{"id":13393,"date":"2011-02-13T23:42:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T07:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openculture.com"},"modified":"2026-01-13T10:16:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:16:59","slug":"freemoviesonline","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/freemoviesonline","title":{"rendered":"4,000+ Free Movies Online: Great Classics, Indies, Noir, Westerns, Documentaries &amp; More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch 4,000+ movies free online. Includes clas\u00adsics, indies, film noir, doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries and oth\u00ader films, cre\u00adat\u00aded by some of our great\u00adest actors, actress\u00ades and direc\u00adtors. The col\u00adlec\u00adtion is divid\u00aded into the fol\u00adlow\u00ading cat\u00ade\u00adgories: Com\u00ade\u00addy &amp; Dra\u00adma;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free_film_noir_movies\/\"><i> Film Noir<\/i><\/a><i>, Hor\u00adror &amp; <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free_hitchcock_movies_online\/\"><i>Hitch\u00adcock<\/i><\/a><i>; West\u00aderns (many with <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/01\/john_wayne_25_free_western_films_online.html\"><i>John Wayne<\/i><\/a><i>); <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free-kung-fu-martial-arts-movies-online\">Mar\u00adtial Arts Movies<\/a>;&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free-silent-films\/\"><i>Silent Films<\/i><\/a><i>; <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free-documentaries-online\/\"><i>Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries<\/i><\/a><i>, and Ani\u00adma\u00adtion<\/i>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"Drama\" class=\"curatedcategory\">\n<h2><a href=\"#Drama\">Free Comedy &amp; Dramas<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Watch Hun\u00addreds of Free Movies on YouTube<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2023\/01\/watch-hundreds-of-free-movies-on-youtube.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 On YouTube, you can watch hun\u00addreds of free films. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2023\/01\/watch-hundreds-of-free-movies-on-youtube.html\">This page<\/a> pro\u00advides an overview of the YouTube chan\u00adnels that let you watch free films.<\/li>\n<li><strong>125 Kore\u00adan Fea\u00adture Films<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/12\/a_wealth_of_20th-century_korean_cinema_free_online_from_the_korean_film_archive.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Kore\u00adan Film Archive has put on YouTube over 100 Kore\u00adan fea\u00adture films, includ\u00ading Im Kwon-taek\u2019s <em>Sopy\u00adon\u00adje <\/em>and Hong Sang\u00adsoo\u2019s&nbsp;<em>The Day the Pig Fell Into a Well. <\/em>A bonan\u00adza for fans of Kore\u00adan film.<\/li>\n<li><strong>70 Movies in HD from Famed Russ\u00adian Stu\u00addio Mos\u00adfilm<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/03\/watch-70-movies-in-hd-from-famed-russian-studio-mosfilm-classic-films-beloved-comedies-tarkovsky-kurosawa-more.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Includes films by Tarkovsky, Eisen\u00adstein and Kuro\u00adsawa. These all appear on Mos\u00adfilm\u2019s offi\u00adcial YouTube chan\u00adnel.<\/li>\n<li><strong>3,000 Free Films from the Nation\u00adal Film Board of Cana\u00adda<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/03\/watch-3000-films-free-from-the-national-film-board-of-canada-2.html\">Free<\/a> \u2013 The Nation\u00adal Film Board of Cana\u00adda has put online thou\u00adsands of films across all gen\u00adres of film. Get <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/03\/watch-3000-films-free-from-the-national-film-board-of-canada-2.html\">an overview here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Farewell to Arms<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/a-farewell-to-arms-with-helen-hayes-gary-cooper-the-oscar-winning-1932-film\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Gary Coop\u00ader and Helen Hayes star in a film based on famous <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1TgCt83\">nov\u00adel by Ernest Hem\u00ading\u00adway<\/a>. (1932)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Hunt\u00ading Acci\u00addent<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IQhBo9Pz0rw&amp;list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1TgayrpaB-SEVJhHC58U1wU&amp;index=37\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Sovi\u00adet roman\u00adtic dra\u00adma direct\u00aded by Emil Loteanu, adapt\u00aded from Anton Chekhov\u2019s \u201cThe Shoot\u00ading Par\u00adty.\u201d It was entered into the 1978 Cannes Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval. Click \u201cCC\u201d for titles. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><b>A Mat\u00adter of Life and Death<\/b>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Lbines-RetroVisionTheaterPresentsAMatterOfLifeAndDeath502\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Roman\u00adtic fan\u00adta\u00adsy film cre\u00adat\u00aded by the British writ\u00ading-direct\u00ading-pro\u00adduc\u00ading team of Michael Pow\u00adell and Emer\u00adic Press\u00adburg\u00ader, and set in Eng\u00adland dur\u00ading the Sec\u00adond World War. It stars David Niv\u00aden, Roger Livesey, Kim Hunter, Mar\u00adius Gor\u00ading and Ray\u00admond Massey.&nbsp;(1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Song of Love<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/jean-genets-a-song-of-love.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The only film by play\u00adwright Jean Genet. The erot\u00adic film was cen\u00adsored. (1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Star is Born<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HKjR70GCRPE\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Janet Gaynor por\u00adtrays Esther Blod\u00adgett, a star\u00adry-eyed small town girl with a dream of mak\u00ading it big in Hol\u00adly\u00adwood. (1937)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adven\u00adtures of Robin\u00adson Cru\u00adsoe<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b-YoBU0XT90\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The clas\u00adsic nov\u00adel by Daniel Defoe gets adapt\u00aded by the great Luis Bu\u00f1uel. (1954)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Afonya<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L9HATyYkZLs&amp;list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1TgayrpaB-SEVJhHC58U1wU&amp;index=4\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Geor\u00adgi Daneliya, this&nbsp;Sovi\u00adet com\u00ade\u00addy film&nbsp;became an unex\u00adpect\u00aded block\u00adbuster. It\u2019s made avail\u00adable by the Russ\u00adian film stu\u00addio Mos\u00adfilm. Click \u201ccc\u201d to get&nbsp;sub\u00adti\u00adtles. (1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alexan\u00adder Nevsky<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/06\/free-watch-battleship-potemkin-and-other-films-by-sergei-eisenstein-the-revolutionary-soviet-filmmaker.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal dra\u00adma film direct\u00aded by the great Russ\u00adian film\u00admak\u00ader Sergei Eisen\u00adstein. (1938)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andrei Rublev<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/06\/watch-stalker-mirror-and-other-masterworks-by-soviet-auteur-andrei-tarkovsky-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A Sovi\u00adet epic bio\u00adgraph\u00adi\u00adcal his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal dra\u00adma film direct\u00aded by Andrei Tarkovsky and co-writ\u00adten with Andrei Kon\u00adchalovsky. Put online by Mos\u00adfilm. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angel on My Shoul\u00adder<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/angel_on_my_shoulder\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A gang\u00adster com\u00ade\u00addy star\u00adring Claude Rains and Paul Muni. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anna Karen\u00adi\u00adna<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/07\/watch-an-8-part-film-adaptation-of-tolstoys-anna-karenina-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An 8\u2011part adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Tol\u00adstoy\u2019s clas\u00adsic nov\u00adel by Karen Shakhnazarov.<\/li>\n<li><strong>As You Like It <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/AsYouLikeIt1936\">Free<\/a> \u2014 It\u2019s Lau\u00adrence Olivier\u2019s ear\u00adli\u00adest Shake\u00adspeare per\u00adfor\u00admance on film. It\u2019s also the&nbsp;first fea\u00adture-length British sound Shake\u00adspeare film.&nbsp;(1936)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bat\u00adtle\u00adship Potemkin<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/06\/free-watch-battleship-potemkin-and-other-films-by-sergei-eisenstein-the-revolutionary-soviet-filmmaker.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A clas\u00adsic&nbsp;Sovi\u00adet&nbsp;silent&nbsp;dra\u00adma film direct\u00aded and co-writ\u00adten by Sergei Eisen\u00adstein. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Becky Sharp<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/BeckySharp1935\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first fea\u00adture film to use three-strip Tech\u00adni\u00adcol\u00ador film, or, put dif\u00adfer\u00adent\u00adly, the first real col\u00ador film. (1935).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blade Run\u00adner 2049 Pre\u00adquels<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/10\/three-new-short-prequels-get-you-ready-to-watch-blade-runner-2049-which-opens-this-week.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Three short offi\u00adcial pre\u00adquels for Blade Run\u00adner 2049 have been released, advanc\u00ading the Blade Run\u00adner sto\u00adry. One is shot by respect\u00aded Japan\u00adese ani\u00adma\u00adtor&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0913860\/\">Shinichi\u00adro Watan\u00adabe.<\/a> (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cap\u00adtain Kidd -<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/CaptainKidd_\">Free<\/a> <strong>-<\/strong> Charles Laughton and John Car\u00adra\u00addine star in film with dra\u00adma on the high seas. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Castel\u00adlo Cav\u00adal\u00adcan\u00adti<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/11\/wes-anderson-short-film-castello-cavalcanti.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Wes Ander\u00adson\u00ad\u2019s short film takes&nbsp;place in a ham\u00adlet tucked away some\u00adwhere in Italy. Fea\u00adtures&nbsp;Jason Schwartz\u00adman, star of Anderson\u2019s 1998 break\u00adout&nbsp;<i>Rush\u00admore. <\/i>(2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cha\u00adrade<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/charade.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Cary Grant and Audrey Hep\u00adburn star in the best Hitch\u00adcock film that Hitch\u00adcock nev\u00ader made. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cha\u00adrade<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VWxx6lQ0qPQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The film&nbsp;con\u00adsists of three short sto\u00adries star\u00adring James Mason and his wife Pamela Mason. (1953)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"oc-center-da\">\n<div data-fuse=\"22871471544\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>collective:unconscious<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/08\/watch-collectiveunconscious.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Five indie&nbsp;film\u00admak\u00aders adapt each oth\u00ader\u2019s dreams for the screen. The New York\u00ader\u2019s Richard Brody called it one of his favorite films at the 2016 SXSW film fes\u00adti\u00adval. (2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cold Sweat<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/cold_sweat.avi\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Charles Bron\u00adson, Liv Ull\u00adman, James Mason, and Jill Ire\u00adland star in this action packed movie about a ruth\u00adless drug run\u00adner who holds a man\u2019s fam\u00adi\u00adly hostage. (1970)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crash: The Short Film<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/01\/the_very_first_film_of_jg_ballards_icrashi_starring_ballard_himself_1971.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Oth\u00ader\u00adwise known as&nbsp;<em>The Atroc\u00adi\u00adty Exhi\u00adbi\u00adtion, <\/em>this pre-Cro\u00adnen\u00adberg short film was&nbsp;direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Harley Coke\u00adliss&nbsp;and stars J.G. Bal\u00adlard him\u00adself. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cyra\u00adno De Berg\u00ader\u00adac<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Cyrano_DeBergerac\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Michael Gor\u00addon\u2019s tale based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu\/webbin\/gutbook\/lookup?num=1254\">clas\u00adsic French tale<\/a>. (1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dar\u00adwin <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/07\/darwin_a_1993_film_by_peter_greenaway.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;53-minute explo\u00adration of the life and work of Charles Dar\u00adwin by Peter Green\u00adaway. (1993)<\/li>\n<li><strong>D\u00e9tour<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/07\/michel-gondry-makes-a-charming-short-film-on-his-iphone.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short charm\u00ading film shot by Michel Gondry pure\u00adly on his iPhone. (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diary<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/04\/diary_the_last_short_film_by_tim_hetherington.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Short film by Tim Het\u00adher\u00ading\u00adton (direc\u00adtor of Restre\u00adpo) that reflects on his ten years of war report\u00ading. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Din\u00adner for One<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/01\/watch-dinner-for-one-the-short-film-that-has-become-a-strange-new-years-tradition-in-europe.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short com\u00ade\u00addy film that has become part of a New Year\u2019s Eve tra\u00addi\u00adtion in Ger\u00admany and many oth\u00ader Euro\u00adpean coun\u00adtries. Once&nbsp;held the Guin\u00adness World Record for Most Fre\u00adquent\u00adly Repeat\u00aded TV Pro\u00adgram. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Doo\u00addle\u00adbug<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/10\/christopher-nolans-first-short-doodlebug.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 One of Christo\u00adpher Nolan\u2019s ear\u00adly short films. Made in 1997, released in 2003.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dou\u00adble Take<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/02\/alfred-hitchcock-meets-jorge-luis-borges-borges-in-cold-war-america-watch-double-take-2009-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Alfred Hitch\u00adcock meets Jorge Luis Borges Borges in Cold War Amer\u00adi\u00adca in a film direct\u00aded by Johan Gri\u00admon\u00adprez and writ\u00adten by Tom McCarthy. (2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dreams That Mon\u00adey Can Buy<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/dreams_that_money_can_buy.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adist film by Man Ray, Mar\u00adcel Duchamp, Alexan\u00adder Calder, Fer\u00adnand L\u00e9ger &amp; Hans Richter. (1947)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Duet for Can\u00adni\u00adbals<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.com\/film\/sontag_duet.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A tale of emo\u00adtion\u00adal can\u00adni\u00adbal\u00adism by Susan Son\u00adtag. A pair of psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal &amp; sex\u00adu\u00adal can\u00adni\u00adbals come close to devour\u00ading a younger cou\u00adple. (1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eat, Sleep &amp; Kiss \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/09\/three_anti-films_by_andy_warhol.html\">Free<\/a><strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>Three silent anti-films by Andy Warhol. (1963\u20131964)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s the Raven<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/11\/edgar-allan-poes-the-raven-modernized.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Win\u00adner of the Best Short at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hplfilmfestival.com\/films\/raven\">H.P. Love\u00adcraft Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval<\/a>, this film mod\u00adern\u00adizes Poe\u2019s sto\u00adry, sit\u00adu\u00adat\u00ading it in Hol\u00adly\u00adwood 1959. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>End of the World<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/EndoftheWorld\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;After wit\u00adness\u00ading a man\u2019s death in a bizarre acci\u00addent, Father Per\u00adga\u00addo goes on a spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal retreat, where he encoun\u00adters his alien dou\u00adble bent on world con\u00adquest. Sci-fi film stars Christo\u00adpher Lee. (1977)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vUInm2dC6Ug\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Dzi\u00adga Ver\u00adtov\u2019s&nbsp;mas\u00adter\u00adpiece of ear\u00adly sound film, <em>Enthu\u00adsi\u00adasm<\/em> deals with the Five Year Plan of the late 1920s. His goal was \u201cto grasp the fever\u00adish real\u00adi\u00adty of life in the Don Basin, to con\u00advey as true to life as pos\u00adsi\u00adble its atmos\u00adphere of the clash of ham\u00admers, of train whis\u00adtles, of the songs of work\u00aders at rest.\u201d In Russ\u00adian. (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Erotikon <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/06\/gustav-machatys-erotikon-1929-ekstase-1933-cinemas-earliest-explorations-of-womens-sensuality.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Czech film\u00admak\u00ader Gus\u00adtav Machat\u00fd and star\u00adring Hedy Lamarr, the film was con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial in its time because it had nude scenes. It was the first&nbsp;non-porno\u00adgraph\u00adic movie to por\u00adtray sex\u00adu\u00adal inter\u00adcourse and the female orgasm. (1929)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evi\u00addence<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/11\/this_is_your_kid_on_television.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 From the mak\u00ader of Koy\u00adaanisqat\u00adsi, a short film about kids watch\u00ading car\u00adtoons (1995).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fear and Desire \u2014 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/fear-and-desire.html\">Free<\/a><strong> \u2014 <\/strong>An uncut print of Stan\u00adley Kubrick\u00ad\u2019s \u201clost\u201d ear\u00adly film. Kubrick did\u00adn\u2019t like how his first film came out, so removed it from cir\u00adcu\u00adla\u00adtion. (1953)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"oc-center-da\">\n<div data-fuse=\"22871471544\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Fight for Your Right Revis\u00adit\u00aded <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/05\/ifight_for_your_right_revisitedi_adam_yauchs_2011_film_commemorates_the_beastie_boys_legendary_music_video.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Adam Yauch com\u00admem\u00ado\u00adrates the Beast\u00adie Boys\u2019 leg\u00adendary video for&nbsp;(You Got\u00adta) Fight for Your Right (To Par\u00adty!). 30 minute sur\u00adre\u00adal film stars&nbsp;Eli\u00adjah Wood, Dan\u00adny McBride and Seth Rogen. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Five Min\u00adutes to Live<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/02\/see_johnny_cash_as_a_menacing_musical_gangster_in_1961_film_ifive_minutes_to_livei.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Amaz\u00ading bank heist movie stars John\u00adny Cash, Vic Tay\u00adback, Ron Howard, and coun\u00adtry music great, Mer\u00adle Travis. (1961)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fla\u00admen\u00adco at 5:15<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/03\/flamenco-at-515.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Oscar-win\u00adning short film about a fla\u00admen\u00adco dance class giv\u00aden to senior stu\u00addents. Made avail\u00adable by the Nation\u00adal Film Board of Cana\u00adda. (1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Franz Kafka\u2019s It\u2019s a Won\u00adder\u00adful Life <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/franz-kafkas-its-a-wonderful-life.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Peter Capal\u00addi, the Oscar-win\u00adning short film&nbsp;shows Kaf\u00adka, on Christ\u00admas Eve, strug\u00adgling to come up with the open\u00ading line for his most famous work,&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/5200\/5200-h\/5200-h.htm\">The Meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsis<\/a><\/em>. <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">(1993)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Frei\u00adheit<\/strong><em> \u2014&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/05\/ifreiheiti_george_lucas_student_short_about_a_fatal_run_from_communism_1966.html\">Free<\/a><em>&nbsp;-<\/em>&nbsp;The third short film George Lucas made while a film-school stu\u00addent at USC and the first with a nar\u00adra\u00adtive. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>From the Drain<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/from-the-drain-a-creepy-comedy-directed-by-david-cronenberg.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;David Cronenberg\u2018s short film made while attend\u00ading the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Toron\u00adto. (1967)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geome\u00adtria<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/guillermo-del-toros-geometria.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A ghoul\u00adish short film by Guiller\u00admo del Toro. One of his ear\u00adli\u00adest films that you can watch online. (1987)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Ghost Train <\/strong><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UGbylI9gVsI\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Clas\u00adsic ghost\u00adly com\u00ade\u00addy, star\u00adring Arthur Askey and based on the play by \u2018Dad\u2019s Army\u2019 actor Arnold Rid\u00adley. (1941)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><strong>Great Expec\u00adta\u00adtions<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/GreatExpectations1946\">Free<\/a> \u2011The clas\u00adsic sto\u00adry of Pip the British orphan. Based on the great Charles Dick\u00adens nov\u00adel avail\u00adable in our col\u00adlec\u00adtion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free_ebooks\">Free eBooks<\/a>.&nbsp;(1946)<\/span><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hard\u00adware Wars<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/06\/hardware-wars-the-mother-of-all-star-wars-fan-films.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 It\u2019s the moth\u00ader of all <em>Star Wars<\/em> fan films, and also one of the most pop\u00adu\u00adlar short films ever made. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>H\u00e4x\u00adan: The Witch\u00ades or Witch\u00adcraft Through The Ages<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/01\/watch_ihaxani_the_classic_cinematic_study_of_witchcraft_narrated_by_william_s_burroughs_1922.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Ben\u00adjamin Christensen\u2019s 1922 silent film&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Haxan_tinted_and_subtitled\">H\u00e4x\u00adan<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>gets<em>&nbsp;<\/em>a nar\u00adra\u00adtion by William S. Bur\u00adroughs. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hel\u00adl\u2019s Angels<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GhyNpM5FKNE\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Amer\u00adi\u00adcan war film, direct\u00aded by Howard Hugh\u00ades and star\u00adring Jean Har\u00adlow, about com\u00adbat pilots of World War I. Stan\u00adley Kubrick list\u00aded it as one of his 10 favorite films on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/07\/stanley-kubricks-list-of-top-ten-films.html\">his only top 10 list<\/a>. (1930)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hel\u00adl\u2019s House<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details.php?identifier=hells_house\">Free<\/a> \u2014 With Bette Davis and Pat O\u2019Brien. The film is set dur\u00ading the final days of pro\u00adhi\u00adbi\u00adtion. (1932)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Her\u00adbert White<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/07\/james-francos-short-student-film-features-michael-shannon-playing-a-necrophile-nsfw.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 James Fran\u00adco\u2019s short film made dur\u00ading film school. Stars Michael Shan\u00adnon. Based on a poem by Frank Bidart. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Her\u00adcules<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zqThDFIH7S8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Ital\u00adian epic fan\u00adta\u00adsy fea\u00adture film based upon the Her\u00adcules myths. (1958)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hi Did\u00addle Did\u00addle<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/quentin-tarantino-picks-the-12-best-films-of-all-time-watch-two-of-his-favorites-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;When the bride\u2019s moth\u00ader is sup\u00adpos\u00aded\u00adly swin\u00addled out of her mon\u00adey by a spurned suit\u00ador, the groom\u2019s father orches\u00adtrates a scheme of his own to set things right. Quentin Taran\u00adti\u00adno named it one of the 12 best films of all time.&nbsp;(1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>His Girl Fri\u00adday<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/watch_ihis_girl_fridayi_howard_hawks_classic_screwball_comedy_starring_cary_grant_free_online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Howard Hawks. A clas\u00adsic com\u00ade\u00addy star\u00adring Cary Grant, Ros\u00adalind Rus\u00adsell&nbsp;and&nbsp;Ralph Bel\u00adlamy. (1940)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Home\u00adtown in My Heart<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Jw4WFDq-uUg\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Made in the ear\u00adly years of Kore\u00adan Inde\u00adpen\u00addence, the film is about a&nbsp;young monk who longs to see his moth\u00ader in a new light, by sup\u00adpress\u00ading his emo\u00adtions. (1949)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human: The Movie<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/09\/human-the-movie.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 By&nbsp;direc\u00adtor, pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader, and envi\u00adron\u00admen\u00adtal activist Yann Arthus-Bertrand,&nbsp;this unique film fea\u00adtures inter\u00adviews with 2,020 peo\u00adple from 60 coun\u00adtries on what it means to be human. (2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>I Thought I Told You to Shut Up<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/04\/jonathan-demme-narrates-i-thought-i-told-you-to-shut-up-a-short-film-about-the-counterculture-cartoon-reid-fleming.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short film nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Jonathan Demme about the mak\u00ading of the 1970s under\u00adground com\u00adic,&nbsp;<em>Reid Flem\u00ading: World\u2019s Tough\u00adest Milk\u00adman.&nbsp;<\/em>(2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impres\u00adsions de la haute Mon\u00adgolie<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/watch-impressions-of-upper-mongolia-salvador-dalis-last-film-about-a-search-for-a-giant-hallucinogenic-mushroom.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adist&nbsp;false doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Sal\u00advador Dal\u00ed&nbsp;and&nbsp;Jos\u00e9 Montes-Baquer, star\u00adring Sal\u00advador Dal\u00ed him\u00adself. (1976)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Indis\u00adcreet<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Indiscreet\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Fea\u00adtures super\u00adstar Glo\u00adria Swan\u00adson and direct\u00aded by Leo McCarey. A com\u00ade\u00addy that\u2019s almost Chap\u00adlinesque. (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/ItSeemedLikeaGoodIdeaattheTimeMPEG2\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Antho\u00adny New\u00adley plays a poor avant-garde artist who strug\u00adgles with an ex-wife\u2019s remar\u00adriage to a build\u00ading con\u00adtrac\u00adtor. (1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ivan Vasilievich Changes Pro\u00adfes\u00adsion<\/strong><em>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a50qT9bW2Qo&amp;list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1TgayrpaB-SEVJhHC58U1wU&amp;index=3\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sovi\u00adet com\u00adic sci-fi film direct\u00aded by Leonid Gaidai, based on the play Ivan Vasilievich by Mikhail Bul\u00adgakov. A huge Sovi\u00adet block\u00adbuster. &nbsp;Click \u201cCC\u201d for sub\u00adti\u00adtles. (1973)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ivan\u2019s Child\u00adhood<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/06\/watch-stalker-mirror-and-other-masterworks-by-soviet-auteur-andrei-tarkovsky-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A Sovi\u00adet war dra\u00adma film direct\u00aded by Andrei Tarkovsky. Put online by Mos\u00adfilm. (1962)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ivan the Ter\u00adri\u00adble<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/06\/free-watch-battleship-potemkin-and-other-films-by-sergei-eisenstein-the-revolutionary-soviet-filmmaker.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A two-part Sovi\u00adet epic his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal dra\u00adma film writ\u00adten and direct\u00aded by Sergei Eisen\u00adstein. A biopic of Ivan IV of Rus\u00adsia, it was Eisen\u00adstein\u2019s final film. (1944)<\/li>\n<li><strong>J\u2019at\u00adtendrai le suiv\u00adant<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/04\/ill_wait_for_the_next_one.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A French film nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for an Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for the Best Short Film in 2002.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jun\u00adgle Book<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/JungleBook\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A col\u00ador action-adven\u00adture film based on the Rud\u00adyard Kipling\u2019 nov\u00adel, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~rgs\/jngl-table.html\">The Jun\u00adgle Book<\/a><\/em>. Direct\u00aded by Zolt\u00e1n Kor\u00adda, the film was nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for four Acad\u00ade\u00admy Awards. (1942)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Killer Drill<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vMX37wkIXLo\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Lewis D. Collins, Killer Drill is about the Door-to-door sales\u00adman John\u00adny Dill, an exact dou\u00adble of a noto\u00adri\u00adous gang\u00adster, who finds him\u00adself struck between the forces of good and evil. (1947)<\/li>\n<li><strong>King Lear<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/KingLearOrsonWellesWiFi\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Made for TV adap\u00adta\u00adtion&nbsp;of Shake\u00adspeare\u2019s King Lear star\u00adring Orson Welles. (1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>La Dialec\u00adtique Peut-Elle Cass\u00ader Des Briques? (Can Dialec\u00adtics Break Bricks?)&nbsp;<\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/09\/radical-french-philosophy-meets-kung-fu-cinema-in-can-dialectics-break-bricks-1973.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A French&nbsp;Sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion\u00adist film pro\u00adduced by&nbsp;Ren\u00e9 Vi\u00e9net which explores the devel\u00adop\u00adment of <a title=\"Class conflict\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Class_conflict\">class con\u00adflict<\/a> through rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary agi\u00adta\u00adtion against a back\u00addrop of graph\u00adic kung-fu fight\u00ading. (1973)<\/li>\n<li><strong>La Femme 100 Tetes<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.com\/film\/duvivier_la-femme.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Max Ern\u00adst\u2019s col\u00adlage book \u201cLa femme 100 t\u00eates,\u201d orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly pub\u00adlished in 1929.&nbsp;Con\u00adsid\u00ader the film a col\u00adlage in motion. (1967)<\/li>\n<li><b>L\u2019Age d\u2019or<\/b>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/06\/two_vintage_films_by_salvador_dali_and_luis_bunuel.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;French&nbsp;sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adist&nbsp;com\u00ade\u00addy direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Luis Bu\u00f1uel&nbsp;about the insan\u00adi\u00adties of mod\u00adern life, the hypocrisy of the&nbsp;sex\u00adu\u00adal mores&nbsp;of&nbsp;bour\u00adgeois&nbsp;soci\u00adety and the&nbsp;val\u00adue sys\u00adtem&nbsp;of the&nbsp;Roman Catholic Church. Sal\u00advador Dal\u00ed&nbsp;co-wrote the screen\u00adplay. (1930)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lady Blue Shang\u00adhai<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/05\/david_lynch_debuts_lady_blue_shanghai.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 David Lynch\u2019s short movie that dou\u00adbles as a com\u00admer\u00adcial for Dior. Stars Mar\u00adi\u00adon Cotil\u00adlard. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lick the Star<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/01\/ilick_the_stari_sofia_coppolas_very_first_film_follows_a_7th-grade_conspiracy_1998.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sofia Cop\u00adpo\u00adla\u2019s very first short film fol\u00adlows&nbsp;a 7th-grade con\u00adspir\u00ada\u00adcy (1998)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Love and Pigeons<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0KmS5gk4ve4&amp;feature=plcp\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Sovi\u00adet roman\u00adtic com\u00ade\u00addy film by Vladimir Men\u00adshov. His pre\u00advi\u00adous film <em>Moscow Does Not Believe In Tears&nbsp;<\/em>received the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best For\u00adeign Lan\u00adguage Film. (1984)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lumiere<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/05\/what_david_lynch_can_do_with_a_100-year-old_camera_and_52_seconds_of_film.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A very short film by David Lynch. 55 sec\u00adonds. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>M<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/fritz-langs-m-watch-the-restored-version-of-the-classic-1931-film.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Clas\u00adsic film direct\u00aded by Fritz Lang, with Peter Lorre. About the search for a child mur\u00adder\u00ader in Berlin,&nbsp;(1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meet John Doe<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/watch-meet-john-doe-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Frank Capra\u2019s com\u00ade\u00addy, with Gary Coop\u00ader and Bar\u00adbara Stan\u00adwyck. Vot\u00aded one of the most inspir\u00ading films of all time. (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meetin\u2019 WA<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/12\/meetin_wa.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In a short film Jean-Luc Godard meets Woody Allen. (1986)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Men\u00adthe<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuweb.com\/film\/trier_menthe.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The sec\u00adond film by Lars von Tri\u00ader is based on the sado\u00admasochis\u00adtic nov\u00adel by Dominique Aury, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1JtPlSL\">Sto\u00adry of O<\/a><\/em>, and tells the sto\u00adry of a vol\u00adun\u00adtary female sub\u00adju\u00adga\u00adtion. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mesh\u00ades of the After\u00adnoon<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/08\/watch-meshes-of-the-afternoon-the-experimental-short-voted-the-16th-best-film-of-all-time.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A dream\u2011like short film where a woman moves through loop\u00ading real\u00adi\u00adties, blur\u00adring the line between dream and wak\u00ading life. The influ\u00aden\u00adtial exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal film has been ranked the #16th best film of all time in a poll con\u00adduct\u00aded by the British Film Insti\u00adtute. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meta\u00admor\u00adfo\u00ads\u00adis<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/04\/metamorfosis-franz-kafkas-best-known-short-story-gets-adapted-into-a-tim-burtonesque-spanish-short-film.html\">Free<\/a> \u2011Franz Kafka\u2019s best-known short sto\u00adry gets adapt\u00aded into a Tim Bur\u00adtonesque Span\u00adish short film (2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mike Leigh\u2019s Five Minute Films<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/04\/mike-leighs-five-minute-films.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The BBC com\u00admis\u00adsioned him to make a series of five-minute movies in 1975. They even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly aired in 1982.<\/li>\n<li><strong>My Best Friend\u2019s Birth\u00adday<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/imy_best_friends_birthdayi_quentin_tarantinos_1987_rockabilly_debut.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 First (incom\u00adplete) film direct\u00aded by Quentin Taran\u00adti\u00adno. Some good rock\u00ada\u00adbil\u00adly fun. (1987)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mul\u00adber\u00adry<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWUhu0l2srE\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;S. Kore\u00adan dra\u00adma film direct\u00aded by Lee Doo-yong. The film became \u201cknown for its erot\u00adic sub\u00adject mat\u00adter,&nbsp;made pos\u00adsi\u00adble by the gov\u00adern\u00admen\u00adt\u2019s grad\u00adual relax\u00adation of cen\u00adsor\u00adship and con\u00adtrol over the film indus\u00adtry dur\u00ading the 1980s.\u201d (1986)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mur\u00adder in Harlem <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Murder_in_Harlem\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Film by&nbsp;Oscar Micheaux, the first African-Amer\u00adi\u00adcan to pro\u00adduce a fea\u00adture-length film (1920) and sound movie (1931). His films pro\u00advide a win\u00addow into Amer\u00adi\u00adcan views on race. (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>No Exit\/Huis Close <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/harold_pinter_stars_in_jean-paul_sartres_no_exit_.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Harold Pin\u00adter inter\u00adprets the lead role of Gar\u00adcia in Sartre\u2019s famous claus\u00adtro\u00adpho\u00adbic play of self-def\u00adi\u00adn\u00adi\u00adtion and iden\u00adti\u00adty. (1965)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Our Town<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EI5ZoxEQr78\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Film adap\u00adta\u00adtion of a play of the same name by Thorn\u00adton Wilder star\u00adring William Hold\u00aden, Martha Scott, Fay Bain\u00adter, Beu\u00adlah Bon\u00addi, Thomas Mitchell, Guy Kibbee and Frank Craven. Find&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Our_Town\">Alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion<\/a>. (1940)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pen\u00adny Ser\u00ade\u00adnade<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/penny_serenade\">Free<\/a> \u2014 With Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. \u201cDepicts the sto\u00adry of a cou\u00adple who must over\u00adcome adver\u00adsi\u00adty to keep their mar\u00adriage and raise a child. Grant was nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best Actor for his per\u00adfor\u00admance.\u201d (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plaisir d\u2019amour en Iran<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/varda_iran.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short, six minute film by Agn\u00e8s Var\u00adda, about a&nbsp;love sto\u00adry between a hand\u00adsome Iran\u00adian (Ali Raf\u00adfi) and a vis\u00adit\u00ading French woman (Val\u00e9rie Mairesse). The film was shot in Iran. (1976)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plan 9 from Out\u00ader Space<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/plan-9-from-outer-space.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An Ed Wood \u201cclas\u00adsic.\u201d Con\u00adsid\u00adered one of the worst films ever made and yet the ulti\u00admate cult flick. (1959)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plas\u00adtic Bag <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/08\/werner-herzog-narrates-the-existential-emotional-journey-of-a-plastic-bag.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Wern\u00ader Her\u00adzog nar\u00adrates the touch\u00ading, exis\u00adten\u00adtial jour\u00adney of a plas\u00adtic bag. A short film direct\u00aded by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1023919\/\">Ramin Bahrani<\/a>,&nbsp;who Roger Ebert called the \u201cnew great Amer\u00adi\u00adcan direc\u00adtor\u201d. (2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pyg\u00admalion<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Pygmalion\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Clas\u00adsic is&nbsp;based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/138\/\">George Bernard Shaw\u2019s play<\/a>. Won Oscar for best screen\u00adplay. (1938)<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00a1Que viva M\u00e9x\u00adi\u00adco!<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/QuevivaMexico\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;film project begun in 1930 by Russ\u00adian avant-garde film\u00admak\u00ader Sergei Eisen\u00adstein por\u00adtray\u00ading Mex\u00adi\u00adcan cul\u00adture and pol\u00adi\u00adtics from pre-Con\u00adquest civ\u00adi\u00adliza\u00adtion to the Mex\u00adi\u00adcan rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion. The trou\u00adbled film was even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly aban\u00addoned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rak\u00adka<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/06\/sigourney-weaver-stars-in-a-new-experimental-sci-fi-film-watch-rakka-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Star\u00adring Sigour\u00adney Weaver,&nbsp;\u201cRak\u00adka\u201d takes us inside the after\u00admath of an alien inva\u00adsion some\u00adtime in the year 2020. (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reefer Mad\u00adness<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/11\/ireefer_madnessi_1936s_most_unintentionally_hilarious_anti-drug_exploitation_film_free_online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Arguably the most unin\u00adten\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly hilar\u00adi\u00adous \u201canti-drug\u201d exploita\u00adtion film.&nbsp;(1936)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rem\u00adbrandt<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details.php?identifier=RembrandtVideoQualityUpgrade\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A lumi\u00adnous biopic of the leg\u00adendary Dutch painter. Alexan\u00adder Kor\u00adda con\u00adsid\u00adered this to be his finest film. (1936)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Romance Sen\u00adti\u00admen\u00adtale<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/RomanceSentimentale\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Sergei Eisen\u00adstein. (1930)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roy\u00adal Wed\u00adding<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/royal_wedding\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Musi\u00adcal com\u00ade\u00addy film star\u00adring Fred Astaire and Jane Pow\u00adell, with music by Bur\u00adton Lane and lyrics by Alan Jay Lern\u00ader. (1951)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rus\u00adlan and Lud\u00admi\u00adla<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2UoO2t536Ko&amp;feature=g-all-pls\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Russ\u00adian film&nbsp;direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Alek\u00adsan\u00addr Ptushko. Based on&nbsp;poem writ\u00adten by&nbsp;Alexan\u00adder Pushkin&nbsp;in 1820. Sub\u00adti\u00adtled in Eng\u00adlish. Made avail\u00adable by Mos\u00adfilm. (1972)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scrooge<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Scrooge_1935\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first sound ver\u00adsion of Dick\u00adens\u2019 clas\u00adsic, A Christ\u00admas Car\u00adol. Direct\u00aded by Hen\u00adry Edwards (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secret Weapons<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MgFgEW8DAfY\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;David Cro\u00adnen\u00adberg\u2019s sel\u00addom seen made-for-TV movie. (1972)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sex Mad\u00adness<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/sex_madness\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This is to sex what Reefer Mad\u00adness is to drugs. YouTube ver\u00adsion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hDcnylT_pEI\">here<\/a>. (1938)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shame<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/shame_\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Pro\u00adduced by Roger Cor\u00adman and star\u00adring William Shat\u00adner. Mys\u00adtery film about a man sent into a south\u00adern town to stir up race riots.&nbsp;(1962)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sher\u00adlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/SherlockHolmesAndTheSecretWeapon1943\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Sher\u00adlock Holmes res\u00adcues an inven\u00adtor of an new bomb site before the Nazis can get him.&nbsp;(1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sopy\u00adon\u00adje<\/strong><em>&nbsp;-<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sdjwD4jW4XY&amp;t=8s\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The film direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Kwon-taek Im&nbsp;sur\u00adprised S. Korea by both rekin\u00addling inter\u00adest in the tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal music of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pansori\">pan\u00adsori<\/a> and by break\u00ading box-office records despite play\u00ading on only three screens. You can find more Kore\u00adan fea\u00adture films at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/12\/a_wealth_of_20th-century_korean_cinema_free_online_from_the_korean_film_archive.html\">Kore\u00adan Film Archive<\/a>. (1993)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spi\u00adder Baby<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RxnXaaAUx3A\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A black com\u00ade\u00addy hor\u00adror film, writ\u00adten and direct\u00aded by Jack Hill. Stars Lon Chaney Jr. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stalk\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/06\/watch-stalker-mirror-and-other-masterworks-by-soviet-auteur-andrei-tarkovsky-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion art film direct\u00aded by Andrei Tarkovsky with a screen\u00adplay writ\u00adten by Arkady and Boris Stru\u00adgatsky, loose\u00adly based on their 1972 nov\u00adel <em>Road\u00adside Pic\u00adnic.<\/em> Film has been put online by Mos\u00adfilm. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strike<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Strike_323\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sergei Eisen\u00adstein\u2019s first fea\u00adture film and an indi\u00adca\u00adtor of the bril\u00adliant films to fol\u00adlow. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ter\u00adror by Night<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ae5KnCP6QbI\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Sher\u00adlock Holmes film, the thir\u00adteenth to star Basil Rath\u00adbone and Nigel Bruce and was direct\u00aded by Roy William Neill. The sto\u00adry revolves around the theft of a famous dia\u00admond aboard a train. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thanks\u00adgiv\u00ading Prayer<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/11\/william-s-burroughs-reads-his-sarcastic-thanksgiving-prayer-in-a-1988-film-by-gus-van-sant.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short film by Gus Van Sant where\u00adin William S. Bur\u00adroughs reads a sar\u00adcas\u00adtic Thanks\u00adgiv\u00ading Prayer. (1988)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Amaz\u00ading Quest of Ernest Bliss<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/amazing_adventure\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Cary Grant plays a rich socialite, who makes a bet with his ther\u00ada\u00adpist that he can make a liv\u00ading for one year using none of his cur\u00adrent wealth. (1936)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bigamist<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details.php?identifier=the_bigamist\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Ida Lupino, a pio\u00adneer among women film\u00admak\u00aders.&nbsp;(1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Blood of a Poet<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/11\/jean_cocteaus_avante-garde_film_from_1930_ithe_blood_of_a_poeti.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Avant-garde film direct\u00aded by Jean Cocteau. The first part of the Orphic Tril\u00ado\u00adgy. (1930)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Blue Angel<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/theblueangel1930\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Weimar clas\u00adsic that made Mar\u00adlene Diet\u00adrich an inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal star. (1930)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Con\u00adtender<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/the_contender_ipod\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Stars Buster Crabbe (best known for his role as Tarzan) in well known box\u00ading film. (1944)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cut Ups<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/william-s-burroughs-avant-garde-movie-the-cut-ups-1966.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Antho\u00adny Balch, this avant-garde film brings William S. Bur\u00adroughs\u2019 cut up tech\u00adnique to film. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Den\u00adtist<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XBYpS5wmxdU\">Free<\/a> \u2014 W.C. Fields in his sec\u00adond talk\u00ading com\u00ade\u00addy short. One of four short films Fields made with the \u201cking of com\u00ade\u00addy,\u201d Mack Sen\u00adnett.&nbsp;(1932)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dia\u00admond Arm<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B-iVfLX2tvY&amp;list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1TgayrpaB-SEVJhHC58U1wU&amp;index=29\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Leonid Gaidai, the film has become a Russ\u00adian cult film and is con\u00adsid\u00adered to be one of the finest come\u00addies of its time. (1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dis\u00adci\u00adpline of D.E.<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/04\/gus_van_sant_adapts_william_s_burroughs_an_early_16mm_short.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Gus Van San\u00adt\u2019s short, 16 mm, black and white adap\u00adta\u00adtion of William S. Bur\u00adroughs\u2019 short sto\u00adry. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Divorce of Lady X<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Lady_X\">Free<\/a> \u2014 British roman\u00adtic com\u00ade\u00addy film star\u00adring Lau\u00adrence Olivi\u00ader and Mer\u00adle Oberon (1938).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dove<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c3JEIQk4mZQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;par\u00ado\u00addy of some of Ing\u00admar Bergman\u2019s best known films, includ\u00ading Wild Straw\u00adber\u00adries (Smul\u00adtron\u00adstael\u00adlet) and The Sev\u00adenth Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet). Fea\u00adtures first film appear\u00adance by Made\u00adline Kahn. Nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fall of the House of Ush\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/10\/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-1928-avant-garde-film.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Poe\u2019s clas\u00adsic tale turned into an avant garde film. It was script\u00aded by e.e. cum\u00admings. (1928)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fast And The Furi\u00adous<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yU4fNKF0u08\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A 1950s B\u2011action film writ\u00adten by Roger Cor\u00adman.&nbsp;(1955)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fly\u00ading Deuces<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3jDUqimcGt0\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;This was the first com\u00ade\u00addy that Lau\u00adrel and Hardy starred in with\u00adout pro\u00adduc\u00ader Hal Roach, although they had pre\u00advi\u00adous\u00adly been \u201cguest stars\u201d in four MGM movies. (1939)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Great Saint Louis Bank Rob\u00adbery<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Saint_Louis_Bank_Robbery\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Steve McQueen stars in a grit\u00adty, down\u00adbeat, and some\u00adtimes sav\u00adage heist movie.&nbsp;(1959)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hire<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/07\/watch-the-bmw-film-series-the-hire.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Eight short films made by famous direc\u00adtors (John Franken\u00adheimer, Guy Ritchie, Joe Car\u00adna\u00adhan, Tony Scott, Ale\u00adjan\u00addro Gonz\u00e1lez I\u00f1\u00e1r\u00adritu, John Woo, Wong Kar-wai, Ang Lee) for BMW. &nbsp;Stars Clive Owens. (2001\u20132002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Jack\u00adie Robin\u00adson Sto\u00adry<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/04\/watch_jackie_robinson_star_in_ithe_jackie_robinson_storyi_1950.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Star\u00adring Jack\u00adie Robin\u00adson him\u00adself, the film retraces the life and times of the great base\u00adball play\u00ader and civ\u00adil rights fig\u00adure. (1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Jun\u00adgle Book<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-8EJ9uhsfQQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Zoltan Kor\u00adda, it starred Sabu, Jospeh Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia, etc. (1942)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Last Farm<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/10\/the_last_farm_an_oscar_nominee.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Short Ice\u00adlandic film nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for Oscar in 2006.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Last Man on Earth<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7o6yuOmuLDc\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Post apoc\u00ada\u00adlyp\u00adtic hor\u00adror film star\u00adring Vin\u00adcent Price and based on Richard Math\u00ade\u00adson nov\u00adel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/22pfFsT\">I Am Leg\u00adend<\/a><\/em>.&nbsp;(1964)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Last Time I Saw Paris<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/last_time_i_saw_paris\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Eliz\u00ada\u00adbeth Tay\u00adlor and Van John\u00adson star in roman\u00adtic dra\u00adma based on F. Scott Fitzger\u00adald \u2018s sto\u00adry \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/gutenberg.net.au\/fsf\/BABYLON-REVISITED.html\">Baby\u00adlon Revis\u00adit\u00aded<\/a>.\u201d YouTube ver\u00adsion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LbR5X_kItWQ\">here<\/a>. (1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Leg\u00adend of Hal\u00adlowde\u00adga<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/11\/nascar-meets-the-paranormal-in-terry-gilliams-short-film-the-legend-of-hallowdega.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Black com\u00ade\u00addy mock\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary direct\u00aded by Ter\u00adry Gilliam. Stars David Arquette and Justin Kirk, with&nbsp;appear\u00adances by Dale Earn\u00adhardt Jr. and Dar\u00adrell Wal\u00adtrip. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lit\u00adtle Shop of Hor\u00adrors<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/watch-three-films-by-the-immensely-prolific-widely-admired-b-movie-filmmaker-roger-corman.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Roger Cor\u00adman with Jack Nichol\u00adson.&nbsp;It\u2019s&nbsp;is a farce&nbsp;about an inad\u00ade\u00adquate florist\u2019s assis\u00adtant who cul\u00adti\u00advates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood.&nbsp;(1960)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lunch Date<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/09\/the_lunch_date.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Adam David\u00adson\u2019s com\u00admen\u00adtary on race in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. The short film won an Oscar and a prize at Cannes. (1989)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsis \u2013 A Study: Nabokov on Kaf\u00adka <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/05\/vladimir_nabokov_channelled_by_christopher_plummer_teaches_kafka_at_cornell.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A drama\u00adti\u00adza\u00adtion of Vladimir Nabokov\u2019s lec\u00adtures on Kaf\u00adka novel\u00adla, <em>The Meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsis<\/em>. Stars Christo\u00adpher Plum\u00admer. (1989)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mir\u00adror<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/06\/watch-stalker-mirror-and-other-masterworks-by-soviet-auteur-andrei-tarkovsky-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Russ\u00adian art film direct\u00aded by Andrei Tarkovsky. \u201cIt is loose\u00adly auto\u00adbi\u00ado\u00adgraph\u00adi\u00adcal, uncon\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal\u00adly struc\u00adtured, and incor\u00adpo\u00adrates poems com\u00adposed and read by the direc\u00adtor\u2019s father, Arse\u00adny Tarkovsky.\u201d Put online by Mos\u00adfilm. (1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Night of Count\u00ading the Years<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/The_Night_of_Counting_the_Years\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Sha\u00addi Abdel Salam, this film is con\u00adsid\u00adered one of the finest Egypt\u00adian films ever made. (1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Orchid Gar\u00adden\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuweb.com\/film\/trier_orchid.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A young, men\u00adtal\u00adly ill man, a visu\u00adal artist in cri\u00adsis Vic\u00adtor Marse (Lars von Tri\u00ader) meets two nurs\u00ades (Eliza and her girl\u00adfriend) dur\u00ading his stay in a sana\u00adto\u00adri\u00adum. Bizarre things hap\u00adpen next in an exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal film with a mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous and sym\u00adbol\u00adic plot&nbsp;.&nbsp;(1977)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Paint\u00aded Desert <\/strong>-<a href=\"http:\/\/movie0.archive.org\/details\/ThePaintedDesert1931ClarkGable\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Notable for being Clark Gable\u2019s first appear\u00adance in a talkie film. (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Phan\u00adtom Fiend <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ThePhantomFiend\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;The first sound remake of the 1927 Alfred Hitch\u00adcock clas\u00adsic, The Lodger. Stars Ivor Nov\u00adel\u00adlo and direct\u00aded by Mau\u00adrice Elvey.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Quest <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/saul-basss-quest-based-on-a-ray-bradbury-story.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Saul Bass\u2019s trip\u00adpy, kitschy short&nbsp;film&nbsp;based on a Ray Brad\u00adbury short sto\u00adry. (1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Scar\u00adlet Let\u00adter<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/MajesticPicturesPublicDomainTheScarletLetter\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Robert G. Vig\u00adno\u00adla\u2019s adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Nathaniel Hawthorne\u2019s clas\u00adsic. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Scar\u00adlet Pim\u00adper\u00adnel<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheScarletPimpernel\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Adap\u00adta\u00adtion of the clas\u00adsic adven\u00adture nov\u00adel by Baroness Orczy. Stars Leslie Howard and Mer\u00adle Oberon. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Short Films of Louis CK<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/04\/the_surreal_short_films_of_louis_ck_1993-1999.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A col\u00adlec\u00adtion of nine short films cre\u00adat\u00aded by the come\u00addi\u00adan between 1993 and 1999.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Skin Game <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheSkinGameUk\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;1931 Hitch\u00adcock film based on a play by John Galswor\u00adthy recounts the trag\u00adic tale of a fam\u00adi\u00adly feud. (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Snows of Kil\u00adi\u00adman\u00adjaro<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Kilimanjaro\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Based on <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/22pfLRh\">Hem\u00ading\u00adway\u2019s clas\u00adsic nov\u00adel<\/a> set in Africa. Stars Gre\u00adgo\u00adry Peck. (1952)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Stranger<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/12\/watch_orson_welles_ithe_strangeri_free_online_where_1940s_film_noir_meets_real_horrors_of_wwii.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Orson Welles and star\u00adring Edward G. Robin\u00adson and Loret\u00adta Young. This was Orson Welles\u2019 only major box office suc\u00adcess. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheStranger720p\">Alter\u00adna\u00adtive ver\u00adsion<\/a>&nbsp;on Archive.org. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tam\u00ading of the Shrew<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheTamingOfTheShrew\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first sound adap\u00adta\u00adtion of a Shake\u00adspeare film ever. Stars Mary Pick\u00adford and her hus\u00adband Dou\u00adglas Fair\u00adbanks.&nbsp;(1929)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Tes\u00adta\u00adment of Dr. Mabuse <\/b>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DasTestamentDesDr.MabuseFritzLang1933\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Fritz Lang, this was the&nbsp;sequel to Lang\u2019s near\u00adly four-hour silent film Dr. Mabuse shot in 1922. &nbsp;(1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wild Ride<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/The-Wild-Ride\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A cult clas\u00adsic that fea\u00adtures Jack Nichol\u00adson play\u00ading a rebel\u00adlious punk in one of his first roles. &nbsp;(1960)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Woman in Green<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fypOpzikhDA\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Sher\u00adlock Holmes inves\u00adti\u00adgates when young women around Lon\u00addon turn up mur\u00addered, each with a fin\u00adger sev\u00adered off. Scot\u00adland Yard sus\u00adpects a mad\u00adman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a dia\u00adbol\u00adi\u00adcal plot.&nbsp;Stars&nbsp;Basil Rath\u00adbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Wat\u00adson. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The World of Stain\u00adboy<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/01\/tim_burtons_the_world_of_stainboy_watch_the_complete_animated_series.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;series of flash ani\u00adma\u00adtion shorts cre\u00adat\u00aded by Tim Bur\u00adton. &nbsp;The Stain\u00adboy char\u00adac\u00adter&nbsp;first appeared in two short poems in the book <em>The Melan\u00adcholy Death of Oys\u00adter Boy &amp; Oth\u00ader Sto\u00adries<\/em>, also cre\u00adat\u00aded and illus\u00adtrat\u00aded by Tim Bur\u00adton. (2000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Young Lovers<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheYoungLovers\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Ida Lupino, this 1950 film tells the tale of a new\u00adly engaged woman who con\u00adtracts polio. Film was also titled&nbsp;<em>Nev\u00ader Fear<\/em>. Alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheYoungLovers\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Things to Come<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/09\/hg-wells-things-to-come.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;British sci-fi film pro\u00adduced by Alexan\u00adder Kor\u00adda and direct\u00aded by William Cameron Men\u00adzies. The screen\u00adplay was writ\u00adten by H. G. Wells, and pre\u00addict\u00aded a grim future for the world. We have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/09\/hg-wells-things-to-come.html\">back\u00adground on the film here<\/a>. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tui\u00adleries<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/12\/tuileries-the-coen-brothers-short-film-about-steve-buscemis-bad-day-in-paris-metro.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short twist\u00aded film by Joel and Ethan Coen. Stars Steve Busce\u00admi and takes place in Paris. (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two Men<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/11\/kafka-two-men.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An award-win\u00adning short film adapts Franz Kafka\u2019s short sto\u00adry,&nbsp;\u201cPassers-by.\u201d Set in abo\u00adrig\u00adi\u00adnal Aus\u00adtralia. (2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uncle Vanya <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0V2EZqQy99I&amp;list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1TgayrpaB-SEVJhHC58U1wU&amp;index=59\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Adap\u00adta\u00adtion of the Anton Chekhov play of the same title. Direct\u00aded by Andrey Kon\u00adchalovskiy. Click \u201cCC\u201d for sub\u00adti\u00adtles. (1970)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Utopia<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/utopia\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Lau\u00adrel &amp; Hardy\u2019s last film. (1951)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vinyl<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/03\/andy-warhols-1965-film-vinyl.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Andy Warhol\u2019s loose film adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Antho\u00adny Burgess\u2019 <em>A Clock\u00adwork Orange<\/em>. (1965)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Virus<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/cco_virus\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Post-apoc\u00ada\u00adlyp\u00adtic sci-fi movie direct\u00aded by Kin\u00adji Fukasaku and based on a nov\u00adel writ\u00adten by Sakyo Komat\u00adsu. (1980)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Voy\u00adage to the Plan\u00adet of Pre\u00adhis\u00adtoric Women<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/VoyagetothePlanetofPrehistoricWomen\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An ear\u00adly film by \u201cNew Hol\u00adly\u00adwood\u201d direc\u00adtor Peter Bog\u00addanovich (1968).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wait\u00ading for Godot <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/10\/samuel_beckett_directs_his_absurdist_play_waiting_for_godot.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Per\u00adfor\u00admances of Wait\u00ading for Godot direct\u00aded by none oth\u00ader than Samuel Beck\u00adett him\u00adself. (1985)<\/li>\n<li><strong>War &amp; Peace<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/06\/watch-war-and-peace-the-splendid-epic-film-adaptation-of-leo-tolstoys-grand-novel-1969.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sergei Bon\u00addarchuk\u2019s splen\u00addid film adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Leo Tolstoy\u2019s grand nov\u00adel, made avail\u00adable online by Mos\u00adfilm. (1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>We Are Jazzmen<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sP_myq8HZ9c&amp;list=PL4dWJMOQ_a1TgayrpaB-SEVJhHC58U1wU&amp;index=43\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Mr. Karen Shakhnazarov, the film&nbsp;chron\u00adi\u00adcles the emer\u00adgence of jazz dur\u00ading the 1920s in Sovi\u00adet Rus\u00adsia. It\u2019s made avail\u00adable&nbsp;by the Russ\u00adian film stu\u00addio, Mos\u00adfilm. Click \u201ccc\u201d to get sub\u00adti\u00adtles. (1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong>White Tiger<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qiGDJ5-dXaI\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A Russ\u00adian&nbsp;action war film direct\u00aded by Karen Shakhnazarov, and based on a nov\u00adel by Ilya Boy\u00adashov. The film was put online by the Russ\u00adian film stu\u00addio, Mos\u00adfilm. Click \u201ccc\u201d to get sub\u00adti\u00adtles. (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Why Try to Escape from Which You Know You Can\u2019t Escape from? Because You Are a Cow\u00adard<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuweb.com\/film\/trier_hvorfor.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An ear\u00adly film by Lars von Tri\u00ader.&nbsp;(1970)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Z<em><strong>\u00e9<\/strong><\/em>ro de Con\u00adduite (Zero for Con\u00adduct)<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/zero_de_conduite\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly banned in France, the film was lat\u00ader hon\u00adored by Truf\u00adfaut in The 400 Blows. (1933)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"Hitchcock\" class=\"curatedcategory\">\n<h2><a href=\"#Hitchcock\">Free Hitchcock, Noir, Horror &amp; Thriller Films<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A Buck\u00adet of Blood <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7Za0TP_HwA4\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Roger Cor\u00adman\u2019s clas\u00adsic comedy\/horror film set in Bohemi\u00adan San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco. Shot in 5 days for $50,000. Inter\u00adnet Archive ver\u00adsion&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/ABucketOfBlood1959_931\">here<\/a>. (1959)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Life at Stake<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lsc9OlFzyzo\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Paul Guil\u00adfoyle, this Amer\u00adi\u00adcan noir film stars Angela Lans\u00adbury and Kei\u00adth Andes. (1954)<\/li>\n<li><strong>And Then There Were None<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ry-f5w2iDK4\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Film adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Agatha Christie\u2019s best-sell\u00ading mys\u00adtery nov\u00adel direct\u00aded by Ren\u00e9 Clair. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Angel on My Shoul\u00adder<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/angel_on_my_shoulder\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A gang\u00adster com\u00ade\u00addy star\u00adring Claude Rains and Paul Muni. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beat the Dev\u00adil<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/beat-the-devil.html\">Free<\/a> \u2013 Direct\u00aded by John Hus\u00adton and star\u00adring Humphrey Bog\u00ada\u00adrt, the film is some\u00adthing of a com\u00adic and dra\u00admat\u00adic spoof of the film noir tra\u00addi\u00adtion. (1953)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Behind Green Lights <\/strong>\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/BehindGreenLights_high_Q_mp4\">Free<\/a> \u2013 Stars Car\u00adole Lan\u00addis, John Ire\u00adland. Police lieu\u00adtenant Sam Car\u00adson inves\u00adti\u00adgates a polit\u00adi\u00adcal mur\u00adder after the vic\u00adtim is dumped at the door of police head\u00adquar\u00adters. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Big Bluff <\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/the-big-bluff-a-noir-film-directed-by-w-lee-wilder-1955\">Free<\/a> \u2013 Direct\u00aded by W. Lee Wilder. When a schem\u00ading for\u00adtune hunter finds his rich wife is not going to die as expect\u00aded, he and his lover make oth\u00ader plans to get her mil\u00adlions. (1955)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blood on the Sun<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BloodontheSun\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;film star\u00adring James Cagney and Sylvia Sid\u00adney is based on a fic\u00adtion\u00adal his\u00adto\u00adry behind the Tana\u00adka Memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal doc\u00adu\u00adment. It won the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best Art Direc\u00adtion for a Black &amp; White in 1945. In 1973, the film entered the pub\u00adlic domain. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bon Voy\u00adage<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BonVoyage1944\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A French lan\u00adguage WWII pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda film by Alfred Hitch\u00adcock. (1944)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blonde Ice <\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BlondeIce1948\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A soci\u00adety reporter keeps her\u00adself in the head\u00adlines by mar\u00adry\u00ading a series of wealthy men. They all die mys\u00adte\u00adri\u00adous\u00adly after\u00adwards though. (1948)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blue\u00adbeard<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Bluebeard\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Edgar G. Ulmer and star\u00adring John Car\u00adra\u00addine, this film became a cult clas\u00adsic for hor\u00adror fans. (1944)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bor\u00adder\u00adline<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/borderline1950\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Two under\u00adcov\u00ader agents infil\u00adtrate a drug-smug\u00adgling ring in Mex\u00adi\u00adco, but nei\u00adther is aware of the oth\u00ader\u2019s iden\u00adti\u00adty. Stars Fred Mac\u00adMur\u00adray, Claire Trevor and Ray\u00admond Burr. (1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Car\u00adni\u00adval of Souls<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/10\/watch-the-cult-classic-horror-film-carnival-of-souls-1962.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An&nbsp;Amer\u00adi\u00adcan inde\u00adpen\u00addent hor\u00adror film direct\u00aded by Herk Har\u00advey for $33,000, the film, although not orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar, even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly&nbsp;became a cult clas\u00adsic. The&nbsp;\u201cplot fol\u00adlows a young woman whose life is dis\u00adturbed after a car acci\u00addent, find\u00ading her\u00adself drawn to the pavil\u00adion of an aban\u00addoned car\u00adni\u00adval.\u201d (1962)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cause for Alarm!<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t_bNDDM5ABQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Ellen (Loret\u00adta Young) nar\u00adrates the tale of \u201cthe most ter\u00adri\u00adfy\u00ading day of my life\u201d, how she was tak\u00ading care of her bedrid\u00adden hus\u00adband George Z. Jones (Bar\u00adry Sul\u00adli\u00advan) when he sud\u00adden\u00adly dropped dead. (1951)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Demen\u00adtia<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DementiaDaughterOfHorror1955\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Also called <em>Daugh\u00adter of Hor\u00adror<\/em>, this film&nbsp;by John Park\u00ader incor\u00adpo\u00adrat\u00aded ele\u00adments of hor\u00adror film, film noir and expres\u00adsion\u00adist film. About the film, Cahiers du cin\u00ade\u00adma wrote \u201cTo what degree this film is a work of art, we are not cer\u00adtain but, in any case, it is strong stuff.\u201d (1955)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Demen\u00adtia 13<\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/03\/idementia_13i_the_film_that_took_francis_ford_coppola_from_schlockster_to_auteur.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A hor\u00adror film that was one of Fran\u00adcis Ford Cop\u00adpo\u00adla\u2019s ear\u00adly main\u00adstream efforts<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/freemoviesonline\">.<\/a> HD widescreen ver\u00adsion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/RogerCormansDementiaThirteen720p\">here<\/a>. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Detour<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/03\/idetouri_the_cheap_rushed_piece_of_1940s_film_noir_nobody_ever_forgets.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Edgar Ulmer\u2019s cult clas\u00adsic noir film shot in 6 days. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dick Tra\u00adcy<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/PhotosbyHaroldDickTracyAll15ChaptersCombined\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A 15 episode film series that brought Dick Tra\u00adcy to the sil\u00adver screen. (1937)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dick Tra\u00adcy Meets Grue\u00adsome<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/dick_tracy_meets_gruesome\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Dick Tra\u00adcy film from 1947 stars Boris Karloff as Grue\u00adsome. (1947)<\/li>\n<li><strong>D.O.A.<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/05\/doa_by_rudolph_mate_1950.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Rudolph Mat\u00e9\u2019s clas\u00adsic noir film. Called \u201cone of the most accom\u00adplished, inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive, and down\u00adright twist\u00aded entrants to the film noir genre.\u201d (1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dressed to Kill<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/dressed_to_kill\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The last of 14&nbsp;films star\u00adring Basil Rath\u00adbone as Sher\u00adlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Doc\u00adtor Wat\u00adson. (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Port of New York&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Port_of_New_York\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Two nar\u00adcotics agents go after a gang of mur\u00adder\u00adous drug deal\u00aders who use ships dock\u00ading at the New York har\u00adbor to smug\u00adgle in their con\u00adtra\u00adband. First film in which Yul Bryn\u00adner appeared. (1949)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Great Guy&nbsp;<\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Great_Guy.avi\">Free<\/a> \u2014 James Cagney plays the plucky Irish cru\u00adsad\u00ader, John\u00adny Cave, who fights against cor\u00adrup\u00adtion. (1936)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guest in the House<\/strong> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/GuestInTheHouse1944\">Free<\/a> \u2013 Direct\u00aded by John Brahm, the noir film stars Anne Bax\u00adter, Ralph Bel\u00adlamy, Aline MacMa\u00adhon. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>He Walked by Night<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8rBZ7Hoaf5o\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Film-noir dra\u00adma, told in semi-doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary style, fol\u00adlows police on the&nbsp;hunt for a resource\u00adful crim\u00adi\u00adnal. This move became the basis for \u201cDrag\u00adnet,\u201d and stars Jack Webb.&nbsp;Archive.org ver\u00adsion&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/He_Walked_by_Night_1948\">here<\/a>. (1948)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hor\u00adror Express<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/horror_express_ipod\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Span\u00adish hor\u00adror film star\u00adring Tel\u00adly Savalas of Kojak fame.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Impact<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/impact\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Arthur Lubin\u2019s well reviewed noir flic. Con\u00adsid\u00adered a lit\u00adtle known clas\u00adsic you need to watch. (1940)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inner Sanc\u00adtum<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Inner_Sanctum_movie\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A grip\u00adping noir film about \u201ca mur\u00adder\u00ader who is on the lam and hid\u00ading out in a small town. Unbe\u00adknownst to him, he is not only hid\u00ading in the same board\u00ading house as the only wit\u00adness to his crime, he is shar\u00ading the same room.\u201d (1948)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Invis\u00adi\u00adble Ghost<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b8zuKPcdVWE\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Bela Lugosi stars in film where&nbsp;a town\u2019s lead\u00ading cit\u00adi\u00adzen becomes a homo\u00adci\u00addal mani\u00adac after his wife deserts him. Alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/the_invisible_ghost_ipod\">here<\/a>. (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jamaica Inn<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Jamaica_Inn\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;young woman dis\u00adcov\u00aders that she\u2019s liv\u00ading near a gang of crim\u00adi\u00adnals who arrange ship\u00adwrecks for prof\u00adit. Stars&nbsp;Mau\u00adreen O\u2019Hara, Robert New\u00adton and Charles Laughton. (1939)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jig\u00adsaw <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5jZolxW3eqU\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Fletch\u00ader Markle, and star\u00adring Fran\u00adchot Tone, Jean Wal\u00adlace and Marc Lawrence, the film fea\u00adtures&nbsp;cameo appear\u00adances by Mar\u00adlene Diet\u00adrich and Hen\u00adry Fon\u00adda. (1949)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Judex<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www-tracey.archive.org\/details\/Judex1963\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Direct\u00aded by French film\u00admak\u00ader Georges Fran\u00adju, this crime film is a remake of the 1916 film ser\u00adi\u00adal doc\u00adu\u00adment\u00ading the adven\u00adtures of pulp hero Judex. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kansas City Con\u00adfi\u00adden\u00adtial<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/02\/kansas_city_confidential.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A film noir gem that inspired Quentin Taran\u00adti\u00adno\u2019s <em>Reser\u00advoir Dogs.<\/em>&nbsp;(1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Lime Pie<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/09\/animated_noir_key_lime_pie.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A zany ani\u00admat\u00aded film in the noir tra\u00addi\u00adtion. (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lady in the Death House<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mkYXM5LT9bM\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Stars Jean Park\u00ader, Lionel Atwill and Dou\u00adglas Fow\u00adley. A young woman is on death row for the mur\u00adder of a man who was black\u00admail\u00ading her fam\u00adi\u00adly, though&nbsp;she claims she was framed.&nbsp;And the sto\u00adry goes from there. (1944)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Man in the Attic<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Man_in_the_Attic_movie\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">Jack Palance as Jack the Rip\u00adper!&nbsp;(1954)&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Night of the Liv\u00ading Dead<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/11\/watch_inight_of_the_living_deadi_the_seminal_zombie_movie_free_online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 George A. Romero\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Night of the Liv\u00ading Dead <\/em>is the<em>&nbsp;<\/em>urtext of the mod\u00adern zom\u00adbie movie.&nbsp;(1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Please Mur\u00adder Me<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Please_Murder_Me_movie\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Lawyer Ray\u00admond Burr bril\u00adliant\u00adly defends Angela Lans\u00adbury in 1950s noir film. (1956)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pul\u00adgasari <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/12\/kim_jong-ils_godzilla_movie.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A&nbsp;North Kore\u00adan Godzil\u00adla-style film pro\u00adduced by South Kore\u00adan direc\u00adtor Shin Sang-ok, who had been kid\u00adnapped in 1978 by North Kore\u00adan intel\u00adli\u00adgence on the orders of Kim Jong-il. (1985)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quick\u00adsand<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Quicksand_clear\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Noir film with Mick\u00adey Rooney and Peter Lorre. (1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sab\u00ado\u00adtage<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/alfred_hitchcock_adapts_joseph_conrads_novel_of_terrorism_in_isabotagei_1936.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Alfred Hitch\u00adcock directs this British thriller based on Joseph Conrad\u2019s nov\u00adel&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1TgBC7j\">The Secret Agent<\/a><\/em>. Also released as&nbsp;<em>The Woman Alone.<\/em>&nbsp;Alter\u00adna\u00adtive ver\u00adsion&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/sabotagemovie\">here<\/a>. (1936)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scar\u00adlet Street<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/10\/fritz_langs_licentious_profane_obscure_noir_film_iscarlet_streeti_1945.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Fritz Lang with Edward G. Robin\u00adson. A film noir great. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secret Agent<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Hitchcock_Secret_Agent\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Alfred Hitch\u00adcock, this film was loose\u00adly based on sto\u00adries by W. Som\u00ader\u00adset Maugh\u00adam. Stars John Giel\u00adgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Car\u00adroll and Robert Young. (1936)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sev\u00aden Sin\u00adners<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B_SNL8yIW40\">Free<\/a> \u2014 British thriller film direct\u00aded by Albert de Courville and star\u00adring Edmund Lowe, Con\u00adstance Cum\u00admings and Felix Aylmer. (1936)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shed No Tears <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Shed_No_Tears_1948\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Until recent\u00adly, this film star\u00adring&nbsp;Wal\u00adlace Ford and June Vin\u00adcent was near\u00adly impos\u00adsi\u00adble to find. Now it\u2019s online thanks to &nbsp;Archive.org. (1948)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sher\u00adlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/SherlockHolmesAndTheSecretWeapon1943\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Sher\u00adlock Holmes res\u00adcues an inven\u00adtor of an new bomb site before the Nazis can get him. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shock <\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/shock\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013This film noir tells the sto\u00adry of psy\u00adchi\u00ada\u00adtrist Dr. Cross (Vin\u00adcent Price), who is treat\u00ading Janet Stew\u00adart (Anabel Shaw), a young woman who is in a cata\u00adton\u00adic state. The coma was brought on when she heard loud argu\u00ading, went to her win\u00addow, and saw a man strike his wife with a can\u00addle\u00adstick and kill her. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Silent Night, Bloody Night <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/SilentNightBloodyNight\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;An under-rat\u00aded horror\/slasher\/mystery film \u2014 star\u00adring Patrick O\u2019Neal, Mary Woronov, and John Car\u00adra\u00addine \u2014 that has fall\u00aden into the pub\u00adlic domain. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Strange Illu\u00adsion<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Strange_Illusion\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;B\u2011movie update of \u201cHam\u00adlet\u201d has trou\u00adbled teen Jim\u00admy Lydon doubt\u00ading smooth-talk\u00ader War\u00adren Williams who is woo\u00ading his moth\u00ader. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sud\u00adden\u00adly<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/11\/frank_sinatra_stars_in_1954_noir_suddenly.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Noir film with Frank Sina\u00adtra and James Glea\u00adson. (1954)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Swamp Women <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/RC_SwampWomen\">Free<\/a> \u2014 One of Roger Cor\u00adman\u2019s first films. A crime\/horror film that fol\u00adlows under\u00adcov\u00ader police offi\u00adcer Lee Hamp\u00adton who joins three female con\u00advicts and escapes from prison. (1955)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The 39 Steps<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MVo7uK3vlYw\">Free<\/a> \u2014 One of Alfred Hitch\u00adcock\u00ad\u2019s first hits. British thriller is based on <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1TgBGUs\">nov\u00adel with same name by John Buchan<\/a>. (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Adven\u00adtures of Sher\u00adlock Holmes<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jy2V9W7f0o8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The film is adapt\u00aded from the 1899 play \u201cSher\u00adlock Holmes\u201d by William Gillette, and stars Basil Rath\u00adbone, Nigel Bruce, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/03\/female_noir_director_ida_lupinos_ithe_hitch-hikeri_free_online.html\">Ida Lupino<\/a>, George Zuc\u00adco and Alan Mar\u00adshal. (1939)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Amaz\u00ading Mr. X<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iwyjnH7rOmg\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Noir film&nbsp;direct\u00aded by Bernard Vorhaus with cin\u00ade\u00admatog\u00adra\u00adphy by John Alton. The film tells the sto\u00adry of a pho\u00adny spir\u00adi\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adist rack\u00adet. (1948).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Big Com\u00adbo <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheBigComboCornellWilde1955BOO\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Joseph Lewis, this film is today con\u00adsid\u00adered a noir clas\u00adsic. Crit\u00adics like to focus on the cin\u00ade\u00admatog\u00adra\u00adphy of&nbsp;John Alton, a noir icon. (1955)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cap\u00adture<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/The_Capture_movie\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;-<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Lew Ayres is an oil man who guns down a thief who may have been inno\u00adcent. (1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Chase<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/chase_the\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An&nbsp;Amer\u00adi\u00adcan noir film direct\u00aded by Arthur Rip\u00adley, based on the Cor\u00adnell Wool\u00adrich nov\u00adel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1TgBLYy\">The Black Path of Fear<\/a><\/em>. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Driller Killer<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DrillerKillerUncut1979\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Abel Fer\u00adrara\u2019s cult clas\u00adsic slash\u00ader film.&nbsp;(1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The File on Thel\u00adma Jor\u00addan <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheFileonThelmaJordanBarbaraStanwyck1950ripHJXvid2\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This noir direct\u00aded by Robert Siod\u00admak fea\u00adtures Bar\u00adbara Stan\u00adwyck and Wen\u00addell Corey. &nbsp;At the time Vari\u00adety said,&nbsp;\u201cThel\u00adma Jor\u00addon unfolds as an inter\u00adest\u00ading, femme-slant\u00aded melo\u00addra\u00adma, told with a lot of restrained excite\u00adment.\u201d&nbsp;(1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Great Fla\u00admar\u00adi\u00adon<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Great_Flamarion_1945\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;-<span style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/span>Vaude\u00adville star Erich von Stro\u00adheim entan\u00adgled with mar\u00adried assis\u00adtant. Direct\u00aded by Antho\u00adny Mann.&nbsp;(1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Green Glove <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/the_green_glove\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A World War II vet\u00ader\u00adan in France, played by Glen Ford,&nbsp;gets mixed up in mur\u00adder while inves\u00adti\u00adgat\u00ading a stolen trea\u00adsure. Direct\u00aded by Rudolph Mat\u00e9. Alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AAfml8lKMec\">here<\/a>. (1952)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hood\u00adlum<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/The_Hoodlum\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Lawrence Tier\u00adney (\u201cReser\u00advoir Dogs\u201d) plays an unre\u00adformed, hard\u00adened crim\u00adi\u00adnal who has just been released from prison. While work\u00ading at his broth\u00ader\u2019s gas sta\u00adtion, he becomes very inter\u00adest\u00aded in the armored car that makes reg\u00adu\u00adlar stops at the bank across the street. (1951)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hitch-Hik\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/03\/female_noir_director_ida_lupinos_ithe_hitch-hikeri_free_online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first noir film made by a female direc\u00adtor, Ida Lupino. (1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The House on Haunt\u00aded Hill<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/House_On_Haunted_Hill.avi\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Vin\u00adcent Price gives a stel\u00adlar per\u00adfor\u00admance as the suave\u00adly malev\u00ado\u00adlent host of a \u201chaunt\u00aded house par\u00adty.\u201d (1959)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Image<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/watch-david-bowie-star-in-his-first-film-role-a-short-horror-flick-called-the-image-1967.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short hor\u00adror film that hap\u00adpened to be the first film that David Bowie starred in. (1967)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Intrud\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/watch-three-films-by-the-immensely-prolific-widely-admired-b-movie-filmmaker-roger-corman.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Roger Cor\u00adman, the film is based on a nov\u00adel by Charles Beau\u00admont and stars William Shat\u00adner. (1962)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ken\u00adnel Mur\u00adder Case <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheKennelMurderCase720p1933\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Notes Roger Ebert, \u201cFilm his\u00adto\u00adri\u00adans such as William K. Ever\u00adson, who pro\u00adnounced <em>The Ken\u00adnel Mur\u00adder Case<\/em> a \u201cmas\u00adter\u00adpiece\u201d (in the August 1984 issue of Films in Review), con\u00adsid\u00ader it one of the great\u00adest screen adap\u00adta\u00adtions of a Gold\u00aden Age mys\u00adtery nov\u00adel. (1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Limp\u00ading Man&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheLimpingMan\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Stars Lloyd Bridges and Moira Lis\u00adter. A WWII vet\u00ader\u00adan goes back to Eng\u00adland after the war only to dis\u00adcov\u00ader that his wartime sweet\u00adheart has got mixed up with a dan\u00adger\u00adous spy ring. (1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lodger: A Sto\u00adry of the Lon\u00addon Fog<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/07\/alfred-hitchcocks-the-lodger.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 One of Hitchcock\u2019s silent clas\u00adsics. A land\u00adla\u00addy sus\u00adpects her lodger is a mur\u00adder\u00ader killing women around Lon\u00addon. It\u2019s said that this is Hitch\u00adcock\u00ad\u2019s first \u201cHitch\u00adcock\u00adian\u201d film. (1927)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Man Who Cheat\u00aded Him\u00adself<\/strong> \u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bZXsoLg88-o\">Free<\/a> \u2013 Some call it \u201can under-appre\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded and lit\u00adtle known gem.\u201d &nbsp;Stars Lee J. Cobb, John Dall, Jane Wyatt, and Lisa Howard. (1951)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Naked Kiss<\/strong><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheNakedKiss\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;-<strong style=\"color: #000000;\">&nbsp;<\/strong>Con\u00adstance Tow\u00aders is a pros\u00adti\u00adtute try\u00ading to start new in a small town. Direct\u00aded by Sam Fuller. (1964)<\/li>\n<li><b>The Pearl of Death <\/b>-<b> <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C6s5YZq4Ih0\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Roy William Neill, the film is based on char\u00adac\u00adters cre\u00adat\u00aded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It stars&nbsp;Basil Rath\u00adbone, Nigel Bruce, and Den\u00adnis Hoey.&nbsp;(1944)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Plea\u00adsure Gar\u00adden<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/09\/the-pleasure-garden-hitchcock.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 After sev\u00ader\u00adal col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtive efforts,&nbsp;Hitch\u00adcock made his solo direc\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal debut in the Ger\u00adman-British co-pro\u00adduc\u00adtion based on a nov\u00adel by Oliv\u00ader Sandys.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Red House<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheRedHouse\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;noir psy\u00adcho\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal thriller star\u00adring Edward G. Robin\u00adson. Here\u2019s the gist of the plot: \u201cAn old man and his sis\u00adter are con\u00adceal\u00ading a ter\u00adri\u00adble secret from their adopt\u00aded teen daugh\u00adter, con\u00adcern\u00ading a hid\u00adden aban\u00addon farm\u00adhouse, locat\u00aded deep in the woods.\u201d (1947)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sec\u00adond Woman <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/The_Second_Woman_\">Free<\/a> \u2013 Direct\u00aded by&nbsp;James Kern and star\u00adring Bet\u00adsy Drake, this less\u00ader known noir film gets some good reviews. (1951)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Skin Game<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheSkinGameUk\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;1931 Hitch\u00adcock film based on a play by John Galswor\u00adthy recounts the trag\u00adic tale of a fam\u00adi\u00adly feud. (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Strange Love of Martha Ivers<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheStrangeLoveOfMarthaIvers\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Noir film start\u00ading Bar\u00adbara Stan\u00adwyck, Van Heflin and Kirk Dou\u00adglas. Entered into 1947 Cannes Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Strange Woman \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/watch-the-strange-woman-the-1947-noir-film-starring-hedy-lamarr\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Edgar G. Ulmer\u2019s femme fatale film star\u00adring Hedy Lamarr. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ter\u00adror<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/watch-three-films-by-the-immensely-prolific-widely-admired-b-movie-filmmaker-roger-corman.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 With Jack Nichol\u00adson &amp; Boris Karloff, and part\u00adly shot by Fran\u00adcis Ford Cop\u00adpo\u00adla. Movie is at bot\u00adtom of the linked page. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Time of Your Life<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheTimeofyourLife\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Adapt\u00aded from the 1939 William Saroy\u00adan play of the same title (the play won the Pulitzer Prize), the film stars James Cagney and William Ben\u00addix. (1948)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Thir\u00adteenth Guest<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=71IJjCbbK7k\">Free<\/a> \u2014 &nbsp;A pre-code mys\u00adtery com\u00ade\u00addy thriller film with Gin\u00adger Rogers, based on the 1929 nov\u00adel by crime fic\u00adtion writer Armitage Trail, also author of the nov\u00adel <em>Scar\u00adface<\/em>. (1932)<\/li>\n<li><strong>They Made Me a Crim\u00adi\u00adnal<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheyMadeMeACriminal1939\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Box\u00ader John Garfield flees believ\u00ading he has com\u00admit\u00adted a mur\u00adder while he was drunk. Pur\u00adsued by Claude Rains, he meets up with the Dead End Kids.&nbsp;(1939)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Time Table<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4Vj_lMvczow\">Free<\/a> \u2014 After the theft of $500,000 in a care\u00adful\u00adly exe\u00adcut\u00aded train rob\u00adbery, an insur\u00adance inves\u00adti\u00adga\u00adtor (Mark Stevens, who also dou\u00adbled as direc\u00adtor and pro\u00adduc\u00ader) is forced to can\u00adcel a planned vaca\u00adtion with his wife to assist a rail\u00adroad detec\u00adtive in iden\u00adti\u00adfy\u00ading the cul\u00adprits and recov\u00ader\u00ading the mon\u00adey. Alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Timetable1956\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;(1956)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Too Late for Tears<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XsyGhdt0Nww\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Byron Haskin and based on a nov\u00adel by Roy Hug\u00adgins, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1JtQ3PZ\">Too Late for Tears<\/a><\/em> is pure noir. (1949)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Top\u00adper Returns<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Topper_Returns_41\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A sassy girl finds her\u00adself dead after trad\u00ading bed\u00adrooms with her heiress friend. Her ghost seeks aid from banker Cos\u00admo Top\u00adper to find out why and by whom. Joan Blondell, Roland Young, Car\u00adole Lan\u00addis. (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tor\u00adment\u00aded<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VsDzibAOVAA\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A man lets a for\u00admer flame fall to her death rather than let her inter\u00adfere with his new rela\u00adtion\u00adship, but her ghost returns to dis\u00adrupt his impend\u00ading nup\u00adtials. (1960)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trapped <\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Trapped_\">Free<\/a> \u2013 Star\u00adring Lloyd Bridges and Bar\u00adbara Pay\u00adton, the plot of this B noir film turns around a coun\u00adter\u00adfeit\u00ading ring. (1949)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vampyr<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Vampyr_201612\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This hor\u00adror film was Carl Theodor&nbsp;Drey\u00ader\u2019s fol\u00adlow-up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/08\/carl-dreyers-the-passion-of-joan-of-arc-1928-gets-an-epic-instrumental-soundtrack-from-the-indie-band-joan-of-arc.html\">The Pas\u00adsion of Joan of Arc<\/a>, and his first \u201ctalkie.\u201d (1932)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Waltzes From Vien\u00adna \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Waltzes_from_Vienna\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Alfred Hitch\u00adcock told Fran\u00adcois Truf\u00adfaut that this film (about the writ\u00ading and per\u00adfor\u00admance of The Blue Danube) was the low point of his film career. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Whis\u00adtle Stop<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Whistle_Stop\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A noir flic with Ava Gard\u00adner. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>White Zom\u00adbie <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/white_zombie\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Pre-Code hor\u00adror film direct\u00aded by Vic\u00adtor and Edward Halperin. B\u00e9la Lugosi stars as the antag\u00ado\u00adnist, Mur\u00adder Legendre, with Madge Bel\u00adlamy appear\u00ading as his vic\u00adtim. (1932)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Woman on the Run <\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Woman_on_the_Run\">Free<\/a> \u2013 After Frank John\u00adson (Ross Elliott) is the sole wit\u00adness to a gang\u00adland mur\u00adder, he goes into hid\u00ading and is trailed by Police Inspec\u00adtor Fer\u00adris (Robert Kei\u00adth), his wife, Eleanor (Ann Sheri\u00addan), and news\u00adpa\u00adper\u00adman, Dan\u00adny Leggett (Den\u00adnis O\u2019Keefe).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Young and Inno\u00adcent<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/YoungandInnocentTheGirlWasYoung\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly released in the US as <em>The Girl Was Young<\/em>, this Alfred Hitch\u00adcock film was based on Josephine Tey\u2019s nov\u00adel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1TgBPqY\">A Shilling for Can\u00addles<\/a>.<\/em> (1937)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Find a com\u00adplete col\u00adlec\u00adtion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free_film_noir_movies\">Film Noir movies here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free_hitchcock_movies_online\">Alfred Hitch\u00adcock movies here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"Kung-fu\" class=\"curatedcategory\">\n<h2><a href=\"#KungFu\">Free Kung Fu &amp; Martial Arts Films<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Black Fist<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BlackFist\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;To make mon\u00adey, a Los Ange\u00adles street-fight\u00ad\u00ader goes to work for gang\u00adsters. (1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blood on the Sun<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BloodontheSun\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Star\u00adring James Cagney and Sylvia Sid\u00adney, the film is based on a fic\u00adtion\u00adal his\u00adto\u00adry behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanaka_Memorial\">Tana\u00adka Memo\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal doc\u00adu\u00adment<\/a>. Won the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best Art Direc\u00adtion for a Black &amp; White&nbsp;film.&nbsp;(1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bruce Lee Fights Back From The Grave<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/BruceLeeFightsBackFromTheGrave1976\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Bru\u00adce\u00adploita\u00adtion movie star\u00adring Bruce Lee imper\u00adson\u00adator and tae kwon do instruc\u00adtor Jun Chong (using the name Bruce K.L. Lea). (1976)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bruce Lee the Invin\u00adci\u00adble<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yi0XHta5G-k\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Bruce Li with his mas\u00adter goes to Sin\u00adga\u00adpore to stop a kung-fu mas\u00adter named Cheng. (1977)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Four Rob\u00adbers<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Iu7F-5WFPwM\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Cheap Hong Kong action film which rides the late 80s hero\u00adic blood\u00adshed wave and, says kungfumovieguide.com \u201crips off (main\u00adly) films like<em> A Bet\u00adter Tomor\u00adrow<\/em>&nbsp;and <em>City on Fire<\/em>, only with\u00adout any of the same qual\u00adi\u00adty.\u201d (1987)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Guy With Secret Kung Fu<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U6qt6zP0BBg\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Two broth\u00aders put their kung fu skills to the test and do bat\u00adtle with dis\u00adhon\u00adest judges, pow\u00ader\u00adful war\u00adlords, and giant zom\u00adbies, all in the name of end\u00ading the oppres\u00adsion of the Ching Dynasty. (1980)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heroes of Shaolin<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BJPFkZw9saE&amp;t=6s\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by <a title=\"William Chang\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Chang\">William Chang<\/a>.&nbsp;Like many kung fu movies from the late 1970s, the main theme of the film focus\u00ades on revenge.<\/li>\n<li><strong>La Dialec\u00adtique Peut-Elle Cass\u00ader Des Briques? (Can Dialec\u00adtics Break Bricks?)&nbsp;<\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/09\/radical-french-philosophy-meets-kung-fu-cinema-in-can-dialectics-break-bricks-1973.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A French&nbsp;Sit\u00adu\u00ada\u00adtion\u00adist film pro\u00adduced by&nbsp;Ren\u00e9 Vi\u00e9net which explores the devel\u00adop\u00adment of <a title=\"Class conflict\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Class_conflict\">class con\u00adflict<\/a> through rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary agi\u00adta\u00adtion against a back\u00addrop of graph\u00adic kung-fu fight\u00ading. (1973)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lady Whirl\u00adwind<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/LADYWHIRLWIND1973_1\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Some\u00adtimes called <em>Deep Thrust<\/em>. Here\u2019s the plot: Tien arrives in town look\u00ading to exact revenge on Ling for aban\u00addon\u00ading her preg\u00adnant sis\u00adter and thus dri\u00adving the&nbsp;sis\u00adter to com\u00admit sui\u00adcide. Although Tien agrees to help Ling take down the leader of a local gam\u00adbling syn\u00addi\u00adcate, she nonethe\u00adless still plans to avenge her sis\u00adter\u2019s death which she holds Ling respon\u00adsi\u00adble for.&nbsp;(1973)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leg\u00adend of the Eight Samu\u00adrai<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=788ECcuX5GY\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;Japan\u00adese his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal mar\u00adtial arts fan\u00adta\u00adsy film star\u00adring Son\u00adny Chi\u00adba and direct\u00aded by Kin\u00adji Fukasaku. The script is adapt\u00aded from a 1982 nov\u00adel Shin Sato\u00admi Hakkenden by Toshio Kama\u00adta, a loose rework\u00ading of the epic ser\u00adi\u00adal Nan\u00ads\u014d Sato\u00admi Hakkenden by Kyokutei Bakin. (1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mas\u00adter of the Fly\u00ading Guil\u00adlo\u00adtine<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/w11jAtQrQHk?si=E3GjY1NZZZ6cHyc3\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;Tai\u00adwanese wux\u00adia film star\u00adring Jim\u00admy Wang Yu, who also wrote and direct\u00aded the film. It is a sequel to Wang\u2019s 1971 film <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLauen44vhZfj-nRY_fTICBueQzwRxCd36\"><em>One Armed Box\u00ader<\/em><\/a>, and thus the film is also known as <em>One-Armed Box\u00ader 2<\/em>. (1976)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nin\u00adja Death Tril\u00ado\u00adgy<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/NinjaDeathTrilogy\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;The entire Nin\u00adja Death Tril\u00ado\u00adgy. Four hours of non stop action. (1987)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Return of Kung Fu Drag\u00adon<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9OW1-TINcsM\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Son\u00adny Chi\u00adba stars again&nbsp;as the dead\u00adly mar\u00adtial arts mer\u00adce\u00adnary Taku\u00adma Tsu\u00adru\u00adgi in a movie where he must bat\u00adtle against the Yakuza because of a deal gone bad. (1976)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Return of the Street Fight\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pCS1nyztMiA\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Taku\u00adma \u201cTer\u00adry\u201d Tsu\u00adru\u00adgi returns. In this sequel to <em>The Street Fight\u00ader<\/em>, he sets out to bust up a pho\u00adny char\u00adi\u00adty put togeth\u00ader by the Yukuza. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shaolin Tem\u00adple<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ShaolinTempleMPEG\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Oth\u00ader\u00adwise called&nbsp;<em>Death Cham\u00adbers, <\/em>it is one of the Shaolin Tem\u00ad\u00adple-themed mar\u00adtial arts films and con\u00adcerns their rebel\u00adlion against the Qings. Stars David Chi\u00adang, Ti Lung, and Fu Sheng. (1976)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sis\u00adter Street\u00adfight\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/SisterStreetfighter1974\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Clas\u00adsic grind\u00adhouse karate film star\u00adring Sue Shi\u00adho\u00admi.&nbsp;(1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spir\u00adits of Bruce Lee<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GBbDv8lAbuk\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Richard Lee res\u00adcues a young Thai box\u00ader on his way to Wansen which is a small town with strange cus\u00adtoms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Big Fight<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=83V7U5ugMIA\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Japan\u00adese oppress the Chi\u00adnese dur\u00ading WW\u20112, until resis\u00adtance breaks out. Stars Tien Peng, Yee Yuen, Che\u00adung Ching Ching, and Blacky Ko.&nbsp;(1972)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Image of Bruce Lee<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ImageofBruceLee\">Free<\/a> \u2014 70s action film about Bruce Li as a spe\u00adcial agent who teams with a Hong Kong police offi\u00adcer to crack a smug\u00adgling ring. Apart from the title, the only thing this film has to do with Bruce Lee is when some\u00adone tells the Bruce Li&nbsp;char\u00adac\u00adter that he resem\u00adbles Lee. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Real Bruce Lee<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nmVvSgHC3aM\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This&nbsp;mar\u00adtial arts doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary begins with a brief biog\u00adra\u00adphy of Bruce Lee, and shows scenes from four of his child\u00adhood films, Bad Boy, Orphan Sam, Kid Che\u00adung, and The Car\u00adni\u00adval, each sepia-toned and dubbed to Eng\u00adlish. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Street Fight\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/the-street-fighter.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 One of Quentin Taran\u00adti\u00adno\u2019s favorite karate films, and 13# on his list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/quentin-tarantinos-top-20-grindhouse-flicks.html\">20 great Grind\u00adhouse films.<\/a> Star\u00adring Son\u00adny Chi\u00adba, the film was the first to get an X rat\u00ading for vio\u00adlence. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Street Fight\u00ader\u2019s Last Revenge<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XjDSbBNbgi8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A mar\u00adtial arts film and the third in a series start\u00ading with <em>The Street Fight\u00ader<\/em> star\u00adring Son\u00adny Chi\u00adba. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>TNT Jack\u00adson<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/T.n.t.Jackson\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A young karate expert search\u00ades for her broth\u00ader\u2019s killer in Hong Kong. (1975)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Westerns\" class=\"curatedcategory\">\n<h2><a href=\"#Westerns\">Free Westerns<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Angel and the Bad\u00adman&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CyiirU6npQ0\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A black and white West\u00adern star\u00adring John Wayne and Gail Rus\u00adsell. Con\u00adsid\u00adered a rad\u00adi\u00adcal depar\u00adture from the West\u00adern genre at the time. Find Inter\u00adnet Archive ver\u00adsion&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/angel_and_the_badman\">here<\/a>. (1947)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bil\u00adly the Kid Want\u00aded<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Billy_the_Kid_Wanted_1941\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Bil\u00adly the Kid (Buster Crabbe) and his pal Jeff (Dave O\u2019Brien) help their friend Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John) escape from jail, and the trio heads for Par\u00adadise Val\u00adley, where they find the Par\u00adadise Land Devel\u00adop\u00adment Com\u00adpa\u00adny, ran by Matt Braw\u00adley (Glenn Strange) and Jack Saun\u00adders (Charles King), (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Blue Steel<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y-5ZHTzd1hQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014 West\u00adern film with John Wayne play\u00ading a U.S. Mar\u00adshal try\u00ading to cap\u00adture the Pol\u00adka Dot Ban\u00addit. Some con\u00adsid\u00ader it the best of the Wayne Lone Star films. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Born to the West<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QnK5X6YIDwc\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Can Dare Rudd prove he is respon\u00adsi\u00adble enough to win the heart of Judy and also out\u00adwit the crooked saloon own\u00ader? Stars&nbsp;John Wayne, Mar\u00adsha Hunt and John Mack Brown. (1937)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Death Rides a Horse<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details.php?identifier=Death_Rides_A_Horse_pan_and_scan\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Giulio Petron\u00adi\u2019s top spaghet\u00adti west\u00adern. (1967)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fron\u00adtier Hori\u00adzon<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/FrontierHorizon\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Three Mes\u00adque\u00adteers attempt to pre\u00advent whole\u00adsale slaugh\u00adter in this fine <em>Repub\u00adlic<\/em> West\u00adern star\u00adring John Wayne, Ray \u201cCrash\u201d Cor\u00adri\u00adg\u00adan, and Ray\u00admond Hat\u00adton. (1939)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gone with the West<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/GonewiththeWest\">Free<\/a> \u2014 James Caan, Ste\u00adfanie Pow\u00aders and Sam\u00admy Davis Jr. in 1975 west\u00adern.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hell\u00adtown<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Hell_Town\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly called <em>Born to the West<\/em>, this John Wayne west\u00adern was based on a nov\u00adel by Zane Grey. (1937)<\/li>\n<li><strong>High Lone\u00adsome<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RvCeeqb6ubk\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A drifter (John Drew Bar\u00adry\u00admore) is sus\u00adpect\u00aded of mur\u00adder, when the real mur\u00adder\u00aders are two men who every\u00adbody thinks are dead. This movie was filmed back to back with \u201cThe Sun\u00addown\u00aders\u201d on the same set.&nbsp;(1950)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joshua<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bRmVnTeozqo\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A black sol\u00addier returns from fight\u00ading in the Civ\u00adil War only to find out that his moth\u00ader has been mur\u00addered by a gang of white thugs. He becomes a boun\u00adty hunter, deter\u00admined to exact revenge. Direct\u00aded by Lar\u00adry G. Span\u00adgler, stars Lar\u00adry Williamson. (1976)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Law of the Rio Grande<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E56qcvtc6Z8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by For\u00adrest Shel\u00addon, the film is about Jim and Cook\u00adie. Escap\u00ading from the Sher\u00adiff, they decide to go straight. But when they meet their old cohort, The Blan\u00adco Kid, he tells their new boss they are out\u00adlaws and they are in big trou\u00adble again. (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>McLin\u00adtock!<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Mclintock.avi\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Com\u00ade\u00addy West\u00adern star\u00adring John Wayne &amp; Mau\u00adreen O\u2019Hara. Loose\u00adly based on <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespeare.mit.edu\/taming_shrew\/\">Shake\u00adspeare\u2019s <em>The Tam\u00ading of the Shrew<\/em><\/a>. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u2018Neath the Ari\u00adzona Skies<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/NeaththeArizonaSkys\">Free<\/a> \u2014 John Wayne plays a cow\u00adboy pro\u00adtect\u00ading an Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Indi\u00adan oil-land heiress. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>One Eyed Jacks<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/oneeyedjacks1961\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The only film direct\u00aded by Mar\u00adlon Bran\u00addo. He also plays its lead char\u00adac\u00adter, Rio. (1961)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Par\u00adadise Canyon<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ParadiseCanyon\">Free<\/a> \u2014 West\u00adern star\u00adring John Wayne. Fea\u00adtures Wayne as gov\u00adern\u00adment agent John Wyatt search\u00ading for a coun\u00adter\u00adfeit ring oper\u00adat\u00ading on the Mexican\/Arizona bor\u00adder. (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rain\u00adbow Val\u00adley \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3LQU8yoKvps\">Free<\/a> \u2014 John Mar\u00adtin (John Wayne) is a gov\u00adern\u00adment agent work\u00ading under cov\u00ader. Lead\u00ading cit\u00adi\u00adzen Mor\u00adgan calls in gun\u00adman Butch Galt (Buf\u00adfa\u00adlo Bill Jr.) who blows Mar\u00adt\u00adin\u2019s cov\u00ader. (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Randy Rides Alone<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/RandyRidesAlone\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Jailed for mur\u00adders he did\u00adn\u2019t com\u00admit, Randy Bow\u00aders (John Wayne) escapes only to stum\u00adble into the den of the real mur\u00adder\u00aders. Enter\u00adtain\u00ading ear\u00adly Wayne film. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rawhide<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/08\/lou_gehrig_yankee_legend_stars_in_1938_western_film.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short west\u00adern implau\u00adsi\u00adbly star\u00adring the Yan\u00adkee leg\u00adend, Lou Gehrig. (1938)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rid\u00aders of Des\u00adtiny<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/RidersofDestiny_\">Free<\/a> \u2014 John Wayne por\u00adtrays Sin\u00adgin\u2019 Sandy Saun\u00adders and has a rep\u00adu\u00adta\u00adtion as the most noto\u00adri\u00adous gun\u00adman since Bil\u00adly the Kid. Fea\u00adtures Wayne in singing role. (1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sage\u00adbrush Trail<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/SagebrushTrail\">Free<\/a> \u2014 John Wayne plays John Brant who escapes from jail after being wrong\u00adly accused of mur\u00adder. Fea\u00adtures great stage\u00adcoach chase. (1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>San\u00adta Fe Trail<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/SantaFeTrail1940\">Free<\/a> \u2014 West\u00adern film direct\u00aded by Michael Cur\u00adtiz (also direct\u00aded <em>Casablan\u00adca<\/em>) and star\u00adring Errol Fly\u00adnn, Olivia de Hav\u00adil\u00adland and Ronald Rea\u00adgan.&nbsp;(1940).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sev\u00aden Alone<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SEIB_txWzTg\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A fron\u00adtier fam\u00adi\u00adly with sev\u00aden chil\u00addren heads West on the Ore\u00adgon Trail. When both of their par\u00adents die, they decide to push on alone. Stars Dewey Mar\u00adtin and Aldo Ray.&nbsp;(1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Song of Ari\u00adzona<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/SongOfArizona\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Stars Roy Rogers. Direct\u00aded by Frank McDon\u00adald. \u201cGab\u00adby\u2019s ranch for way\u00adward boys is in finan\u00adcial trou\u00adble. One of his boys, Chip is hid\u00ading stolen mon\u00adey sent by his father the out\u00adlaw leader King Blaine. After Blaine is killed, Chip decides to pay off Gab\u00adby\u2019s debt with this mon\u00adey, but trou\u00adble aris\u00ades when the remain\u00ading gang mem\u00adbers arrive look\u00ading for the loot.\u201d<br>\n(1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Texas Ter\u00adror<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/texas_terror_1935\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A young John Wayne in a roman\u00adtic west\u00adern. (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan West of John Ford \u2014 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheAmericanWestofJohnFord\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>-<\/strong> A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary encap\u00adsu\u00adlat\u00ading the career and West\u00adern films of direc\u00adtor John Ford, fea\u00adtur\u00ading inter\u00adviews with John Wayne, James Stew\u00adart and Hen\u00adry Fon\u00adda. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dawn Rid\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheDawnRider\">Free<\/a> \u2014 John Wayne plays John Mason, a man aveng\u00ading his father\u2019s mur\u00adder. A west\u00adern direct\u00aded by Robert Brad\u00adbury. (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Desert Trail<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheDesertTrail1935\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Ear\u00adly West\u00adern with John Wayne. Accord\u00ading to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.westernclippings.com\/westernsof\/johnwayne_westernsof.shtml\">West\u00adern\u00adClip\u00adpings<\/a>, not Wayne\u2019s finest hour. (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Great Train Rob\u00adbery<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheGreatTrainRobbery_555\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Ear\u00adly west\u00adern film by Edwin S. Porter. A land\u00admark in nar\u00adra\u00adtive film\u00admak\u00ading (1903)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Law\u00adless Fron\u00adtier<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheLawlessFontier\">Free<\/a> \u2014 B West\u00adern star\u00adring John Wayne and direct\u00aded by Robert Brad\u00adbury. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lucky Tex\u00adan \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheLuckyTexan\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Jer\u00adry Mason (played by John Wayne) and Jake Ben\u00adson become part\u00adners and strike it rich with a gold mine. (1934) They then find their lives com\u00adpli\u00adcat\u00aded by bad guys and a woman. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Man From Utah<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheManFromUtah\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Mar\u00adshal sends John West\u00adon (John Wayne) to a rodeo to see if he can find out who is killing the rodeo rid\u00aders who are about to win prize mon\u00adey. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Out\u00adlaw <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vG1mE3j2nwM\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan West\u00adern sto\u00adry of Bil\u00adly the Kid, Doc Hol\u00adl\u00adi\u00adday, and Pat Gar\u00adrett, direct\u00aded by Howard Hugh\u00ades, and debut\u00ading Jane Rus\u00adsell in her first movie role. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Range Feud<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheRangeFeud1931-BuckJonesAndJohnWayne\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Clint Turn\u00ader is arrest\u00aded for the mur\u00adder of his girl\u00adfriend Judy\u2019s father, a rival ranch\u00ader who was an ene\u00admy of his own father. Stars John Wayne and Buck Jones. (1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The San Anto\u00adnio Kid<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheSanAntonioKid-BillElliott1944\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Howard Brether\u00adton, the film is about a geol\u00ado\u00adgist who has found oil on the neigh\u00adbor\u00ading ranch\u00ades and teams up with Ace who has his gang cre\u00adate a reign of ter\u00adror to get the ranch\u00aders to sell out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Star Pack\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/The_Star_Packer\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A gang work\u00ading for \u201cThe Shad\u00adow\u201d is ter\u00adror\u00adiz\u00ading the town. John Tra\u00advers (John Wayne) decides to take on the job of sher\u00adiff and do some\u00adthing about it. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Trail Beyond \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheTrailBeyond\">Free<\/a> \u2014 West\u00adern star\u00adring John Wayne, Noah Beery, Sr., and Noah Beery, Jr. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Young Land <\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/YoungLand\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Den\u00adnis Hop\u00adper stars in a West\u00adern shot in 1959.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two Fist\u00aded Law&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TwoFistedLawWithTimMccoyAndJohnWayne1932\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;After Rob Rus\u00adsell steals Tim Clark\u2019s ranch, Clark starts prospect\u00ading for sil\u00adver. Stars John Wayne and Tim McCoy. (1932)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vengeance Val\u00adley<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/VengeanceValley\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;Amer\u00adi\u00adcan West\u00adern film star\u00adring Burt Lan\u00adcast\u00ader, based on the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1JtQiKG\">nov\u00adel by Luke Short<\/a>. (1951)<\/li>\n<li><strong>War of the Wild\u00adcats<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/WarOfTheWildcats-JohnWayne1943\">Free<\/a> \u2014 John Wayne stars in west\u00adern oth\u00ader\u00adwise called <em>In Old Okla\u00adhoma.<\/em> One of Wayne\u2019s bet\u00adter post-Stage\u00adcoach per\u00adfor\u00admances. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>West of the Divide<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/west_of_the_divide\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A young John Wayne in B west\u00adern. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Winds of the Waste\u00adland<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1ZX92o3jAQk\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;The arrival of the tele\u00adgraph put Pony Express rid\u00aders like&nbsp;John&nbsp;Blair (John&nbsp;Wayne) and his pal Smoky (Lane Chan\u00addler) out of work they try to start a stage\u00adcoach route through a ghost town. A rival stage\u00adcoach com\u00adpa\u00adny tries to stop them. (1936)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Find a com\u00adplete col\u00adlec\u00adtion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/01\/john_wayne_25_free_western_films_online.html\">John Wayne films here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"Silent\" class=\"curatedcategory\">\n<h2><a href=\"#Silent\">Free Silent Films<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>20 Buster Keaton Films<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/07\/buster-keaton-film-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An assort\u00adment of films from one of the found\u00ading fathers of visu\u00adal com\u00ade\u00addy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>60 Free Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin Films<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/12\/free_charlie_chaplin_films_on_the_web.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An assort\u00adment of films from one of the most pro\u00adlif\u00adic actors and film\u00admak\u00aders of ear\u00adly cin\u00ade\u00adma.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Abra\u00adham Lin\u00adcoln&nbsp;\u2014 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details.php?identifier=abraham_lincoln\">Free<\/a><strong> -<\/strong>&nbsp;DW Grif\u00adfith\u2019s biog\u00adra\u00adphy&nbsp;of the beloved Unit\u00aded States pres\u00adi\u00addent.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Bur\u00adlesque On Car\u00admen<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0RfS1b-QRZk\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Orig\u00adi\u00adnal two-reel par\u00ado\u00addy of Bizet\u2019s Car\u00admen by Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin. Also stars Leo White &amp; Edna Pur\u00adviance. (1915)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Busy Day<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oH7b7dHxipY\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin plays a wife jeal\u00adous of her hus\u00adband\u2019s inter\u00adest in anoth\u00ader woman, played by Phyl\u00adlis Allen. (1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Christ\u00admas Car\u00adol <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/a_christmas_carol_presented_in_a_thomas_edison_film_1910\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Marc McDer\u00admott stars as Ebenez\u00ader Scrooge in this 1910 ver\u00adsion of Dick\u00adens\u2019 clas\u00adsic ghost sto\u00adry.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Day\u2019s Plea\u00adsure<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ORqWfQcSPKI\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 \u201cChap\u00adlin\u2019s fourth film for First Nation\u00adal Films. It was cre\u00adat\u00aded at the Chap\u00adlin Stu\u00addio. It was a quick\u00adly made two-reel\u00ader to help fill a gap while work\u00ading on his first fea\u00adture The Kid. It is about a day out\u00ading with his wife and the kids and things don\u2019t go smooth\u00adly.\u201d (1919)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Dog\u2019s Life<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=txSJDmt4u6Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This endear\u00ading short Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin film tells the sto\u00adry of under\u00addogs, human&nbsp;and canine, suc\u00adceed\u00ading despite the odds. (1918)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Fair Exchange<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=x5wZYS0iXBQ\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly released as&nbsp;<em>Get\u00adting Acquaint\u00aded<\/em>, the film\u2019s plot has been sum\u00adma\u00adrized as fol\u00adlows: \u201cChar\u00adlie and his wife are walk\u00ading in the park when they encounter Ambrose and his wife. The part\u00adners become fond of their coun\u00adter\u00adparts and begin chas\u00ading each oth\u00ader around. A police\u00adman look\u00ading for a pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal Don Juan becomes involved, as does a Turk.\u201d (1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Film John\u00adnie <\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XDohPrPvnz4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Char\u00adlie goes to the movie and falls in love with a girl on the screen. (1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Man with a Cam\u00adera<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/watch-dziga-vertovs-a-man-with-a-movie-camera-named-the-8th-best-film-ever-made.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Dzi\u00adga Ver\u00adtov\u2019s exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal film about life as it is lived.&nbsp;A&nbsp;<em>Sight and Sound<\/em>&nbsp;mag\u00ada\u00adzine poll named it the 8th best movie ever made. (1929)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Night in the Show<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EIOVo6DrBMQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin played two roles: one as Mr. Pest and one as Mr. Row\u00addy. The film was cre\u00adat\u00aded from Chap\u00adlin\u2019s stage work from a play called Mum\u00adming Birds. (1915)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Page of Mad\u00adness<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(Kuret\u00adta Ippei)<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/07\/a-page-of-madness.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;This film direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Teinosuke Kin\u00adu\u00adgasa and writ\u00adten by Nobel Prize win\u00adter Yasunari Kawa\u00adba\u00adta is one&nbsp;of the great land\u00admarks of Japan\u00adese silent cin\u00ade\u00adma.&nbsp;(1926)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Sixth Part Of The World<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DzigaVertovASixthPartOfTheWorld1926\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Using&nbsp;a trav\u00adel\u00adogue for\u00admat, Dzi\u00adga Ver\u00adtov\u2019s film depicts the mul\u00adti\u00adtude of Sovi\u00adet peo\u00adples in remote areas of the USSR. (1926)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Woman<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z-4ALnPyH1o\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This Chap\u00adlin film starts with Char\u00adlie&nbsp;meet\u00ading Edna (<a title=\"Edna Purviance\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Edna_Purviance\">Edna Pur\u00adviance<\/a>) and her par\u00adents in a park; the moth\u00ader is played by Mar\u00adta Gold\u00aden and the father by Charles Ins\u00adley. (1915)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aeli\u00adta<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/06\/watch-the-first-russian-science-fiction-film-aelita-queen-of-mars-1924.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;silent film direct\u00aded by Sovi\u00adet film\u00admak\u00ader Yakov Pro\u00adtazanov.&nbsp;One of the ear\u00adli\u00adest full-length films about space trav\u00adel, the most notable part of the film remains its remark\u00adable con\u00adstruc\u00adtivist Mar\u00adt\u00adian sets and cos\u00adtumes designed by Alek\u00adsan\u00addra Ekster. (1924)<\/li>\n<li><strong>After the Ball<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/11\/after-the-ball-1897-adult-film.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;One of the first \u201cadult\u201d films in cin\u00ade\u00adma his\u00adto\u00adry. By the pio\u00adneer\u00ading direc\u00adtor Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice in Won\u00adder\u00adland<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/the-earliest-film-adaptation-of-alice-in-wonderland-from-1903.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first-ever film ver\u00adsion of Lewis Car\u00adrol\u00adl\u2019s tale. Based on Sir John Ten\u00adniel\u2019s orig\u00adi\u00adnal illus\u00adtra\u00adtions. (1903)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alice in Won\u00adder\u00adland<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/AliceinWonderland1915\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Silent adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Lewis Car\u00adrol\u00adl\u2019s clas\u00adsic, direct\u00aded and writ\u00adten by W.W. Young. (1915)<\/li>\n<li><strong>An\u00e9mic Cin\u00e9\u00adma <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/10\/anemic_cinema.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Mar\u00adcel Ducham\u00adp\u2019s avant-garde film com\u00adbines&nbsp;whirling opti\u00adcal illu\u00adsions, known as&nbsp;Rotore\u00adliefs, with spi\u00adral\u00ading puns and com\u00adplex word play. (1926)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bat\u00adtle\u00adship Potemkin<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/06\/free-watch-battleship-potemkin-and-other-films-by-sergei-eisenstein-the-revolutionary-soviet-filmmaker.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by the great Russ\u00adian direc\u00adtor, Sergei Eisen\u00adstein. One of the most influ\u00aden\u00adtial pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda films of all time. Alter\u00adna\u00adtive ver\u00adsion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/BattleshipPotemkin\">here<\/a>. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Behind the Screen<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=noVv7gxp8gU\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;short film writ\u00adten and direct\u00aded by Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin, the film is long on slap\u00adstick, but it also gets into themes deal\u00ading with gen\u00adder bend\u00ading and homo\u00adsex\u00adu\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty.&nbsp;(1916)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Between Show\u00aders&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rPNNXZaFF2A\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A short Key\u00adstone film from 1914 star\u00adring&nbsp;Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin, Ford Ster\u00adling, and Emma Bell Clifton.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bro\u00adken Blos\u00adsoms<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/brokenblossoms1919\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Silent film direct\u00aded by D.W. Grif\u00adfith and star\u00adring Lil\u00adlian Gish. (1919)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Char\u00adlie Shang\u00adhaied<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MN20btk14Rw\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Char\u00adlie&nbsp;Chap\u00adlin and his Tramp char\u00adac\u00adter gets&nbsp;shang\u00adhaied&nbsp;by crooks. (1915)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Char\u00adlie\u2019s Recre\u00adation<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ebjhVIQjGb8\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Out of cos\u00adtume, Char\u00adlie is a clean-shaven dandy who, some\u00adwhat drunk, vis\u00adits a dance hall. There the wardrobe girl has three rival admir\u00aders: the band leader, one of the musi\u00adcians, and now Char\u00adlie. (1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cin\u00adderel\u00adla<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=s1hzP9yzb_U\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This film by George M\u00e9li\u00e8s&nbsp;is the old\u00adest known film adap\u00adta\u00adtion of the 1697 fairy tale. It was also appar\u00adent\u00adly&nbsp;the first movie to use a \u201cdis\u00adsolve tran\u00adsi\u00adtion\u201d between scenes.&nbsp;(1899)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Das Wan\u00addernde Bild<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/youtube-r2dgw262LPk\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A silent, black and white film direct\u00aded by Fritz Lang released in 1920.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Der Golum<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheGolem_893\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Paul&nbsp;Wegen\u00ader\u2019s Ger\u00adman expres\u00adsion\u00adist clas\u00adsic, says Roger Ebert, \u201cis a vivid piece of dark\u00adly toned fan\u00adta\u00adsy that exert\u00aded a pow\u00ader\u00adful influ\u00adence over both Euro\u00adpean cin\u00ade\u00adma and Hol\u00adly\u00adwood.\u201d&nbsp;(1920)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Die Nibelun\u00adgen<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/1924NIbelungos02\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;series of two silent fan\u00adta\u00adsy films cre\u00adat\u00aded by Fritz Lang in 1924. Runs 5 hours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Don Quixote<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DonQuixote\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Clas\u00adsic adap\u00adta\u00adtion of the Miguel de Cer\u00advantes\u2019 nov\u00adel (find in our col\u00adlec\u00adtion of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/free_ebooks\"> Free eBooks<\/a>), direct\u00aded by Georg Wil\u00adhelm Pab\u00adst, and star\u00adring the famous oper\u00adat\u00adic bass Feodor Chali\u00adapin.&nbsp;(1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Dr.JekyllAndMr.Hyde1912_201312\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Hor\u00adror film based on Robert Louis Steven\u00adson\u2019s novel\u00adla <em>Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.<\/em> (1912)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DrJekyllandMrHyde\">Free<\/a> \u2014 John Bar\u00adry\u00admore stars in the renowned silent adap\u00adta\u00adtion of the Robert Louis Steven\u00adson clas\u00adsic. (1920)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/06\/the-first-biopic-of-edgar-allan-poe-1909-film-by-d-w-griffith-shows-the-horror-master-writing-the-raven.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first biopic of Poe, shot by D.W. Grif\u00adfith. Shows Poe writ\u00ading The Raven. (1909)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Earth <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/02\/watch-earth-a-landmark-of-soviet-cinema.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The third install\u00adment in Alexan\u00adder Dovzhenko\u2019s \u201cUkraine Tril\u00ado\u00adgy,\u201d <em>Earth<\/em> is con\u00adsid\u00adered a mas\u00adter\u00adpiece in ear\u00adly Sovi\u00adet cin\u00ade\u00adma, and one of the great\u00adest silent films of all time. (1930)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Easy Street <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G_D2G66bplk\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin steps for\u00adward and keeps the peace. (1917)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Easy Virtue <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uwkfM-Gi7KU\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Ear\u00adly&nbsp;silent film direct\u00aded by Alfred Hitch\u00adcock. Loose\u00adly based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1TgC5X6\">play by No\u00ebl Cow\u00adard<\/a>.&nbsp;(1928)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emak-Bakia<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/man_ray_and_the_icinema_puri_four_surrealist_films_from_the_1920s.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Fea\u00adtures film\u00ading tech\u00adniques used by Man Ray, includ\u00ading rayo\u00adgraphs, dou\u00adble expo\u00adsures, soft focus and ambigu\u00adous fea\u00adtures.&nbsp;(1926)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Entr\u2019Acte<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/11\/entracte-rene-clairs-dadaist-masterpiece-1924.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Ren\u00e9 Clair\u2019s dadaist mas\u00adter\u00adpiece. Fea\u00adtures scenes of&nbsp;Mar\u00adcel Duchamp and Man Ray.&nbsp;(1924)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Faust \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/FaustF.W.MurnauSilentFilm\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>-<\/strong> Ger\u00adman expres\u00adsion\u00adist film\u00admak\u00ader F.W. Mur\u00adnau directs film ver\u00adsion of Goethe\u2019s clas\u00adsic tale. This was Mur\u00adnau\u2019s last Ger\u00adman movie. (1926)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Franken\u00adstein \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/06\/the-very-first-film-adaptation-of-mary-shelleys-frankenstein.html\">Free<\/a> <strong>-<\/strong> The first time Mary Shel\u00adley\u2019s lit\u00ader\u00adary was brought to the big screen. (1910)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ghosts Before Break\u00adfast<\/strong> <strong>(Vor\u00admit\u00adtagsspuk) <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/vormittagsspuk-aka-ghosts-before-breakfast_1928\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Silent avant-garde film by Hans Richter. The nazis destroyed the sound ver\u00adsion of the film, deem\u00ading it \u201cdegen\u00ader\u00adate art.\u201d (1928)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Greed<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R9BhPxmEQsM\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Erich von Stroheim\u2019s silent dra\u00adma orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly ran 10 hours, but was even\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly hacked down to two. It fol\u00adlows a&nbsp;den\u00adtist&nbsp;whose wife wins a&nbsp;lot\u00adtery&nbsp;tick\u00adet, only to become obsessed with mon\u00adey. (1924)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Harakiri<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/Harakiri1919fritzLang\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ear\u00adly silent film by Fritz Lang. (1919)<\/li>\n<li><strong>H\u00e4x\u00adan<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Haxan_tinted_and_subtitled\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Swedish\/Danish silent hor\u00adror film writ\u00adten and direct\u00aded by Ben\u00adjamin Chris\u00adtensen. (1922)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hell W10<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/05\/the_clash_star_in_1980s_gangster_parody_hell_w10.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Clash stars in 1980s gang\u00adster par\u00ado\u00addy. Writ\u00adten and direct\u00aded by Joe Strum\u00admer. (1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Intol\u00ader\u00adance<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/07\/dw-griffith-intolerance.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 D.W. Grif\u00adfith\u2019s most ambi\u00adtious silent film is one of the land\u00admarks in cin\u00ade\u00admat\u00adic his\u00adto\u00adry. (1916)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Kino Eye<\/strong><i> \u2014&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zy_TK0SyQeY&amp;t=3s\">Free<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;\u2014 Dzi\u00adga Vertov\u2019s first doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary not made from found footage. Shows the joys of life in a Sovi\u00adet vil\u00adlage cen\u00adters around the activ\u00adi\u00adties of the Young Pio\u00adneers.&nbsp;(1924)<\/li>\n<li><strong>La Souri\u00adante Madame Beudet<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/11\/behold-the-first-feminist-film-germaine-dulacs-the-smiling-madame-beudet-1922.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Ear\u00adly fem\u00adi\u00adnist film by Ger\u00admaine Dulac. Fea\u00adtures a woman trapped in a love\u00adless mar\u00adriage. (1922)<\/li>\n<li><strong>L\u2019In\u00adfer\u00adno<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/07\/linferno-1911-italys-first-feature-film.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Italy\u2019s first fea\u00adture film, and some say still the best adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Dan\u00adte\u2019s clas\u00adsic work. (1911)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Joy\u00adless Street<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheJoylessStreet1926\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Gre\u00adta Gar\u00adbo stars in her sec\u00adond major role. One of the first films of the \u201cNew Objec\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty\u201d move\u00adment. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Kid Auto Races at Venice<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-j2K3A1S5ak\">Free<\/a> \u2014 It\u2019s the first film in which Char\u00adlie&nbsp;Chap\u00adlin\u2019s icon\u00adic \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Tramp\">Lit\u00adtle Tramp<\/a>\u201d char\u00adac\u00adter makes his appear\u00adance.&nbsp;(1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>L\u2019Ar\u00adriv\u00e9e D\u2019un Train En Gare De La Cio\u00adtat <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2008\/07\/the_first_unintended_horror_film_.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 One of the most famous ear\u00adly silent films shot by&nbsp;Auguste and Louis Lumi\u00e8re. (1895)<\/li>\n<li><strong>La Pas\u00adsion de Jeanne d\u2019Arc<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/watch-online-the-passion-of-joan-of-arc-by-carl-theodor-dreyer-1928\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Carl Theodor Drey\u00ader and star\u00adring Ren\u00e9e Jeanne Fal\u00adconet\u00adti, this film is con\u00adsid\u00adered a mas\u00adter\u00adpiece from the silent era. Find an&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DreyersThePassionOfJoanOfArc\">alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion on Archive.org here<\/a>. (1928)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Laugh\u00ading Gas <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=j7GPgYwuCHk&amp;feature=player_embedded\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Film star\u00adring&nbsp;Chap\u00adlin&nbsp;is some\u00adtimes known as&nbsp;\u201dBusy Lit\u00adtle Den\u00adtist\u201d, \u201cDown and Out\u201d, \u201cLaffing Gas\u201d, \u201cThe Den\u00adtist\u201d, and \u201cTun\u00ading His Ivories\u201d.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Le Bal\u00adlet M\u00e9canique <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/ile_ballet_mecaniquei_the_historic_cinematic_collaboration_between_fernand_leger_and_george_antheil.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;His\u00adtoric cin\u00ade\u00admat\u00adic col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion between Fer\u00adnand Leg\u00e9r and George Antheil. (1924)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Le Retour \u00e0 la Rai\u00adson<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/man_ray_and_the_icinema_puri_four_surrealist_films_from_the_1920s.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A film from the avant-garde&nbsp;Cin\u00e9\u00adma Pur move\u00adment shot by Man Ray in 1923.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lime Club Field Day<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/09\/lime-kiln-club-field-day.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 One of the ear\u00adli\u00adest sur\u00adviv\u00ading fea\u00adture films with an all black cast (1913)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mabel\u2019s Strange Predica\u00adment<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fXpfD_2BQEI\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Watch lots of lots of high jinks go down in a hotel. (1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mak\u00ading a Liv\u00ading <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XY1csKCVZMg\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Pre\u00admier\u00ading on Feb\u00adru\u00adary 2, 1914,&nbsp;<em>Mak\u00ading a Liv\u00ading <\/em>marks the first film appear\u00adance by Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Man\u00adhat\u00adta<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/07\/watch-manhatta-the-first-american-avant-garde-film-1921.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion by pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader-painter Charles Sheel\u00ader and pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader Paul Strand, <em>Man\u00adhat\u00adta<\/em> made cin\u00ade\u00admat\u00adic his\u00adto\u00adry as the first Amer\u00adi\u00adcan avant-garde film. (1921)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Menil\u00admontant<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/menilmontant1924-25\">Free<\/a> \u2014 When Pauline Kael, long\u00adtime New York\u00ader film crit\u00adic, was asked to name her favorite film, this was it. French silent film. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Metrop\u00ado\u00adlis<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XmscbGV-dEY\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Fritz Lang\u2019s fable of good and evil fight\u00ading it out in a futur\u00adis\u00adtic urban dystopia. An impor\u00adtant clas\u00adsic.&nbsp;(1927)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nerves<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/66A_EGgmtu0?si=AJIcxj4xDTVxNqTM\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Robert Rein\u00adert, Nerves tells of \u201cthe polit\u00adi\u00adcal dis\u00adputes of an ultra\u00adcon\u00adser\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive fac\u00adto\u00adry own\u00ader Herr Roloff and Teacher John, who feels a com\u00adpul\u00adsive but secret love for Rolof\u00adf\u2019s sis\u00adter, a left-wing rad\u00adi\u00adcal.\u201d (1919)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nos\u00adfer\u00adatu<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/10\/watch_quintessential_vampire_film_nosferatu.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Ger\u00adman Expres\u00adsion\u00adist hor\u00adror film direct\u00aded by F. W. Mur\u00adnau. An unau\u00adtho\u00adrized adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Bram Stok\u00ader\u2019s Drac\u00adu\u00adla. (1922)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Octo\u00adber: Ten Days That Shook the World<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Eisenstein-October\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly called&nbsp;<em>Oktyabr<\/em>, Sergei Eisen\u00adstein\u2019s film doc\u00adu\u00adments the Russ\u00adian Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion of 1917. A mas\u00adter\u00adpiece by a pio\u00adneer\u00ading film\u00admak\u00ader. (1928)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Old and New <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Eisenstein-TheGeneralLine\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Also called The Gen\u00ader\u00adal Line, Sergei Eisen\u00adstein\u2019s film has been called a \u201cbucol\u00adic epic about the Sovi\u00adet strug\u00adgle to col\u00adlec\u00adtivize agri\u00adcul\u00adtur\u00adal pro\u00adduc\u00adtion.\u201d &nbsp;(1929)<\/li>\n<li><strong>One A.M.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=coA8P45TIaU\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The first silent film Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin starred in alone. (1916)<\/li>\n<li><strong>One Week<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/OneWeek\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first film to be made by Buster Keaton on his own; Keaton had worked with Roscoe \u201cFat\u00adty\u201d Arbuck\u00adle for a num\u00adber of years. The film was writ\u00adten and direct\u00aded by Keaton and Edward F. Cline, and runs for 19 min\u00adutes. Sybil Seely co-stars. &nbsp;(1920)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Romance Sen\u00adti\u00admen\u00adtale<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/RomanceSentimentale\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Sergei Eisen\u00adstein. (1930) Alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/RomanceSentimentale\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Safe\u00adty Last<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/01\/safety-last-the-1923-movie-featuring-the-most-iconic-scene-from-silent-film-era-just-went-into-the-public-domain.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Star\u00adring Harold Lloyd, the film fea\u00adtures one of the most icon\u00adic scenes from the silent film era: Lloyd \u201cclutch\u00ading the hands of a large clock as he dan\u00adgles from the out\u00adside of a sky\u00adscraper above mov\u00ading traf\u00adfic.\u201d (1923)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sher\u00adlock Jr.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_QmMHu1mhLE\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A com\u00adic mas\u00adter\u00adpiece from the silent era. Stars Buster Keaton. (1924)<\/li>\n<li><b>Sher\u00adlock Holmes Baf\u00adfled <\/b>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/05\/the-very-first-sherlock-holmes-film-from-1900.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Watch the very first Sher\u00adlock Holmes movie. (1900)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sun\u00adrise: A Song of Two Humans<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/watch-f-w-murnaus-sunrise-free-online.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Made by the Ger\u00adman expres\u00adsion\u00adist direc\u00adtor F.W. Mur\u00adnau. Vot\u00aded in 2012, the 5th great\u00adest film of all time. (1927)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Adven\u00adtur\u00ader \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/CC_1917_10_22_TheAdventurer\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Char\u00adlie&nbsp;Chap\u00adlin plays an escaped con\u00advict who falls into favor with a wealthy fam\u00adi\u00adly after he saves a young lady. (1917)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Aveng\u00ading Con\u00adscience<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/06\/the-first-biopic-of-edgar-allan-poe-1909-film-by-d-w-griffith-shows-the-horror-master-writing-the-raven.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by D. W. Grif\u00adfith, the film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short sto\u00adry \u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart\u201d and the poem \u201cAnnabel Lee.\u201d Scroll down to the sec\u00adond video on the linked page. (1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Birth of a Nation<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/dw_griffith_birth_of_a_nation\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Direct\u00aded by DW Grif\u00adfith. A land\u00admark work in film his\u00adto\u00adry (1915) with racist under\u00adtones. (1915)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bond<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8KJU6zLdlTs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A&nbsp;pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda film cre\u00adat\u00aded and fund\u00aded by Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin for the\u00adatri\u00adcal release to help sell U.S. Lib\u00ader\u00adty Bonds dur\u00ading World War I. (1918)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cab\u00adi\u00adnet of Dr. Cali\u00adgari<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/10\/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-see-the-restored-version.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This silent film direct\u00aded by Robert Wiene is con\u00adsid\u00adered one of the most influ\u00aden\u00adtial Ger\u00adman Expres\u00adsion\u00adist films and per\u00adhaps one of the great\u00adest hor\u00adror movies of all time. Watch the restored ver\u00adsion. (1920)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Count<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eFD1UKSmRfs\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;The Count was Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin\u2019s 5th film for Mutu\u00adal Films. Co-star\u00adring Eric Camp\u00adbell and Edna Pur\u00adviance, it is a sto\u00adry about Char\u00adlie and his boss find\u00ading an invi\u00adta\u00adtion to a par\u00adty from a real Count.&nbsp;(1916)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cure<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/CC_1917_04_16_TheCure\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Chap\u00adlin plays a drunk who checks into a health spa to dry out and com\u00ade\u00addy ensues. (1917)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Death of Poor Joe<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/06\/watch-the-earliest-known-charles-dickens-film-the-death-of-poor-joe.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The ear\u00adli\u00adest sur\u00adviv\u00ading film inspired by the work of Charles Dick\u00adens, in this case the char\u00adac\u00adter of Jo the cross\u00ading sweep from \u2018Bleak House\u2019. (1901)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dev\u00adil\u00adish Ten\u00adant<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheDevilishTenant\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;In this Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s,&nbsp;a new ten\u00adant moves in and fills the room with fur\u00adni\u00adture tak\u00aden from his suit\u00adcase. (1909)<\/li>\n<li><strong><span class=\"s1\">The Eleventh Year<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3csHcuiuTv8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Dzi\u00adga Ver\u00adtov\u2019s film cel\u00ade\u00adbrates \u201cthe tenth anniver\u00adsary of the Octo\u00adber Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion\u201d which, <span class=\"s1\">accord\u00ading to the Har\u00advard Film Archive<\/span>, presents that decade of social\u00adism \u201cin the eyes of a left-wing artist of the twen\u00adties\u201d as \u201ca rad\u00adi\u00adcal social exper\u00adi\u00adment [ \u2026 ] required to be pre\u00adsent\u00aded in a rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal way.\u201d&nbsp;(1928)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fire\u00adman<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/uDSH1YRccXQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Char\u00adlie Chaplin\u2019s sec\u00adond short for Mutu\u00adal con\u00adtin\u00adued his focus on gags and situations\u2014as the title sug\u00adgests, Chap\u00adlin plays the role of an inept fire\u00adfight\u00ader. (1916)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Floor\u00adwalk\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sgTU-MXPxXs\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Filmed for the&nbsp;Mutu\u00adal Film Cor\u00adpo\u00adra\u00adtion, the film fea\u00adtured the first \u201crun\u00adning stair\u00adcase\u201d in cin\u00ade\u00adma his\u00adto\u00adry. (1916)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Four Horse\u00admen of the Apoc\u00ada\u00adlypse<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/FourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Huge\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar silent film that made Rudolph Valenti\u00adno a star. (1921)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fresh\u00adman<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4mH6N-Tbddc\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Star\u00adring Harold Lloyd, this com\u00ade\u00addy film tells the sto\u00adry of a col\u00adlege fresh\u00adman try\u00ading to become pop\u00adu\u00adlar by join\u00ading the school foot\u00adball team. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gen\u00ader\u00adal<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/07\/buster-keaton-film-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Orson Welles said that Buster Keaton\u2019s <em>The Gen\u00ader\u00adal<\/em> is \u201cthe great\u00adest com\u00ade\u00addy ever made, the great\u00adest Civ\u00adil War film ever made, and per\u00adhaps the great\u00adest film ever made.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details.php?identifier=The_General_Buster_Keaton\">Alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion here<\/a> (1926)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gold Rush<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UHME1t3r9-8&amp;t=4s\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This film is Char\u00adlie Chaplin\u2019s silent com\u00ade\u00addy clas\u00adsic set dur\u00ading the Klondike Gold Rush, where his icon\u00adic Lone Prospec\u00adtor char\u00adac\u00adter endures bliz\u00adzards, star\u00adva\u00adtion, and slap\u00adstick mishaps while prospect\u00ading for for\u00adtune in Alas\u00adka. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Golem: How He Came Into the World<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheGolem_893\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A fol\u00adlow-up to Paul Wegen\u00ader\u2019s ear\u00adli\u00ader film, \u201cThe Golem,\u201d about a mon\u00adstrous crea\u00adture brought to life by a learned rab\u00adbi to pro\u00adtect the Jews from per\u00adse\u00adcu\u00adtion in medieval Prague. Based on the clas\u00adsic folk tale, and co-direct\u00aded by Carl Boese. (1920)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Golem: How He Came Into the World<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/the_pixies_black_francis_creates_soundtrack_for_famous_german_expressionist_film_ithe_golemi.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The same film as the one list\u00aded imme\u00addi\u00adate\u00adly above, but this one has a score cre\u00adat\u00aded by Pix\u00adies front\u00adman Black Fran\u00adcis. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Good for Noth\u00ading<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/CC_1914_08_31_TheGoodforNothing\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Made at the Key\u00adstone Stu\u00addios, the film involves Chap\u00adlin tak\u00ading care of a man in a wheel\u00adchair. (1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Great Train Rob\u00adbery<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheGreatTrainRobbery_555\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ear\u00adly west\u00adern film by Edwin S. Porter. A land\u00admark in nar\u00adra\u00adtive film\u00admak\u00ading. (1903)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hearts of Age<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/08\/ithe_hearts_of_agei_orson_welles_surrealist_first_film_1934.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The first film\/short film shot by Orson Welles. It\u2019s a play on&nbsp;Jean Cocteau\u2019s movie,&nbsp;<em>The Blood of a Poet<\/em>. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hunch\u00adback of Notre Dame<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details.php?identifier=The_Hunchback_of_Notre_Dame\">Free<\/a> \u2014 With Lon Chaney. (1923)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Immi\u00adgrant<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ycLOeCLJ9V0\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin plays an&nbsp;immi\u00adgrant com\u00ading to the Unit\u00aded States who gets accused of theft along the way. (1917)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Impos\u00adsi\u00adble Voy\u00adage<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/a-trip-to-the-moon-and-five-other-free-films-by-georges-melies-the-father-of-special-effects.html\">Free<\/a> \u2011Direct\u00aded by Georges M\u00e9li\u00e8s, this 1904 film, based on a&nbsp;Jules Verne\u2019s play, is a satire of sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic explo\u00adration in which a group of geo\u00adg\u00adra\u00adphers attempt a jour\u00adney into the inte\u00adri\u00ador of the sun. (1904)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lady and the Hooli\u00adgan<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/09\/watch-russian-futurist-vladimir-mayakovsky-star-in-his-only-surviving-film-the-lady-and-the-hooligan-1918.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Russ\u00adian silent film direct\u00aded by and star\u00adring Vladimir Mayakovsky. His only sur\u00adviv\u00ading film. (1918)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Last Laugh <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/Der_letzte_Mann\">Free<\/a> \u2014 F.W. Mur\u00adnau\u2019s clas\u00adsic cham\u00adber dra\u00adma about a hotel door\u00adman who falls on hard times. A mas\u00adter\u00adpiece of the silent era, the sto\u00adry is told almost entire\u00adly in pic\u00adtures. Yale has <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170809172308\/http:\/\/modernism.research.yale.edu:80\/wiki\/index.php\/The_Last_Laugh\">more back\u00adground on the film<\/a>. (1924)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lodger: A Sto\u00adry of the Lon\u00addon Fog<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/07\/alfred-hitchcocks-the-lodger.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 One of Hitchcock\u2019s silent clas\u00adsics. A land\u00adla\u00addy sus\u00adpects her lodger is a mur\u00adder\u00ader killing women around Lon\u00addon. (1927)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Lost World<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/07\/watch-lost-world-1925-the-granddaddy-of-giant-monster-movies-like-the-lost-world-jurassic-park.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;The \u201cgrandad\u00addy of mon\u00adster movies,\u201d the&nbsp;film adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle\u2019s clas\u00adsic nov\u00adel about a land where pre\u00adhis\u00adtoric crea\u00adtures still roam. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Manor of the Dev\u00adil<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(Le Manoir du Dia\u00adble)<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/10\/the-first-horror-film-george-melies-the-manor-of-the-devil-1896.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Cre\u00adat\u00aded by the film pio\u00adneer&nbsp;George M\u00e9li\u00e8s, it\u2019s con\u00adsid\u00adered the first hor\u00adror film ever made. (1896)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Pawn\u00adshop<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=anDC0JLjtfM\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Rich in slap\u00adstick,&nbsp;<em>The Pawn\u00adshop <\/em>was one of Chap\u00adlin\u2019s more pop\u00adu\u00adlar movies for Mutu\u00adal Film, the pro\u00adduc\u00ader of some of the great\u00adest Chap\u00adlin come\u00addies.&nbsp;(1916)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Phan\u00adtom Car\u00adriage<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ThePhantomCarriage\">Free<\/a> \u2014 One of the cen\u00adtral works in the his\u00adto\u00adry of Swedish cin\u00ade\u00adma. Notable for its influ\u00adence on Ing\u00admar Bergman. Direct\u00aded by Vic\u00adtor Sj\u00f6str\u00f6m,&nbsp;(1921)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Phan\u00adtom of the Opera<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/ThePhantomoftheOpera\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A clas\u00adsic silent film fea\u00adtur\u00ading Lon Chaney as the Phan\u00adtom. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Plea\u00adsure Gar\u00adden<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/09\/the-pleasure-garden-hitchcock.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 After sev\u00ader\u00adal col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtive efforts,&nbsp;Hitch\u00adcock made his solo direc\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal debut in the Ger\u00adman-British co-pro\u00adduc\u00adtion based on a nov\u00adel by Oliv\u00ader Sandys. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Rink<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KeIhdZw4pxs\">Free<\/a> \u2014 <em>The Rink<\/em>, Chap\u00adlin\u2019s 8th film for Mutu\u00adal Films, show\u00adcas\u00ades the actor\u2019s roller skat\u00ading skills.&nbsp;(1916)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sealed Room<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FAQkiPVDo50\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by DW Grif\u00adfith, the film is based on&nbsp;Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/americanenglish.state.gov\/files\/ae\/resource_files\/the_cask_of_amontillado.pdf\">A Cask of Amon\u00adtil\u00adla\u00addo<\/a>\u201d, with appear\u00adances by Mary Pick\u00adford and Mack Sen\u00adnett. (1909)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Seashell and the Cler\u00adgy\u00adman<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/11\/witness-the-first-surrealist-film-the-seashell-and-the-clergyman.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adist film ever. Direct\u00aded by Ger\u00admaine Dulac. (1928)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sheik<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheSheik\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Silent film with Rudolph Valenti\u00adno. (1921)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Smil\u00ading Madame Beudet<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/11\/behold-the-first-feminist-film-germaine-dulacs-the-smiling-madame-beudet-1922.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short silent by Ger\u00admaine Dulac that also hap\u00adpens to hold the title of the first fem\u00adi\u00adnist film. (1922)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sto\u00adry of the Kel\u00adly Gang<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1A6niZmzvoc?si=UkTPY2K_ahWr2t8i\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An Aus\u00adtralian film that traces the life of the leg\u00adendary infa\u00admous out\u00adlaw and bushranger Ned Kel\u00adly. It&nbsp;was inscribed on the UNESCO Mem\u00ado\u00adry of the World Reg\u00adis\u00adter for being the world\u2019s first full-length nar\u00adra\u00adtive fea\u00adture film. (1906)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Stu\u00addent of Prague<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/10\/the-student-of-prague-the-very-first-independent-film-1913.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A clas\u00adsic of Ger\u00adman expres\u00adsion\u00adist film. Ger\u00adman writer&nbsp;Hanns Heinz Ewers and Dan\u00adish direc\u00adtor Stel\u00adlan Rye&nbsp;bring to&nbsp;life a&nbsp;19th-cen\u00adtu\u00adry hor\u00adror sto\u00adry. Some call it the first indie film. (1913)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ten Com\u00admand\u00adments<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C-rmEWYZpa8\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;An epic silent film from 1923 direct\u00aded by Cecil B. DeMille, and the first in DeMille\u2019s bib\u00adli\u00adcal tril\u00ado\u00adgy, fol\u00adlowed by The King of Kings (1927) and The Sign of the Cross (1932).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ten Com\u00admand\u00adments<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/03\/watch-the-classic-silent-film-the-ten-commandments-1923-with-a-new-score.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A ver\u00adsion of the 1923 ver\u00adsion with a new musi\u00adcal score by Steve Berlin (Los Lobos), Steven Drozd (Flam\u00ading Lips) &amp; Scott Amen\u00addola. (2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Toll of the Sea<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheTollOfTheSeanovember261922\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first gen\u00ader\u00adal release film in tech\u00adni\u00adcol\u00ador. (1922)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tramp&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4lmMWmRXuJE\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The film made Chap\u00adlin\u2019s great Tramp&nbsp;char\u00adac\u00adter famous. (1915)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Vagabond<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/CC_1916_07_10_TheVagabond\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;silent film by Char\u00adlie Chap\u00adlin that co-starred Edna Pur\u00adviance, Eric Camp\u00adbell, Leo White and Lloyd Bacon, with Chap\u00adlin appear\u00ading as The Tramp. The British Film Insti\u00adtute calls it the \u201cpiv\u00adotal work\u201d of his Mutu\u00adal peri\u00adod \u2013 \u201cand his most touch\u00ading.\u201d (1916)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Water Magi\u00adcian <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B74VapoUl1o\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Japan\u00adese silent film. One of the most pop\u00adu\u00adlar titles from the silent film work of Ken\u00adji Mizoguchi. (1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wiz\u00adard of Oz<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/watch-the-earliest-surviving-filmed-version-of-the-wizard-of-oz-1903.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The ear\u00adli\u00adest sur\u00adviv\u00ading film ver\u00adsion of L. Frank Baum\u2019s 1900 nov\u00adel. (1910)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wiz\u00adard of Oz<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheWizardOfOz1925\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first major film adap\u00adta\u00adtion of the clas\u00adsic nov\u00adel. Fea\u00adtures Oliv\u00ader Hardy as the Tin Woods\u00admen. (1925)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Three Songs About Lenin<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/JeWK5iRp0BE\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Dzi\u00adga Ver\u00adtov\u2019s film is based on three admir\u00ading songs sung by anony\u00admous peo\u00adple in Sovi\u00adet Rus\u00adsia about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tillie\u2019s Punc\u00adtured Romance<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/CC_1914_11_14_TilliesPuncturedRomance\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Among oth\u00ader things, the film is notable for being the last Chap\u00adlin film did\u00adn\u2019t write or direct by him\u00adself. (1914)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trip to the Moon \/ Le Voy\u00adage dans la lune<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/11\/how-georges-melies-a-trip-to-the-moon-became-the-first-sci-fi-film-changed-cinema-forever-1902.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 French black &amp; white silent sci-fi film loose\u00adly based on two nov\u00adels: <em>From the Earth to the Moon<\/em> by Jules Verne and <em>The First Men in the Moon<\/em> by H. G. Wells. It\u2019s con\u00adsid\u00adered the first sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion film. (1902)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Un Chien Andalou<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/06\/un_chien_andalou.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sal\u00advador Dali and Louis Bunuel\u2019s short, silent sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adist film. A restored ver\u00adsion can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtve.es\/alacarta\/videos\/un-perro-andaluz\/perro-andaluz\/1570997\/\">here<\/a>. (1929)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Documentaries\" class=\"curatedcategory\">\n<h2><a href=\"#Documentaries\">Free Documentaries<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>3,000 Free Films from the Nation\u00adal Film Board of Cana\u00adda<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/03\/watch-3000-films-free-from-the-national-film-board-of-canada-2.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Nation\u00adal Film Board of Cana\u00adda has put online thou\u00adsands of films, includ\u00ading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/documentary\/\">a good num\u00adber of<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/documentary\/\">doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>400 Free Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries from Deutsche Welle<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/04\/watch-400-documentaries-from-german-broadcaster-deutsche-welle.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Ger\u00adman pub\u00adlic broad\u00adcast\u00ader makes avail\u00adable 400+ doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries cov\u00ader\u00ading many areas, includ\u00ading arts &amp; cul\u00adture.<\/li>\n<li><strong>10 Years with Hayao Miyaza\u00adki<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/10\/watch-10-years-with-hayao-miyazaki.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A four part doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the unstop\u00adpable Japan\u00adese ani\u00adma\u00adtor direct\u00aded by Kaku Arakawa. (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>15 Films by Design\u00aders Charles &amp; Ray Eames<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/09\/watch-15-films-by-designers-charles-and-ray-eames.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Watch a series of short films by the icon\u00adic design\u00aders.<\/li>\n<li><strong>50 Archi\u00adtec\u00adture Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/04\/watch-50-documentaries-on-famous-architects-buildings.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A col\u00adlec\u00adtion of free doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries direct\u00aded by Richard Copans&nbsp;on famous archi\u00adtects and build\u00adings. Top\u00adics include Bauhaus, Le Cor\u00adbusier, Zaha Hadid &amp; more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A is for Archi\u00adtec\u00adture<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/a-is-for-architecture\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;This short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary offers a panora\u00adma of archi\u00adtec\u00adture,&nbsp;mov\u00ading from one tra\u00addi\u00adtion to anoth\u00ader, illus\u00adtrat\u00ading how each reflects the sen\u00adti\u00adments and val\u00adues of its time. (1960)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Brief His\u00adto\u00adry of John Baldessari<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/05\/ia_brief_history_of_john_baldessarii_narrated_by_tom_waits.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short film nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Tom Waits on&nbsp;the life and work of West-Coast con\u00adcep\u00adtu\u00adal artist John Baldessari. (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions Primer<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/11\/charles-ray-eames-a-communications-primer.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;An instruc\u00adtion\u00adal film on the basics of com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion, cre\u00adat\u00aded by Charles and Ray Eames of Eames Office for IBM. (1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Land With\u00adout Bread<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/10\/luis-bunuels-surreal-travel-documentary-a-land-without-bread-1933.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Osten\u00adsi\u00adbly a doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Las_Hurdes\"><span class=\"s2\">Las Hur\u00addes region<\/span><\/a> locat\u00aded in a remote cor\u00adner of Spain, this Luis Bu\u00f1uel\u2019s&nbsp;film is in fact a lac\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading par\u00ado\u00addy of trav\u00adel doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries. (1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Look Behind the Future<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/11\/the-making-of-kubricks-2001-a-space-odyssey.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Intrigu\u00ading 1966 doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary takes you inside the mak\u00ading of Kubrick\u00ad\u2019s&nbsp;<em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;the thrilling tech\u00adnolo\u00adgies then in real-life devel\u00adop\u00adment. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Man Among Men: Alber\u00adto Gia\u00adcomet\u00adti<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubu.com\/film\/giacometti_drot.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An hour-long doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about Gia\u00adcomet\u00adti, by Jean-Marie Drot. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Nec\u00ades\u00adsary Ruin: The Sto\u00adry of Buck\u00admin\u00adster Fuller and the Union Tank Car Dome<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/12\/the-life-times-of-buckminster-fullers-geodesic-dome-a-documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Tells the his\u00adto\u00adry of the Union Tank Car Dome, the largest clear-span struc\u00adture in the world, based on the engi\u00adneer\u00ading prin\u00adci\u00adples of the vision\u00adary design sci\u00aden\u00adtist Buck\u00admin\u00adster Fuller. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Sto\u00adry of Heal\u00ading<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uI1qRODHpwc\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Won Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for best&nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary Short Sub\u00adject.&nbsp;Fol\u00adlows a team of vol\u00adun\u00adteers in Viet\u00adnam. (1997)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A World of Art: The Met\u00adro\u00adpol\u00adi\u00adtan Muse\u00adum of Art<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/a-world-of-art-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Found\u00aded in 1870, the Met\u00adro\u00adpol\u00adi\u00adtan Muse\u00adum of Art in New York City is a three dimen\u00adsion\u00adal ency\u00adclo\u00adpe\u00addia of art his\u00adto\u00adry. Filmed in 2004.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Albert Ein\u00adstein: How I See the World<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RDqya26rnUc\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on physi\u00adcist Albert Ein\u00adstein which chron\u00adi\u00adcles the expe\u00adri\u00adences that lead him to become a great advo\u00adcate for world peace. (1991)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aleis\u00adter Crow\u00adley: The Wickedest Man in the World<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/03\/aleister-crowley-the-wickedest-man-in-the-world.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 &nbsp;Takes you into the life of&nbsp;Aleis\u00adter Crow\u00adley, an Eng\u00adlish occultist, cer\u00ade\u00admo\u00adni\u00adal magi\u00adcian, poet, and moun\u00adtaineer, respon\u00adsi\u00adble for found\u00ading the reli\u00adgion of Thele\u00adma.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Albert Camus: The Mad\u00adness of Sin\u00adcer\u00adi\u00adty<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/11\/albert-camus-the-madness-of-sincerity.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 About the life and work of writer Albert Camus, includ\u00ading inter\u00adviews with his for\u00admer mis\u00adtress\u00ades and Camus\u2019 daugh\u00adter Cather\u00adine and her twin broth\u00ader Jean. (1997)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andy Warhol and Roy Licht\u00aden\u00adstein&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/roy_lichtenstein_and_andy_warhol_demystify_their_pop_art_in_vintage_1966_film.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the two artists from 1966.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alfred Stieglitz: The Elo\u00adquent Eye&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/10\/alfred_stieglitz_the_eloquent_eye.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A reveal\u00ading look at the \u201cFather of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphy.\u201d Appeared in the PBS Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Mas\u00adters series. (1999)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Andy Warhol: The Com\u00adplete Pic\u00adture<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Dx6tKujAAOY\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary cov\u00ader\u00ading the life and work of the most enig\u00admat\u00adic and influ\u00aden\u00adtial artist of the late twen\u00adti\u00adeth cen\u00adtu\u00adry. (2001)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ansel Adams, Pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/12\/ansel-adams-photographer-1958-documentary-captures-the-creative-process-of-the-iconic-american-photographer.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary reveals the artis\u00adtic and tech\u00adni\u00adcal approach of Ansel Adams, Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s finest pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader of nat\u00adur\u00adal land\u00adscapes. (1958)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ansel Adams: The Inci\u00adsive Art<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/americanarchive.org\/catalog\/cpb-aacip_55-70zpd439\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Explores the work of one of America\u2019s most famous pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphers, Ansel Adams as he goes beneath the sur\u00adface to record nature and the qual\u00adi\u00adty of human\u00adi\u00adty. (1962)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Arduino: The Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/01\/arduino_documentary_open_source_hardware_is_here.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Revis\u00adits a project launched in the Ital\u00adian town of Ivrea back in 2005. The chal\u00adlenge? To devel\u00adop cheap, easy-to-use elec\u00adtron\u00adics com\u00adpo\u00adnents for design stu\u00addents. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>At the Muse\u00adum<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/11\/watch-at-the-museum-momas-8-part-documentary-on-what-it-takes-to-run-a-great-modern-museum.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Muse\u00adum of Mod\u00adern Art (aka MoMA) cre\u00adates an 8\u2011part doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary series on what it takes to run a world-class muse\u00adum. (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Athe\u00adism: A Rough His\u00adto\u00adry of Dis\u00adbe\u00adlief<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/01\/atheism_a_rough_history_of_disbelief.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A mini-series cre\u00adat\u00aded by Jonathan Miller&nbsp;explores the his\u00adto\u00adry of athe\u00adism in the world. (2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Audio Ammu\u00adni\u00adtion<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/09\/audio-ammunition.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A series of short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries on The Clash and five of their clas\u00adsic stu\u00addio albums. Pro\u00adduced by Google. (2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Badiou<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/02\/badiou-the-first-feature-length-film.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first fea\u00ad\u00adture-length film on France\u2019s most famous liv\u00ading philoso\u00adpher. (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bauhaus World<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/02\/bauhaus-world.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 To com\u00admem\u00ado\u00adrate the 100th anniver\u00adsary of the found\u00ading of the Bauhaus school, this doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary explores the his\u00adto\u00adry and influ\u00adence of&nbsp;Germany\u2019s leg\u00adendary art, archi\u00adtec\u00adture &amp; design move\u00adment. (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bob Mar\u00adley \u2018Come A Long Way\u2019<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qN-UgOKS9y8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary made for NZ tv show \u2018Good Day\u2019 by Dylan Taite. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beat This!: A Hip-Hop His\u00adto\u00adry<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tw0uzQM6T5A\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arena_%28TV_series%29\">Are\u00adna tele\u00advi\u00adsion series<\/a>, the TV doc was among the first crop of doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries about hip-hop and hip-hop cul\u00adture. (1984)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bed Peace&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/08\/ibed_peacei_starring_john_lennon_yoko_ono_free_until_sunday.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;70 minute doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary&nbsp;revis\u00adits John and Yoko\u2019s famous 1969 Bed-Ins, which amount\u00aded to a peace\u00adful protest against the Viet\u00adnam War. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Beau\u00adti\u00adful Equa\u00adtions<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/beautiful-equations-documentary-explores-the-beauty-of-einstein-newtons-great-equations.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Artist\/writer Matt Collings takes the plunge into an alien world of equa\u00adtions, ask\u00ading top sci\u00aden\u00adtists to help him under\u00adstand five of the most famous equa\u00adtions in sci\u00adence. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Benoit Man\u00addel\u00adbrot: Father of Frac\u00adtals<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/11\/how-benoit-mandelbrot-discovered-fractals-a-short-film-by-errol-morris.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In this final inter\u00adview shot by film\u00admak\u00ader Erol Mor\u00adris, Man\u00addel\u00adbrot shares his love for math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics and how it led him to his won\u00addrous dis\u00adcov\u00adery of frac\u00adtals. (2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Black Cof\u00adfee<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/05\/iblack_coffeei_documentary_covers_the_history_politics_economics_of_the_most_widely_taken_legal_drug.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A three part look at&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #414141;\">&nbsp;\u201cthe world\u2019s most wide\u00adly tak\u00aden legal drug,\u201d a bev\u00ader\u00adage whose intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adal\u00adly intense die-hard enthu\u00adsi\u00adasts give wine\u2019s a run for their mon\u00adey, from his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal, polit\u00adi\u00adcal, social, and eco\u00adnom\u00adic angles. (2007)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Blitzkrieg Bop <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nltO2Sh6fNo\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Hour-long TV doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary takes an old school look at CBGB dur\u00ading the hey\u00adday. Fea\u00adtures The Ramones, Blondie and The Dead Boys.&nbsp;Mix\u00ades live per\u00adfor\u00admance with short inter\u00adview clips. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bob Geld\u00adof: The Moment<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/08\/bob-geldof-talks-about-the-greatest-day-of-his-life.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In a short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary by Errol Mor\u00adris, Bob Geld\u00adof&nbsp;talks about the great\u00adest day in his life\u2013stepping on the stage of Live Aid and rais\u00ading mon\u00adey to end the famine in Africa. (2014)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bowl\u00ading for Columbine<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/03\/michael-moores-bowling-for-columbine-the-full-movie-is-streaming-free-on-youtube.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Through his YouTube chan\u00adnel, Michael Moore has made avail\u00adable his Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award win\u00adning doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on guns &amp; gun vio\u00adlence in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bri\u00adan Eno: The Man Who Fell To Earth, 1971\u20131977&nbsp;<\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eKOIaAnrWIY&amp;list=PL8flSFeCsFvL3tRVFpR7jZ3iXG3q4-Tbk\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Explores Eno\u2019s life, career and music between those tit\u00adu\u00adlar years\u2014the peri\u00adod that some view as his gold\u00aden age, and oth\u00aders as just one great era in a long and very eclec\u00adtic career.&nbsp;(2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Buck\u00admin\u00adster Fuller: Think\u00ading Out Loud<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4VLpWmcHU0g\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the inventor\/visionary\/thinker R. Buck\u00admin\u00adster Fuller, pro\u00adduced and direct\u00aded by four time Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award nom\u00adi\u00adnees Karen Good\u00adman and Kirk Simon. (1996)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Brus\u00adsels Express&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/05\/brussels_express_a_documentary_on_the_perils_of_cycling_in_europes_most_congested_city.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Sander Van\u00adden\u00adbroucke, this 20 minute film explores the risks of cycling in mod\u00adern Brus\u00adsels, one of the most con\u00adgest\u00aded cities in today\u2019s Europe. (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Car\u00adavag\u00adgio<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rv6LAYWQZj4&amp;list=PL5DhLOvGSNoUt7nYiWZ2XFVptRP4S-5HH\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary by Robert Hugh\u00ades (cir\u00adca 1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Chick Corea: Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary of Leg\u00adendary Jazz Great, Pianist and Com\u00adpos\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/10933550\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary fea\u00adtures Sting, Bob\u00adby McFer\u00adrin, Bela Fleck, Her\u00adbie Han\u00adcock, Wayne Short\u00ader and more.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Churchill\u2019s Island<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/Churchills_Island\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 WWII pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda film chron\u00adi\u00adcling the defense of Great Britain. Won the very first Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary Short Sub\u00adject. (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>City Sym\u00adphonies<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/06\/1920s-city-symphonies-star-the-great-cities-of-the-world.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Watch \u201ccity sym\u00adphonies\u201d filmed in the 1920s. These poet\u00adic, exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries present a por\u00adtrait of the dai\u00adly of cities like Berlin, Paris, Sao Paulo and New York.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Code Rush<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u404SLJj7ig\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary fol\u00adlow\u00ading the lives of Netscape engi\u00adneers in Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley. (1998)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Colette<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/05\/watch-colette-the-oscar-winning-short-documentary-2021.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 90-year-old Colette Marin-Cather\u00adine con\u00adfronts her past by vis\u00adit\u00ading the Ger\u00adman con\u00adcen\u00adtra\u00adtion camp Mit\u00adtel\u00adbau-Dora where her broth\u00ader was killed. Pre\u00adpared to re-open old wounds, Marin-Cather\u00adine offers impor\u00adtant lessons for us all. The film won the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for best doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary short in 2021.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Con\u00adfronta\u00adtion: Paris, 1968<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6UP3RLGmciM\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary by Sey\u00admour Dresch\u00ader (Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor in the Depart\u00adment of His\u00adto\u00adry at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Pitts\u00adburgh &amp; for\u00admer stu\u00addent of <a href=\"http:\/\/mosseprogram.wisc.edu\/\">George Mosse<\/a>), looks at the stu\u00addent and work\u00ader upheaval in France in May, 1968.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtions with Myself<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/alan_watts_on_why_our_minds_and_technology_cant_grasp_reality.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Alan Watts walks in the moun\u00adtains and talks about the lim\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtions of tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy and the prob\u00adlem of try\u00ading to keep track of an infi\u00adnite uni\u00adverse with a sin\u00adgle tracked mind. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cre\u00adative Process: Nor\u00adman McLaren<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/creative_process_norman_mclaren\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;This fea\u00adture length doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary is a jour\u00adney into Nor\u00adman McLaren\u2019s process of artis\u00adtic cre\u00adation. (1990)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cry Baby: The Ped\u00adal That Rocks the World<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/11\/two-guitar-effects-that-revolutionized-rock-the-invention-of-the-wah-wah-fuzz-pedals.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Tells the sto\u00adry of the wah wah effect ped\u00adal, from its inven\u00adtion in 1966 to the present day. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Curi\u00adous About Cuba: The Great Muse\u00adums of Havana<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X4b_9VyWyzQ\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 This film&nbsp;shows a side of the island nation that we sel\u00addom hear about: her art, his\u00adto\u00adry, and cul\u00adture. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cyber\u00adpunk<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/cyberpunk-documentary-with-william-gibson-timothy-leary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary intro\u00adduces the cul\u00adture of Cyber\u00adpunk. Fea\u00adtures vin\u00adtage footage of&nbsp;William Gib\u00adson &amp; Tim\u00ado\u00adthy Leary (1990).<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Bowie: Sound and Vision<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bXf_4rrq0co\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Takes you on a jour\u00adney through Bowie\u2019s career. Fea\u00adtures inter\u00adviews with Bowie, Iman his wife, his musi\u00adcal con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adraries includ\u00ading Iggy Pop, Moby and Trent Reznor. (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Bowie: The Sto\u00adry of Zig\u00adgy Star\u00addust<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/ithe_story_of_ziggy_stardusti_how_david_bowie_created_the_character_that_made_him_famous.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Film tells the sto\u00adry of how Bowie arrived at one of the most icon\u00adic cre\u00adations in the his\u00adto\u00adry of pop music. The songs, the hair\u00adstyles, the fash\u00adion, etc. (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>David Lynch on the His\u00adto\u00adry of Sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adist Cin\u00ade\u00adma<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/10\/david-lynch-presents-the-history-of-surrealist-film-1987.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Pret\u00adty much what the title said. (1987)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Day of the Dead<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/10\/charles-ray-eames-short-film-on-the-mexican-day-of-the-dead-1957.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Design\u00aders Charles and Ray Eames short por\u00adtrait of the Mex\u00adi\u00adcan fes\u00adti\u00adval, Day of the Dead. (1957)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Death Mills<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/DeathMills\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Bil\u00adly Wilder\u2019s doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary in Ger\u00adman show\u00ading what Allies found when they lib\u00ader\u00adat\u00aded Nazi exter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion camps. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Degen\u00ader\u00adate Art<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1QE4Ld1mkoM\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Direct\u00aded&nbsp;by David Gru\u00adbin, this doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary explores&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/11\/nazis-degenerate-art-exhibition-of-1937.html\">the 1937 art exhib\u00adit under the Nazi regime<\/a>, which fea\u00adtured mod\u00adern art, or what the Nazis called \u2018Entartete Kun\u00adst\u2019 or \u2018Degen\u00ader\u00adate Art. (1993)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Diane Arbus: Mas\u00adters of Pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphy<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/10\/1972_diane_arbus_documentary_interviews_those_who_knew_american_photographer_best.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary cre\u00adat\u00aded soon after the pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adpher\u2019s death is based on inter\u00adviews with those who knew her best. (1972.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading Elec\u00adtron\u00adic Music: Revised<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/discovering-electronic-music-1983-documentary-offers-a-fun-educational-introduction-to-electronic-music.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 &nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Bernard Wilets, the film explores this idea: \u201cWe live in an age of tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy in which machines touch every part of our lives. It is not sur\u00adpris\u00ading that music has also been influ\u00adenced by tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy.\u201d&nbsp;(1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dorothea Lange Part 1: Under The Trees<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NiY8T4-1O5I\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Film explores the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader and pho\u00adto\u00adjour\u00adnal\u00adist, best known for her Depres\u00ad\u00adsion-era work for the Farm Secu\u00adri\u00adty Admin\u00adis\u00adtra\u00adtion. View alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion <a href=\"https:\/\/diva.sfsu.edu\/collections\/sfbatv\/bundles\/191509\">here<\/a>. (1965)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dreams Are What We Wake Up From<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EPP0NIhIU80\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about&nbsp;Ray\u00admond Carv\u00ader was direct\u00aded by Daisy Good\u00adwin and includes con\u00adtri\u00adbu\u00adtions from Richard Ford and Jay McIn\u00ader\u00adney. (1989)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dream of Life<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/01\/patti-smith-documentary-dream-of-life-beautifully-captures-the-authors-life-and-long-career-2008.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Direct\u00aded by Steven Sebring, the film offers&nbsp;an inti\u00admate por\u00adtrait of poet, painter, musi\u00adcian and singer Pat\u00adti Smith. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Earth\u00adlings<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/earthlings.com\/?page_id=32\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Nar\u00adrat\u00aded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001618\/\">Joaquin Phoenix<\/a>, and with a sound\u00adtrack&nbsp;pro\u00advid\u00aded by Moby, <em>Earth\u00adlings<\/em> \u201cis a fea\u00ad\u00adture-length doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about our absolute eco\u00adnom\u00adic depen\u00addence on ani\u00admals raised as pets, food, cloth\u00ading, enter\u00adtain\u00adment and for sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic research.\u201d (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ein\u00adstein\u2019s Brain<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/01\/the-strange-story-of-einsteins-brain.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A strange doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that fol\u00adlows&nbsp;Japan\u00adese schol\u00adar Ken\u00adji Sug\u00adi\u00admo\u00adto\u2019s quest to find Ein\u00adstein\u2019s brain. (1994)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eric Hob\u00ads\u00adbawm: The Con\u00adso\u00adla\u00adtions of His\u00adto\u00adry<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/05\/watch-online-eric-hobsbawm-the-consolations-of-history-i-a-documentary-exploring-the-life-work-of-the-influential-marxist-historian.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Antho\u00adny Wilks traces the con\u00adnec\u00adtions between the events of Eric Hobsbawm\u2019s life and the his\u00adto\u00adry he told, from his teenage years in Ger\u00admany and his com\u00admu\u00adnist mem\u00adber\u00adship, to the jazz clubs of 1950s Soho and the mak\u00adings of New Labour\u2026<\/li>\n<li><strong>Europe After the Rain<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/05\/europe-after-the-rain-the-landmark-documentary-on-the-life-and-legacy-of-dada-surrealism-1978.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the two great art move\u00adments, Dada &amp; Sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adism, cre\u00adat\u00aded by the&nbsp;Arts Coun\u00adcil of Great Britain. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Everything1017: How David Byrne and Bri\u00adan Eno Make Music Togeth\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/05\/how_david_byrne_and_brian_eno_make_music_together.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on how David Byrne and Bri\u00adan Eno make music togeth\u00ader. By the late visu\u00adal artist Hill\u00adman Cur\u00adtis. (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Every\u00adthing Is a Remix<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/09\/everything-is-a-remix-the-full-series-exploring-the-sources-of-creativity-released-in-one-polished-hd-video-on-its-5th-anniversary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Kir\u00adby Ferguson\u2019s 4\u2011part video series explores the idea that&nbsp; \u201cgreat art doesn\u2019t come out of nowhere. Artists inevitably bor\u00adrow from one anoth\u00ader, draw\u00ading on past ideas and con\u00adven\u00adtions, and then turn these mate\u00adri\u00adals into some\u00adthing beau\u00adti\u00adful and new.\u201d (2010\u201314)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eye of the Pan\u00adgolin<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/eye-of-the-pangolin-the-search-for-an-animal-on-the-edge\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The sto\u00adry of two men on a mis\u00adsion to share the won\u00adder of all four species of African pan\u00adgolin on cam\u00adera for the first time ever. (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>F. Scott Fitzger\u00adald: Win\u00adter Dreams<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/12\/winter_dreami_f_scott_fitzgeralds_life_remembered_in_fine_film.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Peabody award-win\u00adn\u00ading film chron\u00adi\u00adcles the life of Fitzger\u00adald, one of America\u2019s great\u00adest nov\u00adel\u00adists, in images and ideas as lyri\u00adcal and inven\u00adtive as his prose. (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fear and Loathing on the Road to Hol\u00adly\u00adwood<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=laamYjSwcHI\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A look at \u201cGonzo jour\u00adnal\u00adist\u201d, Hunter S. Thomp\u00adson with his col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtor, British illus\u00adtra\u00adtor, Ralph Stead\u00adman. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Felli\u00adni: A Director\u2019s Note\u00adbook&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/federico_fellini_introduces_himself_to_america_in_1969_experimental_documentary.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Fed\u00aderi\u00adco Felli\u00adni intro\u00adduces him\u00adself to Amer\u00adi\u00adca in exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary aired on TV. (1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Film\u00ading \u2018The Tri\u00adal\u2019<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RbUe-bM6bXg\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 &nbsp;An unfin\u00adished mak\u00ading-of film by Orson Welles, made in 1981, which focus\u00ades on the pro\u00adduc\u00adtion of his 1962&nbsp;film&nbsp;<em>The Tri\u00adal<\/em>. (1981)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First Orbit&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/04\/first_orbit_celebrating_50th_anniversary_of_yuri_gagarans_space_flight.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A real time recre\u00adation of Yuri Gagar\u00adin\u2019s pio\u00adneer\u00ading first orbit, shot entire\u00adly in space from on board the Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Space Sta\u00adtion. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>First Per\u00adson<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/08\/errol-morris-makes-his-groundbreaking-series-first-person-free-to-watch-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In this TV series, Errol Mor\u00adris brings his unri\u00advalled tal\u00adents to the small screen for a styl\u00adized series of inti\u00admate inter\u00adviews with a unique and fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading array of peo\u00adple. (2000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fla\u00admen\u00adco at 5:15<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/03\/flamenco-at-515.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An Oscar win\u00adning doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary takes you inside a Fla\u00admen\u00adco dance class. The film is about dance as it is about life. (1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fl\u00e2neur III<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/07\/mystical-thought-of-german-theorist-walter-benjamin.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;An attempt at cap\u00adtur\u00ading the char\u00adac\u00adter of Paris by fol\u00adlow\u00ading the devel\u00adop\u00adment of the city\u2019s dif\u00adfer\u00adent forms through\u00adout the 19th and 20th cen\u00adturies, in the spir\u00adit of the Ger\u00adman philoso\u00adpher Wal\u00adter Ben\u00adjamin. (1998)<\/li>\n<li><strong>For Neda<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/06\/for_neda_a_new_hbo_documentary.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 An HBO doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the life of Neda Agha-Soltan, the young woman gunned down dur\u00ading the crush\u00ading of Iran\u2019s Green Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Found\u00ading Fathers<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/04\/founding-fathers-a-documentary-narrated-by-public-enemys-chuck-d-presents-the-true-history-of-hip-hop.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary nar\u00adrat\u00aded by&nbsp;Pub\u00adlic Enemy\u2019s Chuck D presents the true his\u00adto\u00adry of hip hop.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frac\u00adtals: The Col\u00adors of Infin\u00adi\u00adty&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/arthur-c-clarke-narrates-film-on-mandelbrots-fractals.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Arthur C. Clarke brings us inside the world of frac\u00adtal geom\u00ade\u00adtry,&nbsp;David Gilmour&nbsp;pro\u00advides the sound\u00adtrack. (1995)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frames of Ref\u00ader\u00adence<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/289757676\">Free<\/a> \u2014 \u201cDirect\u00aded by the pio\u00adneer\u00ading UK doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan Richard Lea\u00adcock, Frames of Ref\u00ader\u00adence is a slick and sur\u00adre\u00adal dive into physics fun\u00adda\u00admen\u00adtals and, in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, why every\u00adthing is indeed rel\u00ada\u00adtive.\u201d (1960)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Frank Zap\u00adpa<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5aFRBbnF-ag\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A Dutch doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary for VPRO Tele\u00advi\u00adsion, direct\u00aded by Roelof Kiers (1971).<\/li>\n<li><strong>From One Sec\u00adond to the Next<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/werner-herzog-texting-while-driving.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ger\u00adman direc\u00adtor Wern\u00ader Her\u00adzog presents a har\u00adrow\u00ading 35 minute film on the dan\u00adgers of tex\u00adting while dri\u00adving. (2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Future Shock<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/future-shock.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A&nbsp;short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary based on a&nbsp;book writ\u00adten by&nbsp;futur\u00adist Alvin Tof\u00adfler in 1970.&nbsp;It\u2019s nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Orson Welles. (1972)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gau\u00adguin: Sym\u00adbol\u00adis\u00adm\u2019s Prob\u00adlem Child<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p0n6HaLuLm8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Art crit\u00adic and broad\u00adcast\u00ader Walde\u00admar Januszczak wrote and direct\u00aded this exam\u00adi\u00adna\u00adtion of a man who was not only a great painter but sculp\u00adtor, wood carv\u00ader, musi\u00adcian, print mak\u00ader, jour\u00adnal\u00adist and ceram\u00adi\u00adcist. (2020)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gente del Po<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ixccmJ5j_oY\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Michae\u00adlan\u00adge\u00adlo Anto\u00adnion\u00adi\u2019s doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary short on the peo\u00adple of the Po val\u00adley. (1947)<\/li>\n<li><strong>George East\u00adman House: Pic\u00adture Per\u00adfect&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Qp_oO_af-qw\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;The urban estate of George East\u00adman, who made pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphers of us all, is a trea\u00adsure trove of pho\u00adtographs and one of the world\u2019s pre\u00admier film archives. (2003)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Georges Bataille: \u00c0 Perte de Vues<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sIaRXE9fZL8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the sub\u00adver\u00adsive French philoso\u00adpher&nbsp;Georges Bataille. (1997)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geor\u00adgia O\u2019Keeffe: A Life in Art <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/11\/georgia-okeeffe-a-life-in-art-a-short-documentary-on-the-painter-narrated-by-gene-hackman.html\">Free<\/a> -<b>&nbsp;<\/b>A short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the painter nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Gene Hack\u00adman.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gia\u00adcomet\u00adti<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/10\/an-intimate-look-at-alberto-giacometti-in-his-studio-making-his-iconic-sculptures-1965.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;An inti\u00admate look at Alber\u00adto Gia\u00adcomet\u00adti in his stu\u00addio, mak\u00ading his icon\u00adic sculp\u00adtures (1965)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Glass <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/glass-1958.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Bert Haanstra, this short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the glass indus\u00adtry won the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary Short Sub\u00adject in 1959. (1958)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Glenn Gould \u2014 Off the Record<\/strong>&nbsp;and <strong>Glenn Gould \u2014 On the Record-<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/06\/glenn-gould-off-and-on-the-record.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor made a pair of gor\u00adgeous\u00adly shot doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries about the Cana\u00addi\u00adan pianist, giv\u00ading view\u00aders insight into his life and music. (1959)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Great Lakes, Bad Lines<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/180350618\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;The sto\u00adry of two Michi\u00adgan adven\u00adtur\u00aders and their 500-mile, fos\u00ad\u00adsil-free jour\u00adney across the Upper Penin\u00adsu\u00adla along the route of Line 5 \u2014 a 63-year-old pipeline \u2013 that threat\u00adens our inland waters and Great Lakes. Brought to you by Patag\u00ado\u00adnia, Founders, Moose\u00adjaw, and Cher\u00adry Repub\u00adlic. (2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haru\u00adki Muraka\u00admi: In Search of this Elu\u00adsive Writer<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/02\/in_search_of_haruki_murakami_japans_great_postmodernist_novelist.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Alan Yen\u00adtob trav\u00adels through Japan, from the mid\u00adnight Tokyo of&nbsp;<em>After Hours<\/em>&nbsp;to the snowed-in Hokkai\u00addo of&nbsp;<em>A Wild Sheep Chase<\/em>, in a quest to find arti\u00adfacts of the novelist\u2019s imag\u00adi\u00adnary world.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Heavy Met\u00adal Park\u00ading Lot<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/04\/heavy-metal-parking-lot.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 &nbsp;Filmed in 1986 at a Mary\u00adland con\u00adcert are\u00adna park\u00ading lot before a heavy met\u00adal show, this hilar\u00adi\u00adous doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary is an unvar\u00adnished anthro\u00adpo\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal study of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan met\u00adal\u00adheads in their mid-\u201980s glo\u00adry.&nbsp; You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/04\/heavy-metal-parking-lot.html\">also see<\/a> the 2006 fol\u00adlowup, <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHeavy Met\u00adal Park\u00ading Lot Alum\u00adni: Where Are They Now.\u201d <\/span>(1986)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hen\u00adri Car\u00adti\u00ader-Bres\u00ad\u00adson: The Deci\u00adsive Moment<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/11\/henri_cartier-bresson.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;18-minute film fea\u00adtures a selec\u00adtion of Cartier-Bresson\u2019s icon\u00adic pho\u00adtographs, along with rare com\u00admen\u00adtary by the pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader him\u00adself. (1973)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hen\u00adry Miller Asleep &amp; Awake<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/03\/tom_schillers_1975_journey_through_henry_millers_bathroom_nsfw.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Tom Schiller\u2019s 34 minute voy\u00adage into the world of Hen\u00adry Miller (Trop\u00adic of Can\u00adcer, Trop\u00adic of Capri\u00adcorn). (1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>His\u00adto\u00adry of the Leica Cam\u00adera<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eWwarnnM71A\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The film is in Ger\u00adman, but it\u2019s still great to watch.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hof\u00adman\u00adn\u2019s Potion<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/04\/history_of_lsd.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A&nbsp;bal\u00adanced look at the his\u00adto\u00adry of LSD&nbsp;by Cana\u00addi\u00adan film\u00admak\u00ader Con\u00adnie Lit\u00adtle\u00adfield. (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hol\u00adly\u00adwood: A Cel\u00ade\u00adbra\u00adtion of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Silent Film&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/06\/ihollywoodi_epic_documentary_chronicles_the_early_history_of_cinema.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Epic, 13-part doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary chron\u00adi\u00adcles the ear\u00adly his\u00adto\u00adry of cin\u00ade\u00adma. (1980)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Home<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/watch-home-yann-arthus-bertrands-environmentalist-documentary\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Yann Arthus-Bertrand\u2019s film that will make you look at our plan\u00adet in a new way. (2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Home\u00admade Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Music<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/films\/homemade-american-music\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A his\u00adto\u00adry of rur\u00adal south\u00adeast\u00adern tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal Amer\u00adi\u00adcan music, as told and played by Mike Seeger and Alice Ger\u00adrard. (1980)<\/li>\n<li><strong>How Build\u00adings Learn<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/07\/watch-stewart-brands-6-part-series-how-buildings-learn-with-music-by-brian-eno.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Stew\u00adart Brand (cre\u00adator of the icon\u00adic <em>Whole Earth Cat\u00ada\u00adlog<\/em>) cre\u00adat\u00aded&nbsp;a 6\u2011part series on archi\u00adtec\u00adture, with Bri\u00adan Eno pro\u00advid\u00ading the music. (1997)<\/li>\n<li><strong>How Walt Dis\u00adney Car\u00adtoons Are Made<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/04\/how_walt_disney_cartoons_are_made_.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Dis\u00adney\u2019s in-house doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary&nbsp;walks you through the stages of&nbsp;<em>Snow White<\/em>\u2018s devel\u00adop\u00adment. (1939)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Human, All Too Human<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/human-all-too-human.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A three part doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the life &amp; thought of Niet\u00adzsche, Hei\u00addeg\u00adger and Sartre. (1999)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Idem<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/david_lynchs_short_film_on_the_art_of_making_lithographs.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A short film by David Lynch on the art of mak\u00ading lith\u00ado\u00adgraphs. Shot at the Idem stu\u00addio in Paris. (2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>If You Love This Plan\u00adet<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/if_you_love_this_planet\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading short film on the need for nuclear dis\u00adar\u00adma\u00adment. (1982)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Iggy Pop and the Stooges <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Rah4p1FgP7A\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary from the always good South Bank Show. (2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>I\u2019ll Find a Way<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/Ill_find_a_way\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary presents Nadia, a 9\u2011year-old girl with spina bifi\u00adda. (1977)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Images of a Vision\u00adary World<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/09\/henri-michaux-visualizes-effects-of-mescaline-and-hash.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Avant-garde author Hen\u00adri Michaux cre\u00adates film try\u00ading to demon\u00adstrate the expe\u00adri\u00adence of tak\u00ading hal\u00adlu\u00adcino\u00adgenic drugs. (1964)<\/li>\n<li><strong>In a Bril\u00adliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/09\/in-a-brilliant-light-van-gogh-in-arles-a-free-documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary cov\u00aders Van Gogh\u2019s stay in Arles where he com\u00adplet\u00aded over two hun\u00addred paint\u00adings and one hun\u00addred draw\u00adings. (1984)<\/li>\n<li><strong>In Search of Moe\u00adbius<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/03\/the_inscrutable_imagination_of_the_late_comic_artist_moebius.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about French\u00adman Jean Giraud, one of the most influ\u00aden\u00adtial com\u00adic strip illus\u00adtra\u00adtors and authors of all time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inside: Dr. Strangelove<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/03\/inside_dr_strangelove_how_a_cold_war_story_became_a_kubrick_classic.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 &nbsp;Inter\u00adviews with cast mem\u00adbers, crit\u00adics, edi\u00adtors, pro\u00adduc\u00aders and oth\u00aders asso\u00adci\u00adat\u00aded with the pic\u00adture reveal how this Cold War worst-case-sce\u00ad\u00adnario devel\u00adoped into some\u00adthing so very\u2026 Kubrick\u00adian.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Inside the Rhap\u00adsody<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/11\/the-making-of-queens-bohemian-rhapsody.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the mak\u00ading of Queen\u2019s clas\u00adsic song, \u2018Bohemi\u00adan Rhap\u00adsody\u2019 (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jack\u00adson Pol\u00adlock 51&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/08\/jackson_pollock_lights_camera_paint.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary by Hans Namuth&nbsp;fea\u00adtures the abstract expres\u00adsion\u00adist painter up close, paint\u00ading on glass. (1951)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jacques Lacan Speaks<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/03\/jacques_lacan_speaks_zizek_provides_free_cliffs_notes.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The psy\u00adcho\u00adan\u00ada\u00adlyst gives a&nbsp;packed lec\u00adture at the Catholic Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Lou\u00advain in 1972, fol\u00adlowed by a prob\u00ading inter\u00adview.&nbsp;One of only 2 known appear\u00adances by Lacan on film. Shot by&nbsp;Bel\u00adgian doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan Fran\u00adcoise Wolff. (1972)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jazz Hot<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/01\/jazz-hot-with-django-reinhardt-1938.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Djan\u00adgo Rein\u00adhardt, vio\u00adlin\u00adist St\u00e9phane Grap\u00adpel\u00adli and their band the Quin\u00adtette du Hot Club de France per\u00adform togeth\u00ader in a short film designed to pro\u00admote a UK tour. (1938)<\/li>\n<li><strong>John Peel\u2019s Record Box<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLLlZWzASNbnP--P4x8SvAyV3bMbjmZRYs\">Free<\/a> \u2014 British doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary explores the most prized records in John Peel\u2019s huge record col\u00adlec\u00adtion, which he kept stored in a spe\u00adcial box. (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jorge Luis Borges: The Mir\u00adror Man<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/05\/jorge_luis_borges_the_mirror_man.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on Argenti\u00adna\u2019s most famous and beloved lit\u00ader\u00adary fig\u00adure. (2000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ladies and Gen\u00adtle\u00admen\u2026 Mr. Leonard Cohen&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/10\/ladies_and_gentlemen_mr_leonard_cohen.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp; \u2014&nbsp;This Cana\u00addi\u00adan doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary cap\u00adtures Leonard Cohen just as he was poised to begin his singer-song\u00adwriter career. (1965)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Last Days at the Fill\u00admore<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_SDWjfsy-GA\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00adments the final days of Bill Gra\u00adham\u2019s Fill\u00admore West. (1972)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Laugh\u00ading and Not Being Nor\u00admal <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x6jeovk\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the fem\u00adi\u00adnist music pro\u00adduc\u00ader, Grimes.&nbsp;(2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Le dinosaure et le b\u00e9b\u00e9, dia\u00adlogue en huit par\u00adties entre Fritz Lang et Jean-Luc Godard<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sm4q-gtUH7Q\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A 1967 TV doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary fea\u00adtur\u00ading two great film\u00admak\u00aders (Jean-Luc Godard and Fritz Lang) in con\u00adver\u00adsa\u00adtion. (1967)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Le Noise<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/09\/neil_youngs_film_le_noise_debuts_online.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Adam Vol\u00adlick, this movie&nbsp;fea\u00adtures a live per\u00adfor\u00admance of Neil Young\u2019s album Le Noise. It was record\u00aded at the stu\u00addios of Daniel Lanois in LA. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Life in a Day<\/strong> \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=JaFVr_cJJIY\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Film cap\u00adtures for future gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtions what it was like to be alive on the 24th of July, 2010.&nbsp;Exec\u00adu\u00adtive pro\u00adduced by Rid\u00adley Scott and direct\u00aded by Kevin Mac\u00addon\u00adald.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Live at Pom\u00adpeii<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/10\/david-gilmour-makes-his-live-at-pompeii-concert-film-free-to-watch-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 David Gilmour makes his Live at Pom\u00adpeii con\u00adcert film free to watch online. (2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lost Kubrick: The Unfin\u00adished Films of Stan\u00adley Kubrick<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/07\/lost-kubrick-a-short-documentary-on-stanley-kubricks-unfinished-films.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Mal\u00adcolm McDow\u00adell, this short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary exam\u00adines the films Stan\u00adley Kubrick devel\u00adoped but did\u00adn\u2019t live long enough to make. Fea\u00adtures inter\u00adviews giv\u00aden by Kubrick\u00ad\u2019s long\u00adtime pro\u00adduc\u00ader Jan Har\u00adlan, Jack Nichol\u00adson, Syd\u00adney Pol\u00adlack etc. (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Love\u00adcraft: Fear of the Unknown<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/01\/lovecraft_fear_of_the_unknown_free_documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Named the Best Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary at the 2008 Com\u00adic-Con Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Inde\u00adpen\u00addent Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval, the film revis\u00adits the life and writ\u00adings of&nbsp;H.P. Love\u00adcraft, the father of mod\u00adern hor\u00adror fic\u00adtion. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Man\u00adhat\u00adta<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/07\/watch-manhatta-the-first-american-avant-garde-film-1921.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary film direct\u00aded by painter Charles Sheel\u00ader and pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader Paul Strand. It\u2019s con\u00adsid\u00adered Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s first avant-garde film. (1921)<\/li>\n<li><strong>M.C. Esch\u00ader: Adven\u00adtures in Per\u00adcep\u00adtion<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/08\/watch-m-c-escher-make-his-final-artistic-creation-in-the-1971-documentary-adventures-in-perception.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The first half of the film shows a lot of M.C. Escher\u2019s&nbsp;work accom\u00adpa\u00adnied by a dis\u00adso\u00adnant score by Felix Viss\u00ader. About halfway through, we see shots of Esch\u00ader at work. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mar\u00adcel Duchamp: Icon\u00ado\u00adclaste et Inoxyd\u00adable<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.com\/film\/duchamp_icon1.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Three- part, three-hour doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary with inter\u00adviews about Mar\u00adcel Duchamp, direct\u00aded by Fab\u00adrice Maze. (2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thou\u00adsand Voic\u00ades<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/05\/the_strange_day_when_bugs_bunny_saved_the_life_of_mel_blanc.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary focus\u00ades on voice artist extra\u00ador\u00addi\u00adnaire Mel Blanc. (2008)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Mem\u00ado\u00adry of the Camps<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/01\/memory-of-the-camps-hitchcock.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 An attempt to revive a World War II film meant to doc\u00adu\u00adment the Holo\u00adcaust. Hitch\u00adcock was involved with the orig\u00adi\u00adnal project. (1985)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meta\u00admor\u00adphose: M.C. Esch\u00ader, 1898\u20131972&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/10\/imetamorphosei_1999_documentary_reveals_the_life_and_work_of_artist_mc_escher.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;Reveals the life and work of artist M.C. Esch\u00ader. (1999)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michel Fou\u00adcault: Beyond Good and Evil<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/michel-foucaults-controversial-life-and-philosophy-explored-in-a-revealing-1993-documentary.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary explores the con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial life and work of Michel Fou\u00adcault. (1993)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Min\u00adgus<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/08\/charles_mingus_evicted_in_1966_film.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A close-up of bass play\u00ader and com\u00adpos\u00ader Char\u00adlie Min\u00adgus as he and his five-year-old daugh\u00adter await evic\u00adtion by the City of New York. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nanook of the North<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/07\/watch-the-very-first-feature-documentary-nanook-of-the-north-by-robert-j-flaherty-1922.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first fea\u00adture length doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary. Direct\u00aded&nbsp;by&nbsp;Robert J. Fla\u00adher\u00adty, the film, focus\u00ading on an Inu\u00adit fam\u00adi\u00adly liv\u00ading in the Arc\u00adtic Cir\u00adcle,&nbsp;was one of the first films to be select\u00aded for his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal preser\u00adva\u00adtion by the Library of Con\u00adgress. (1922)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nazi VR<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/01\/how-a-virtual-reality-model-of-auschwitz-helped-convict-an-ss-concentration-camp-guard.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on how a vir\u00adtu\u00adal real\u00adi\u00adty mod\u00adel of Auschwitz was cre\u00adat\u00aded to suc\u00adcess\u00adful\u00adly pros\u00ade\u00adcute a Ger\u00adman SS guard sev\u00aden decades after WWII. (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nico-Icon<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/11\/the-crazy-iconic-life-of-nico.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Focus\u00ades on Nico, renowned for her asso\u00adci\u00ada\u00adtions with artist Andy Warhol and the Vel\u00advet Under\u00adground. (1995)<\/li>\n<li><strong>No Sub\u00adsti\u00adtute for Vic\u00adto\u00adry<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m__m7BnvWF0\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda, Pro-Viet\u00ad\u00adnam doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary host\u00aded by John Wayne. (1970)<\/li>\n<li><strong>No Maps for These Ter\u00adri\u00adto\u00adries<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/07\/william-gibson-in-no-maps-for-these-territories.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Brings you on a road trip and into the mind of cyber\u00adspace vision\u00adary William Gib\u00adson. (2000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Novem\u00adber 22, 1963<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/11\/new-errol-morris-film-asks-whether-we-will-ever-know-the-truth-about-the-kennedy-assassination.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 In a short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary, Errol Mor\u00adris asks what we can and can\u00adnot know about the Kennedy assas\u00adsi\u00adna\u00adtion. (2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>One Way Street -<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/07\/mystical-thought-of-german-theorist-walter-benjamin.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Explores the life and work of Ger\u00adman Jew\u00adish crit\u00adic and philoso\u00adpher, Wal\u00adter Ben\u00adjamin. (1993)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oper\u00ada\u00adtion Con\u00adcrete (aka Op\u00e9ra\u00adtion b\u00e9ton)<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/jean-luc_godards_debut_ioperation_betoni_1955_a_construction_documentary.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The first movie by Jean Luc Godard. It\u2019s a short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the build\u00ading of the dam. (1955)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Our Hob\u00adby is Depeche Mode<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/10\/lost-depeche-mode-documentary-is-now-online-watch-our-hobby-is-depeche-mode.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Jere\u00admy Deller\u2019s and Nicholas Abra\u00adhams\u2019 doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on&nbsp;Depeche Mode fans. (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul Klee: The Silence of the Angel<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2kLVpNy5MF8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A visu\u00adal jour\u00adney into the work of a major painter of the 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry by Michael Gaum\u00adnitz, an award-win\u00adn\u00ading doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan of artists and sculp\u00adtors. (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paul McCart\u00adney: Chaos &amp; Cre\u00adation at Abbey Road<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/06\/paul_mccartney_revisits_abbey_road.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Sir Paul revis\u00adits&nbsp;the Bea\u00adt\u00adles\u2019 record\u00ading tech\u00adniques and vin\u00adtage instru\u00adments used by the band. (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pen, Brush and Cam\u00adera<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/the_great_life_and_art_of_henri_cartier-bresson.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 50-minute doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the life and work of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.magnumphotos.com\/photographer\/henri-cartier-bresson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hen\u00adri Car\u00adti\u00ader-Bres\u00ad\u00adson<\/a>, the pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader con\u00adsid\u00adered to be the father of pho\u00adto\u00adjour\u00adnal\u00adism. (1998)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy: A Guide to Hap\u00adpi\u00adness&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/03\/socrates_on_tv_courtesy_of_alain_de_botton_2000.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;With Alain de Bot\u00adton. A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary series that shows how Niet\u00adzsche, Socrates and four oth\u00ader philoso\u00adphers can change your life.&nbsp;(2000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy and the Matrix: Return to the Source<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/04\/daniel_dennett_and_cornel_west_decode_the_philosophy_of_the_ithe_matrixi_in_2004_film.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary looks at how The Matrix dealt with ques\u00adtions about reli\u00adgious rev\u00ade\u00adla\u00adtion and author\u00adi\u00adty, para\u00adpsy\u00adchol\u00ado\u00adgy, free will and deter\u00admin\u00adism, and the nature of per\u00adson\u00adal iden\u00adti\u00adty. (2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pickin\u2019 &amp; Trim\u00admin\u2019&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/12\/pickin_trimmin_in_a_down-home_north_carolina_barbershop.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Award-win\u00adn\u00ading short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary fea\u00adtures blue\u00adgrass musi\u00adcians in a down-home North Car\u00adoli\u00adna bar\u00adber\u00adshop. (2008)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Plagues &amp; Plea\u00adsures on the Salton Sea<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/12\/john-waters-narrates-offbeat-documentary-on-environmental-catastrophe-the-salton-sea.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Cult movie leg\u00adend John Waters nar\u00adrates an off\u00adbeat&nbsp;doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the acci\u00adden\u00adtal lake cre\u00adat\u00aded in the desert of South\u00adern Cal\u00adi\u00adfor\u00adnia. (2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Plas\u00adtic Bag<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/08\/werner-herzog-narrates-the-existential-emotional-journey-of-a-plastic-bag.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Wern\u00ader Her\u00adzog nar\u00adrates the exis\u00adten\u00adtial jour\u00adney of a plas\u00adtic bag. Direct\u00aded by Ramin Bahrani. (2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poor Kids<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HQvetA1P4Yg\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary explores what pover\u00adty means to chil\u00addren in Amer\u00adi\u00adca through the sto\u00adries of three fam\u00adi\u00adlies. (2017)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Por\u00adtrait of an Artist: Jack\u00adson Pol\u00adlock<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/12\/a_portrait_of_jackson_pollock_presented_by_melvyn_bragg_1987.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary of the abstract expres\u00adsion\u00adist artist nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Melvyn Bragg. (1987)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Por\u00adtrait Wern\u00ader Her\u00adzog<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/08\/portrait_werner_herzog.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A Ger\u00adman pro\u00adduc\u00adtion direct\u00aded by Her\u00adzog him\u00adself,&nbsp;<em>Por\u00adtrait Wern\u00ader Her\u00adzog<\/em>&nbsp;shows the direc\u00adtor in his home\u00adland, in Munich. (1986)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pow\u00aders of Ten<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/07\/powers_of_ten.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Famous short&nbsp;film depicts the rel\u00ada\u00adtive&nbsp;scale of the&nbsp;Uni\u00adverse in fac\u00adtors of ten. Made by leg\u00adendary design\u00aders&nbsp;Ray and Charles Eames. (1977)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pro\u00adfile of a Writer: Jorge Luis Borges<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/04\/borges_profile_of_a_writer.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Are\u00adna doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary&nbsp;the life and writ\u00adings of Argentina\u2019s favorite son, Jorge Luis Borges. (1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Queen of Code<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/118556349\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct by Gillian Jacobs, this short doc looks at the life and career of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/08\/grace-hopper-the-pioneering-computer-scientist.html\">Grace Hop\u00adper<\/a>, who&nbsp;worked on the first com\u00adput\u00ader and head\u00aded the team that cre\u00adat\u00aded the first com\u00adpil\u00ader. (2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ray Brad\u00adbury: Sto\u00adry of a Writer \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/06\/iray_bradbury_story_of_a_writeri_1963_film_captures_the_paradoxical_late_sci-fi_author.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A half-hour tele\u00advi\u00adsion doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about Ray Brad\u00adbury. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Red Shirley<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/10\/red-shirley-lou-reeds-short-documentary.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Lou Reed\u2019s short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on his fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading 100-year-old cousin. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Report from the Aleu\u00adtians<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/ReportFromTheAleutians\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;John Hus\u00adton, while a mem\u00adber of the U.S. Army Sig\u00adnal Corps in 1943, cre\u00adates an Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award win\u00adning doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the Armed Forces\u2019 effort to pre\u00advent the fall of the Aleut\u00adian Islands to Japan\u00adese troops. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Requiem for the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Dream<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/requiem-for-the-american-dream-noam-chomsky\">Free<\/a> \u2014 \u201cRenowned aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic and author Noam Chom\u00adsky elu\u00adci\u00addates 10 prin\u00adci\u00adples of con\u00adcen\u00adtra\u00adtion of wealth and pow\u00ader that have led to unprece\u00addent\u00aded inequal\u00adi\u00adty and the hol\u00adlow\u00ading out of the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan mid\u00addle class,\u201d write IMDB. Streams only free in the Unit\u00aded States. (2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rick Steves Europe<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/01\/rick-steves-europe-binge-watch-9-seasons-of-americas-favorite-traveler-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 11 sea\u00adsons of Rick Steves\u2019 pop\u00adu\u00adlar trav\u00adel doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtaries.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Road to the Stars<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9CX0oSjwLqI#!\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Pavel Klushant\u00adsev, this Sovi\u00adet doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary com\u00adbines ele\u00adments of sci\u00adence edu\u00adca\u00adtion films and spec\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtive sci\u00adence fic\u00adtion. It was ground\u00adbreak\u00ading for its use of spe\u00adcial effects to depict life in space. (1957)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Room to Dream: David Lynch and the Inde\u00adpen\u00addent Film\u00admak\u00ader<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/11\/david-lynch-takes-aspiring-filmmakers-inside-the-art-craft-of-making-indie-films.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 David&nbsp;Lynch explains how he brings his unique vision to the screen with tech\u00adnolo\u00adgies that are now with\u00adin reach for inde\u00adpen\u00addent film\u00admak\u00aders.&nbsp;(2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rus\u00adsi\u00ada\u2019s Open Book: Writ\u00ading in the Age of Putin<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/stephen-fry-profiles-six-russian-writers-in-the-new-documentary-russias-open-book.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Stephen Fry hosts a doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary explor\u00ading the vital lit\u00ader\u00adary scene in con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary Rus\u00adsia. (2014)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samu\u00adrai Sword: Mak\u00ading of a Leg\u00adend<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jXSk9jWt9n0\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;This sto\u00adry of the Katana sword pro\u00advides a unique insight into the Samu\u00adrai mas\u00adters and the swords they use. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saul Alin\u00adsky Went to War<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BUAPimVw_3o\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In this fea\u00adture doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary, Amer\u00adi\u00adcan com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adty orga\u00adniz\u00ader and writer Saul Alin\u00adsky goes to war against the con\u00addi\u00adtions that keep the poor in pover\u00adty. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sea of Faith<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLVUIaMDAYwqjMlxhXDehb4k8Oqa5n5KAP\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In this six-part series,&nbsp;Don Cupitt&nbsp;explores the his\u00adto\u00adry of Chris\u00adtian\u00adi\u00adty in the mod\u00adern world,&nbsp;explor\u00ading the works of philoso\u00adphers like&nbsp;Blaise Pas\u00adcal, Ren\u00e9 Descartes, Kierkegaard, Jung, Freud, Schopen\u00adhauer, Niet\u00adzsche, Wittgen\u00adstein and more.&nbsp;(1984)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scenes from&nbsp;Allen\u2019s&nbsp;Last Three Days on Earth as a Spir\u00adit<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/allen-ginsbergs-last-three-days-on-earth-as-a-spirit-the-poets-final-days-captured-in-a-1997-film.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A&nbsp;kind of video diary of poet Allen Gins\u00adberg\u2019s last days. (1997)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sell &amp; Spin: A His\u00adto\u00adry of Adver\u00adtis\u00ading<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/04\/sell-spin-the-history-of-advertising.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Dick Cavett nar\u00adrates the his\u00adto\u00adry of adver\u00adtis\u00ading, from ancient times to mod\u00adern. (1999)<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u00bfSer\u00eda Buenos Aires?<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/9595179\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 An award-win\u00adn\u00ading doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary look\u00ading at Argenti\u00adna\u2019s response to mod\u00adern crises. (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>She\u2019s Nobody\u2019s Baby: A His\u00adto\u00adry of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan Women in the 20th Cen\u00adtu\u00adry<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/shesnobodysbabyahistoryofamericanwomeninthe20thcenturyreel1\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Alan Alda and Mar\u00adlo Thomas trace the evo\u00adlu\u00adtion of the roles and lives of women in the 20th&nbsp;cen\u00adtu\u00adry. (1982)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shen\u00adzhen: The Sil\u00adi\u00adcon Val\u00adley of Hard\u00adware<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY&amp;t=1s\">Free<\/a> \u2014 From <em>Wired<\/em>&nbsp;comes a doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary look\u00ading at how Shen\u00adzen,&nbsp;the fre\u00adnet\u00adic heart of Chi\u00adna\u2019s tech indus\u00adtry, is becom\u00ading a city of the future. (2016)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shock of the New<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/robert_hughes_famed_art_critic_demystifies_modern_art_from_cezanne_to_andy_warhol.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Art crit\u00adic Robert Hugh\u00ades looks at the the devel\u00adop\u00adment of mod\u00adern art since the Impres\u00adsion\u00adists. (1980)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sketch\u00ades of Frank Gehry<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/07\/take-an-online-course-on-design-architecture-with-frank-gehry.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Syd\u00adney Pol\u00adlack doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary explores Frank Gehry\u2019s cre\u00adative process, from sketch\u00ading to mak\u00ading the phys\u00adi\u00adcal and 3D mod\u00adels to the con\u00adstruc\u00adtion itself. (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Soft Self Por\u00adtrait of Sal\u00advador Dali<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/06\/ia_soft_self-portrait_of_salvador_dalii_narrated_by_the_great_orson_welles.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;French direc\u00adtor Jean-Christophe Aver\u00adty&nbsp;trav\u00adeled to Spain in 1970 and shot a sur\u00adre\u00adal bio\u00adgraph\u00adi\u00adcal doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the artist. (1970)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Some Yo Yo Stuff<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/03\/hear-a-rare-poetry-reading-by-captain-beefheart-1993.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short film about Cap\u00adtain Beef\u00adheart by&nbsp;Anton Cor\u00adbi\u00adjn. (1993)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stravin\u00adsky<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/stravinsky\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;This doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary is an infor\u00admal por\u00adtrait of the great mod\u00adern com\u00adpos\u00ader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cco.caltech.edu\/~tan\/Stravinsky\/biography.html\">Igor Stravin\u00adsky<\/a>. Direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Wolf Koenig &amp; Roman Kroitor. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stress, Por\u00adtrait of a Killer<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/08\/do_yourself_a_favor_and_watch_istress_portrait_of_a_killeri_with_stanford_biologist_robert_sapolsky.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00adies in the field and in the lab prove that stress is not just a state of mind, but some\u00adthing mea\u00adsur\u00adable and dan\u00adger\u00adous. Fea\u00adtures Stan\u00adford&nbsp;neu\u00adro\u00adbi\u00adol\u00ado\u00adgist <a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/profiles\/robert-sapolsky\">Robert Sapol\u00adsky<\/a>. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sun Ra: A Joy\u00adful Noise<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S2il7XTq8Es\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal jazz vision\u00adary Sun Ra was filmed on loca\u00adtion in Philadel\u00adphia, Bal\u00adti\u00admore, and Wash\u00ading\u00adton, D.C. between 1978 and 1980 by direc\u00adtor Robert Mugge. Includes pub\u00adlic and pri\u00advate per\u00adfor\u00admances, poet\u00adry read\u00adings, inter\u00adviews and exten\u00adsive impro\u00advi\u00adsa\u00adtions with Sun Ra and his Arkestra. (1980)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sym\u00adpho\u00adny in Black: A Rhap\u00adsody of Negro Life<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/05\/duke_ellingtons_isymphony_in_blacki_starring_a_19-year-old_billie_holiday.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A musi\u00adcal short that fea\u00adtures Duke Ellington\u2019s ear\u00adly extend\u00aded piece, \u201cA Rhap\u00adsody of Negro Life.\u201d Stars 19-year-old Bil\u00adlie Hol\u00adi\u00adday. (1935)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ten Days That Shook the World<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/sergei-eisensteins-ten-days-that-shook-the-world-1928\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly called&nbsp;<em>Oktyabr<\/em>, Sergei Eisen\u00adstein\u2019s film doc\u00adu\u00adments the Russ\u00adian Rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion of 1917. A mas\u00adter\u00adpiece by a pio\u00adneer\u00ading film\u00admak\u00ader. (1928)<\/li>\n<li><strong>That Far Cor\u00adner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Ange\u00adles<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/05\/that-far-corner-frank-lloyd-wright-in-los-angeles-a-free-online-documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Chris Hawthorne, archi\u00adtec\u00adture crit\u00adic for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/\"><em>Los Ange\u00adles Times<\/em><\/a>, explores the hous\u00ades Frank Lloyd Wright built in Los Ange\u00adles, dur\u00ading a time when he was recov\u00ader\u00ading from a vio\u00adlent trag\u00adic episode in his life. (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The ABCs of Dada<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/the-abcs-of-dada.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Explores the ori\u00adgins of and con\u00adtrib\u00adu\u00adtors to the Dada move\u00adment. (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Amer\u00adi\u00adcan West of John Ford \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheAmericanWestofJohnFord\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>-<\/strong>&nbsp;A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary encap\u00adsu\u00adlat\u00ading the career and West\u00adern films of direc\u00adtor John Ford, fea\u00adtur\u00ading inter\u00adviews with John Wayne, James Stew\u00adart and Hen\u00adry Fon\u00adda. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Artist For\u00admer\u00adly Known as Cap\u00adtain Beef\u00adheart<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=O3zxyUy0VOY\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Elaine Shepherd\u2019s clas\u00adsic BBC doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary, intro\u00adduced and nar\u00adrat\u00aded by John Peel. (1997)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bat\u00admo\u00adbile<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/06\/the-history-of-the-batmobile-a-free-documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Roko Bel\u00adic, this doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary explores the evo\u00adlu\u00adtion of the Bat\u00admo\u00adbile. (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bat\u00adtle of Mid\u00adway<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ihRxmfxi29Y\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Direct\u00aded by John Ford. Nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Hen\u00adry Fon\u00adda. On June 4\u20136, 1942, Japan\u00adese forces attempt\u00aded to cap\u00adture Mid\u00adway Island in the North Pacif\u00adic, but were defeat\u00aded by U.S. forces. On hand was a crew of naval pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adphers direct\u00aded by John Ford.&nbsp;(1942)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bat\u00adtle of San Pietro<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/battle_of_san_pietro\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 John Hus\u00adton\u2019s war time doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearl\u00adman Sto\u00adry<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CcCRs0Ic3FI\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A YouTube Orig\u00adi\u00adnal doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that tells the sto\u00adry of famed boy band impre\u00adsario Lou Pearl\u00adman. The film tracks his life from his child\u00adhood in Queens, through dis\u00adcov\u00ader\u00ading mega-bands *NSYNC and The Back\u00adstreet Boys, and chron\u00adi\u00adcles his lat\u00ader life. (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Church Of Saint Coltrane<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/11\/the-church-of-saint-john-coltrane-a-documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 &nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Gayle Gilman and Jeff Swim\u00admer, this film looks at The Church of Saint Coltrane in San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco, which has can\u00adon\u00adized John Coltrane as their patron saint and on Sun\u00addays holds five-hour jam ses\u00adsions inter\u00adspersed with litur\u00adgy and fel\u00adlow\u00adship. (1996)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Com\u00adplete Star Wars Fil\u00admu\u00admen\u00adtaries<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/10\/the-complete-star-wars-filmumentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Jamie Ben\u00adning has cre\u00adat\u00aded a tril\u00ado\u00adgy of doc\u00adu\u00ad\u00admen\u00ad\u00adtary-com\u00ad\u00admen\u00ad\u00adtaries on the <em>Star Wars<\/em> tril\u00ado\u00adgy. Fea\u00adtures delet\u00aded scenes, alter\u00adnate takes and dif\u00adfer\u00adent angles, bloop\u00aders, orig\u00adi\u00adnal on set audio record\u00adings and a huge amount of com\u00admen\u00adtary from cast and crew.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Con\u00adfes\u00adsions of Robert Crumb<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/03\/the_confessions_of_robert_crumb.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A por\u00adtrait of the artist script\u00aded by the under\u00adground comics leg\u00adend him\u00adself (1987)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Crazy Nev\u00ader Die<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/02\/the_crazy_never_die_hunter_s_thompson_in_rare_1988_documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 30 minute shot-on-video doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that looks into the more pub\u00adlicly wild and per\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive side of Hunter S. Thomp\u00adson\u2019s per\u00adson\u00adal\u00adi\u00adty. (1988)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cry of Jazz<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/10\/the-cry-of-jazz.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial film by Ed Bland explores issues around&nbsp;African-Amer\u00adi\u00ad\u00adcans and jazz in the Unit\u00aded States. Includes inter\u00adviews with artists and intel\u00adlec\u00adtu\u00adals and per\u00adfor\u00admances by Sun Ra and John Gilmore. In 2010, the film was select\u00aded for preser\u00adva\u00adtion in the Unit\u00aded States Nation\u00adal Film Reg\u00adistry by the Library of Con\u00adgress. (1958)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dis\u00adtor\u00adtion of Sound<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/10\/distortion-of-sound-musicians-explain-in-short-film-how-weve-created-a-mcdonalds-generation-of-music-consumers.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the decline of sound qual\u00adi\u00adty and how tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy has changed the way we lis\u00adten to music. Fea\u00adtures numer\u00adous musi\u00adcians. (2014)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Duc\u00adtu\u00admen\u00adtary<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/the-ductumentary-a-short-film-on-surfer-joel-tudor\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short film that explores surfer Joel Tudor\u2019s \u201clife as a surfer, his ulti\u00admate deci\u00adsion to leave com\u00adpet\u00adi\u00adtive surf\u00ading and the vision that inspired him to cre\u00adate the unique Duct Tape con\u00adtests.\u201d (2013)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ein\u00adstein The\u00ado\u00adry of Rel\u00ada\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2018\/05\/einsteins-theory-of-relativity-explained-in-one-of-the-earliest-science-films-ever-made-1923.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Einstein\u2019s the\u00ado\u00adry of rel\u00ada\u00adtiv\u00adi\u00adty explained in one of the ear\u00adli\u00adest sci\u00adence films ever made. (1923)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fight\u00ading Lady<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/FightingLady\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Direct\u00aded by William Wyler, this film pro\u00advides a por\u00adtrait of life on a World War II air\u00adcraft car\u00adri\u00ader (1944)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Four Horse\u00admen<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/watch-four-horsemen-online\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Ross Ashcroft, the indie doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary is a \u201cjere\u00admi\u00adad against the fol\u00adly of Neo-clas\u00adsi\u00ad\u00adcal eco\u00adnom\u00adics and the threats it rep\u00adre\u00adsents to all we should hold dear.\u201d (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Genius of Charles Dar\u00adwin<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/01\/richard_dawkins_three-part_series_reveals_ithe_genius_of_charles_darwini.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A three part series pre\u00adsent\u00aded by <a href=\"https:\/\/users.ox.ac.uk\/~dawkins\/\">Oxford biol\u00ado\u00adgist Richard Dawkins<\/a>. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gift: The Jour\u00adney of John\u00adny Cash<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/11\/the-gift-the-journey-of-johnny-cash.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary, cre\u00adat\u00aded with the full coop\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion of the Cash estate and rich in recent\u00adly dis\u00adcov\u00adered archival mate\u00adri\u00adals, brings Cash the man out from behind the leg\u00adend. (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The God Delu\u00adsion<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/richard-dawkins-documentary-the-god-delusion.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Oxford evo\u00adlu\u00adtion\u00adary biol\u00ado\u00adgist Richard Dawkins argues that the world would be bet\u00adter off with\u00adout reli\u00adgion. The film accom\u00adpa\u00adnied a book by the same title.&nbsp;(2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The God\u00admoth\u00ader of Rock N Roll: Sis\u00adter Roset\u00adta Tharpe<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/03\/sister-rosetta-tharpes-100th-birthday.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The life, music &amp;&nbsp;influ\u00adence of African-Amer\u00adi\u00ad\u00adcan gospel singer and gui\u00adtar vir\u00adtu\u00adoso Sis\u00adter&nbsp;Roset\u00adta Tharpe. Direct\u00aded by&nbsp;Mick Csaky. Find film at bot\u00adtom of linked page. (2014)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Grate\u00adful Dead Movie<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/10\/the-grateful-dead-movie-watch-it-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The film<em>&nbsp;<\/em>doc\u00adu\u00adments \u201ca tour-end\u00ading five night stand at the Win\u00adter\u00adland Ball\u00adroom in Octo\u00adber 1974. These were their last shows with the Wall of Sound.\u201d (1977)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hen\u00adry Miller Odyssey<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sXTKk0qivbA\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Robert Sny\u00adder\u2019s doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary,&nbsp;almost entire\u00adly nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Miller, fol\u00adlows the author through his ear\u00adly years, from his child\u00adhood in Brook\u00adlyn to his bliss\u00adful exile in Paris. See more in the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/1969\/12\/8\/the-filmgoer-the-henry-miller-odyssey\/\">orig\u00adi\u00adnal review by The Har\u00advard Crim\u00adson<\/a>. (1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The His\u00adto\u00adry of the Type\u00adwriter Recit\u00aded by Michael Winslow<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/06\/the-history-of-the-typewriter.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sound effects genius Michael Winslow per\u00adforms the sounds of 32 type\u00adwrit\u00aders made between 1898\u20131983. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The His\u00adto\u00adry of Iron Maid\u00aden<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2022\/04\/the-history-of-iron-maiden-a-documentary-streaming-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A two-part doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary moves from the band\u2019s begin\u00adnings in London\u2019s East End in 1975, to the&nbsp;<em>Piece of Mind<\/em> album and tour in 1983, and then beyond.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hitch<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/04\/the-hitch-documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Kristof\u00adfer Seland Helles\u00admark cre\u00adat\u00aded an 80-minute doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the icon\u00ado\u00adclas\u00adtic jour\u00adnal\u00adist Christo\u00adpher Hitchens, lov\u00ading\u00adly enti\u00adtled <em>The Hitch<\/em>, which fea\u00adtures clips from his speech\u00ades and inter\u00adviews. (2014)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The House I Live In<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TheHouseILiveIn\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A ten-minute short film star\u00adring Frank Sina\u00adtra made to oppose anti-Semi\u00ad\u00adtism and racial prej\u00adu\u00addice at the end of World War II. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Gild\u00aded Age<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2025\/09\/the-gilded-age-a-free-historical-documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A PBS doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that explores one of the most con\u00advul\u00adsive and trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive eras in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan his\u00adto\u00adry, from the 1870s-1890s.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Joy of Stats<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/01\/the_joy_of_stats.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Hans Rosling says there\u2019s noth\u00ading bor\u00ading about stats, and then proves it in an one-hour long doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Land Where the Blues Began \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.folkstreams.net\/films\/homemade-american-music\">Free<\/a><strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>Alan Lomax takes you into the&nbsp;Mis\u00adsis\u00adsip\u00adpi Delta, into to the heart of the Blues. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Last 48 Hours of Kurt Cobain<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/the-last-48-hours-of-kurt-cobain.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 British doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary takes a look the final days of Kurt Cobain, the Nir\u00advana front\u00adman who com\u00admit\u00adted sui\u00adcide in 1994. (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The James Dean Sto\u00adry<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/02\/the_james_dean_story_by_robert_altman.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the life and times of James Dean made by the great film\u00admak\u00ader Robert Alt\u00adman \u2014 MASH, The Play\u00ader, Gos\u00adford Park, etc. (1957)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Japan\u00adese Sword as the Soul of the Samu\u00adrai<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/thejapaneseswordasthesoulofthesamurai\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Obscure doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the mak\u00ading of Japan\u00adese swords, nar\u00adrat\u00aded by George Takei, offers a fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading look at the exhaus\u00adtive process of forg\u00ading samu\u00adrai swords. (1969)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Love for Wood<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E48r-JTSAVM\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about well known Dutch chess play\u00aders, fea\u00adtur\u00ading Jan Tim\u00adman, Hans Ree, Piet Hein Don\u00adner, Max Euwe and oth\u00aders. It\u2019s a beau\u00adti\u00adful doc\u00adu\u00adment of the peri\u00adod and the state of chess at that time. Eng\u00adlish sub\u00adti\u00adtles. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mag\u00adic Sun<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/ubu.com\/film\/niblock_sun.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A<span style=\"color: #000000;\">rtist Phil Niblock cap\u00adtures a brief moment of an inter\u00adstel\u00adlar com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra in their prime. (1968)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mak\u00ading of Dark Side of the Moon<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/01\/making-of-pink-floyds-dark-side-of-the-moon-and-wish-you-were-here.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A look inside the cre\u00adation of a famous Pink Floyd album. (2003)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mak\u00ading of Koy\u00adaanisqat\u00adsi&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_Mr26_m5rGQ\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Direc\u00adtor&nbsp;God\u00adfrey Reg\u00adgio gives you the back\u00adsto\u00adry behind his 1982 film,&nbsp;<em>Koy\u00adaanisqat\u00adsi<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The March<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/the-march.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 James Blues\u2019s&nbsp;\u201cvisu\u00adal\u00adly stun\u00adning, mov\u00ading, and arrest\u00ading doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary of the hope, deter\u00admi\u00adna\u00adtion, and cama\u00adraderie\u201d embod\u00adied by The Great March on Wash\u00ading\u00adton. (1964)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Men Who Made the Movies: Hitch\u00adcock<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cinephiliabeyond.org\/men-made-movies-alfred-hitchcock-1973\/\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A look at Alfred Hitch\u00adcock\u00ad\u2019s films. The Mas\u00adter of Sus\u00adpense him\u00adself, who is inter\u00adviewed exten\u00adsive\u00adly here, shares sto\u00adries about film\u00admak\u00ading.&nbsp;(1973)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mys\u00adtery of Picas\u00adso<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/ithe_mystery_of_picassoi_landmark_film_of_a_legendary_artist_at_work_by_henri-georges_clouzot.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Pablo Picasso\u2019s art emerges in front of our eyes in this remark\u00adable film by the French mas\u00adter of sus\u00adpense, Hen\u00adri-Georges Clouzot. (1956)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The New Cin\u00ade\u00adma<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/135750398\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Nev\u00ader-aired TV doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary takes a look at the new Hol\u00adly\u00adwood scene emerg\u00ading in 1967. Fea\u00adtures footage of&nbsp;Dustin Hoff\u00adman, Roman Polan\u00ads\u00adki, Fran\u00adcis Ford Cop\u00adpo\u00adla and George Lucas. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Nomi Song<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W0PszBID3Lk\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Andrew Horn\u2019s doc a<span style=\"color: #222222;\">bout the life of singer Klaus Nomi. Debuted at the Berlin Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval and won a Ted\u00addy Award for \u201cBest Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary Film.<\/span>&nbsp;(2004)<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"worknav\"><span class=\"worknav\"><strong>The Out\u00adsider: The Sto\u00adry of Har\u00adry Partch<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aKD3zm0WZjA\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the avant-garde com\u00adpos\u00ader Har\u00adry Partch. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"worknav\"><span id=\"ubuwork\">(2002)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Penul\u00adti\u00admate Truth About Philip K. Dick<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/10\/the-penultimate-truth-about-philip-k-dick.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the mys\u00adti\u00adcal expe\u00adri\u00adences of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick. (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Pho\u00adtog\u00adra\u00adph\u00ader<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/02\/the_photographer_reveals_the_philosophy_techniques_artistry_of_edward_weston.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Reveals the phi\u00adlos\u00ado\u00adphy, tech\u00adniques &amp; artistry of Edward West\u00adon (1948)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Pow\u00ader of Night\u00admares<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLoycUFiH1FmLbpJh6CspWMeO-rOL6iIUi\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A three-part his\u00adto\u00adry of how rad\u00adi\u00adcal Islamism in many ways par\u00adal\u00adleled the rise of Neo-Con\u00adser\u00ad\u00advatism. Though crit\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly acclaimed, it nev\u00ader aired in Amer\u00adi\u00adca. (2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Real Bruce Lee<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nmVvSgHC3aM\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This&nbsp;mar\u00adtial arts doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary begins with a brief biog\u00adra\u00adphy of Bruce Lee, and shows scenes from four of his child\u00adhood films, Bad Boy, Orphan Sam, Kid Che\u00adung, and The Car\u00adni\u00adval, each sepia-toned and dubbed to Eng\u00adlish. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Queen of Trees<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xy86ak2fQJM\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;The remark\u00adable sto\u00adry of an African fig tree and the spe\u00adcial rela\u00adtion\u00adship it has with the ani\u00admals who depend on it. A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peabodyawards.com\/award-profile\/the-queen-of-trees\">Peabody award-win\u00adn\u00ading<\/a> nat\u00adur\u00adal his\u00adto\u00adry doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary. (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Respon\u00adsive Eye&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yTo8Z59Idr0\">Free<\/a><strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/strong>Bri\u00adan DePal\u00adma\u2019s short film doc\u00adu\u00adment\u00ading&nbsp;the open\u00ading night of an OP ART exhi\u00adbi\u00adtion at the Muse\u00adum of Mod\u00adern Art in New York in 1966.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Secret Life of Adolf Hitler<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/TheSecretLifeOfAdolfHitler\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 1950\u2019s tele\u00advi\u00adsion doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that includes inter\u00adviews with Hitler\u2019s sis\u00adter Paula Wolf and footage from Eva Braun\u2019s rare home movies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion Hypoth\u00ade\u00adsis<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/03\/are-we-living-inside-a-computer-simulation-watch-the-simulation-argument.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Are we liv\u00ading in a vir\u00adtu\u00adal real\u00adi\u00adty? And if so, could we ever tell? Fea\u00adtures Appear\u00adances by Max Tegmark, Neil degrasse Tyson, Paul Davies and James Gates&nbsp;(2015).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sto\u00adry of Fas\u00adcism<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/08\/the-story-of-fascism.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In an eye-open\u00ading doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary, Rick trav\u00adels back a cen\u00adtu\u00adry to learn how fas\u00adcism rose and then fell in Europe \u2014 tak\u00ading mil\u00adlions of peo\u00adple with it. (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Space Shut\u00adtle&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/07\/william_shatner_narrates_space_shuttle_documentary.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 His\u00adto\u00adry of the US Space Shut\u00adtle pro\u00adgram nar\u00adrat\u00aded by William Shat\u00adner. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Span\u00adish Earth<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/06\/ithe_spanish_earthi_written_and_narrated_by_ernest_hemingway.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A Span\u00adish Civ\u00adil War pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda film writ\u00adten and nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Ernest Hem\u00ading\u00adway. (1937)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Strange Case of the Cos\u00admic Rays<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/03\/dostoevsky-dickens-poe-puppets-star-in-one-of-frank-capras-1950s-educational-science-films.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Pup\u00adpets of Dos\u00adto\u00adevsky, Dick\u00adens and Poe star in an edu\u00adca\u00adtion\u00adal sci\u00adence film cre\u00adat\u00aded by Frank Capra. (1957)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sto\u00adry of Fas\u00adcism<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/09\/the-story-of-fascism.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Rick Steves presents a thought-pro\u00ad\u00advok\u00ading doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that revis\u00adits the rise of fas\u00adcism in Europe, remind\u00ading us of how charis\u00admat\u00adic fig\u00adures like Ben\u00adi\u00adto Mus\u00adsoli\u00adni and Adolf Hitler came to pow\u00ader by promis\u00ading to cre\u00adate a bet\u00adter future for their frus\u00adtrat\u00aded, eco\u00adnom\u00adi\u00ad\u00adcal\u00ad\u00adly-depressed coun\u00adtries. (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sto\u00adry of the Gui\u00adtar<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cultr.me\/OYo7YE\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A&nbsp;three part doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary<em>&nbsp;<\/em>reveals how the&nbsp;gui\u00adtar came to \u201cdom\u00adi\u00adnate the&nbsp;sound\u00adtrack of our lives.\u201d (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sto\u00adry of Wish You Were Here<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/01\/making-of-pink-floyds-dark-side-of-the-moon-and-wish-you-were-here.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Takes you inside the mak\u00ading of Pink Floy\u00add\u2019s 1975 album. (2012)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tibetan Book of the Dead<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/03\/leonard_cohen_narrates_film_on_ithe_tibetan_book_of_the_deadi_featuring_the_dalai_lama_1994.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Leonard Cohen and fea\u00adtur\u00ading the Dalai Lama, the film explores&nbsp;an essen\u00adtial teach\u00ading in the Bud\u00addhist cul\u00adtures of the Himalayas. (1994)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tony Alva Sto\u00adry<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/the-tony-alva-story\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that cov\u00aders the rise, fall and rise of the leg\u00adendary skate\u00adboard\u00ader. (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Unchained God\u00addess<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/07\/oscar-winning-director-frank-capra-made-a-short-science-film-warning-of-climate-change-in-1958.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 After win\u00adning three Oscars for best direc\u00adtor, Frank Capra pro\u00adduced a sci\u00adence edu\u00adca\u00adtion film on the weath\u00ader that made one of the first argu\u00adments for tak\u00ading action against cli\u00admate change. (1958)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The World of Buck\u00admin\u00adster Fuller<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YbBKRRB1E9U\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Robert Sny\u00adder, this doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary trans\u00adports you into Fuller\u2019s mind and soul.&nbsp;It\u2019s told entire\u00adly in his own words. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tri\u00adumph of the Will<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x6uajey\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 (1935) The major Nazi pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda work by Leni Riefen\u00adstahl. With sub\u00adti\u00adtles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ten-Year Lunch<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/01\/the-algonquin-round-table.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading film about the writ\u00aders who sat at the Algo\u00adnquin Round Table in New York dur\u00ading the 1920s. (1986)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Think\u00ading Game<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Think\u00ading Game fol\u00adlows Demis Has\u00ads\u00adabis and his Deep\u00adMind team as they pur\u00adsue arti\u00adfi\u00adcial gen\u00ader\u00adal intel\u00adli\u00adgence, cul\u00admi\u00adnat\u00ading in the pro\u00adtein fold\u00ading prob\u00adlem break\u00adthrough with AlphaFold that earned a Nobel Prize. (2024)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The True Glo\u00adry<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TZY2wU8YHZk\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 War time pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary direct\u00aded by Car\u00adol Reed, with Gen\u00ader\u00adal Dwight D. Eisen\u00adhow\u00ader and Gen\u00ader\u00adal George S. Pat\u00adton. (1945)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The True His\u00adto\u00adry Of The Trav\u00adel\u00ading Wilburys<\/strong><em> \u2014 <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/02\/the-true-history-of-the-traveling-wilburys.html\">Free<\/a><em> \u2014&nbsp; <\/em>A short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the mak\u00ading of the 1980s super group. (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Uni\u00adver\u00adsal Mind of Bill Evans&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/the_universal_mind_of_bill_evans_advice_on_learning_to_play_jazz.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 1966 doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary takes you inside the cre\u00adative process\/world of jazz pianist Bill Evans.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Vel\u00advet Under\u00adground: A Sym\u00adpho\u00adny of Sound<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/ia_symphony_of_soundi_1966_the_velvet_underground_improvises_warhol_films_it_until_the_cops_turn_up.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;-<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Pro\u00adduced by Andy Warhol, the&nbsp;film shows VU per\u00adform\u00ading a 67-minute instru\u00admen\u00adtal impro\u00advi\u00adsa\u00adtion. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Way of the Flesh<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C0lMrp_ySg8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Adam Cur\u00adtis this doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on Hen\u00adri\u00adet\u00adta Lacks won the Best Sci\u00adence and Nature Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary at the San Fran\u00adcis\u00adco Inter\u00adna\u00adtion\u00adal Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval. Find an <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/AdamCurtisTheWayofAllFlesh\">alter\u00adnate ver\u00adsion on Archive.org<\/a>. (1998)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Weight of a Nation<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/08\/watch-the-weight-of-the-nation-free-online-an-emmy-nominated-hbo-documentary-films-series-on-obesity.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The Emmy-nom\u00adi\u00ad\u00adnat\u00aded HBO Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary Films series on obe\u00adsi\u00adty, cre\u00adat\u00aded in col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adtion with the NIH (2012).<\/li>\n<li><strong>The World At War<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/145889\/The-World-at-War\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Acclaimed 26-episode WWII doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary \u201cThe World at War\u201d was pro\u00adduced by Thames Tele\u00advi\u00adsion and aired in 1973\u20131974.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Wreck\u00ading Crew<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-ZgBexrZvM0\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary film direct\u00aded by Den\u00adny Tedesco, son of gui\u00adtarist Tom\u00admy Tedesco, cov\u00aders the sto\u00adry of the Los Angeles\u2013based group of ses\u00adsion musi\u00adcians known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/04\/how-the-wrecking-crew-secretly-recorded-some-of-the-biggest-hits-of-the-1960s-70s.html\">The Wreck\u00ading Crew<\/a>. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>There is No Author\u00adi\u00adty But Your\u00adself<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qIa_jVDRYg4\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Fea\u00adture doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about sem\u00adi\u00adnal anar\u00ad\u00adcho-punk band Crass, direct\u00aded by Dutch film\u00admak\u00ader Alexan\u00adder Oey. (2006)<\/li>\n<li><strong>They Were There<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/01\/errol_morris_ibm.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Errol Mor\u00adris, the acclaimed direc\u00adtor, was hired to make a film for an \u201cin house\u201d con\u00adfer\u00adence of IBM employ\u00adees. The 30-minute film notably fea\u00adtures music by Philip Glass.<\/li>\n<li><strong>This is Mar\u00adshall McLuhan: The Medi\u00adum is the Mes\u00adsage<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t1axnba_Ueg\">Free<\/a> \u2014 \u201cMar\u00adshall McLuhan dis\u00adcuss\u00ades his con\u00adtro\u00adver\u00adsial com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtions the\u00ado\u00adries in this exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary pro\u00adduced by Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ader Ernest Pintoff and Guy Frau\u00admeni.\u201d Came out the same year as his book:&nbsp;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2djzgWc\">The Medi\u00adum is the Mas\u00adsage<\/a>.<\/em><strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong>(1967)<\/li>\n<li><strong>This is Ska<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=98gbH-gpzI4\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Filmed on loca\u00adtion in Kingston, Jamaica, this doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary&nbsp;fea\u00adtures per\u00adfor\u00admances by a who\u2019s who of up-and-com\u00ading ska artists, includ\u00ading Prince Buster, Jim\u00admy Cliff and The May\u00adtals. (1964)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Pyn\u00adchon: A Jour\u00adney Into the Mind of P.<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/09\/cinematic-journey-into-the-mind-of-thomas-pynchon.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary, writ\u00adten &amp; direct\u00aded by Donatel\u00adlo Dubi\u00adni &amp; Fos\u00adco Dubi\u00adni, on the reclu\u00adsive nov\u00adel\u00adist. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>To Hear Your Ban\u00adjo Play<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/10\/pete_seeger_to_hear_your_banjo_play.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;16-minute intro\u00adduc\u00adtion to Amer\u00adi\u00adcan folk music, writ\u00adten &amp; nar\u00adrat\u00aded by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/10\/legendary_folklorist_alan_lomax_the_land_where_the_blues_began.html\">Alan Lomax<\/a>&nbsp;and fea\u00adtur\u00ading rare per\u00adfor\u00admances by Woody Guthrie, Bald\u00adwin Hawes, Son\u00adny Ter\u00adry. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tokyo Girls<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aRgmW3gjdu8\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;can\u00addid jour\u00adney into the world of 4 young Cana\u00addi\u00adan women who work as well-paid host\u00adesses in exclu\u00adsive Japan\u00adese night\u00adclubs. These mod\u00ad\u00adern-day geisha find them\u00adselves caught up in the mizu shobai \u2014 the com\u00adplex \u201cfloat\u00ading water world\u201d of Tokyo clubs and bars. (2000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tol\u00adstoy Remem\u00adbered<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EyzYQIk1X9I\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 &nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary fea\u00adtures Tol\u00adstoy\u2019s daugh\u00adter. Direct\u00aded by Michael Rabiger. (1970)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Pet\u00adty, Some\u00adwhere You Feel Free \u2013 The Mak\u00ading of Wild\u00adflow\u00aders<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/11\/tom-petty-somewhere-you-feel-free-the-making-of-wildflowers-is-streaming-free-on-youtube.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The film was shot while Tom was on a pro\u00adlif\u00adic song\u00adwrit\u00ading streak for years mak\u00ading what he intend\u00aded to be a dou\u00adble album called <em>Wild\u00adflow\u00aders<\/em>. (2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"background-color: initial; font-size: 13pt;\">Tom Waits: A Day in Vien\u00adna<\/strong><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-size: 13pt;\">&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<\/span><a style=\"background-color: initial; font-size: 13pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/05\/tom_waits_a_day_in_vienna.html\">Free<\/a><span style=\"background-color: initial; font-size: 13pt;\">&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Tom Waits sings and tells sto\u00adries in film that orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly aired on Aus\u00adtri\u00adan TV. (1979)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Toute la m\u00e9moire du monde<\/strong>&nbsp;(All the World\u2019s Mem\u00ado\u00adries) \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/03\/watch-alain-resnais-short-evocative-film-toute-la-memoire-du-monde-1956.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Alain Resnais\u2019s short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary&nbsp;looks at the inner work\u00adings of the Bib\u00adlio\u00adth\u00e8que nationale de France in Paris. It\u2019s \u201ca med\u00adi\u00adta\u00adtive piece about the fragili\u00adty of human mem\u00ado\u00adry and the ways in which we try to shore it up.\u201d (1956)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Trapped: Andy Warhol\u2019s Ami\u00adga Exper\u00adi\u00adments<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/inside-the-recovery-of-andy-warhols-lost-computer-paintings.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Short film doc\u00adu\u00adments how Carnegie Mel\u00adlon experts recov\u00adered lost paint\u00adings that Andy Warhol made on the Com\u00admodore Ami\u00adga com\u00adput\u00ader dur\u00ading the 1980s.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tune Out the Noise<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2026\/03\/watch-errol-morriss-tune-out-the-noise-free-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Errol Mor\u00adris takes a look at the finan\u00adcial rev\u00ado\u00adlu\u00adtion that trans\u00adformed invest\u00ading. (2023)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tunisian Vic\u00adto\u00adry<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/TunisianVictory1944\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 World War II doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary direct\u00aded by Frank Capra and nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Burgess Mered\u00adith. (1944)<\/li>\n<li><strong>UFOs: It Has Begun&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=phsUnYKjpUw\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Rod Ser\u00adling explores&nbsp;the exis\u00adtence of UFOs and extra-ter\u00adres\u00adtri\u00adal beings. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Uni\u00adverse<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/01\/oscar-nominated-documentary-universe.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A 1960 doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary that inspired the visu\u00adal Effects of Stan\u00adley Kubrick\u2019s <em>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/em> and gave the HAL 9000 com\u00adput\u00ader its voice (1960)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unguid\u00aded Tour AKA Let\u00adter from Venice<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/susan-sontags-50-favorite-films.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Susan&nbsp;Son\u00adtag adapt\u00aded the Ital\u00adian-lan\u00adguage fea\u00adture from her sto\u00adry of the same name, orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly pub\u00adlished in 1977 in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/archive\/1977\/10\/31\/1977_10_31_040_TNY_CARDS_000325960\">the&nbsp;<em>New York\u00ader<\/em><\/a>. (1983)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Urban Strug\u00adgle: The Bat\u00adtle Of The Cuck\u00adoos Nest<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/22981905\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00adments the hard\u00adcore punk scene at the Cuck\u00adoo\u2019s Nest night\u00adclub. Fea\u00adtures per\u00adfor\u00admances by T.S.O.L., Cir\u00adcle Jerks and Black Flag, and shows ear\u00adly slam danc\u00ading. (1981)<\/li>\n<li><b style=\"font-size: 13pt; background-color: initial;\">Van Gogh: Paint\u00aded with Words<\/b><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; background-color: initial;\"> \u2014 <\/span><a style=\"font-size: 13pt; background-color: initial;\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/groups\/artteachersfriend\/videos\/109538758\"><span class=\"s3\">Free<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; background-color: initial;\"> \u2014 Writ\u00adten and direct\u00aded by Andrew Hut\u00adton, this dra\u00ad\u00adma-doc\u00adu\u00ad\u00admen\u00ad\u00adtary about Vin\u00adcent Van Gogh fea\u00adtures Bene\u00addict Cum\u00adber\u00adbatch in the lead role. (2010)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Veg\u00ade\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan World<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/vegeworld\">Free<\/a> \u2014 \u201cWilliam Shat\u00adner walks us through the his\u00adto\u00adry, ben\u00ade\u00adfits, and mis\u00adcon\u00adcep\u00adtions of adher\u00ading to a veg\u00ade\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan diet.\u201d (1982)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ver\u00admeer: Mas\u00adter of Light<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/master-of-light-a-close-look-at-the-paintings-of-johannes-vermeer-narrated-by-meryl-streep.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Explores&nbsp;Ver\u00admeer\u2019s com\u00adpo\u00adsi\u00adtion\u00adal meth\u00adods and tech\u00adniques. Nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Meryl Streep. (2001)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vic\u00adto\u00adry at Sea<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLMOJ05TrdIZA7pNQa5YjrHuPIDPdHPIod\">Free<\/a> \u2014 &nbsp;Award-win\u00adn\u00ading, 26 episode TV series chron\u00adi\u00adcling naval war\u00adfare dur\u00ading WWII. (1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Viet\u00adnam! Viet\u00adnam!&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ahmvb8234w0\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The last film pro\u00adduced by the leg\u00adendary John Ford was a work of pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda com\u00admis\u00adsioned by the Unit\u00aded States gov\u00adern\u00adment in sup\u00adport of the Viet\u00adnam War. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vir\u00adginia Woolf: A Nov\u00adel\u00adist <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Hnlsh8WyPE\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Draws on old maps, con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary draw\u00adings and paint\u00adings, por\u00adtraits and oth\u00ader archive mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal to present an out\u00adline of Vir\u00adginia Woolf\u2019s life and to con\u00advey a pic\u00adture of the social and his\u00adtor\u00adi\u00adcal back\u00adground to her writ\u00ading.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vis\u00adit to Picas\u00adso&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MngzktMovO4\">Free&nbsp;Part 1<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cw8ebHn7YEA\">Free&nbsp;Part 2<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Bel\u00adgian film\u00admak\u00ader Paul Hae\u00adsaerts cap\u00adtures Picas\u00adso\u2019s cre\u00adative process. (1949)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Viva Joe Strum\u00admer<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/documentary-viva-joe-strummer-the-story-of-the-clash-surveys-the-career-of-rocks-beloved-frontman.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary look at the great front\u00adman of The Clash. (2005)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wait\u00ading for Beck\u00adett<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLE554B39EFDA0182C\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Rare fea\u00ad\u00adture-length doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the Nobel Prize-win\u00adn\u00ading writer Samuel Beck\u00adett. (1993)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Warhol\u2019s Cin\u00ade\u00adma \u2014 A Mir\u00adror for the Six\u00adties<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/warhols-cinema-a-mirror-for-the-sixties-1989\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2011This 64 minute&nbsp;doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary from 1989 exam\u00adines Andy Warhol\u2019s films from the 1960s. (You can&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/09\/three_anti-films_by_andy_warhol.html\">view sev\u00ader\u00adal of these films \u2014&nbsp;<em>Eat<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Sleep<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Kiss \u2014&nbsp;<\/em>here<\/a>.)<br>\n(1989)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watch\u00ading My Name Go By<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-6N-rHB-u9c\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A short&nbsp;doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary about the ear\u00adly days of graf\u00adfi\u00adti cul\u00adture in New York City. (1976)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wattstax<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/wattstax.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Doc\u00adu\u00adments the \u201cBlack Wood\u00adstock\u201d con\u00adcert held 7 years after the Watts Riots. (1973)<\/li>\n<li><strong>We Were There to Be There<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/08\/the-cramps-legendary-concert-at-a-california-psychiatric-hospital-gets-revisited.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary revis\u00adits The Cramps famous punk con\u00adcert at the Napa State psy\u00adchi\u00adatric hos\u00adpi\u00adtal. (2021)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wern\u00ader Her\u00adzog Eats His Shoe&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/07\/werner_herzog_and_errol_morris_make_a_bet_and_the_loser_eats_a_shoe.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Her\u00adzog los\u00ades a bet to Errol Mor\u00adris and eats a shoe with the help of chef Alice Waters. (1980)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who\u2019s Out There?<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/whos-out-there-orson-welles-narrates-a-documentary-asking-whether-theres-extraterrestrial-life-in-the-universe-1975.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Orson Welles nar\u00adrates a doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary ask\u00ading whether there\u2019s extrater\u00adres\u00adtri\u00adal life in the Uni\u00adverse. (1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who is Afraid of Ai Wei\u00adwei?<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/07\/whos_afraid_of_ai_weiwei_a_short_documentary.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short PBS Front\u00adline doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the dis\u00adsi\u00addent Chi\u00adnese artist. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who\u2019s Afraid Of Machi\u00adavel\u00adli<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fphTuyJXTcQ\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This<span style=\"color: #262626;\">&nbsp;doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary asks how rel\u00ade\u00advant Machi\u00adavel\u00adli\u2019s book, The Prince, is 500 years after its pub\u00adli\u00adca\u00adtion. (2013)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Why We Fight<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/wwf_prelude_to_war\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A sev\u00aden part series of WWII pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda films direct\u00aded by Frank Capra. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>What the Future Sound\u00aded Like?<\/strong> -<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/11\/what-the-future-sounded-like.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;From <em>Dr Who<\/em> to <em>The Dark Side of the Moon,<\/em>&nbsp;\u201cthe pio\u00adneer\u00ading mem\u00adbers of the Elec\u00adtron\u00adic Music Stu\u00addios rad\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly changed the sound-scape of the 20th Cen\u00adtu\u00adry.<em> What the Future Sound\u00aded Like<\/em> tells this fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading sto\u00adry of British elec\u00adtron\u00adic music.\u201d (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Will Self\u00ad\u2019s Kaf\u00adka Jour\u00adney: A Prague Walk\u00ading Tour<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/06\/take-a-visual-walking-tour-of-franz-kafkas-prague-with-will-self-then-read-his-digital-essay-kafkas-wound.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Will Self vis\u00adits Prague for a walk\u00ading tour in search of Franz Kafka\u2019s genius loci. (2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>William S. Bur\u00adroughs: 100 Years<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M4jCdcMHK10\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short fea\u00adture on the life of writer William S. Bur\u00adroughs by the LA Review of Books. (2014)<\/li>\n<li><strong>William S. Bur\u00adroughs &amp; Lawrence<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/107309202\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;William S. Bur\u00adroughs and his years in Lawrence, Kansas. He lived in Lawrence longer than in any oth\u00ader place and chose to spend the last sev\u00ader\u00adal years of his life here. (2014)<\/li>\n<li><strong>WikiRebels<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/12\/wikirebels_new_documentary_tells_the_wikileaks_story.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary by Swedish pub\u00adlic tele\u00advi\u00adsion chron\u00adi\u00adcles his\u00adto\u00adry of Wik\u00adileaks. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wittgen\u00adstein: A Won\u00adder\u00adful Life<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8BoKjQfMihs\">Free<\/a> \u2014 About&nbsp;the remark\u00adable life of the Aus\u00adtri\u00adan philoso\u00adpher <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/wittgenstein\/\">Lud\u00adwig Wittgen\u00adstein<\/a>. (1989)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Woody Guthrie <\/strong>- <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9EnXnFgnkUc\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Cov\u00aders&nbsp;the life of Woody Guthrie, Amer\u00adi\u00adca\u2019s great&nbsp;trav\u00adel\u00adling singer-song\u00adwriter. (1988)<\/li>\n<li><strong>You Don\u2019t Know Jack<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/01\/you-dont-know-jack.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Mor\u00adgan Spurlock\u2019s short doc\u00adu\u00admen\u00adtary on the 15-year-old who invent\u00aded a new way to detect ear\u00adly stage pan\u00adcre\u00adat\u00adic can\u00adcer. (2013)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"Animation\" class=\"curatedcategory\">\n<h2><a href=\"#Animation\">Free Animated Films Online<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"Animation\" class=\"curatedcategory\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>66 Oscar-Nom\u00adi\u00ad\u00adnat\u00aded-and-Award-Win\u00adn\u00ading Ani\u00admat\u00aded Shorts Online, Cour\u00adtesy of the Nation\u00adal Film Board of Cana\u00adda<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/02\/watch-66-oscar-nominated-and-award-winning-animated-shorts-online.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A big col\u00adlec\u00adtion of prize-win\u00adn\u00ading ani\u00admat\u00aded short films.<\/li>\n<li><strong>6 Ani\u00adma\u00adtions of Sto\u00adries &amp; Poems by Shel Sil\u00adver\u00adstein<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/six-animations-of-stories-and-poems-by-shel-silverstein.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Includes&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #414141;\">\u201cIck\u00adle Me, Pick\u00adle Me, Tick\u00adle Me Too\u201d from&nbsp;<\/span><em style=\"color: #414141;\">Where the Side\u00adwalk Ends<\/em><span style=\"color: #414141;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>13 Exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal Short Films by Tezu\u00adka Osamu&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/watch-the-experimental-short-films-by-tezuka-osamu-the-walt-disney-of-japan.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ear\u00adly ani\u00adma\u00adtions by Tezu\u00adka Osamau, often called the Walt Dis\u00adney of Japan.<\/li>\n<li><strong>30 Films from the 1970s by Com\u00adput\u00ader Ani\u00adma\u00adtion Pio\u00adneer Lil\u00adlian F. Schwartz<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/watch-30-films-from-the-1970s-by-computer-animation-pioneer-lillian-f-schwartz.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Watch films by one of the first women artists notable for bas\u00ading almost her entire body of work&nbsp;on com\u00adpu\u00adta\u00adtion\u00adal media.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Coun\u00adtry Doc\u00adtor&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/12\/kafkas_nightmare_tale_a_country_doctor_told_in_award-winning_japanese_animation.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A Franz Kaka sto\u00adry retold in an award-win\u00adn\u00ading ani\u00adma\u00adtion by&nbsp;Japan\u00adese ani\u00adma\u00adtor&nbsp;Koji Yama\u00admu\u00adra. (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Herb Alpert &amp; the Tijua\u00adna Brass Dou\u00adble Fea\u00adture<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/watch-the-funky-oscar-winning-animated-film-featuring-the-music-of-herb-alpert-the-tijuana-brass-1966.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;A pre\u00adcur\u00adsor to mod\u00adern music videos, this Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading ani\u00admat\u00aded film by John &amp; Faith Hub\u00adley is set to the music of two pop\u00adu\u00adlar songs&nbsp;record\u00aded by Herb Alpert. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Short Vision<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/10\/a-short-vision.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Ani\u00admat\u00aded film&nbsp;direct\u00aded by Peter and Joan Foldes depicts the com\u00adplete anni\u00adhi\u00adla\u00adtion of the Earth and all life on it, pre\u00adsum\u00adably after an atom\u00adic blast. The film became a sen\u00adsa\u00adtion&nbsp;after it was aired on <em>The Ed Sul\u00adli\u00advan Show<\/em>. (1956)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ah Pook is Here <\/strong>- <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/ah-pook-is-here.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A stop motion ani\u00adma\u00adtion based&nbsp;on audio record\u00adings by William S. Bur\u00adroughs, with music by John Cale.&nbsp;(1994)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aller\u00adgy to Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adi\u00adty<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/04\/a-short-animation-explores-the-nature-of-creativity-invention.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In the short, ani\u00admat\u00aded&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em> Op-Doc by Drew Christie, an offi\u00adcial Sun\u00addance selec\u00adtion in 2014, \u201ctwo men dis\u00adcuss whether any\u00adthing is tru\u00adly orig\u00adi\u00adnal \u2014 espe\u00adcial\u00adly in movies and books.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Amer\u00adi\u00adcan His\u00adto\u00adry<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/american-history-an-off-kilter-1992-student-film-from-south-park-creator-trey-parker.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;An off-kil\u00adter stu\u00addent film from South Park cre\u00adator Trey Park\u00ader. (1992)<\/li>\n<li><strong>An\u00e9mic Cin\u00e9\u00adma<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/10\/anemic_cinema.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Mar\u00adcel Ducham\u00adp\u2019s avant-garde film com\u00adbines&nbsp;whirling opti\u00adcal illu\u00adsions, known as&nbsp;Rotore\u00adliefs, with spi\u00adral\u00ading puns and com\u00adplex word play. (1926)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Astro Boy: Birth of Astro Boy<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/watch-the-first-episode-of-osamu-tezukas-astro-boy.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first episode of the ani\u00admat\u00aded series, <em>Astro Boy<\/em>, cre\u00adat\u00aded by famed Japan\u00adese ani\u00adma\u00adtor Osamu Tezu\u00adka. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bat\u00adtle<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/09\/a-soviet-animation-of-stephen-kings-short-story-battleground-1986.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Sovi\u00adet ani\u00admat\u00aded adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Stephen King\u2019s short sto\u00adry, \u201cBat\u00adtle\u00adground.\u201d (1986)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breathdeath&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/breathdeath_by_stan_vanderbeek_1963\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Cutout ani\u00adma\u00adtion film that inspired Ter\u00adry Gilliam and end\u00aded up on his list of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/06\/the_best_animated_films_of_all_time_according_to_terry_gilliam.html\">The 10 Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Films of All Time<\/a>. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cin\u00adderel\u00adla<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=poq0bf6M8Z8\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;One of the first films by the sil\u00adhou\u00adette ani\u00adma\u00adtor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.awn.com\/mag\/issue1.3\/articles\/moritz1.3.html\">Lotte Reiniger<\/a>&nbsp;(1922).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cold War Pro-Cap\u00adi\u00ad\u00adtal\u00adism Ani\u00adma\u00adtions<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/06\/animated-films-made-during-the-cold-war.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A series of Cold War ani\u00adma\u00adtions that explain why Amer\u00adi\u00adcan cap\u00adi\u00adtal\u00adism is the best way to go. Films were fund\u00aded by the CEO of Gen\u00ader\u00adal Motors.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Con\u00adfi\u00addence<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/06\/confidence-great-depression.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Clas\u00adsic ani\u00adma\u00adtion from the Great Depres\u00adsion shows how ani\u00adma\u00adtors tried to get Amer\u00adi\u00adca through a dark time. (1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Crime and Pun\u00adish\u00adment&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/12\/dostoyevskys_crime_and_punishment_animated_by_piotr_dumala.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Dos\u00adto\u00adevsky\u2019s clas\u00adsic work won\u00adder\u00adful\u00adly ani\u00admat\u00aded by Piotr Dumala (2000)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Curi\u00adous Alice<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/curious-alice.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In this film intend\u00aded for young kids, Alice falls asleep while read\u00ading a book. She encoun\u00adters cig\u00ada\u00adrettes, liquor, and med\u00adi\u00adcines, and real\u00adizes that they are all types of drugs. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>De Arti\u00adfi\u00adciali Per\u00adspec\u00adti\u00adva, or Anamor\u00adpho\u00adsis<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/11\/a-quay-brothers-animation-explains-anamorphosis.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 In this daz\u00adzling short ani\u00adma\u00adtion by the Broth\u00aders Quay, learn about the Renais\u00adsance illu\u00adsion\u00adis\u00adtic tech\u00adnique known as anamor\u00adpho\u00adsis, in which a hid\u00adden image only becomes vis\u00adi\u00adble when viewed from a dif\u00adfer\u00adent angle or in a curved mir\u00adror. (1991)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Der Erlk\u00ading<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/11\/der-erlkonig-sand-animation.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A&nbsp;visu\u00adal rep\u00adre\u00adsen\u00adta\u00adtion of Goethe\u2019s poem, The ErlK\u00ading, that uses sand-on-glass ani\u00adma\u00adtion set to the music of Franz Schu\u00adbert. (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Der Fuehrer\u2019s Face<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/07\/donald_ducks_bad_nazi_dream_1942.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Dis\u00adney\u2019s anti-Nazi pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda movie fea\u00adtur\u00ading Don\u00adald Duck. Won the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film. (1942)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Des\u00adti\u00adno&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/08\/destinodalidisney.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Walt Dis\u00adney and Sal\u00advador Dal\u00ed began work\u00ading togeth\u00ader in 1946 on a project that was tabled, then final\u00adly revived and fin\u00adished in 2003.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dimen\u00adsions of Dia\u00adlogue&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/dimensions_of_dialogue_by_jan_svankmajer_1982\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Jan Svankma\u00adjer,&nbsp;a sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adist Czech ani\u00adma\u00adtor, influ\u00adenced Tim Bur\u00adton, The Broth\u00aders Quay, and Ter\u00adry Gilliam him\u00adself. &nbsp;Gilliam puts this clay\u00adma\u00adtion short on his list of&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/06\/the_best_animated_films_of_all_time_according_to_terry_gilliam.html\">The Ten Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Films<\/a>. (1982)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Drums West<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/09\/drums-west-jim-hensons-animated-tribute.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Cut-paper ani\u00adma\u00adtion by&nbsp;Jim Hen\u00adson. It is one of sev\u00ader\u00adal exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal shorts inspired by the music of jazz great Chico Hamil\u00adton. (1961)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dum\u00adb\u00adland<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/watch-david-lynchs-twisted-animated-series-dumbland-nsfw.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A series of crude, Beav\u00adis and Butthead-style ani\u00adma\u00adtions by David Lynch (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ear\u00adly Japan\u00adese Ani\u00adma\u00adtions<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/04\/the-origins-of-anime-watch-early-japanese-animations-1917-to-1931.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A col\u00adlec\u00adtion of ear\u00adly Japan\u00adese ani\u00adma\u00adtions that show where the Japan\u00adese ani\u00adme tra\u00addi\u00adtion began. (1917 to 1931)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Edu\u00adca\u00adtion for Death: The Mak\u00ading of the Nazi&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/01\/education-for-death-the-making-of-nazi-walt-disneys-1943-propaganda-film-shows-how-fascists-are-made.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Dis\u00adney\u2019s WW II pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda film looks at how the Nazi machine cor\u00adrupts youth. (1943)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Every Child<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/every_child\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Eugene Fedorenko\u2019s ani\u00admat\u00aded short about an unwant\u00aded baby cared for by home\u00adless men. 1979 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ader for Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fan\u00adtas\u00admagorie \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/09\/watch-fantasmagorie-the-worlds-first-animated-cartoon-1908.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The first ful\u00adly ani\u00admat\u00aded film ever made. 700 draw\u00adings in 2 min\u00adutes by Emile Cohl. (1908)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Father and Daugh\u00adter \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/03\/father_and_daughter_an_oscar-winning_animated_short_film.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Micha\u00ebl Dudok De Wit\u2019s heart\u00adbreak\u00ading short won the 2000 Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Franz Kaf\u00adka<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/07\/watch_ifranz_kafkai_the_wonderful_animated_film_by_piotr_dumala.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Piotr Dumala\u2019s won\u00adder\u00adful 16 minute ani\u00admat\u00aded film based on Kafka\u2019s diaries. (1992)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Free\u00addom Riv\u00ader<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/12\/orson-welles-narrates-an-animated-parable-about-how-xenophobia-greed-will-put-america-into-decline-1971.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short ani\u00admat\u00aded film nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Orson Welles. A para\u00adble about mankind get\u00adting along. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Glass Har\u00admon\u00adi\u00adca<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/09\/watch-the-surrealist-glass-harmonica-the-only-animated-film-ever-banned-by-soviet-censors-1968.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The only ani\u00admat\u00aded film ever banned by Sovi\u00adet cen\u00adsors. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Granny O\u2019Grim\u00adm\u2019s Sleep\u00ading Beau\u00adty<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/7937986\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 6 minute ani\u00admat\u00aded black com\u00ade\u00addy. Short\u00adlist\u00aded for the 2010 Oscar for Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gul\u00adliv\u00ader\u2019s Trav\u00adels<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/details\/gullivers_travels1939\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Amer\u00adi\u00adcan cel-ani\u00ad\u00admat\u00aded Tech\u00adni\u00adcol\u00ador fea\u00adture film, direct\u00aded by Dave Fleis\u00adch\u00ader. (1939)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Gum\u00adba\u00adsia<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/watch-gumbasia-the-jazzy-stop-motion-film-that-gave-birth-to-gumby-1955.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 First&nbsp;clay ani\u00adma\u00adtion pro\u00adduced by Art Clokey, who went on to cre\u00adate the clas\u00adsic series, <em>Gum\u00adby<\/em>. (1955)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Here There&nbsp;be Tygers<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/watch-soviet-animations-of-ray-bradbury-stories.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A Sovi\u00adet ani\u00adma\u00adtion of a short sto\u00adry by Ray Brad\u00adbury. Direct\u00aded by Vladimir Sam\u00adsonov (1989).<\/li>\n<li><strong>How a Mos\u00adqui\u00adto Oper\u00adates<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yvzAJouHh7k\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;One of the sur\u00adviv\u00ading works by famed ani\u00adma\u00adtor&nbsp;Win\u00adsor McCay. (1912)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>How Ani\u00admat\u00aded Car\u00adtoons Are Made<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/10\/how-animated-cartoons-are-made-a-primer-from-1919.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 One of the ear\u00adli\u00adest, truest looks at how car\u00adtoons were made in the ear\u00adli\u00adest 20th cen\u00adtu\u00adry. Fea\u00adtures ani\u00adma\u00adtion pio\u00adneer Wal\u00adlace Carl\u00adson. (1919)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Humor\u00adous Phas\u00ades of Fun\u00adny Faces<\/strong><span style=\"color: #414141;\">&nbsp;-<\/span>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/09\/watch-humorous-phases-of-funny-faces-the-first-animated-movie-1906.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 &nbsp;Made by&nbsp;James Stu\u00adart Black\u00adton, this short film is con\u00adsid\u00adered the first ani\u00adma\u00adtion ever made.<span style=\"color: #414141;\">&nbsp;<\/span>(1906)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hunger<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/38238456\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Peter Foldes, <em>Hunger<\/em> is one of the first com\u00adput\u00ader ani\u00adma\u00adtion films. It won&nbsp;a Spe\u00adcial Jury Prize at the 1974 Cannes Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval and was nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for an Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>I Touch a Red But\u00adton Man<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/07\/david_lynch_and_interpol_short_film.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A short film by David Lynch and Inter\u00adpol. Orig\u00adi\u00adnal\u00adly shown at the Coachel\u00adla 2011 Fes\u00adti\u00adval.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Is It Right to Be Always Right?<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/is-it-always-right-to-be-right.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Orson Welles, this Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading film direct\u00aded by Lee Mishkin is a para\u00adble that com\u00adments on divi\u00adsions in the Unit\u00aded States.&nbsp;(1970)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jazzmos\u00adphere<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/xm5e1c_jazzmosphere_shortfilms\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An ani\u00admat\u00aded film on the rela\u00adtion\u00adship between images and sound, cre\u00adat\u00aded by Michel Gondry and Jean-Louis Bom\u00adpoint. (1988)<\/li>\n<li><strong>King and Octo\u00adpus<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/tim-burtons-early-student-films.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Tim Bur\u00adton\u2019s short ani\u00adma\u00adtion made dur\u00ading film school at CalArts. (1978)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Licht\u00adspiel Opus 1<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/06\/the-first-avant-garde-animation-watch-walter-ruttmanns-lichtspiel-opus-1-1921.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 &nbsp;The first avant garde ani\u00adma\u00adtion shown in pub\u00adlic, by Ger\u00adman artist&nbsp;Wal\u00adter Ruttmann. (1921)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Logo\u00adra\u00adma<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/03\/logorama_the_oscar_winning_animated_short_now_online.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Fran\u00e7ois Alaux and Herve de Crecy\u2019s 17 minute film, Logo\u00adra\u00adma, won the Oscar for Short Film (Ani\u00admat\u00aded) in 2009.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Madame Tut\u00adli-Put\u00adli<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/8120949\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Oscar-nom\u00adi\u00ad\u00adnat\u00aded ani\u00admat\u00aded short film by Mon\u00adtre\u00adal film\u00admak\u00aders Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczer\u00adbows\u00adki. (2010)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mal\u00adice in Won\u00adder\u00adland<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R2BAeh8wZLI\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An&nbsp;acid trip adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Lewis Car\u00adrol\u00adl\u2019s Alice in Won\u00adder\u00adland.&nbsp;Vince Collins did the ani\u00adma\u00adtion with graph\u00adic design by Miwako. (1982)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Math\u00admag\u00adic Land<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=U_ZHsk0-eF0\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;27-minute edu\u00adca\u00adtion\u00adal fea\u00adturette by Dis\u00adney was nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for an Oscar and wide\u00adly shown in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan schools. \u201cWe have recent\u00adly explained math\u00ade\u00admat\u00adics in a film,\u201d said Walt Dis\u00adney \u201cand in that way excit\u00aded pub\u00adlic inter\u00adest in this very impor\u00adtant sub\u00adject. (1959)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mick\u00adey Mouse in Viet\u00adnam<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/mickey_mouse_in_vietnam.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An under\u00adground, anti-war ani\u00adma\u00adtion co-cre\u00adat\u00aded by Mil\u00adton Glaser. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mona Lisa Descend\u00ading a Stair\u00adcase<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/05\/trip-through-the-history-of-modern-art-with-the-oscar-winning-animation-mona-lisa-descending-a-staircase.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Joan Gratz\u2019 1992 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading ani\u00adma\u00adtion pro\u00advides a chrono\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal trip through the his\u00adto\u00adry of mod\u00adern art, begin\u00adning with Impres\u00adsion\u00adism and pass\u00ading through Cubism and Sur\u00adre\u00adal\u00adism en route to Pop art and hyper-real\u00adism. (1992)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mourir Aupr\u00e8s de Toi (To Die By Your Side) \u2014&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/10\/spike_jonze_presents_presents_a_stop_animation_film_for_book_lovers.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Spike Jonze col\u00adlab\u00ado\u00adrates with Olivia&nbsp;Le-Tan and Simon Cahn to pro\u00adduce stop motion film set in Shake\u00adspeare and Com\u00adpa\u00adny in Paris (2011)<strong><br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Neigh\u00adbors<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/neighbours_voisins\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Nor\u00adman McLaren ani\u00admates live actors with tech\u00adniques nor\u00admal\u00adly used to put drawings\/puppets into motion. Oscar win\u00adner. (1952)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Night on Bald Moun\u00adtain<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/10\/night-on-bald-mountain.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An eery, avant-garde pin\u00adscreen ani\u00adma\u00adtion by Alexan\u00adder Alex\u00adeieff and Claire Park\u00ader, based on Mussorgsky\u2019s mas\u00adter\u00adpiece. (1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Opti\u00adcal Poems<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/09\/optical-poems-by-oskar-fischinger.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Avant-garde short ani\u00adma\u00adtion by&nbsp;Oskar Fischinger. Fea\u00adtures hand\u00admade shapes, sus\u00adpend\u00aded by fish\u00ading line, mov\u00ading in sync with&nbsp;Franz Liszt\u2019s \u201c2nd Hun\u00adgar\u00adi\u00adan Rhap\u00adsody.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Princess Iron Fan<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/04\/watch-the-first-chinese-animated-feature-film-princess-iron-fan-made-under-the-strains-of-wwii-1941.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 The first ani\u00admat\u00aded Chi\u00adnese fea\u00adture film. Made dur\u00ading WW II, when Chi\u00adna was under Japan\u00adese occu\u00adpa\u00adtion. (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pri\u00advate Sna\u00adfu<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/private-snafu.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;World War II pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda car\u00adtoons cre\u00adat\u00aded by Dr. Seuss, Frank Capra &amp; Mel Blanc. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Purl<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=B6uuIHpFkuo\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Direct\u00aded by Kris\u00adten Lester, this Pixar short fea\u00adtures an earnest ball of yarn named Purl who gets a job in a fast-paced, high ener\u00adgy, bro-tas\u00adtic start-up. (2019)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Qua\u00adsi at the Quack\u00adadero<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2021\/03\/watch-the-trippy-1970s-animated-film-quasi-at-the-quackadero.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A trip\u00adpy ani\u00admat\u00aded film by Sal\u00adly Cruik\u00adshank. Vot\u00aded one of the 50 Great\u00adest Car\u00adtoons of All Time. (1975)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rea\u00adson and Emo\u00adtion&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/neuroscience_and_propaganda_come_together_in_disneys_world_war_ii_film_ireason_and_emotioni.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Walt Dis\u00adney uses some neu\u00adro\u00adscience to explain the forces behind World War II. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Red Hot Rid\u00ading Hood&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/ired_hot_riding_hoodi_landmark_animation_film_by_tex_avery\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A rebel\u00adlious ver\u00adsion of Lit\u00adtle Red Rid\u00ading Hood cre\u00adat\u00aded by Tex Avery. Ranked&nbsp;7th on list of The 50 Great\u00adest Car\u00adtoons. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ryan<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/12\/ryan_oscar-winning_animated_film.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading ani\u00admat\u00aded short from Chris Lan\u00addreth based on the life of Ryan Larkin, the influ\u00aden\u00adtial Cana\u00addi\u00adan ani\u00adma\u00adtor. (2004)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Seder Masochism<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/03\/seder-masochism.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Direct\u00aded by Nina Paley, and loose\u00adly fol\u00adlow\u00ading a tra\u00addi\u00adtion\u00adal Passover Seder, the events of Exo\u00addus are retold by Moses, Aharon, the Angel of Death, Jesus, and the director\u2019s own father. But there\u2019s anoth\u00ader side to this sto\u00adry: that of the God\u00addess, humankind\u2019s orig\u00adi\u00adnal deity. (2018)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sher\u00adlock Hound<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/05\/hayao-miyazakis-sherlock-hound.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Hayao Miyaza\u00adki direct\u00aded six episodes of the ani\u00admat\u00aded series that fea\u00adtured a cor\u00adgi Sher\u00adlock Hound&nbsp;and ter\u00adri\u00ader Doc\u00adtor Wat\u00adson going on&nbsp;adven\u00adtures across a steam\u00adpunk Lon\u00addon. (1984)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sisy\u00adphus<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/11\/the-myth-of-sisyphus-wonderfully-animated-in-an-oscar-nominated-short-film-1974.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 An Oscar-nom\u00adi\u00ad\u00adnat\u00aded Hun\u00adgar\u00adi\u00adan short film direct\u00aded by Mar\u00adcell Jankovics,&nbsp;based on the myth of Sisy\u00adphus. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sita Sings the Blues<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2009\/03\/sita_sings_the_blues.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 New prize-win\u00adn\u00ading ani\u00admat\u00aded film by Nina Paley. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Snow White<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2020\/10\/watch-a-surreal-1933-animation-of-snow-white.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Snow-White, also known as Bet\u00adty Boop in Snow-White, comes from Max Fleis\u00adcher\u2019s Fleis\u00adch\u00ader Stu\u00addios. An inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive film that fea\u00adtures scenes roto\u00adscoped over footage by Cab Cal\u00adloway, it was vot\u00aded #19 of the 50 Great\u00adest Car\u00adtoons of all time by mem\u00adbers of the ani\u00adma\u00adtion field. (1933)<\/li>\n<li><strong>So Much for So Lit\u00adtle<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/08\/legendary-animator-chuck-jones-creates-an-oscar-winning-animation-about-the-virtues-of-universal-health-care-1949.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Leg\u00adendary ani\u00adma\u00adtor Chuck Jones cre\u00adates a car\u00adtoon tout\u00ading the virtues of uni\u00adver\u00adsal health\u00adcare. (1949)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sovi\u00adet Toys<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/dziga-vertovs-unsettling-soviet-toys.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Dzi\u00adga Ver\u00adtov,&nbsp;best known for his land\u00admark film&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/02\/watch-dziga-vertovs-a-man-with-a-movie-camera-named-the-8th-best-film-ever-made.html\"><em>A Man with a Movie Cam\u00adera<\/em><\/a>,&nbsp;also made the Sovi\u00adet Union\u2019s first ever ani\u00admat\u00aded movie. (1924)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spe\u00adcial Deliv\u00adery<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/watch-special-delivery-an-oscar-winning-animated-short-1978\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Hilar\u00adi\u00adous sto\u00adry won 1978 Oscar for Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stalk of the Cel\u00adery Mon\u00adster<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/tim-burtons-early-student-films.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short ani\u00adma\u00adtion Tim Bur\u00adton made while in film school at CalArts. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Steam\u00adboat Willie<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/01\/steamboat_willie_disney_introduces_mickey_mouse.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The first Dis\u00adney car\u00adtoon that intro\u00adduced sound ani\u00adma\u00adtion and Mick\u00adey Mouse to the larg\u00ader world. (1928)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sto\u00adry of One Crime<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1qprut1rkFY\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The direc\u00adto\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal debut of Fyo\u00addor Khitruk, the ani\u00adma\u00adtor of some of the great\u00adest ani\u00adma\u00adtion ever pro\u00adduced in Rus\u00adsia. (1962)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sto\u00adry\u00adtime<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/03\/terry_gilliams_debut_animated_film_storytime.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 The debut ani\u00adma\u00adtion film by Mon\u00adty Python leg\u00adend Ter\u00adry Gilliam. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Street Musique<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/street_musique_en\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Influ\u00aden\u00adtial ani\u00admat\u00aded film by Ryan Larkin. (1972)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Super\u00adman<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/celebrate_supermans_75th_anniversary_by_enjoying_the_original_superman_cartoon_and_radio_show_.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Max Fleis\u00adcher\u2019s short ani\u00admat\u00aded movie. Nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded for the 1942 Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best Short Sub\u00adject: Car\u00adtoons. Oth\u00ader shorts that fol\u00adlowed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/WarnerBrosOnline\/search?query=fleischer\">can be viewed here<\/a>. (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Super\u00adman: The Mechan\u00adi\u00adcal Mon\u00adsters<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/details\/superman_the_mechanical_monsters\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Film cap\u00adtures the era\u2019s char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adis\u00adtic ambiva\u00adlence in rec\u00adon\u00adcil\u00ading the need for progress with the fear of tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy. Find <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/11\/nine_classic_superman_cartoons_restored_and_now_on_youtube.html\">more episodes in this series here<\/a>. (1941)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thank You, Mask Man<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/thank-you-mask-man.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Lenny Bruce com\u00ade\u00addy rou\u00adtine about the Lone Ranger gets turned into an out\u00adlandish ani\u00admat\u00aded film. (1968)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Ant and the Grasshop\u00adper<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/09\/watch-the-amazing-1912-animation-of-stop-motion-pioneer-ladislas-starevich-starring-dead-bugs.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ear\u00adly stop ani\u00adma\u00adtion film by the great Russ\u00adian ani\u00adma\u00adtor&nbsp;Ladis\u00adlas Stare\u00advich. (1911)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cam\u00adera\u00adman\u2019s Revenge&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/09\/watch-the-amazing-1912-animation-of-stop-motion-pioneer-ladislas-starevich-starring-dead-bugs.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;This very ear\u00adly silent era stop-motion film was made by Ladis\u00adlas Stare\u00advich&nbsp;in impe\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal Rus\u00adsia in 1912. He used real insects to cre\u00adate the sto\u00adry. (1912)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cathe\u00addral<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16441202\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 \u201cThe Cathe\u00addral\u201d is the title of a sci fi short sto\u00adry by Jacek Dukaj. It was turned into a short ani\u00admat\u00aded movie by Tomasz Bag\u00adi\u0144s\u00adki and nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded in 2002 for the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film. (2002)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cave<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/06\/platos_republic_in_clay.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A short clay\u00adma\u00adtion film ani\u00admat\u00ading the famous cave alle\u00adgo\u00adry in Pla\u00adto\u2019s Repub\u00adlic. (2008)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Cen\u00adtaurs<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_6N3giozPbI&amp;feature=related\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 An incom\u00adplete work by Win\u00adsor McCay. (1921)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Crit\u00adic&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/04\/ithe_critici_hilarious_oscar-winning_film_narrated_by_mel_brooks_1963.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2013 Mel Brooks 1963 ani\u00adma\u00adtion fea\u00adtures an old Yid\u00addish&nbsp;watch\u00ading abstract ani\u00adma\u00adtions. Hilar\u00adi\u00adous film won Oscar. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Curi\u00adous Adven\u00adtures of Mr. Won\u00adder\u00adbird<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2019\/01\/the-king-and-the-mockingbird.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A low bud\u00adget release of the influ\u00aden\u00adtial ani\u00admat\u00aded film&nbsp;<em>The King and the Mock\u00ading\u00adbird,&nbsp;<\/em>cre\u00adat\u00aded by Paul Gri\u00admault and Jaques Pr\u00e9vert. This ver\u00adsion was nar\u00adrat\u00aded by Peter Usti\u00adnov. (1952)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dan\u00adish Poet<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2008\/06\/academy_award-winning_short_film_its_animated_free.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Ani\u00admat\u00aded short film writ\u00adten, direct\u00aded, and ani\u00admat\u00aded by&nbsp;Torill Kove&nbsp;and nar\u00adrat\u00aded by&nbsp;Liv Ull\u00admann,&nbsp;won the&nbsp;Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award&nbsp;in 2006.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dot and the Line<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/the_dot_and_the_line.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Chuck Jones\u2019 ani\u00admat\u00aded film cel\u00ade\u00adbrates geom\u00ade\u00adtry and hard work. (1965)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Dream of a Ridicu\u00adlous<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/dostoevskys-the-dream-of-a-ridiculous-man-animated.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Won\u00adder\u00adful ani\u00adma\u00adtion of Dos\u00adto\u00adevsky\u2019s sto\u00adry by Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading Russ\u00adian ani\u00adma\u00adtor Alexan\u00adder Petrov.&nbsp;(1992)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Employ\u00adment<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/12\/the-job-a-short-animation.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A prize win\u00adning com\u00admen\u00adtary on why we\u2019re dis\u00aden\u00adchant\u00aded by work today. &nbsp;(2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Fan\u00adtas\u00adtic Fly\u00ading Books of Mr. Mor\u00adris Less\u00admore<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/02\/the_fantastic_flying_books_of_mr_morris_lessmore_wins_oscar.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading film by&nbsp;Moon\u00adbot Stu\u00addios&nbsp;pays homage to a bygone era when ele\u00adgant\u00adly print\u00aded books inhab\u00adit\u00aded our world. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hap\u00adpy Prince<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/watch_animations_of_oscar_wildes_childrens_stories_the_happy_prince_and_the_selfish_giant.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 A&nbsp;faith\u00adful ren\u00adder\u00ading of an Oscar Wilde chil\u00addren\u2019s sto\u00adry. Fea\u00adtures the voic\u00ades of Christo\u00adpher Plum\u00admer and Gly\u00adnis Johns. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hob\u00adbit<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/06\/the-hobbit-the-first-animation-film-adaptation-of-tolkiens-classic-1966.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 This short ani\u00adma\u00adtion by P<span style=\"color: #414141;\">rague-based ani\u00adma\u00adtor&nbsp;<\/span>Gene Deitch&nbsp;was the first film adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Tolkien\u2019s clas\u00adsic. (1966)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hole<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/03\/dizzy-gillespie-voices-characters-in-two-animated-films.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A 15-minute ani\u00admat\u00aded film by John Hub\u00adley and Faith Hub\u00adley that won an Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film in 1962. Fea\u00adtures the voice of Dizzy Gille\u00adspie. (1962)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Idea<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/09\/watch-the-idea-the-first-animated-film-to-deal-with-big-philosophical-ideas-1932.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Cre\u00adat\u00aded by&nbsp;Czech film\u00admak\u00ader Berthold Bar\u00adtosch,&nbsp;<em>The Idea&nbsp;<\/em>has been called&nbsp;\u201cthe first ani\u00admat\u00aded film cre\u00adat\u00aded as an art\u00adwork with seri\u00adous, even trag\u00adic, social and philo\u00adsoph\u00adi\u00adcal themes.\u201d (1932)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Giv\u00ading Tree<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2023\/02\/shel-silversteins-the-giving-tree-the-animated-film-narrated-by-shel-silverstein-himself-1973.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 An ani\u00admat\u00aded adap\u00adta\u00adtion of Shel Sil\u00adver\u00adstein\u2019s won\u00adder\u00adful chil\u00addren\u2019s book. (1973)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The John Lennon Sketch\u00adbook<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/06\/the-john-lennon-sketchbook.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading ani\u00adma\u00adtor John Cane\u00admak\u00ader&nbsp;brings to life&nbsp;the draw\u00adings and doo\u00addles&nbsp;of John Lennon. (1986)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Junky\u2019s Christ\u00admas<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/12\/william-s-burroughs-narrates-a-claymation-of-the-junkys-christmas.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Short clay\u00adma\u00adtion film star\u00adring (and writ\u00adten by) William S. Bur\u00adroughs. Dan\u00adny the Car\u00adwiper spends Christ\u00admas Day try\u00ading to score a fix, but finds the Christ\u00admas spir\u00adit instead. Pro\u00adduced by Cop\u00adpo\u00adla. (1993)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Leg\u00adend of Robert John\u00adson<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/05\/the_legend_of_bluesman_robert_johnson_animated.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ani\u00adma\u00adtion of the famous blues\u00adman\u00ad\u2019s fabled deal with the dev\u00adil. (2011)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mas\u00adcot&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/the_mascot_1934_by_wladyslaw_starewicz\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 This&nbsp;1934 film by the&nbsp;Russ\u00adian ani\u00adma\u00adtor Wla\u00addys\u00adlaw Starewicz&nbsp;pio\u00adneered a num\u00adber of stop ani\u00adma\u00adtion tech\u00adniques, mak\u00ading it a sem\u00adi\u00adnal film in the his\u00adto\u00adry of ani\u00adma\u00adtion. (1934)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsis of Mr. Sam\u00adsa<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/03\/the-metamorphosis-of-mr-samsa.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A won\u00adder\u00adful sand ani\u00adma\u00adtion of the clas\u00adsic Kaf\u00adka sto\u00adry,&nbsp;<em>The Meta\u00admor\u00adpho\u00adsis. <\/em>Made by Car\u00ado\u00adline Leaf.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>(1977)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mir\u00ada\u00adcle of Flight&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/05\/ithe_miracle_of_flighti_the_classic_early_animation_by_terry_gilliam.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;A cutout ani\u00adma\u00adtion by Ter\u00adry Gilliam. Made in the style of (but sep\u00ada\u00adrate\u00adly from) Mon\u00adty Python. (1974)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Night\u00admare Before Christ\u00admas<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/10\/christopher_lee_reads_tim_burtons_animated_poem_inightmare_before_christmasi.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Christo\u00adpher Lee nar\u00adrates a beau\u00adti\u00adful ani\u00adma\u00adtion of Tim Burton\u2019s poem, Night\u00admare Before Christ\u00admas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Nose<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/09\/animation-of-nikolai-gogols-the-nose.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Cre\u00adat\u00aded by&nbsp;Alexan\u00adder Alex\u00adeieff and Claire Park\u00ader, this ani\u00adma\u00adtion uses an amaz\u00ading pin\u00adscreen tech\u00adnique to adapt Niko\u00adlai Gogol\u2019s clas\u00adsic sto\u00adry. (1963)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Old Man and the Sea<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/12\/see-a-beautifully-hand-painted-animation-of-ernest-hemingways-the-old-man-and-the-sea-1999.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Alek\u00adsan\u00addr Petrov won the Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Short Film for this film that fol\u00adlows the plot of Ernest Hemingway\u2019s clas\u00adsic 1952 novel\u00adla. Made of 29,000 images paint\u00aded on glass.&nbsp;(1999)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Rime of the Ancient Mariner&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/08\/orson_welles_reads_coleridge_.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Exper\u00adi\u00admen\u00adtal film cre\u00adat\u00aded by Lar\u00adry Jor\u00addan, an inde\u00adpen\u00addent film\u00admak\u00ader who tried to mar\u00adry \u201cthe clas\u00adsic engrav\u00adings of&nbsp;Gus\u00adtave Dor\u00e9&nbsp;to the clas\u00adsic&nbsp;poem by Samuel Tay\u00adlor Coleridge&nbsp;through a clas\u00adsic nar\u00adra\u00adtor: Orson Welles. (1977)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Romance of Trans\u00adporta\u00adtion in Cana\u00adda<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/03\/city-out-of-time-narrated-by-william-shatner-1959.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 Cre\u00adat\u00aded by influ\u00aden\u00adtial Cana\u00addi\u00adan film\u00admak\u00ader Col\u00adin Low, this ani\u00adma\u00adtion won&nbsp;a Short Film Palme d\u2019Or at the Cannes Film Fes\u00adti\u00adval. (1952)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sand Cas\u00adtle<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfb.ca\/film\/sand_castle\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Short ani\u00admat\u00aded film about the sand\u00adman and the crea\u00adtures he sculpts out of sand. 1977 Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ader for Best Ani\u00admat\u00aded Short Film.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Self\u00adish Giant<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/06\/watch_animations_of_oscar_wildes_childrens_stories_the_happy_prince_and_the_selfish_giant.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 An Oscar-nom\u00adi\u00ad\u00adnat\u00aded ani\u00admat\u00aded ver\u00adsion of Oscar Wilde\u2019s chil\u00addren\u2019s sto\u00adry by the same title. (1971)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sin\u00adgle Life<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2017\/07\/a-single-life.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A short Oscar nom\u00adi\u00adnat\u00aded ani\u00adma\u00adtion about how music\u2013particularly vinyl records\u2013can trans\u00adport us to mag\u00adi\u00adcal places. (2015)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sink\u00ading of the Lusi\u00adta\u00adnia<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/05\/winsor-mccays-animates-the-sinking-of-the-lusitania.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ear\u00adly ani\u00adma\u00adtor&nbsp;Win\u00adsor McCay doc\u00adu\u00adments in 12 min\u00adutes the sink\u00ading of the RMS Lusi\u00adta\u00adnia. (1918)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Skele\u00adton Dance<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h03QBNVwX8Q\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A Sil\u00adly Sym\u00adpho\u00adny ani\u00admat\u00aded short sub\u00adject pro\u00adduced and direct\u00aded by Walt Dis\u00adney and ani\u00admat\u00aded by Ub Iwerks. It was vot\u00aded #18 of the 50 Great\u00adest Car\u00adtoons of all time by mem\u00adbers of the ani\u00adma\u00adtion field. (1929)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Spir\u00adit of \u201943<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2010\/11\/donald_duck_wants_you_to_pay_your_taxes_1943.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Dis\u00adney pro\u00adpa\u00adgan\u00adda film made for the Amer\u00adi\u00adcan gov\u00adern\u00adment. Fea\u00adtures Don\u00adald Duck. (1943)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Star of Beth\u00adle\u00adhem<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/reiniger_the_star_of_bethlehem\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;Made by leg\u00adendary Ger\u00adman ani\u00adma\u00adtor Lotte Reiniger, this short uses sil\u00adhou\u00adette ani\u00adma\u00adtion to tell the Christ\u00admas sto\u00adry. (1956)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sto\u00adry Of Men\u00adstru\u00ada\u00adtion&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2016\/06\/the-story-of-menstruation-watch-walt-disneys-sex-ed-film-from-1946.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Walt Disney\u2019s sex ed film was shown to mil\u00adlions of Amer\u00adi\u00adcan stu\u00addents from the 1940s to the 1960s. (1946)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Sto\u00adry of Stuff<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9GorqroigqM\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ani\u00admat\u00aded fact-filled look at the under\u00adside of our pro\u00adduc\u00adtion and con\u00adsump\u00adtion pat\u00adterns. (2007)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tale and the Fox<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2013\/08\/the-tale-of-the-fox.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;Ladis\u00adlas Starevich\u2019s clas\u00adsic ani\u00adma\u00adtion of a Ger\u00adman folk\u00adtale adapt\u00aded by Goethe. (1937)<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Tell-Tale Heart<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/10\/christopher_walken_reads_the_raven_.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Ani\u00admat\u00aded ver\u00adsion of Edgar Allan Poe\u2019s clas\u00adsic from 1953. Nar\u00adrat\u00aded by James Mason.<\/li>\n<li><strong>There Will Come Soft Rain<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/04\/watch-soviet-animations-of-ray-bradbury-stories.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #414141;\">A&nbsp;Ray Brad\u00adbury sto\u00adry&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"color: #414141;\">adapt\u00aded by Uzbek direc\u00adtor Naz\u00adim Tyuh\u00adladziev. Sec\u00adond video down. (1984)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>The World of Stain\u00adboy<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/01\/tim_burtons_the_world_of_stainboy_watch_the_complete_animated_series.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014&nbsp;<span style=\"color: #222222;\">&nbsp;A series of flash ani\u00adma\u00adtion shorts cre\u00adat\u00aded by Tim Bur\u00adton and ani\u00admat\u00aded by Flinch Stu\u00addio. (2000)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Tin Toy<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DWi2WTqD59A&amp;t=2s\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 John Las\u00adseter cre\u00adat\u00aded this Oscar-win\u00adn\u00ading short film in 1988 at Pixar. It was the begin\u00adning of the com\u00adpa\u00adny\u2019s tran\u00adsi\u00adtion into being a pre\u00admier ani\u00adma\u00adtion stu\u00addio.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tom Waits for No One<\/strong> \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2024\/07\/watch-tom-waits-for-no-one-the-pioneering-animated-music-video-from-1979.html\">Free<\/a> \u2014 A&nbsp;Tom Waits music video made with pio\u00adneer\u00ading ani\u00adma\u00adtion. Made with 5,500 roto\u00adscoped frames, the film help John Lamb&nbsp;win an Oscar for Sci\u00aden\u00adtif\u00adic &amp; Tech\u00adni\u00adcal Achieve\u00adment. (1979)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Toot, Whis\u00adtle, Plunk and Boom<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2011\/01\/disneys_oscar-winning_adventures_in_music.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Dis\u00adney\u2019s music edu\u00adca\u00adtion film. First car\u00adtoon released in widescreen Cin\u00ade\u00admaS\u00adcope. Wins 1954 Acad\u00ade\u00admy Award for Best Short Sub\u00adject (Car\u00adtoons). (1953)<\/li>\n<li><strong>UCLA Silent Ani\u00adma\u00adtion Archive&nbsp;<\/strong>-&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2012\/09\/the_early_days_of_animation_preserved_in_uclas_video_archive.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Col\u00adlec\u00adtion of the ear\u00adli\u00adest ani\u00adma\u00adtions from the silent era.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vin\u00adcent<\/strong>&nbsp;\u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2015\/08\/watch-vincent-tim-burtons-animated-tribute-to-vincent-price-edgar-allan-poe-1982.html\">Free<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 Tim Bur\u00adton\u2019s ear\u00adly ani\u00admat\u00aded film hon\u00ador\u00ading Vin\u00adcent Price, actor in Amer\u00adi\u00adcan hor\u00adror films. 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