Film studio Warner Bros has started uploading full-length feature films to its YouTube channel. So far, it’s a hodgepodge of older films that aren’t on HBO Max.
YouTube has been offering access to full-length feature films for years, but almost always these are uploads from users who have somehow managed to bypass the automatic copyright checks. There are only a few major Hollywood studios that upload full-length films to YouTube themselves for free, but that’s what Warner Bros has been doing recently.
For a few weeks now, the film company has been uploading very old feature films to YouTube. In this special playlist, Warner Bros has already shared 31 full-length feature films on the video platform. These are mainly films that were released between 1980 and 2010. Fourteen of the titles do not seem to be available in the Netherlands.
Great films and very bad ones
Among the seventeen films that you can watch in our country on YouTube are Waiting for Guffman, The Science of Sleep, Michael Collins, The Accidental Tourist, December Boys, Lionheart, The Mission and Mr. Nice Guy with Jackie Chan. Also available is American Ninja 5, but with an average IMDB rating of only 3.0, it is not recommended. There are more very bad films among them, but also enough titles that were well received.
The films with the best ratings in the list are Waiting for Guffman and The Mission with Robert De Niro, both of which have an average IMDB rating of 7.4.
What these films have in common is that, with a few exceptions, they are not available on Warner’s streaming service HBO Max. Some of the films could still be rented online until now.
The film studio started uploading in January and seems to add a new film every few days. The company has not yet provided any explanation, but it appears that Warner is making a selection from its vast archive of films that are no longer making much or any money. A description on YouTube reads: ‘watch this channel for more free feature films’.
YouTube users are certainly finding the free films en masse, as many of the titles have hundreds of thousands of views and a few have even had more than a million. In these times when streaming services are becoming increasingly expensive, many people can appreciate this move by Warner.
About The Author
