It's nice to remember that not everything on the internet needs to be a subscription-based platform with ads. On WikiFlix, a Netflix-inspired archive of public domain films, you can watch movies like 'It's a Wonderful Life' and 'Nosferatu' for free. You don't even have to make an account! Crazy, right' A project of Wikipedia's volunteer community, WikiFlix hosts over 4,000 movies from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube that have fallen into the public domain ' that means they are free to share and distribute, usually because the copyright lapsed, or there was never any copyright at all. So, yes, most of the movies on the WikiFlix homepage are your grandma's age, but isn't it kind of fun to imagine what Netflix would've been like back in the day' While WikiFlix can introduce you to historic films like 'Wings,' the first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, there's also a bunch of hidden gems on there. As Rauwerda says in her TikTok, 'Sometimes I really...
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