THE SCREEN-SPACE PUBLIC DOMAIN FILM FESTIVAL VOL. 1

Maybe you cleaned out your physical media stash when you got Netflix. Or maybe those monthly subsciber fees just proved too rich, given you’re never at home. And, because you’re a decent human being, your dodgy brother-in-law’s pirated library is not an option. Now, you’re self-isolating to help save the world and you’ve got nothing too watch...

Welcome to the first edition of The Screen-Space Public Domain Film Festival. To save you the burden of searching YouTube, we have collated a first round selection of ten films up for grabs on the video sharing service that nobody owns (we think; if any are under copyright, let us know and we’ll take them down immediately). We hope our selection helps make your home-stay days a bit more bearable… 

GUNFIGHTERS MOON: (Dir: Larry Ferguson; stars Lance Henriksem , Kay Lenz; 1995) A notorious gunfighter returns to his ex-wife, who only wants him to save her sheriff husband from being killed by gunmen out to free his condemned prisoner.

CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (Dir: Henry Hathaway; stars James Stewart, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Conte; 1948) In 1932, copkiller Frank Wiecek is sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad leads Chicago reporter P.J. McNeal to look into the case. When McNeal starts to believe in Wiecek’s innocence, he meets increased resistance from authorities unwilling to be proved wrong.

LAND OF THE MINOTAUR aka The Devil’s Men (Dir: Kostas Karagiannis; stars Donald Pleasance, Peter Cushing; 1976) A satanic cult kidnaps three young people and an Irish priest must destroy a baron's cult of man-bull worshippers in the Balkans.

THE BAT (Dir: Crane Wilbur; stars Agnes Moorhead, Vincent Price; 1959) Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house which not long ago had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as "The Bat". The lonely country house soon becomes the site of many mysterious and dangerous activities.

THE GOLD RUSH (Dir: Charles Chaplain; stars Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain; 1925) A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold, mixing it up with burly characters and, using his singular charm, falling in love with the beautiful Georgia.

FOUR HORSEMEN (Dir: Ross Ashcroft; 2012) The modern day Four Horsemen continue to ride roughshod over the people who can least afford it. 23 international thinkers come together and break their silence about how the world really works and why there is still hope in re-establishing a moral and just society.

THE BRAIN THAT WOULDN’T DIE (Dir: Joseph Green; stars Jason Evers, Virginia Leith; 1962) A doctor experimenting with transplant techniques keeps his girlfriend's head alive when she is decapitated in a car crash, then goes hunting for a new body.

THE MARS UNDERGROUND (Dir: Scott J. Gill; 2007) Visionary rocket scientist, Robert Zubrin, has a plan for getting humans to Mars in the next ten years and ultimately turning the Red Planet blue. But can he win over the skeptics at NASA and the wider world?

ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Dir: Delbert Mann; stars Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine; 1979) Paul Baumer, an idealistic young German, enlists in the German Imperial Army, thinking war would be a great adventure. He soon discovers the opposite as the war drags on...

BODY ROCK (Dir: Marcelo Epstein; star Lorenzo Lamas, Vicki Frederick; 1984) Chilly is just a guy from the streets with a talent for break-dancing. When his wicked moves catch the eye of an industry pro, Chilly finds his dreams of fame and fortune coming true, for better or for worse.

SCREEN-SPACE claims no ownership of any of the titles being used in The Public Domain Film Festival posts. All are being sourced via YouTube. Our sincere apologies if any breach copyright entitlement; please contact us at screenspace3@gmail.com with proof of ownership and we will remove immediately.