Public Domain Movies

Down Home, 1920

Down Home is a 1920 American silent drama film written, directed, and produced by Irvin Willat and starring Leatrice Joy and James Barrows. It was distributed by the independent film… Read more →

Dancing Sweeties, 1930

Dancing Sweeties is a 1930 American pre-Code musical romantic comedy film directed by Ray Enright and starring Grant Withers and Sue Carol. The film is based on the story Three… Read more →

Cartoon: The Ocean Hop, 1927 – starring Walt’s Disney’s Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

The Ocean Hop is a 1927 animated short subject film, produced by Charles Mintz and George Winkler and directed by Walt Disney. The film was reissued in 1932 by Walter… Read more →

Nomads of the North, 1920

Nomads of the North is a 1920 American drama film of the North Woods co-directed and co-written by David Hartford and James Oliver Curwood, and featuring Lon Chaney, Betty Blythe,… Read more →

Neighbors, 1920 starring Buster Keaton

Neighbors is a 1920 two-reel silent comedy film co-written, co-directed by, and starring Buster Keaton. Plot: Buster Keaton and Virginia Fox play young lovers who live in tenements, the rear… Read more →

Mickey, 1918

Mickey is a 1918 silent comedy-drama film starring Mabel Normand, directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young, and written by J.G. Hawks. The movie was produced by the Mabel… Read more →

Cartoon: All’s well that ends well, 1940

Terrytoons, Inc. was an American animation studio headquartered in New Rochelle, New York, which was active from 1929 until its closure on December 29, 1972 (and returned between 1987 and… Read more →

The Little Broadcast, 1933

Short film with Roy Atwell announcing popular radio stars Arthur Tracy, The Mills Brothers, Donald Novis, and Vincent Lopez & His Orchestra.

The Exile, 1931 first African-American sound film

The Exile is a 1931 American pre-Code film directed by Oscar Micheaux with choreography by Leonard Harper. A drama-romance of the race film genre, The Exile was Micheaux’s first feature-length… Read more →

Cartoon: Booby Traps, 1944 – Private Snafu

Private Snafu is the title character of a series of black-and-white American instructional adult animated shorts, ironic and humorous in tone, that were produced between 1943 and 1945 during World… Read more →