Public Domain Movies

Cartoon: Hamateur Night, 1939

Hamateur Night is a 1939 Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Tex Avery and written by Jack Miller. The short was released on January 28, 1939 and features an… Read more →

Jungle Book is a 1942 independent American Technicolor action-adventure film by the Hungarian Korda brothers, based on a screenplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, about… Read more →

Underworld, 1927

Underworld (also released as Paying the Penalty) is a 1927 American silent gangster film directed by Josef von Sternberg and starring Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent and George Bancroft. The film… Read more →

Borrowed Wives, 1930

Borrowed Wives is a 1930 American pre-Code film directed by Frank R. Strayer. Plot: Peter Foley (Rex Lease) is a beneficiary of his grandfather, who leaves him $800,000 in his… Read more →

The Love Parade, 1929 directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier

The Love Parade is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, involving the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of… Read more →

Cartoon: Playing With Fire, 1926 starring Mutt and Jeff

Mutt and Jeff was a long-running and widely popular American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Bud Fisher in 1907 about “two mismatched tinhorns”. It is commonly regarded as the… Read more →

Too Wise Wives, 1921

Too Wise Wives is a 1921 American silent drama film directed by Lois Weber, written by Lois Weber and Marion Orth, and starring Louis Calhern, Claire Windsor, Phillips Smalley, and… Read more →

Attack! The Battle of New Britain

Attack! The Battle of New Britain is a documentary/propaganda film produced by the US military in 1944. It details, as its name implies, the New Britain campaign, which was part… Read more →

The Lost World (1925 film)

The Lost World is a 1925 American silent fantasy monster adventure film adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel of the same name. The film was produced by First National… Read more →

Charade (1963), Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in the “the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never made”

Charade is a 1963 Technicolor American romantic comedy/mystery film directed by Stanley Donen, written by Peter Stone and Marc Behm, and starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. The cast also… Read more →