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Studio Ghibli Lets You Download Free Images from Hayao Miyazaki’s “Final” Film, The Boy and the Heron
Studio Ghibli fans are still pondering the meaning of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron,...
The Fictional Brand Archives: Explore a Growing Collection of Iconic But Fake Brands Found in Movies & TV
Los Pollos Hermanos, Madrigal Electromotive, Mesa Verde Bank and Trust, Davis & Main: Attorneys at Law—all...
Download 9,200+ Free Films from the Prelinger Archives: Documentaries, Cartoons & More
Depending on how you reckon it, the “American century” has already ended, is now drawing to...
The Cult of the Criterion Collection: The Company Dedicated to Gathering & Distributing the Greatest Films from Around the World
There was a time, not so very long ago, when many Americans watching movies at home...
The 15 Greatest Documentaries of All Time: Explore Films by Werner Herzog, Errol Morris & More
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who recognize the phrase “corny dialogue...
When François Truffaut Made a Film Adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
The protagonist of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a “fireman” tasked with incinerating what few books...
The Most Beautiful Shots in Cinema History: Scenes from 100+ Films
If you’re an even mildly enthusiastic filmgoer, these two short compilations from The Solomon Society will...
Watch the Film That Invented Cinema: Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory in Lyon (1895)
The brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière are often referred to as pioneers of cinema, and their...
Kino Lorber Lets You Stream 146 Films on YouTube: Tilda Swinton, Samuel L. Jackson, Steve Buscemi, Buster Keaton & More
The film distribution company Kino Lorber now allows you to stream complete films on YouTube for...
A Preview of Sora, the New OpenAI Tool That Creates Remarkable AI-Generated Videos
A little over four years ago, we featured here on Open Culture a set of realistic...
Scenes from Life in Paris During the 1920s, Colorized and Restored: Cafés, Notre Dame, Street Life & More
Few cities have been as romanticized as Paris, and few eras in Paris have been as...
Watch a 1915 Film Adaptation of Alice in Wonderland Enhanced in 4K, with Costumes Based on Briginal Illustrations by Sir John Tenniel
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland predates the invention of cinema by a couple of decades. Nevertheless, much...
Behold a Surreal 1933 Animation of Snow White, Featuring Cab Calloway & Betty Boop: It’s Ranked as the 19th Greatest Cartoon of All Time
Of the three collaborations jazz singer Cab Calloway made with cute cartoon legend Betty Boop, this...
The Russian Animators Who Have Spent 40 Years Animating Gogol’s “The Overcoat”
“Steady Pushkin, matter-of-fact Tolstoy, restrained Chekhov have all had their moments of irrational insight which simultaneously...
Free: Watch Our Planet, a Groundbreaking Nature Documentary Series Narrated by David Attenborough
The nature documentary series Our Planet opens with a startlingly stark observation courtesy of broadcaster, biologist,...
Plato’s Dialogue Gorgias Gets Adapted into a Short Avant-Garde Film
The word sophisticated may sound like praise today, but it originated as more of an accusation....
The Golden Age of Japanese Cinema: Kurosawa, Ozu, Mizoguchi & Beyond
Oliver Hermanus’ latest film Living transplants the story of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru to postwar London. Apart...
60 Free Film Noir Movies to Get You Through 2024
During the 1940s and 50s, Hollywood entered a “noir” period, producing riveting films based on hard-boiled...
What’s Entering the Public Domain in 2024: Enjoy Classic Works by Virginia Woolf, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, D. H. Lawrence, Bertolt Brecht & More
More than thirty years after it was first privately published in 1928, Lady Chatterley’s Lover became...
An Early Version of Mickey Mouse Enters the Public Domain on January 1, 2024
Happy New Year! We can now “do to Disney what Disney did to the great works...
Two Ways To Shoot The Same Scene: A Comparison of The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and You’ve Got Mail (1998) Shows How Filmmaking Changed Over the Decades
Some years ago, the Guardian’s Anne T. Donahue recommended, as an alternative Christmas movie, Nora Ephron’s...
