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📂 Category: Media & Entertainment,Wikipedia
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It’s good to remember that not everything on the internet needs a subscription-based platform with ads. On WikiFlix, a Netflix-inspired archive of public domain films, you can watch films like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Noseferatu” for free. You don’t even have to create an account! Crazy, right?
WikiFlix, a project of the volunteer Wikipedia community, hosts more than four thousand films from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube that have fallen into the public domain—meaning they are free to share and distribute, usually because copyright has lapsed, or no copyright exists at all. So, yes, most of the movies on the WikiFlix homepage are from your grandmother’s age, but wouldn’t it be fun to imagine what Netflix was like back in the day?
WikiFlix isn’t new, but it is new to us, thanks to TikTok by Annie Rauwerda, creator of the “Depths of Wikipedia” accounts.
While WikiFlix can introduce you to landmark films like “Wings,” the first film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, there are also a bunch of hidden gems out there. As Rawirda says on her TikTok account: “Sometimes I really like to watch things that I know no one is watching, so what if I discover something crazy?”
On its homepage, WikiFlix prioritizes movies with a lot of sitelinks on their Wikipedia pages, since they’re more likely to be popular or interesting. But there is a certain degree of organization. The community around WikiFlix maintains a blacklist, which helps ensure you won’t encounter a historical Nazi propaganda film during your next “WikiFlix and chill” night. (“While this [films] “Perfectly fine in an educational context, WikiFlix is more focused on entertainment,” the Wikiflix page says.)
WikiFlix’s content may not be quite as worthwhile as “Stranger Things,” but give it a try. Why not watch a Soviet musical inspired by Cinderella, or a silent film about swashbuckling pirates, or a Japanese apocalypse movie featuring a guy who somehow played for the Boston Celtics. and Chicago Cubs? You can always watch “Love Is Blind” again.
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