Watch free movies online

Martin Brinkmann
Oct 27, 2005
Updated • Apr 28, 2013
Music and Video, Video
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I thought this would be of interest to some of you. Watchfilms are offering more than 300 movies on their website that you can watch for free.

The movies are divided into six categories: Movies, Cartoons, Documentaries, Newsreels, Commercials and Short Films. Most films are black and white movies from 1930-1950 that belong to the public domain.

Among the movies are some classics like Meet John Doe with Gary Cooper or West of the Divide with John Wayne.

The cartoons are from the same time period but mainly in color, you can watch Popeye and Caspar ones for example.

I surely recommend this site for people who like films from this time period and also to people who maybe have not had much contact with it. Try it out, its worth your time ;)

Update: Watch Films is no longer available. The majority of sites that you find promise online movies are of questionable nature. You can check YouTube's Movies category for some older or specialized movies that you can watch online.

It is rather interesting that most movies are viewable by users from all over the world. The movies offered on the movies page are however all in English, which could be a issue for some users. The movies page offers classic movies, including The Phantom of the Opera, The Young in Heart or Boot Hill with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill.

Another great resource is The community video archive over at Archive.org that links to "open source" movies. Movies are available in language collections, with the English community movies collection the biggest by far. Not everything listed here is a movie on the other hand, which feels strange. If you dig deep enough, you will find some great documentaries and movies listed here as well.

The third and last resource is Wikipedia's list of Open Source film. Listed are a good dozen movies with links to a web page where the movie can be watched or downloaded.

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  1. ilev said on July 27, 2012 at 5:42 pm
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    Beware of http://loginhelper.com/web-browser-maintenance/

    WOT warning.

    Warning: Keep out. IP/Hostname/Website created in order to perpetrate fraudolent activities against users. For any question, reference to this user: http://www.mywot.com/user/915771.

    Fraudolent activity detected: Phishing-Activity “

  2. Fine citizen said on July 27, 2012 at 10:17 pm
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    hehe, I saw 1100hp Ford GT with a cute blonde video :p

  3. ilev said on July 28, 2012 at 5:46 am
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    “the excellent Web Browser Maintenance” ?

    It is a malware site flagged by WOT.

    1. Martin Brinkmann said on July 28, 2012 at 9:10 am
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      Well since it is my site I’m pretty sure it is not a malware site.

      1. ilev said on July 28, 2012 at 9:59 am
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        Martin,

        Nevertheless WOT flags it.

        Maybe you should take action with WOT.

        Warning: Keep out. IP/Hostname/Website created in order to perpetrate fraudolent activities against users. For any question, reference to this user: http://www.mywot.com/user/915771.

        Fraudolent activity detected: Phishing-Activity ”

        http://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/loginhelper.com?utm_source=addon&utm_content=warn-viewsc

      2. ilev said on July 28, 2012 at 10:00 am
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        Martin,

        Nevertheless WOT flags it.

        Maybe you should take action with WOT.

        Warning: Keep out. IP/Hostname/Website created in order to perpetrate fraudolent activities against users. For any question, reference to this user: http://www.mywot.com/user/915771.

        Fraudolent activity detected: Phishing-Activity “

      3. Martin Brinkmann said on July 28, 2012 at 10:49 am
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        Those are untrue I have requested a review.

  4. James said on December 31, 2012 at 8:37 pm
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    Martin,

    I tried this out and while I appreciate the sleek and intuitive design, I think YouTube needs to pick a theme and stick with it. I love having distinct categories tucked away at different corners, so this looks a bit disorganized for me. Do you know of any Userscript I can use to revert my YouTube homepage back to classic view?

    Best,
    James

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