Public domain
Films
The Cabinet of
Dr. Caligari
Night of the Living Dead
The Hunchback
of notre dame
D.O.A.
malice in the
Palace
Metropolis
Nosfuratu
Carnival of Souls
Please
Murder Me
Popeye the sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor
Steamboat
WillIE
Lights of
New York
His Girl
Firday
the last man on earth
The Great
Train Robbery
Charade
Scarlet
Street
The Man
Who Laughs
Of Human Bondage
Reefer Madness
Nothing Sacred
Blood on the Sun
The Bat
Screaming Skull
How are we able to host these films on our site?
It's simple. The Public Domain.
Public Domain refers to any creative work that doesn’t have any intellectual property rights applied to it. The rights may have been waived, forfeited, expired, or inapplicable from the beginning of its existence.
In the United States, any motion pictures made and featured before 1925 are permanently within the public domain. Current public domain laws state that any new films have copyrights for 95 years. This means movies released in 1925 enter the public domain in 2021.
The public domain also relates to works that came out before copyright laws were a thing. Therefore, the works of William Shakespeare, Charles Dickens, and Jane Austen are in the public domain. This allows filmmakers to adapt their works to the screen.
FREE RESOURCES*
Videos/Images:
https://www.loc.gov/free-to-use/
https://www.pexels.com/public-domain-images/
AUDIO:
https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk
*The Public Domain benefits you!
The Public Domain consists of FREE TO USE content!
Listed here is a catalog of sites where you can find royalty-free content to support your filmmaking.
Each website has its own licensing rules and means of cataloging media. Please read carefully before using any content in your project!