Public domain

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Public domain movies

• Abraham Lincoln (1930)
• Africa Screams (1949)
• Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss, The (1936)
• Andalusian Dog, The (Un chien andalou) (1929)
• Ape, The (1940)
• Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
• Bat, The (1959)
• Battle of Midway (1942)
• Battleship Potemkin (1925)
• Beast Of Yucca Flats, The (1961)
• Birth of a Nation, The (1915)
• Black Dragons (1942)
• Bluebeard (1944)
• Brain That Wouldn't Die, The (1962)
• British Intelligence (1940)
• Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (1920)
• Carnival of Souls (1962)
• Carter's Army (1970)
• Charlie Chaplin Festival, The (1938)
• Corpse Vanishes, The (1942)
• Dementia 13 (1963)
• Detour (1945)
• Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules (1964)
• Dick Tracy (1945)
• Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)
• Disorder in the Court (1936)
• D.O.A. (1950)
• Driller Killer, Thee (1979)
• Giant Gila Monster, Thee (1959)
• Gold Rush, The (1925)
• Golem, The (1920)
• Great Train Robbery, The (1903)
• Gulliver's Travels (1939)
• Gunsmoke Ranch (1937)
• Hell Town (1937)
• Hercules vs. the Moon Men (1964)
• His Girl Friday (1940)
• Horror Hotel (1960)
• Horrors of Spider Island (1960)
• House on Haunted Hill (1959)
• Image of Bruce Lee (1978)
• Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) (Part 2) (Part 3)
• Invisible Ghost (1941)
• Iron Mask, The (1929)
• Jigsaw (1949)
• Kid, The (1921)
• Killers from Space (1954)
• L'âge D'or (1930)
• Last Man on Earth, The (1964)
• Little Shop of Horrors, The (1960)
• Long John Silver (1954)
• M (1931)
• Machine Gun Mama (1944)
• Mad Monster, The (1942)
• Man Who Knew Too Much, The (1934)
• McLintock! (1963)
• Meet John Doe (1941)
• Mutiny (1952)
• My Pal Trigger (1946)
• Mystery of the Leaping Fish, The (1916)
• Nazty Nuisance (1943)
• New Adventures of Tarzan, The (1935)
• Night in the Show, A (1915)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Nosferatu (1922)
• One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
• Outlaw, The (1943)
• Phantom of the Opera, The (1925)
• Rashômon (1950)
• Reefer Madness (1936)
• Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
• Romance sentimentale (1930)
• Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
• Scarlet Street (1945)
• Secret Agent (1936)
• Sex Madness (1938)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (1943)
• Sherlock Holmes and the Woman in Green (1945)
• Show Off, The (1926)
• Snow Creature, The (1954)
• So's Your Aunt Emma (1942)
• Street Fighter, The (1974)
• Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
• Terror, The (1963)
• They Call Me Trinity (1970)
• Things to Come (1936)
• Third Man, Thee (1949)
• Topper Returns (1941)
• Tormented (1960)
• Trip to the Moon, A (1902)
• Vampire Bat, The (1933)
• Virus (1980)
• Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women (1968)
• War of the Planets (1977)
• Wasp Woman, The (1960)
• Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory (1962)
• White Zombie (1932)
• World Gone Mad, The (1933)

Creative Commons & Watch freely

• Four Eyed Monsters (2005)
• Prey Alone (2005)
• Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005)
• Validation (2007)

Public Domain & Creative Commons Documentaries

• Aftermath: The Remnants of War (2001)
• Agony of Jimmy Quinlan, The (1978)
• American Dictators (2004)
• Carts of Darkness (2008)
• Century of the Self, The (2002) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
• Corporation, The (2003)
• Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000)
• ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement (2007)
• Loose Change 2nd Edition (Recut) (2006)
• Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, The (1944)
• Money Masters, The (1995)
• Obama Deception, The (2009)
• Police State 3: Total Enslavement
• Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, The (2004) (Part 2) (Part 3)
• TerrorStorm (2006)
• UFO - The Greatest Story Ever Denied (2006)
• Zeitgeist (2007)
• Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

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