Public domain Torrents has links to more than 500 movies in the public domain available for download via BitTorrent. Most are compatible with the video iPod.

There's a lot of silent-era stuff, but also a rich vein of kitsch trash, including clunkers from Ed Wood (Plan 9 from Outer Space), George Romero (Night of the Living Dead) and a Russian psychotronic/cult/camp sci-fi oddity called Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women.

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Thank goodness copyright doesn't last forever. This site offers Hollywood gems like the 1937 A Star Is Born and dirt clods like Zontar: The Thing From Venus. Many come formatted for iPod and PSP.

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http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/networks.html

You can download public domain movies using a Bit torrent client from the site http://www.publicdomaintorrents.com...

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Here's a bunch including Night of the Living Dead, Plan 9 from Outerspace, and both Reefer and Sex Madness. They even have Bruce Lee - all legal and in DivX.

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http://community.divx.com/forum/viewTopic.php?id=13

If you want older movies, but you'd rather have an abundance of them and for free, this site: www.publicdomaintorrents.com

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My big Christmas gift to myself came as a result of wandering through the Mystery section of PublicDomainTorrents.com.

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A collection of torrents from sources in the public domain. Old Tom and Jerry cartoons, Flash Gordon serials, martial arts flicks, Bower Boy adventures etc. Before television was completely homogenized many of these things were regular fodder for non-prime time Saturday and Sunday television. The Horror section will satiate my need for my childhood "Creature Features" on WXON 20 in Detroit (with samples of Dazed and Confused by Led Zeppelin as the intro music).

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Classic Movies and B-Movies Movies For FREE!

PublicDomainTorrents.com has free classic and B-movie torrents! As of this writing there are 531 movies available for download using bittorrent. There are versions available for iPod and PDA as well.

Ok, if you haven't seen Metropolis or Nosferatu yet, you need to get on over there and check those out. You are in for a treat! Also available is Night of the Living Dead, a great cult-classic.

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http://cblackburn.blogspot.com/2005/12/public-domain-movie-torrents-with-pda.html

Hey I saw this on Sarah In Tampa the other day and I must say that it rocks. Basically the site publicdomaintorrents.com hosts (yup you guessed it) torrents of movies that have fallen into the public domain.

Now I can amuse my self (legally) with Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbukle movies! I think this is a great idea and a great way to keep classic cinema alive.

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http://www.selsine.com/2006/01/public-domain-torrents.html

I don't think this has been posted here before? This site: www.publicdomaintorrents.com has a load of old movies available for download in various formats from full sized to PDA (and iPod!) size. There are some real classics like Nosferatu, Metropolis and Plan 9 from outer space!

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http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=5767

Public Domain Torrents offers an extensive collection of Classic and B-Movie torrents. The copyright of these movies has expired so you are free to share them.

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http://digg.com/links/Copyright_Free_Movie_Torrents

Yeah I can't believe I saw this on DVD the other day for like £15.

That's a lot for even a current movie, let alone an old public domain movie that's available to download from several internet sites, publicdomaintorrents.com.

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Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

*This movie is in the public domain. Many thanks to publicdomaintorrents.com

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Because a certian site will be getting more traffic, I would recommend switching to a more ‘legal’ source of data. Something like publicdomaintorrents.com

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This place is awesome. These are all films which have been released to the public domain and are free to use and distribute. Tons of classic stuff in there like Flash Gordon and Plan 9 From Outer Space, famed to be "the worst film ever made", The Little Shop of Horrors, etc. All categorised with PDA and iPod sized vids (in addition to regular divx) for a lot of the films.

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http://www.bangingtunes.com/forum/topic/t35067/

I found at least one old movie - My Favorite Brunette - that costs $7.99 on Google video, but is also available on www.publicdomaintorrents.com for nuttin'.

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Vintage tooncast sucks. Why would I want to watch cartoons with their logo all over my screen when I can just download them from publicdomaintorrents.com myself?

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http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2006/4/18/3647

We're publicdomaintorrent.com addicts.

Thumbs up strictly as a statment against RIAA assertions that torrent itself is evil. There is a ton of media out there like these Public Domain torrents of Classic and Cheesy B-Movie. The copyright of these movies has expired so you are free to share them.

This might be another huge opportunity for Creative Commons to help disambiguate/authenticate status of newly-expired old-world copyrighted media. Wanna see pictures of who we are?

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http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/publicdomaintorrents.com/

A selection of free and legal public domain movies coded in DivX available for download via BitTorrent.

Classic Movies and B-Movies Movies For FREE! PDA/SMARTPHONE/PPC versions!

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http://www.redferret.net/?p=6074

PublicDomainTorrents.com is a decent resource for torrents of classic and B-movies in which the copyright has expired (public domain media)

This will be useful for my ECMP 355 course where students perform video editing/mixing. Using sites like this as a resource also help to explain that the Bit Torrent protocol is not to be equated.

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http://educationaltechnology.ca/couros/category/media/

Web site Public Domain Torrents offers classic and B movie downloads via BitTorrent for free.

The catalog includes A Farwell to Arms, Jack London and some Tom and Jerry cartoons. Some flicks are available for the video iPod and Sony PSP, too. To get started downloading, check out our BitTorrent section for BT client recommendations. (Hint: Azureus has my heart.)

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http://www.lifehacker.com/software/bittorrent/download-public-domain-movies-151525.php

Free Movies To Go!

www.publicdomaintorrents.com, offers free movies suitable for viewing on handheld devices, including the new iPod, smartphones and PDAs.

More than 500 films are available. The movies are in the public domain, meaning their copyrights have lapsed, and can be shared legally.

You won't find anything near a new release, but you will find such, ahem, classics as "Plan 9 from Outer Space," the Ed Wood sci-fi tale widely regarded as the worst movie of all time. The 1959 movie is so bad it's become something of a cult favorite for its unintended comedy.

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http://news.tbo.com/news/MGBT8PQZ3HE.html

Nice. Simple and to the point.

If you're looking for more content, there is a legit torrent site with old movies/shows that are now in the public domain.

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http://www.evdoforums.com/about1366.html

Now here's the proper legal way to utilize p2p networks; Public Domain Torrents.

A haven for slushy black and white science fiction movies and series (amazing! fantastic!). So if you also want to watch Metropolis, here's your chance.

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http://binarybonsai.com/archives/2005/12/23/public-domain-torrents/

Those dollar store DVDs are often made from public domain content available online. O'Reilly readers should be savvy enough to go to publicdomaintorrents.com and download iPod formatted movies from there.

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http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/01/11/ipod.html?page=2

Thank goodness copyright doesn't last forever. This site offers Hollywood gems like the 1937 A Star Is Born and dirt clods like Zontar: The Thing From Venus. Many come formatted for iPod and PSP.

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http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.05/networks.html

Classic movies, B-Movies, PDA, SMARTPHONE, PPC, Ipod versions at publicdomaintorrents.com.

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http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Legal_torrent_sites

Brown Jug Little Lord Fauntleroy Little Lulu - Cad and Caddy ... Winter Little Rascals Alfalfas Aunt Little Rascals Baby Brother at publicdomaintorrents.com.

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This site is a great resource. The iPod with video has spawned a conversion of movies to iPod-compatible MP4. It took a long time to download Gamera the Invincible, but it was fun to see this movie from my childhood again.

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http://www.newsvine.com/godzilla

I just discovered two web sites that have public domain (that means no copyright restrictions) classic and B movies available for downloads. Since I just discovered them today, I haven’t checked them out yet.

Both sites, however, have good reviews in my professional sources.

PublicDomainTorrents.com

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http://bloglibrary.bartonccc.edu/?cat=4

Public Domain Torrents offers an extensive collection of Classic and B-Movie torrents. The copyright of these movies has expired so you are free to share them. Check out all 58 comments.

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http://digg.com/links/Copyright_Free_Movie_Torrents

Website with buttloads of torrents of public domain films. Portable device versions of films available, too [for iPod, PSP, etc.]

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http://ma.gnolia.com/people/nerdtech/tags/psp

Public Domain Movie Torrents hosts a wide variety of movies now in the public domain that you can download for free using BitTorrent technology.

Many for PDA iPod PSP and other mobile devices. PDA SMARTPHONE PPC Sony PSP and Apple IPOD VERSIONS!

See the PD

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http://torrentsearch-swicki.eurekster.com/ipod+torrents/

Free movie downloads!

The goods: 100% legal free movie downloads
The catch: Only old movies, torrents only.

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http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/profile.asp?mode=display&id=55881

Films that are in the public domain, free to download. And before you get put off by the fact that they're free and public domain and so therefore must be crap, hold your horses...

There's some absolute classics on there, most notably Nosferatu, Metropolis, Little Shop Of Horrors and Night Of The Living Dead. Also plenty for fans of terrible films - Plan 9 From Outer Space, Reefer Madness, Robot Monster and old cinema serials, including Flash Gordon.

Also worthy of note are the Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy (and also Stan Laurel on his own), Keystone Cops, Little Rascals, Fatty Arbuckle and Charlie Chaplin films. Oh, Betty Boop, Popeye and Tom & Jerry, too.

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http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=52;t=003378;p=1

Basically one of those places with legal free torrents.

This one in particular has rounded up some classic films and b-movies. Equally as brilliant, a lot of them are available in ipod and pda formats. So if you missed out on seeing The General, Nosferatu, Metropolis et al, now’s your chance.

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http://www.nonstuff.com/archives/2005/12/31/public-domain-torrents/

Public Domain Movie Torrents hosts a wide variety of movies now in the public domain that you can download for free using BitTorrent technology. Many for PDA iPod PSP and other mob

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http://directory.searchwarp.com/A93C1P1-United-States-Movies.htm

Hundreds of shows and movies that have fallen into the public domain, available for free download.

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http://wurp.livejournal.com/tag/video

...And so it was a pleasant surprise to trip across four Wontner and Owen films online in a BitTorrent archive, free for download in several different formats and qualities, including iPod-ready video.

They can be found in the Mystery section of site called PublicDomainTorrents.com.

If you’re interested in downloading some of these little treasures, point your favourite BitTorrent client (I use Azureus) to PublicDomainTorrents and catch Reginald Owen in A Study in Scarlet (1933, and bearing no resemblance whatsoever to the novel), and Wontner in The Sign of Four (1932), The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935), and Murder at the Baskervilles (1937, a.k.a., Silver Blaze). There are also four of Universal’s Rathbone/Bruce films from the 1940’s, namely Dressed to Kill, Terror by Night, The Woman in Green, and Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon. You may have noticed the latter four films offered cheaply from many different distributors, and the reason is elementary: no copyrights = no royalties.

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http://www.astudyinsherlock.net/cat/workshop/

...Not sure if it interests everyone but us fuddy-duddys, but just in case I'm not the only one:

These are all torrents...nice to p***-off the mpaa mob with a legit use for bittorrent.

Go here, enjoy and support this dude if you can:

www.publicdomaintorrents.com

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http://www.p2p-zone.com/underground/archive/index.php/t-22047.html

...Or if you want something that will actually entertain you (and allowing for your deafness) a lot of old silent movies are out of copyright and can be legally obtained on sites such as www.publicdomaintorrents.com - I downloaded some Laurel and Hardy and Buster Keaton movies a few weeks ago and they're good for a laugh.

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http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies-archive.cfm/500015.html