Thanks to the explosion of online video, especially YouTube and Google Video, many classic films are now available on demand, right now, on your monitor. Unless otherwise noted, the movies listed in this section are available in their entirety, either streaming or as downloads. Enjoy!
Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film in its entirety at Google Video.
Battleship Potemkin brought Eisenstein's theories of cinema art to the world in a powerful showcase; his emphasis on montage, his stress of intellectual contact, and his treatment of the mass instead of the individual as the protagonist.
Herk Harvey's 1962 horror classic.
Luis Bunuel's first feature film from 1930.
Short film from 1901 by special effects pioneer Georges Méliès.
Complete online version of Fritz Lang's 1931 masterpiece
M, starring Peter Lorre, for streaming or download.
Dziga Vertov's
Man With A Movie Camera (1929) is considered one of the most innovative and influential films of the silent era.
George A. Romero's classic zombie shocker, in its entirety.
Watch F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent masterpiece in its entirety. With Max Schreck as the vampire.
Akira Kurosawa's groundbreaking 1950 film, starring Toshiro Mifune, in its entirety at Google Video.
From Fritz Lang's American period, his 1945 film
Scaret Street is available for download or streaming in its entirety.
The 1973 film by French Situationist Guy Debord, based on the 1967 book of the same title, shows the dominating oppression of modernization of both the private and public spheres of everyday life by economic forces.
Robert Wiene's classic 1920 silent horror film for download from archive.org.
Buster Keaton's Civil War comedy (1927) is often cited as one of the funniest movies ever made.
The Kid (1921) was Charlie Chaplin's first full-length movie. It, more than anything else to that date, made Chaplin a living legend. It took over a year to produce, and was an incredible success for Chaplin.
In 1929, Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel collaborated on the most famous surreal film ever made.
