Public Domain Movies

Cartoon: Bright Lights, 1928 – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

Bright Lights is a 1928 silent cartoon short by the Walt Disney Studio and Winkler Productions featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. It is among the few short films of the… Read more →

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath, 1931 starring Buster Keaton

Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is an American pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton, released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 1931. It was one of Keaton’s early talking pictures, released in the… Read more →

Noah’s Ark, 1928

Noah’s Ark is a 1928 American part-talkie epic disaster film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Dolores Costello and George O’Brien. In addition to sequences with audible dialogue or talking… Read more →

Carnival Story, 1954

Carnival Story is a 1954 film directed by Kurt Neumann, produced by Frank King and Maurice King, starring Anne Baxter and Steve Cochran, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Sometimes… Read more →

The Singing Fool, 1928

The Singing Fool is a 1928 American sound part-talkie musical drama motion picture directed by Lloyd Bacon which was released by Warner Bros. Pictures. In addition to sequences with audible… Read more →

The Avenging Conscience, 1914

The Avenging Conscience: or “Thou Shalt Not Kill” is a 1914 silent horror drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. The film is based on the Edgar Allan Poe short… Read more →

In Old Arizona, 1928 first all-talking Western

In Old Arizona is a 1928 American sound (All-Talking) pre-Code Western film directed by Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings, nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The film, which… Read more →

Captain Kidd, 1945 pirates film

Captain Kidd is a 1945 adventure film starring Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott and Barbara Britton. It was directed by Rowland V. Lee and produced by Benedict Bogeaus and James Nasser…. Read more →

Cartoon: Superman in The Magnetic Telescope (1942)

The Magnetic Telescope (1942) is the sixth of the seventeen animated Technicolor short films based upon the DC Comics character of Superman, originally created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster…. Read more →

This Is the Army, 1943 musical starring Ronald Reagan

This Is the Army is a 1943 American wartime musical comedy film produced by Hal B. Wallis and Jack L. Warner, and directed by Michael Curtiz, adapted from a wartime… Read more →