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Free drama films
The dramas that survive on the margins are the ones the studios stopped thinking about: social problem pictures, melodramas, wartime features made to a deadline and a purpose. They are a much better record of what audiences were actually being told in a given year than the prestige films anybody remembers.
They also tend to be short, which was a production constraint and turns out to be a virtue. Seventy minutes with one idea in it beats two hours with the same idea and more weather.
All free, all in full, no account and no subscription.
18 films
4 of them carry an audio description track written and recorded here — all the described films are listed together.
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His Girl Friday (1940)Audio described
Hildy Johnson, the star reporter who divorced her editor Walter Burns, comes back to the paper to tell him she is marrying Bruce Baldwin, an insurance man, and leaving for…
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Impact (1949)Audio described
Walter Williams, a San Francisco businessman devoted to his wife Irene, sets off to drive to Denver on business, with a passenger Irene has promised a lift. Then word comes back…
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Reefer Madness (1936)Audio described
At a meeting of school parents, Dr. Carroll warns of a drug sweeping the country and tells the story of a group of high-school friends, Bill, Mary and Jimmy, whom Ralph…
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Scarlet Street (1945)Audio described
Christopher Cross, a cashier given a gold watch for 25 years of faithful service, has always wanted to be a painter and still paints every Sunday. In Greenwich Village he meets…
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
The Universal Film Manufacturing Company was not known in the silent era as premier producer of motion pictures. Yet, in 1916 they produced a film that could not be made…
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As You Like It (1936)
In this first film version of William Shakespeare's classic pastoral comedy, Sir Laurence Olivier stars as Orlando while Elisabeth Bergner is Rosalind, his secret admirer who…
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Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Considered one of the most important films in the history of silent pictures, as well as possibly Eisenstein's greatest work, Battleship Potemkin brought Eisenstein's theories of…
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Child Bride (1938)
Schoolteacher in a rural community campaigns to stop the practice of older men marrying young, underage girls.
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Cyrano De Bergerac (1950)
The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocent deception, with tragic results. Much cut from the play, but dialogue not rewritten.
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Detour (1945)
"Man is involved in two freakish accidents that make him look like a murderer. Poverty row masterwork that is the most precise elucidation of the noir theme of explicit…
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Diary of a Nudist (1961)
The Film follows a reporter (Davee Decker) as she infiltrates a nudist colony in the hopes of exposing its immoral ways. However, once there, she finds herself enjoying it a…
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Great Guy (1936)
James Cagney plays the plucky Irish crusader, Johnny Cave, who fights against corruption at the Weights And Measures Department. James Cagney is great in this movie. It shows why…
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Penny Serenade (1941)
Touching romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne.
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Shame (1962)
Shame also known as "I Hate Your Guts" "The Intruder" is a 1962 film directed by Roger Corman starring William Shatner as a racist mystery man sent to stir trouble in a southern…
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Suddenly (1954)
"Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer…
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The Amazing Adventure (1936)
Cary Grant plays Earnest Bliss a rich socialite who makes a bet with his doctor that he can make a living for one year using none of his current wealth.
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The Iron Mask (1929)
A swashbuckling Alexandre Dumas adventure featuring Douglas Fairbanks.
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae…