Free Classic Movies
Full-length classic films you can watch free and legally, because they're in the public domain in the United States. Every one is checked before it goes up, and re-checked every week.
White Zombie
1932 · Horror · 67 min
Reefer Madness
1936 · Drama · 68 min
His Girl Friday
1940 · Comedy · 92 min
The Stranger
1946 · Film noir · 95 min
D.O.A.
1949 · Film noir · 83 min
The Little Shop of Horrors
1960 · Comedy · 72 min
Carnival of Souls
1962 · Horror · 83 min
Night of the Living Dead
1968 · Horror · 96 minComing soon
Every 1 January, another year of films enters the US public domain. These go up the day they're free:
- Dracula (1931): free in the US from 1 January 2027
- Frankenstein (1931): free in the US from 1 January 2027
How we make sure every film is free to show
- Old enough, or properly lapsed. Films first published in the US 1930 or earlier are out of copyright by age (95-year term). Newer films only qualify if they are American and their copyright lapsed for a missing notice or renewal, and we cite where that's recorded.
- The story has to be free too. If a film is based on a book, play or song that someone still owns, we don't show it, even if the film itself lapsed.
- The plain original only. No restored, colourised, re-scored or narrated versions: those can carry new copyright of their own.
- US visitors only. Public domain rules differ by country, so the player only starts in the United States.
- Checked every week against Wikidata, Wikipedia's list of US public domain films and the Internet Archive copy we play.
Think we've got one wrong, or own rights in a film here? Email hello@movietrailer.channel. We take the film down while we look into it.