About Popcorn
Popcorn is a streaming and offline library for films that belong to everyone.
Every title here is in the public domain or released under a Creative Commons licence. We don't own them, and we never claim to: every film links back to its archive record, its rights statement and the original scan.
We make money from subscriptions and pay-as-you-go credits, and we spend a share of that on restoration targets you can see and pledge to. Curators write the Reels. Members write the subtitles. Archives keep the films.
Where the films come from
- Internet Archive ↗
2216 films
Public domain and Creative Commons items as stated on each record.
- Library of Congress — National Screening Room ↗
0 films
Public domain or no known copyright restrictions; see rights statement per item.
- U.S. National Archives ↗
0 films
U.S. Government works — public domain.
- YouTube ↗
444 films
Creator-owned videos played from YouTube through yt-dlp; not public domain unless the creator says so.
- Europeana ↗
0 films
Per-item rights statements (edmRights); only open licences (PDM / CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA) are ingested.
- Wikimedia Commons ↗
131 films
Per-file licence from extmetadata (Public domain / CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA); VP9 WebM transcodes.
- Open Beelden (Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision) ↗
0 films
Creative Commons (mostly CC BY-SA) per record; direct mp4 / webm files.
- Manual upload ↗
0 films
Curated by Popcorn staff.
Licensing, plainly
“Public domain” means no one holds copyright — you can watch, copy, remix and share freely. CC0 is the same by choice. CC BY asks for credit; CC BY-SA asks that remixes carry the same licence. Popcorn shows the licence on every film and mirrors the archive's rights statement. If you think a film is listed with the wrong rights, tell us and we'll pull it while we check.
Popcorn's code is MIT-licensed. Questions about rights: rights@popcorn.film