cover almost everything: never resell a clip as-is, and always glance at the license on the exact clip you grab, because terms can differ clip by clip.
Pexels Videos
The giant one. A huge community library of HD and 4K clips on every subject, from drone flights to coffee pours, with strong filters for vertical video and resolution.
Free for personal and commercial use. No credit needed. Just do not resell a clip as-is.
Get free clips ›Pixabay Videos
Over 100,000 free clips, plus free music and sound effects in the same place. The depth champ: if a subject exists, somebody filmed it and put it here.
Free for commercial use under the Pixabay Content License. No credit needed.
Get free clips ›Mixkit
Envato's free shelf. A smaller, carefully picked set of clips that feels less like stock and more like film, plus free music, sound effects and templates.
Free for commercial use, no credit needed. Check each clip: a few carry a restricted, personal use only license.
Get free clips ›Coverr
Clean, pretty footage made for website backgrounds and lifestyle stories. A small library with a high hit rate, and the real footage is labeled apart from AI clips.
Free for commercial and non-commercial use. No credit needed. One firm rule: not for training AI.
Get free clips ›Videvo, now on Freepik
Hundreds of thousands of clips and motion graphics from the Videvo community, now living inside Freepik Video. Strong on motion graphics and effects shots.
Free clips ask for a credit line to the maker. Read the license badge on each clip before you download.
Get free clips ›Videezy
HD and 4K footage with a lot of drone, nature and timelapse work you will not find on the bigger sites.
Free clips ask for a credit to Videezy, and some free clips carry a watermark. The Pro tier removes both.
Get free clips ›Life of Vids
Short, beautiful clips and loops from filmmakers in Montreal, released to everyone with no copyright restrictions at all.
Free to use however you like, no restrictions, no credit needed.
Get free clips ›Dareful
Cinematic 4K nature and adventure footage: mountains, oceans, deserts and storms, shot to be stared at.
Free under Creative Commons. Just give a credit where you use it.
Get free clips ›Internet Archive
The deep vault. Millions of films and footage files you can download outright, including the Prelinger collection of old ads, newsreels and educational films, a goldmine for remixes.
Mostly public domain and openly licensed. Licenses vary film by film, so check the one on each page.
Get free clips ›New: from our own studio
Open source films and free clips
Watching is only half of it. We are open sourcing our own films, the way Blender did: not just the finished video, but the script, the scene clips and the narration too, so anyone can dub, re-edit, rescore or restage them. Everything here is CC BY 4.0: free for any project, commercial included, just credit The Studio. This collection now has its own home: OS Video, open source video for the whole world, with the full Blender catalog and Sita Sings the Blues to download.
Biscuit: From Stray Dog to Superhero
A lonely stray dog discovers his superpower, and it is not speed or strength. This is our first fully open film: the finished movie, the complete production script with character design and camera angles, the six scene clips on their own, the narration lines and voice takes, and even the prompts used to generate each scene.
Make it yours: dub the narration into your language, rescore the scenes with free music from CLR Music, re-edit the story, or film the script live with real actors. Then show us what you made in the Discord.
Credit line: “Biscuit by The Studio (thestudio.io), CC BY 4.0”
Clip Pack 01: characters and music loops
Six short clips from our own productions, free to drop into your videos, edits, streams and posts. Same license, same credit line: “Studio Open clips by The Studio (thestudio.io), CC BY 4.0”.
Sally's First Day
Sally arrives, animated character moment from her first day film.
720x1280 vertical · 4 sec · MP4 · 5.7 MB
Download the clip ›Chadwick Blaze Intro
Chadwick Blaze makes his entrance. Pure character energy for edits and intros.
720x1280 vertical · 5 sec · MP4 · 6.2 MB
Download the clip ›Sally: I Am Strong Loop
Sally on the rooftop, the I Am Strong loop. Made to be looped behind lyrics or quotes.
1080x1920 vertical · 3 sec · MP4 · 2.3 MB
Download the clip ›Find Your Island Loop
The Find Your Island music visual loop from Dlaney's song. Warm, slow, endlessly loopable.
1080x1920 vertical · 8 sec · MP4 · 5.6 MB
Download the clip ›Lead Me Lord Loop
The Lead Me Lord music visual loop. Piano, light, and room to breathe.
1080x1920 vertical · 8 sec · MP4 · 4.0 MB
Download the clip ›Jah Vibez: Find Your Island
Jah Vibez brings the island to life in a wide shot clip, the landscape one in the pack.
1280x720 wide · 4 sec · MP4 · 8.8 MB
Download the clip ›Shelf one · 8 videos
Animated masterpieces
The short films that taught a whole generation how to tell a story with no dialogue and a perfect ending. Start here if you only have ten minutes.
For the Birds
Fifteen snooty birds, one big goofy newcomer, and a lesson in karma that lands in three perfect minutes.
Hosted on YouTube · Pixar, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Paperman
A paper plane carries a love story across old New York. Black and white, hand drawn meets computer, pure charm.
Hosted on YouTube · Disney Animation, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Bao
A mother, a dumpling that comes to life, and the truest eight minutes ever filmed about letting your kids grow up.
Hosted on YouTube · Pixar, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Kitbull
A stray kitten and a pit bull in San Francisco. Hand drawn, heartbreaking and hopeful in equal measure.
Hosted on YouTube · Pixar SparkShorts, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Geri's Game
An old man plays chess against himself in the park, and somehow it becomes a thriller. The short that proved computers could act.
Hosted on YouTube · Pixar, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Feast
A love story told entirely through what a dog eats. You will feel feelings about French fries.
Hosted on YouTube · Disney Animation, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Presto
A stage magician, his hungry rabbit, and a magic hat feud that plays like the best silent comedy ever animated.
Hosted on YouTube · Pixar, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Shelf two · 5 videos
Open movies: free to watch, free to own
The Blender open movies are the proof an open studio works: made with free tools, released under Creative Commons, and shared with their production files. Steamboat Willie joins them as the grandparent of them all, now public domain.
Big Buck Bunny
A gentle giant bunny takes comic revenge on three bullying rodents. The film that proved a free, open production could look like a studio picture.
Hosted on YouTube · Blender · Open on YouTube
Tears of Steel
Robots attack Amsterdam, and the only hope is a forty year old heartbreak. Live action and effects, made openly by the Blender Institute.
Hosted on YouTube · Blender · Open on YouTube
Spring
A shepherd girl and her dog wake the ancient spirits of the mountains. Poetic, wordless, and quietly stunning.
Hosted on YouTube · Blender Studio · Open on YouTube
Agent 327: Operation Barbershop
A secret agent walks into a barbershop and everything escalates. Four minutes of spy spoof polish from Blender Studio.
Hosted on YouTube · Blender Studio · Open on YouTube
Steamboat Willie
The cartoon that started an empire, whistling mouse and all. Yours now, free forever, as it should be.
Hosted on YouTube · Public domain classic, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Shelf three · 6 videos
Classic features, free forever
Full length masterpieces that belong to everyone now: public domain greats and free official releases, restored and ready for movie night.
Charade
Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in Paris, chasing a stolen fortune and each other. The best Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made, presented free by FilmRise.
Hosted on YouTube · FilmRise Movies · Open on YouTube
His Girl Friday
Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell trade the fastest dialogue in film history in Howard Hawks' newsroom comedy. Blink and you miss a joke.
Hosted on YouTube · Classic feature, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Metropolis (2001 Restored Edition)
Fritz Lang's city of towers and workers invented science fiction cinema. This is the restored authorized edition, the one to watch.
Hosted on YouTube · The Cinema Cellar · Open on YouTube
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Count Orlok is still the scariest vampire ever filmed, a century later. This 4K edition carries a fresh restoration and score.
Hosted on YouTube · Midnight's Edge, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Night of the Living Dead
George Romero invents the modern zombie film in one farmhouse, in one night, for almost no money. Independent cinema starts here.
Hosted on YouTube · Public domain classic, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
The Cameraman
Keaton tries to become a newsreel cameraman to impress a girl, and silent comedy reaches one of its highest peaks.
Hosted on YouTube · Silent classic, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Shelf four · 5 videos
Silent comedy gold: Buster Keaton
The Great Stone Face. Keaton did his own stunts, built gags like engineering problems, and is still funnier than almost anyone alive. Watch one and you will watch them all.
Our Hospitality
Keaton rides a hilariously early train into a family feud, and turns Southern hospitality rules into gag machinery.
Hosted on YouTube · Silent classic, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
College
Keaton is a bookish freshman who tries every sport at once to win his girl. The finale is one of the greatest athletic sequences ever filmed.
Hosted on YouTube · Silent Hall of Fame · Open on YouTube
The Railrodder
At 69, Keaton crosses all of Canada on a rail speeder without saying a word, cooking breakfast at speed. From the National Film Board of Canada.
Hosted on YouTube · NFB classic, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Neighbors
Two tenement lovers, feuding families, and a fence between them. Early Keaton, already a genius of ladders and laundry lines.
Hosted on YouTube · Silent classic, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
The Playhouse
Keaton plays nearly everyone in a theater: the whole orchestra, the audience, the act. A special effects marvel from 1921.
Hosted on YouTube · Silent classic, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Shelf five · 6 videos
Wonder: nature, Earth and space
Long, beautiful watches from BBC Earth and the Eames Office, plus Earth itself, live from the space station. Put these on the biggest screen you have.
Powers of Ten
From a Chicago picnic to the edge of the universe and back into a single atom. The Eames Office film that rewired how everyone sees scale.
Hosted on YouTube · Eames Office · Open on YouTube
4 Hours of Remarkable Wildlife
David Attenborough narrates four hours of the finest nature filming ever gathered, from the land walking octopus to the deep sea light shows.
Hosted on YouTube · BBC Earth · Open on YouTube
4 Hours of Spectacular Nature Scenes
Marine iguanas outrun snakes, fish glow in the dark ocean, and the planet shows off for four straight hours in 4K.
Hosted on YouTube · BBC Earth · Open on YouTube
Two Hours of Nature's Majestic Creatures
Two hours with Attenborough among sword billed hummingbirds, drifting jellyfish and other beautiful professionals of survival.
Hosted on YouTube · BBC Earth · Open on YouTube
The Hidden Worlds of the South Pacific Islands
Albatrosses that steal from fishermen and a parrot too heavy to fly: island evolution at its strangest and sweetest.
Hosted on YouTube · BBC Earth · Open on YouTube
Planet Earth from the ISS, Live
Earth turning below the International Space Station, streaming live around the clock. The original slow TV, from orbit.
Hosted on YouTube · Live from the ISS, via YouTube · Open on YouTube
Shelf six · 4 videos
Live music: the Tiny Desk shelf
NPR Tiny Desk concerts are the best free live music on the internet: great bands, one tiny room, no hiding. Four of the finest sessions ever recorded there.
Moon Hooch: Tiny Desk Concert
Two saxophones and a drummer, described by the man whose desk it is as one of his favorite concerts ever. Cave music: jazz, dance and rock at full throttle.
Hosted on YouTube · NPR Music · Open on YouTube
Anderson .Paak and The Free Nationals: Tiny Desk
The set that announced a star: drums, keys and joy, played from behind the kit by a singer who cannot sit still.
Hosted on YouTube · NPR Music · Open on YouTube
They Might Be Giants: Tiny Desk Concert
Two Johns, one accordion, thirty years of the catchiest oddball songs in America, squeezed behind a desk.
Hosted on YouTube · NPR Music · Open on YouTube
The Internet: Tiny Desk Concert
Syd and company glide through a silky, unhurried set. The sound of a band completely sure of itself.
Hosted on YouTube · NPR Music · Open on YouTube
Shelf seven · 1 video, plus the path onward
Learn filmmaking by watching
One great lesson beats a hundred tutorials. Watch this first, then take the free Your First Film course at Starvard and make your own.
Jackie Chan: How to Do Action Comedy
The single best free film lesson on the internet: Tony Zhou takes apart Jackie Chan's action comedy and shows you the nine principles that make it work. Watch this, then watch any Keaton film on the comedy shelf and see the same rules at work.
Take Your First Film, free The 10 best short films, studied ›From our own studio · 1 video
And one of ours
This library exists because we make films too. Here is our first hello, and the door from watching to making.
Meet Sally
Our own first hello: Sally welcomes you to E2, straight to camera. When you are ready to stop watching and start making, this is the door.
Get your first dollar All our films ›How this library works
Free, honest, and hosted by YouTube.
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Hosted on YouTube
Every video streams from YouTube, where its maker or rights holder put it. We host no video files at all, so the library stays fast and the creators keep their views and their channel.
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Picked by humans
No algorithm dumps. Each title earned its shelf: a masterpiece, a classic that belongs to everyone, an open movie shared on purpose, or a concert people return to for years. Every link was checked by hand on October 25, 2026.
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Free means free
Public domain films, Creative Commons open movies, and official free releases. If a video ever goes private or a link rots, tell us in the Discord and we will swap in another great one.
Honest scoreboard: 36 videos today. The goal is 1,000, added shelf by shelf, only when each one deserves it. Quality first, count second, exactly like everything else we build.
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