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It’s good to remember that not all online content has to be an advertising campaign. Get started WikiFlixNetflix-inspired archive of public domain films, you can watch films like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Nosferatu” for free. You don’t even need to create an account! Crazy, right?
A project of Wikipedia’s volunteer community, WikiFlix contains more than 4,000 videos from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube that have fallen into the public domain – which means they have the right to share and distribute, often because copyright has expired, or there was no copyright at all. So, yes, most of the movies on the WikiFlix homepage are your grandparents’ age, but isn’t it fun to imagine what Netflix would have been like back in the day?
WikiFlix is not new, but it is new to us, thanks to a TikTok By Annie Rauwerda, creator of “The depth of Wikipedia” accounts.
While WikiFlix can show you classic movies like “Wings,” the first film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, there are also some hidden gems out there. As Rauwerda says in his TikTok, “Sometimes I like to watch things that I know no one else is watching, because what if I find something crazy?”
On its home page, WikiFlix prioritizes the videos that have the most pages on their Wikipedia pages, as these are likely to be popular or interesting. But there is another level of curation. The WikiFlix community maintains a blacklist, which helps you avoid getting caught up in a fake Nazi movie at your next “WikiFlix and chill” night. (“While these films are excellent for education, WikiFlix focuses more on entertainment,” a WikiFlix page he says.)
WikiFlix content may not be as good as “Stranger Things,” but try. Why don’t you watch a Soviet music inspired by Cinderella, a silent film of swashbuckling criminals, or a A Japanese post-apocalyptic movie that form a person who somehow played both for the Boston Celtics and the Chicago Cubs? You can catch up on “Love Is Blind” next time.
