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have any copyright experts.
However, we do sometimes have access to information about American-made
movies. This information is accurate to the best of our knowledge, but
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This list only includes movies that users have asked us about.
If you have questions about a particular movie, please post your
inquiry to the Feature
Films forum.
Movies
that are OKAY to post
Movies
that are NOT OKAY to post
Movies
-
Unknown Status (don't post)
These
movies are OKAY to post
American-made movies before
1923 (1922 and older) should be okay
- 39 Steps (1935)
- A Study in
Scarlet
(1933)
- Abilene Town (1946) PD
- Aerial Gunner
(1943)
is PD.
- Assignment Outer
Space
- Attack from Space
- Bad Man Of
Deadwood
(1941)
- Beachcomber, The
- aka
-
Vessel of Warth (1938)
- Beachcomber, The
(1939) is
PD.
- Becky Sharp
(1935)
- Behave Yourself
(1951)
- Beloved Rogue,
The
(1927) -
The United Artists feature film is PD and the R-C comedy short is not.
- Betsy Ross (1917) PD
- Black Pirate,
The
(1926)
- Black Raven, The
(1943)
- Blue Steel (1934) PD
- Born to the West - Hell Town (1937)
PD
- Cavalcade of the West (1936) PD
- Charlie Chaplin
- A
Day's
Pleasure (1919)
- Charlie Chaplin
-
Between
Showers (1914)
- Charlie Chaplin
-
Dough and
Dynamite (1914)
- Charlie Chaplin
- The
Idle
Class (1921)
- Charlie Chaplin
-
Shoulder
Arms (1918)
- Charlie Chaplin
-
Sunnyside
(1919)
- Check and Double Check (1930) PD
- Corregidor (1943)
- Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) PD
- Daniel Boone (1936) PD
- Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer
(1956) PD
- Day the Sky
Exploded,
The
- Detour (1945) PD
- Devil's Messenger, The (1961) PD
- Eegah (1962) PD
- Eagle, The (1925)
- Fight for the Sky, The (1945) PD,
U.S. Government
- Fighting Caravans
(1931) PD
- Fire Over
England
(1937)
- Frozen North, The (1922) PD
- Gangster's Den, The (1945) PD
- Gangster Story (1960)
- Glorifying the
American Girl
(1929)
- Hittin' the Trail (1937) PD
- Hoodlum, The (1951) PD
- Jap Zero (1943) PD, U.S. Government
- Jungle Book, The
(1942) is
PD.
- La Ciociara - Two Women (1960) PD
- Lady Gangster (1942) PD
- Last of the
Mohicans
(1920
silent)
- Let There Be Light (1946) PD, U.S.
Government
- Light of Western Stars, The (1940)
PD
- Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960) PD
- Mr. Adam's Bomb
(1949)
- Murder at the
Baskervilles
- Mutiny (1952) PD
- North Star, The
(1943)
- Paper Bullets - Gangs Inc (1941) PD
- Quicksand (1950) PD
- Rainbow Valley (1935) PD
- Phantom from
Space
- The Red House,
The
(1947)
- Reign of Terror
(1949)
- Santa Fe Trail (1940) PD
- Satanic Rites of
Dracula, The (1974) - UK should be okay.
- Sherlock Holmes and the Woman in Green
(1945) PD
- Sign of Four,
The
(1932)
- Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The
(1947) PD
- Snows of Kilimanjaro,The (1952) PD
- Target for Today (1944) PD, U.S.
Government
- Teenage
Zombies(1959)
- US
should be okay
- Too Late for Tears (1949) PD
- Unknown World
(1951)
- Whistle Stop (1946) PD
- Whom the Gods
Destroy
(1916)
- Young and Innocent (aka Girl Was Young (USA)
(1937) PD
These
movies are NOT OKAY to
post:
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972) unknown,
British production, probably still under copyright
- At War with the
Army
(1950)
- Battle of
Algiers, The
(in
Italian, La Battaglia di Algeri), 1966
- Beloved Rogue,
The
(1927) -
The United Artists feature film is PD and the R-C comedy short is not.
- Charlie Chaplin
- The
Pilgrim (1923) - still under copyright until 2018
- Citizen Kane
(1941)
- Cry of Battle - Officers and Men
(1963) renewed RE-526-501
- Day The Earth
Stood
Still, The (1951)
- Der Golem (1920)
by
Wegener
- Desert Trail, The (1935) copyright,
PA-266-910
- Faust (1926)
directed
by
Murnau
- Gildersleeve On
Broadway -
copyright renewed R493281
- Gildersleeve's
Ghost -
copyright renewed R513130
- Gildersleeves
Bad Day
-
copyright renewed R486266
- Go West (1925)
- Great
Gildersleeve,
The -
copyright renewed R480070
- Guy From Harlem,
The
(1976)
- Hot Rod Girl (1956) renewed,
RE377005
- In the Year 2889 (1967) If work has
copyright notice, it is still under copyright.
- Informer, The
(1935) -
US,
copyright renewed R297494
- Invasion from Inner Earth (1974) If
work has copyright notice, it is still under copyright
- Juno and the
Paycock
(1930)
- UK, restored copyright PA-931-584
- Keep 'Em Rolling
(1934)
- King Kong (1933)
- Last of the
Mohicans
(1936)
- Le Bambole - The Doll That Took The Town
(1965) copyright renewed under GATT
- Long John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
(1954) renewed, RE138485
- Look Who's
Laughing -
copyright renewed R446824
- Mark of the Hawk, The (1957)
renewed, RE271227
- Modern Times
(1936)
- Monitors, The
(1969)
- Moon of the Wolf
(1972) -
US, if there is a copyright notice on the film, it is not in public
domain.
- One Eyed Jacks
(1961)
- Parnell (1937) -
US,
copyright renewed R338639
- Plan
9 From Outer Space
- Plough and the
Stars,
The
(1936) - US, copyright renewed R334524
- Revolt of the
Zombies
(1936)
- Rich and Strange
(1931) restored
copyright under GATT, PA-928-114
- Sky Princess
(1942)
- Trail of the
Hawk
(1939)
(made dark 10/17 RE at request of rights holder)
- Werewolf of
Washington, The
(1973) - US, if there is a copyright notice on the film, it is not in
public domain.
- Werewolf vs. The
Vampire
Women (1971) - Spain, copyright restored under GATT
Unknown
Status (don't post):
- Murder at the
Baskervilles
(1937) - British, dunno
- Ivan the
Terrible
(1942/44)
- Russian, dunno
- Utopia (1951) -
foreign, we
don't know
- This Other Eden
(1959)
-
Irish
- Odd Man Out
(1947) - UK
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