Free Films Megalist
Uncategorized
Open Culture [good for classics and experimental film]
Tubi [good for lesser-know cult films and b-movies]
Collections, by country
American silent comedies; 1930s-1960s classics here + here
African countries cinema masterlist [Recommended: Xala]
Arab world's aflamuna [free films weekly; registration required]
British Film Institute's free section [Only available in the UK, a vpn may help]
Canada's National Film Board; indigenous women filmmakers
Central Asia 60 essential films
Chinese 1930s classics
Croatian short films
Dutch classics [Only available in the Netherlands, a vpn may help]
Georgian Films Online [Recommended: Madonna]
Indian classics
Iranian and Persian film database
Japanese 1930s-1950s classics; Studio Ghibli
Korean 1950s-1990s classics
Malayan, Malaysian, and Singaporean 1940s-1960s classics
New Zealand's Maori television; NZ on Screen
Palestine Film Institute [One free film weekly]
Philippines postwar classics
Soviet & Russian 1950s-1990s Mosfilm classics; classic & contemporary films
Documentaries
Cinemata [Recommended: Burma Spring 2021]
Field of Vision [Recommended: Camperforce, Open Shutters]
IDFA [Recommended: the interactive documentary, Alma]
If Not Us Then Who [Recommended: Waorani, the People]
New York Times Op-docs [Recommended: Inside the Daily Life of a Live Streaming Star in China]
Watchdocumentaries.com [Good for mainstream documentaries]
Women's Voices Now [Good for explainer-docs]
Experimental / Shorts
Collectif Jeune Cinema [Recommended: this montage film on American school shootings]
Ecstatic Static's limited-time screenings
Good Short Films [Recommended: the Arab series]
Kate Lain's Cabin Fever playlist
Mascara Film Club's monthly artist film
Science Film Museum's mid-20th century Japanese shorts
Ubuweb [Good for avante-garde work]
Horror
Kinocult [Good for b-movies and cult horror; only available in the US, a vpn may help]
She/her, They/them
Another Screen's limited-time screenings
AWID's feminist film club
Gagaoolala's free section [good for queer asian films]
Good Films Only's she/her/they/them section
+ Fun Stuff
Content Warning Best Practices
Digital security for filmmakers, a toolkit
Free Sound, creative commons sound database
Film Grab, a library of movie stills to scroll through and discover weird new films to watch.
Film Image Search, an ai-powered iconographic search tool
Inclusive Cinema, a toolkit for dismantling structural inequality in your cinema, 2020
Listen to a Movie, movies in audio files
Movie Settings Database, a database of movies and tv shows organized by location
Vomit Draft, a free auto-formatting screenplay tool