European Film Treasures

For a century, amateurs, collectors, and archives have gathered films that entered the public domain but exist today only by miracle...

Thanks to this collaborative effort by several European film archives & centers, the Europa Film Treasures aims at preserving in digital format a good part of the world's memory in picture – although it is probable that already 70% of the images shot during the first fifty years of cinema is definitively lost.

These videos are provided with free access and via streaming (cannot be downloaded) and cover all genres and time periods, starting in the late 1800's up to our days – thus creating a moving heritage of European cultural and political history.

Recently launched, the website will be regularly expanded with films, documents, interviews, references, and much more; also its interface will be provided in five languages. Along with works already in the public domain, Europa Film Treasures will also make available film cleared with the legal successors (when they have been identified) and depositaries.