YouBoob is famous for AI film, but cinema did not start with AI. This shelf keeps the other end of the story: films and collections that are free for everyone to watch, shared openly by the people and places that made or keep them. Open movies whose makers gave away the files, national archives streaming a country's memory, space films from NASA, and two of the oldest animated films ever made.
A shepherd girl and her dog in a mountain world of ancient spirits. Painterly, quiet, and only a few minutes long.
Visit the shelf page →The first film ever made entirely with open tools and shared freely, files and all. A dreamlike wander through a vast strange machine.
Visit the shelf page →Thousands of films most people threw away: home movies, school films and cheerful old adverts. Everyday mid-century America, straight from a time capsule.
Visit the shelf page →Newsreels, early silent films, travel pictures and short documentaries, streamed and often downloadable from the Library of Congress.
Visit the shelf page →Every year the National Film Registry names the films that matter most to American history. This is the official path to watch the ones that stream free.
Visit the shelf page →Decades of space exploration to search and watch: launches, Mars landings, astronauts at work, and Earth turning slowly below the station.
Visit the shelf page →Blender Studio hands over the actual scenes from its films: open them, look around, change the camera, and make something new.
Visit the shelf page →In 1914 Winsor McCay gave orders to a cartoon dinosaur on stage, and she bowed, danced and sulked. One of the first cartoon characters with a real personality.
Visit the shelf page →Lotte Reiniger cut this 1926 feature from black paper, frame by frame, against glowing colour. The oldest surviving animated feature, and it still looks like magic.
Visit the shelf page →A beloved Canadian cartoon short: a folk song, a river full of logs, and the nimblest dancer in the country. Free to watch at the NFB.
Visit the shelf page →Every page names its maker and the terms the work is shared under. Where a licence allows an embedded player, the film plays right here; everywhere else, the card takes you straight to the official source.