THE VAULT
The public-domain masters · free to watch, forever, legally
These films built the genre, and their copyrights lapsed into the public domain, which means they belong to all of us now. Streams served by the Internet Archive. Watch them like you owe them something, because you do.
The vault searches as you type. The deeper vault searches the entire Internet Archive live: rights vary down there, the films below are the ones we checked.
Opening the vault...
Every film here is either marked public domain, Creative Commons licensed, or a pre-1965 release in the Archive\u2019s own feature-film collection. Streams are served by the Internet Archive, not by us. Spot something that does not belong? Say so on the board and we pull it the same day.