Warner Bros. Is Uploading Classic Movies to YouTube for Free

You can watch just about everything on YouTube, but if you want to watch a full-length Hollywood movie, you're either going to have to sit through a lot of ad breaks or pay a digital rental fee. But not all movies on YouTube are restricted like this.

Sometimes you'll come across feature films that you can watch in their entirety, without any limitations or roadblocks to hamper your viewing experience. While not all of them are, um, supposed to be available on YouTube, allow me to point you to an interesting playlist of movies uploaded by none other than Warner Bros. Discovery itself, via Warner Bros. Entertainment. As noted by Gizmodo, this playlist of 31 films is 100% legal, contains no ads, and is free to watch.

It seems that over the past month or so, Warner Bros. has been uploading films to this YouTube playlist, seemingly at random. Certainly the list of titles runs the gamut. At the top, there's The Wind and the Lion , a 1975 Sean Connery-starring historical drama about Theodore Roosevelt dealing with the kidnapping of an American citizen (to clarify, Connery does not play Roosevelt). Below that, there's Michael Collins, the 1996 thriller about the real-life Irish revolutionary starring Liam Neeson, Alan Rickman, and Julia Roberts.

Also available: The 1997 marital arts flick Mr. Nice Guy, which features Jackie Chan as a chef caught in the middle of a dispute between a journalist and a gang of drug dealers. On the other end of the spectrum, there's The 11th Hour, a 2007 climate change documentary from Leonardo DiCaprio that gathers insights from scientists, politicians, and environmental activists. It's inspiring to see the climate progress we've made in the 18 years since the film was released (I'll pause while you laugh mirthlessly).

If The 11th Hour is a skip for you, there are a few dozen other movies you might be interested in checking out. Here's the full list:

• The Wind of the Lion

• Michael Collins

• Mr. Nice Guy

• City Heat

• The 11th Hour

• The Adventures of Pluto Nash

• Chaos Theory

• Waiting for Guffman

• American Ninja V

• Mutiny on the Bounty

• Dungeons & Dragons

• The Bonfire of the Vanities

• Return of the Living Dead Part II

• The Accidental Tourist

• Critters 4

• Murder in the First

• The Year of Living Dangerously

• December Boys

• Lionheart

• Oh, God!

• Crossing Delancey

• Price of Glory

• Flight of the Living Dead: Outbreak on a Plane

• Deal of the Century

• Deathtrap

• The Mission

• SubUrbia

• Hot to Trot

• True Stories

• The Science of Sleep

• The Big Tease

You can find them all on by exploring various Warner Bros. channels, but it's easiest to peruse this playlist.

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