Colonial Film Database is a website holding detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online, and films can be searched or browsed by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 important films include critical notes by an academic research team.
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Films For Action is an educational video or documentary resource for learning from films and non-fiction media.
OpenCulture provides access to more than 4,000 free movies online, including classics, independent films, film noir, westerns, documentaries, and animated works. It organizes content into categories such as comedy and drama, Hitchcock and horror films, westerns, martial arts movies, silent films, and animation, curating links to free films hosted on third-party platforms like YouTube alongside other free educational and cultural resources.
Chicago Film Archives collects, preserves and provides access to films representing the Midwest. It holds thousands of films, videos and audio recordings, many of which can be watched online. Its collections include home movies and films by regional filmmakers.
Historic Films is a stock footage archive whose collection spans 1895 to 2010 and consists of over 50,000 hours of footage. It licenses stock, musical performance and entertainment footage, and offers researcher assistance through professional librarians.
Browse movies and television series through JP-Films's web catalogue and viewing pages.
Phi Phenomenon is a website that studies great films by combining data from hundreds of lists to determine consensus best films. It presents a master list ranked by director, actor, year, genre, and nation of origin, alongside notes on different film tastes and a list of top films according to regular film fans. The site also includes an FAQ, method, and references pages.
Prelinger Archives is an archival film project co-directed by Rick Prelinger and Megan Prelinger. Rick Prelinger began collecting ephemeral films in 1983, and a collection of 60,000 films was acquired by the Library of Congress in 2002. Since 2000 it has partnered with Internet Archive to make a subset of over 9,000 films available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse.
RareFilmm, subtitled The Cave of Forgotten Films, is a blog that posts about rare films and television programs. Its posts describe individual titles, such as documentaries, comedies and horror films, with plot summaries and links to watch them.
Short of the Week is a site for watching short films across genres including documentary, comedy, sci-fi, horror, experimental and animation. Its listing also names inspiration, student films and award winners among the available short films.
They Shoot Zombies, Don't They? is a horror film list site. It presents the 1,000 Greatest Horror Films, compiled from over 4,300 horror lists, alongside the 500 most acclaimed horror films of the century and 150 lesser-seen horror films with fewer than 1,000 IMDb votes.
Spanish-language torrent index listing films, television series, anime, and documentaries. Entries include media details and links labeled for downloading torrents.
AllMovie is a movies and films database offering movie information, reviews, ratings, and biographies, along with recommendations for films to watch, rent, stream, or own. The site has moved to a different data provider, and some features and functions are evolving.
Animatsiya hosts a collection of Russian and Soviet animated films spanning over a century, paired with subtitles in different languages. Videos come mostly from studios and film archives. Users can browse by genre, director, studio and animation technique, and registered users can comment, send messages, save films and propose edits. The site has been online since January 2021.
AuroraScreen is a site for exploring movies, tracking series and watching top-rated content. It presents browsable sections such as Popular, Tonight's Pick, Top Rated and Continue Watching. It also groups films into collections, including 30-minute comedy shows, hidden gems, anime and films under 100 minutes.
Documentary Storm is a website for watching free full-length documentary films online, covering subjects such as history, science, culture and music. The site organizes films into categories including art, biography, crime, environment, health, nature, politics, religion, society and war, and offers lists of top titles, new arrivals and a full documentary list.
FilmsByTheYear is a YouTube channel featuring film, television, commentary, or related video programming.
Folkstreams is a non-profit that finds, preserves, contextualizes and showcases documentary films on American traditional cultures. Its site features films organized under categories such as customs, music, arts and crafts, women, African American culture and work.
Toolboxd is a workbench of tools for Letterboxd users, including recommendations, watchlist pickers, a random movie picker, similar users and films, and taste compatibility comparisons, with no login required. A separate atlas places ten thousand films into named regions.
The National Film Preservation Foundation is a film preservation organization. It provides preservation grants, a screening room of preserved films, and publications such as the Film Preservation Guide. Its site lists grants awarded to institutions and silent films premiering online.
Nestflix is a platform for fictional films and shows within other films and shows. It presents a browsable selection of over 1,900 nested stories, organized into categories such as comedy, drama, horror, sci-fi and soaps, alongside featured entries with short plot details.
Nukkard is a free streaming platform for public domain classic films. It offers vintage cinema from the Golden Age with no membership requirements, providing access to classic films for all users.
A list of 40 films most frequently selected by directors, actors and writers during Criterion's Closet Picks video series. The films are grouped into classic and arthouse staples and cult, indie and modern favourites, with spine numbers alongside titles.
A directory of feature films in the public domain, organized into categories including comedy, drama and romance, science fiction and horror, and cartoons. Entries link to films such as His Girl Friday, Reefer Madness, Abraham Lincoln, House on Haunted Hill and Sita Sings the Blues, with short notes on each title.