I no longer own a TV, so I get most of my old movies from the Internet Archive, which is available to anyone with internet access.
One thing they have that TCM didn't when I last checked, is scores of excellent English movies from the 1920s-1950s.
Also a ton of Turkish ones, for some reason.
And if you're into Goebbels-era productions from the Golden Age of Nazi cinema , well, have at it, I guess.
The only problem is that, as in social media, IA makes no effort to discourage Nazi viewers from ranting on the site.
In fact, they've been repeatedly accused (including by European governments) of enabling extremists of all stripes, by accumulating boatloads of video and also written propaganda and incitement, allegedly including bomb-making recipes, for indiscriminate dissemination to literally anyone who happens happens to sign in.
They've also been successfully sued by publishers and authors for copyright infringement after they lent out multiple photocopies of books that had not passed into the public domain. (They were just San Francisco anarcho-libertarians doing their modest part for the house bound victims of COVID.)
Anyway, if you just like classic schlock like "The Wild Women of Wongo" or "Devil Girl From Mars," Internet Archive is the place for you.
The problem with TCM is that they seem rather snooty about wongo and devil girl movies…they show them under theme nights or at Halloween but we’re never going to get Son of Dracula between two Claudette Colbert flicks in the afternoons.
I no longer own a TV, so I get most of my old movies from the Internet Archive, which is available to anyone with internet access.
One thing they have that TCM didn't when I last checked, is scores of excellent English movies from the 1920s-1950s.
Also a ton of Turkish ones, for some reason.
And if you're into Goebbels-era productions from the Golden Age of Nazi cinema , well, have at it, I guess.
The only problem is that, as in social media, IA makes no effort to discourage Nazi viewers from ranting on the site.
In fact, they've been repeatedly accused (including by European governments) of enabling extremists of all stripes, by accumulating boatloads of video and also written propaganda and incitement, allegedly including bomb-making recipes, for indiscriminate dissemination to literally anyone who happens happens to sign in.
They've also been successfully sued by publishers and authors for copyright infringement after they lent out multiple photocopies of books that had not passed into the public domain. (They were just San Francisco anarcho-libertarians doing their modest part for the house bound victims of COVID.)
Anyway, if you just like classic schlock like "The Wild Women of Wongo" or "Devil Girl From Mars," Internet Archive is the place for you.
The problem with TCM is that they seem rather snooty about wongo and devil girl movies…they show them under theme nights or at Halloween but we’re never going to get Son of Dracula between two Claudette Colbert flicks in the afternoons.
I keep telling them the Devil Girl will never take me alive, but they seem oddly unimpressed.