Public Domain Movies

Cartoon: Kitty from Kansas City, 1931

Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character created by Max Fleischer, with help from animators including Grim Natwick. She originally appeared in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop film series, which… Read more →

Hi-De-Ho (1947 musical)

Hi De Ho (also known as Hi-De-Ho) is a 1947 American musical race movie that was released by All American and has an African-American cast. The film stars Cab Calloway…. Read more →

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,1942 film

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 →