WikiFlix is like Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting

What if Netflix only carried movies from the first half of the 20th century, charged nothing, and didn't track your every click? That's WikiFlix, a project from Wikipedia's volunteer community that streams over 4,000 public domain films through a slick, modern interface.

The catalog pulls from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, and YouTube. You'll find 1922's Nosferatu, 1927's Metropolis, and 1946's It's A Wonderful Life alongside live-action films from India, Japan, Portugal, and Spain, plus Soviet-era animation. The database updates hourly from Wikidata, so the collection keeps growing as more films fall out of copyright.

The interface looks like a modern streaming service, but without the dark patterns. No algorithms pushing content. No surveillance tracking. No ads. Since all the films are in the public domain, WikiFlix can run without logins, fees, or data harvesting. The same volunteers who build Wikipedia maintain it, and the project lives on Wikimedia's Toolforge infrastructure.

The community maintains a blacklist to filter out historical propaganda films — "perfectly fine in an educational context," they note, but WikiFlix is focused on entertainment. The only limit on what can be added is U.S. copyright law. Any film that is in the public domain and has fallen out of copyright can be hosted without consulting or obtaining rights from anyone.

Previously:
• Cool collection of public domain movies in an attractive user interface
• Films, books and artwork entering the public domain in 2025
• Half a terabyte of public domain video, free for the downloading