Public Domain Movies & Documentaries
The movies and documentaries listed on this page have been verified to be in public domain or otherwise free for you to watch and download.
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- 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
Public Domain & Creative Commons Documentaries
- American Dictators (2004)
- Century of the Self, The (2002) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4)
- Corporation, The (2003)
- Loose Change 2nd Edition (Recut) (2006)
- Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress, The (1944)
- Money Masters, The (1995)
- Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear, The (2004) (Part 2) (Part 3)
Free to watch
- Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000)
- ENDGAME: Blueprint For Global Enslavement (2007)
- Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
- Police State 3: Total Enslavement
- TerrorStorm (2006)
- UFO - The Greatest Story Ever Denied (2006)
- Zeitgeist (2007)
Most of the 9/11 Documentaries are also free.