"A project of Wikipedia's volunteer community, WikiFlix hosts over four thousand movies from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, or YouTube that have fallen into the public domain - that means they are free to share and distribute, usually because the copyright lapsed, or there was never any copyright at all. So, yes, most of the movies on the WikiFlix homepage are your grandma's age, but isn't it kind of fun to imagine what Netflix would've been like back in the day?"
"While WikiFlix can introduce you to historic films like "Wings," the first movie to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, there's also a bunch of hidden gems on there. As Rauwerda says in her TikTok, "Sometimes I really like watching things that I know nobody else is watching, because what if I discover something crazy?" On its homepage, WikiFlix prioritizes movies that have a lot of sitelinks on their Wikipedia pages, since those are more likely to be popular or interesting."
WikiFlix is a Netflix-inspired archive that hosts over four thousand public-domain films sourced from Wikimedia Commons, the Internet Archive, and YouTube. All listed films are free to share and distribute because copyright has lapsed or never existed. The platform requires no account and features classics such as It's a Wonderful Life, Nosferatu, and Wings alongside hidden gems. The homepage highlights films with many Wikipedia sitelinks to surface popular or interesting titles. The community curates content and maintains a blacklist to exclude films deemed inappropriate for entertainment viewing, such as historical propaganda. The focus remains on discovery and entertainment rather than academic use.
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