{"id":313,"date":"2006-10-03T22:04:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T22:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2006\/10\/03\/ten-films-in-the-public-domain\/"},"modified":"2006-10-04T04:20:45","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T04:20:45","slug":"ten-films-in-the-public-domain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2006\/10\/03\/ten-films-in-the-public-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten Films in the Public Domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Baker at <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/\">Wired<\/a> has compiled <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.10\/start.html?pg=6\">a list of the ten best movies in the public domain<\/a> that can be downloaded via sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomaintorrents.com\/\">PublicDomainTorrents.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/\">Archive.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>1) <cite>Detour<\/cite> (1945)<\/strong><br \/>\nSnappy dialog, femme fatale, guilt-ridden hero, flimsy sets \u2013 it\u2019s protonoir that helped launch a genre.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2) <cite>Driller Killer<\/cite> (1979)<\/strong><br \/>\nAbel Ferrara (<cite>Bad Lieutenant<\/cite>) directs and plays a homicidal artist. Not the 1948 dance hit <cite>Killer Diller<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3) <cite>Night of the Living Dead<\/cite> (1968)<\/strong><br \/>\nGeorge Romero\u2019s gritty classic out-brains the avalanche of zombie flicks it inspired. Mmm &#8230; brains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4) <cite>Santa Claus Conquers the Martians<\/cite> (1964)<\/strong><br \/>\n<cite>It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/cite> is out of the public domain? So what. The interplanetary battle for Christmas rules!<\/p>\n<p><strong>5) <cite>Superman<\/cite> cartoons (early 1940s)<\/strong><br \/>\nModern superhero flicks got nothin\u2019 on these perfectly drawn shorts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6) <cite>The Battle of San Pietro<\/cite> (1943)<\/strong><br \/>\nForget Private Ryan and get into real WW II bunkers with this gripping John Huston documentary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7) <cite>The General<\/cite> (1927)<\/strong><br \/>\nBuster Keaton is still the king of physical comedy. This train-hijacking romp is his masterpiece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8) <cite>The Lost World<\/cite> (1925)<\/strong><br \/>\nWe\u2019ll take the stop-motion dinosaurs in this seminal f\/x flick over <cite>Jurassic Park<\/cite>\u2019s CG crap any day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>9) <cite>The Street Fighter<\/cite> (1974)<\/strong><br \/>\nQuentin Tarantino\u2019s idol Sonny Chiba literally tears bad guys apart in a graphic karate-palooza.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10) <cite>Reefer Madness<\/cite> (1936)<\/strong><br \/>\nOne puff of wacky tobacky turns Depression-era teens into sex fiends, pinkos, and jazz pianists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My two favourites here are <strong>Night of the Living Dead<\/strong> and <strong>The General<\/strong> but <strong>Reefer Madness<\/strong> is also a complete hoot.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.10\/start.html?pg=6\">Original article at Wired<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_domain\">Wikipedia on the Public Domain<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Category:Public_domain_films\">comprehensive list of movies in it<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/publicdomaintorrents.com\/\">PublicDomainTorrents.com<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/\">Archive.org<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=8799246967058116351\">Watch <strong>The General<\/strong> at Google Video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Baker at Wired has compiled a list of the ten best movies in the public domain that can be downloaded via sites like PublicDomainTorrents.com or Archive.org. They are: 1) Detour (1945) Snappy dialog, femme fatale, guilt-ridden hero, flimsy sets \u2013 it\u2019s protonoir that helped launch a genre. 2) Driller Killer (1979) Abel Ferrara (Bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}