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It’s easy to find movies to download or stream illegally, but there’s no need to any more. If you can’t find anything good on Netflix or Hulu, there are thousands of great free or public domain films to enjoy. Here are some great sites to bookmark and visit when you want something new to watch.

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Many films are available on multiple free services at once, so if your movie has too many commercial interruptions or a low resolution, search for it on another service.

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Kanopy and Hoopla

The streaming services Kanopy and Hoopla both have a large selection of high-quality movies—Kanopy carries the Criterion Collection—but they’re only available if your local library system has a subscription. (The New York and Brooklyn library systems recently dropped Kanopy due to high license prices.) Check on either site to see if your local system carries them.

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PBS

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While many titles are restricted to paying members, some of PBS’s online selection (taken from its TV programming) is available free online, including a series of film school shorts. You might remember sitting down to ad-free shows on your local PBS station, but you’ll have to watch some short commercials before the free TV episodes and short films here.

Tubi

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Free streaming site Tubi offers movies (and some TV shows) from several major studios with minimal (sometimes zero) advertising. The catch is that—judging by a spot-check—desktop streaming is limited to SD resolutions.

The wide range of titles includes What Dreams May Come, Harold and Maude, Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, Heathers, Up in Smoke, Chef, Bad Santa, and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. There are several genre lists to help you browse the large catalog, and there’s even a dedicated section called “Not on Netflix.” Tubi is available for desktop and most major streaming devices.

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MoviesFoundOnline

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MoviesFoundOnline collects free films, independent films, stand-up comedy, TV shows, and other media freely available around the web. From full films to indie TV series to classic film, you can browse the site’s categories across the top—like short films, documentaries, viral videos, or comedy to name a few—to find something you’re interested in specifically. Once you get past some nasty pop-up ads, highlights are as varied as Gone With the Wind, 6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park, Starship Troopers, Shadow of Mordor, and Face/Off.

It’s worth pointing out that since MoviesFoundOnline doesn’t upload or host the media themselves, some of it may wind up vanishing if there’s a copyright claim, but they do host a lot of great, freely available, and difficult to find movies and TV recordings that would otherwise fall by the wayside of time.

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Vudu

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Paid streaming service Vudu has a free section, with an assortment of recognizable movies floating among less familiar titles. You’ll need to sign up for a free account (no credit card needed) and sit through some ads, and some movies are only available in SD. But in return you can see over 4,500 movies for free on your computer, phone, or streaming device.

Current popular titles (mostly concentrated on the 80s and 90s, where the rights have gotten cheaper) include Shakespeare in Love, Batman, This Is Spinal Tap, Multiplicity, Clerks, The Boondock Saints, Little Giants, Paddington, and District 9.

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IMDb TV

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Many free streaming services are packed with movies you’ve never heard of, so you need to sift through them or find the “Most Popular” section to get to the good stuff. But IMDb TV, a free portal for watching TV and movies, focuses on recognizable titles. You’ll have to make a free IMDb account and watch occasional ads, though these include inoffensive remnant ads for other Amazon products.

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IMDb TV is available on desktop, Amazon Fire TV devices, and streaming devices with the Prime Video app. Current titles include Memento, Donnie Darko, Funny Girl, The Cable Guy, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Moon, La La Land, A Knight’s Tale, My Girl, Jerry Maguire, and The NeverEnding Story.

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Public Domain Torrents

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If you’d rather download than stream, Public Domain Torrents is the place to go. As you’d expect, a number of the available films are pretty old, but many are cinematic classics, and they’re all completely free to download.

Best of all, many of the films here are available in versions optimized or encoded for specific mobile devices. Or you can grab the highest quality download and do the encoding yourself.

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TopDocumentaryFilms

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TopDocumentaryFilms has tons of documentaries broken up by category, from war and global conflict and crime to health and environment, and so on. It’s a little easier to navigate, and the site has a community of users who provide ratings for each film and can comment on them so you have an idea of what you’re in for before you watch. If you’d like a starting point, check out their top 100 documentary list to see what people are watching, or check the front page for their featured films.

They’re more of an aggregator than a host, and their content is pulled from YouTube, Vimeo, and other sources, but that makes them a convenient one-stop shop for what you want to see.

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Classic Cinema Online

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If the name doesn’t give it away immediately, Classic Cinema Online is ideal for those classic movie buffs who love the era of black and white films and artistically painted movie posters. Highlights include The Bridge on the River Kwai, The Thin Man, Reefer Madness, and Heidi.

If you’re looking for something specific, you can sort by category using the menu in the upper right, check out the serials available, or just check out the old, super classic silent films from the menu up there too. If you love old movies from the Golden Age of Hollywood, this site is for you. And if you prefer old-time television, check out its sister site Classic Television Online.

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PopcornFlix

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With thousands of free TV shows and movies, and names and titles you’ll probably recognize, PopcornFlix is owned and operated by Screen Media Ventures, an independent distributor of TV shows and media to the television market—which means they have access and rights to tons of shows. The service prides itself on the fact that none of its programs or movies are more than two clicks away, and they’re all completely free to watch on your computer, or through their mobile apps or other supported devices.

Popular movies on PopcornFlix include American Beauty, Wrath of Khan, Mouse Hunt, Chinatown, Ordinary People, Wonder Boys, Night of the Living Dead, The Virgin Suicides, and Clue.

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Crackle

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Owned by Sony (which is why there’s so much to watch), Crackle is often overlooked when people discuss free streaming media on the web, but it’s present on a number of mobile devices and set-top boxes. You do have to sign up for an account, but once you do you can create a watchlist, get recommendations on what to watch based on the things you like, and browse the full library of TV shows and movies, including the films Adaptation, Bottle Rocket, The Craft, Drive, Fight Club, Julie & Julia, and Stand By Me, and TV series like Bewitched, The Critic, Just Shoot Me!, and NewsRadio. There are also fun B movies like Boa vs. Python.

That’s part of the beauty of Crackle: You’ll absolutely find movies you’ve heard of, shows you actually want to watch, and more, and it’s all free—as long as you’re willing to watch occasional commercials.

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Vimeo

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Vimeo is most certainly second to YouTube when it comes to size and popularity, but it’s still a great video upload service for short film and independent filmmakers, and for people who want the freedom and flexibility of a mobile-friendly, HD-capable upload service with great privacy and video management controls and an upbeat community of users.

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For those folks just looking for something great to watch, Vimeo’s Staff Picks is full of gems that run the gamut from drama to documentary to science fiction and back again. Best of all, you can either grab the Vimeo mobile apps to take your movies with you, or stream Vimeo films directly to your TV through your Chromecast, Roku, Xbox, Amazon Fire, or Apple TV.

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YouTube

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No list of free TV shows and movies would be complete without YouTube, and not because of the sheer volume of ripped and pirated media available there. In fact, YouTube is home to a ton of freely-published movies and TV shows, many of which are YouTube originals, and others that are available via Creative Commons or shared in the public domain. YouTube collects free feature films inside its Movies section, including Hackers, Dances With Wolves, Meatballs, UHF, and The Blair Witch Project.

Many YouTube originals have vanished behind the paid curtain of YouTube Red, but there are still plenty to be found, and lots of entertaining shows and movies. For example, the Daily Dot lists 45 free classic films, and the Full Movies on YouTube subreddit lists new free movies every day.

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The Internet Archive

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The Internet Archive is a repository for all sorts of things, and while you probably know it for the ever-useful Wayback Machine, it’s also great for public domain films, independent media, TV broadcasts and newsreels, and other media that you’re free to use and remix on your own as well as sit back and enjoy for yourself.

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There are plenty of movies, organized by category like sci-fi, horror, or film noir, but also art films, educational videos and films, special collections that were made available to the Internet Archive for posterity, documentaries, and even stock footage. It’s not the most easily browse-able, or organized for non-computer screens, and good luck getting that video on a bigger screen unless you download it first, but it’s certainly a treasure trove.

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Popular titles include Plan 9 From Outer Space, Gulliver’s Travels, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Carnival of Souls, several Charlie Chaplin films, and Sex Madness.

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This story was originally published on 07/02/16 and was updated on 7/23/19 to provide more thorough and current information.

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