Film Village Classics

Film Village Classics

The Film Village brand champions the history of film as well as the underdogs who continue to support and create films outside of the current Hollywood industry. Although we support film in all of its forms and fashions, we believe that the underground of independent creators who work with passion and ambition more so than financial access should be celebrated as well. Film Village Classics is a curated hub of public domain films from the National Registry and beyond. These films are shared free of charge on our site in hopes that independent micro-budget film lovers have a chance to pay reverence and become inspired by the groundbreakers and forward thinkers of the year's past.

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Film Village Classics
  • Popeye the Sailor Meets Sinbad the Sailor

    In this short, Sindbad the Sailor (who is intended to be an alternate version of Popeye's old nemesis Bluto) lives on an island where he keeps loads of creatures that he had captured during his adventures (lions, tigers, giants, dragons, vultures, snakes, and apes). Where he proclaims himself, in...

  • Modesta

    Modesta (Antonia Hidalgo), a barrio woman, rebels against her husband's (Juan Ortiz Jimenez) authoritarianism. She and other women of her community who suffer the same treatment organize the Liberated Women League to fight for their rights.

  • Metropolis (1927)

    In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

  • Ida Lupino's The Hitch-Hiker

    Ray (Edmond O'Brien) and Gilbert's (Frank Lovejoy) fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker (William Talman) they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's killed before, and he lets the two know that as soon as they're no longer useful, he'll kill again. T...

  • The Cry of Jazz

    A 1959 documentary film by Edward O. Bland that connects jazz to African American history. It uses footage of Chicago's black neighborhoods, performances by Sun Ra, John Gilmore, and Julian Priester and the music of Sun Ra and Paul Severson interspersed with scenes of musicians and intellectuals,...

  • Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates

    Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths. - Directed by Oscar Micheaux