Free Movie Downloads

Free movie downloads are more common than you think on the Web. You won't find the most recent blockbuster here but you will find a huge amount of classics, trailers, independent films, documentaries, and more.

Free Movie Download Sites
Here are a few sites where you can download free movies; they are all free, all legal, and feature hundreds of high-quality movie clips and full-length movies.

General Free Movie Downloads

• Free Movies and Documentaries in the Public Domain: These are all free movies that have fallen out of copyright - download away.
• OVGuide: a meta search guide to online movies.
• Movies: This enterprising website has taken the time to find and upload clips of hundreds of movies.
• Veoh Cult Classics: Night of the Living Dead, , Eraserhead are all included here.
• Watch Free Movies Online. This site is full of classic movies, all free movie downloads.
• The Internet Movie Database. Movie reviews, information about upcoming movie premieres, movie clips, and more.
• AltaVista - Video Search. Search for movies and videos on the Web in virtually any format. Find free movie downloads easily and fast.
• Yahoo Search-Video.. Search for videos and movies on the Web. Also includes a link to submitting your own video to Yahoo to be indexed.
• Singingfish, an audio and video search engine. Search for movies, free movie downloads, short movie clips, and always check "Staff Favorites."
• Google Video Search. Find videos, movies, and TV programs online.
• Netbroadcaster.com: Features trailers, shorts, independent films, and more. Most of the films on this site are free, but some do require subscription access.
• Turner Classic Movies: Lots of trailers, movie clips, and background information on all your favorite classic films. A very cool site.
• Hollywood.com: Trailers, movie clips, and more.
• All Movie Guide:Comprehensive database of film synopses and reviews as well as concise actor biographies.
• Apple Movie Trailers:An extensive collection of brand spankin' new movie trailers.
• JoBlo.com:Reviews, trailers, scripts, interviews, clips, and a lot more.
• YouTube: you can upload, watch, and search free videos here.
• YouTube, GoogleVideo, and IFilm: Nice mashup of all three services; looks like you'll need to know exactly what video you want, however.
• Google Video of the Day: Another day, another Google Video of the Day. Varies from funny to interesting to extremely weird.
• LearnOutLoud: free streaming lectures, audio, and video.
• VideoBomb: "Video Bomb filters up the hottest videos on the internet: people submit links to the 'Incoming!' page and you bomb the best ones. If a video gets a lot of bombs quickly, it makes it to the front page."
• Truveo:a video search engine that delivers pretty good results.
• Mefeedia: "Find thousands of videoblogs (video podcasts), and watch them on your computer, video iPod or PSP."
• The Open Video Project:a shared digital video collection
• Free Documentaries: "Welcome to the Internet?s top resource for finding free documentaries."
• SearchforVideo: SearchforVideo is a fantastic video search engine with over 6000 sources available for searching at the time of this writing. News, entertainment, viral videos - all searchable here.
• Vizumi - Offer free promotions and 99p movie downloads.
  
  

Videos, Indie Films, Documentaries

• Recommended Online Films: About.com's Independent Film Guide has a great list of free indie films on the Web.
• Documentaries Online: "Whenever I find interesting documentaries that can be watched online I will post the links here." And he does.
• Atom Films: Be sure to check out the Star Wars parodies.
• RatherGood.com: Quite a few movies including a rodent of some kind..singing...you'll have to watch them to really get it.
• National Lampoon.com: Short films and animations. Some of this stuff is not kid-friendly.
• Subservient Chicken:This is more of a site where YOU are making the movie. Trust me. You'll enjoy it.
• Ebaumsworld.com: Definitely funny, but also definitely (mostly) not safe for work.
• OddTodd.com:Flash animations, games, and Mep the Squirrel. How could you not love OddTodd?
• Milk and Cookies: A wildly eclectic assortment of mostly animated funny shorts.
• Vmix.com: A wide variety of user-submitted videos here, anything from funny to strange to crazy.
• The 3-Second Bunny Theatre: The bunnies do classic films in thirty seconds or less.
• Flurl: Good source for a variety of videos.
  
  

Movie Scripts, Movie Posters, and More

• TypeNow.net: a wide variety of movie-related fonts and typography.
• LivePlasma.com:Share your favorite movies with friends and find more movies that you like.
• PublicDomainTorrents:Classic movies and B-movies, all totally free.
• The Internet Movie Script Database: You can read entire scripts of movies here; what a great site.
• TuneFind.com: "Welcome to TuneFind.com where we are working to become the Internet's comprehensive list of music and songs appearing in television and movies."
• MovieMistakes: Ever wonder if you've seen something that is supposed to be there in the movie? Check MovieMistakes to see if you're right.
• ComingSoon.net: Be the first to see upcoming movie trailers on your block.
• JumpCut: Make your own movies using your own music, slides, or video clips.
• EyeSpot: "Use the Mixer to edit and combine your videos, photos and music online. Share mixes by email, blog, download or mobile phone for free!"
• Drive-In Theater: When you want to find a drive-in theater, use this site.
• Cinema Treasures Theater Guide: Lists of all theaters worldwide that are currently showing classic films.
• Double Feature Finder: "Find local showtimes scheduled back-to-back and spend the entire day at the movies!"
• 80s Movies Rewind: Your best bet to find information about some of the best movies ever made...in the 80's.
• Flixster: Get movie ratings of current movies from community members; great way to preview movies.

Free Movie Download Risks

Looking to download the newest Hollywood hit movie from the Internet free of charge? Everyone you know seems to be doing it and maybe you'd like get in on this too. Or you may have done this a few times and are itching to get even more. Whether or not you've already downloaded some pirated movies, you might want to think about it. A good deal of the 'free movies' on the Internet are violating copyright law. The consumers who download these movies are technically breaking the law and could be setting themselves up for a lawsuit.

The problem of on line theft is growing every year and organizations like the MPAA are stepping up their efforts to fight it. When someone illegally downloads copyrighted films and movies, they leave themselves vulnerable to legal prosecution. Although getting caught is still somewhat unlikely, this will change in the future.

Sometimes, the file that gets downloaded is infested with viruses, spy ware, or unwanted pornography. People have experienced unwanted withdrawals from their bank accounts because of the release of private information. File sharing networks such as peer-to-peer (p2p) are especially insidious in this regard.

If you do your downloading off p2p networks, you may get a file that is nothing more than advertisements. In order to get access to the actual movie, you might be required to jump through a 'few' hoops. Usually it involves submitting your email address to an endless array of advertising promotions.

Both the music and film industries are taking online piracy very seriously and are working on ways to fight it. In the future, penalties such as criminal prosecution and having your ISP cut off your Internet access (proposals for this are in the works in the UK) will become a matter of course. European laws which facilitate the prosecution of people illegally downloading with p2p networks have been proposed.

Online movie memberships do not deal in pirated movies and offer safety from worms, viruses, spy ware and mal ware. By comparison, downloading free movies is full of risk. The required movie player needed to view your free movie or the shared file you've downloaded may be infested with a virus.

Increasingly, the established online download memberships are collaborating with the major studios to provide a huge array of quality movies. You can get peace of mind by staying clear of the hazardous risks that come with illegal downloads. Keep your computer, your bank account and your privacy secure by joining a legal movie download membership such as Vizumi Movie Download or Apple Movies.

Why Use Movie Download Membership Services?

With the advance of technology and the growth of the Internet, we are no longer forced to drive to the local video rental store to get our movies. We can make our movie selection on the Internet and wait for the video to arrive by mail. However our options don't end there since we can also select and view the movie immediately online.

There are two ways to go about this. We can pay for our movies via a movie download membership site such as Vizumi or we can try for the free route online. Here we discuss the benefits that an online membership has over the offline video rental store as well as the advantages of the paid membership over the free alternatives online.

A big advantage of joining a movie download site is the sheer size of movie title selection that you have access to. You can download as often and as much as you please from these extensive movie archives. Traditional brick and mortar DvD stores have a storage capacity that is limited by building space.

This means that they are forced to cater to popular tastes. Online download memberships don't suffer from this type of restriction and therefore can accommodate a broader variety of movie genres. If you're into the more obscure movies whether they are very old classics or cult films, you are more likely to find them online.

Searching online is often an easier task than browsing through endless shelves for a particular movie in a brick and mortar store. An online site will usually have a search box that can search by the title, actor, director or any particular keyword. Also, lists that group movies into different categories or genres are usually provided.

In addition to movie genre, their lists often group movies by popularity, latest additions, critic picks and alphabetically. Some even allow the members themselves to rate and write reviews for the movies. Movie reviews given by ordinary people can often be a better indicator of a movie's entertainment value than those of professional critics.

Online memberships have a large selection of movies in their archives. Free online movies that are actually legal are generally public domain movies with expired or un renewed copyrights. These tend to be very old 'classic' movies.

The major television networks will usually make recent episodes of popular TV series available for viewing on their web sites. However, only a select few of these series are available and only for a limited time.

Movie download memberships are safe from viruses, worms, spy ware and mal ware. However, downloading movies from 'free' sites can be a game of Russian roulette. For example, if you download using p2p, you are sharing files with a multitude of other users and are trusting that none of these strangers will infect the file with spy ware or viruses.

These are just some of the benefits that paid online movie download sites have over your local video store and over the so called free alternatives that exist online. The speed, convenience and economy of getting entertainment directly off the Internet is nothing short of amazing. However the shortcomings and risks of the 'free' downloads available online makes the choice of paid memberships a very intelligent and sensible decision.