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Over 6 billion hours of video are watched on YouTube every single month. Most of them are music and funny videos, but you can find free full length movies and TV shows on there as well. The vast majority are older films or B-movies, but you'll discover the odd gem if you look hard enough. Videos may be split into multiple chapters, and you'll have to put up with ads.
You can find an impressive selection of TV shows and movies on Hulu for free, and the content is supported by ads. Hulu is backed by NBC Universal, Fox, and Disney, and it has struck agreements with a wide variety of networks and partners.
There is also an optional subscription service called Hulu Plus ($7.99 per month) which offers a much wider library of content and support for mobile devices, although it still includes ads. In either case their video library can only be watched from within the United States.
Owned by Sony and available for free, Crackle is a good place to check for TV shows and movies. The service is supported by ads and it offers a mixture of older content and B-movies with the odd blockbuster or top TV show. There's also a free Crackle app for all major mobile platforms. The content changes quite frequently and big titles tend to be available for a limited time only.
This is a great resource for full-length movies, TV footage, and all kinds of videos that are in the public domain. Most of the movies are older, but you'll find some real classics on offer. The archive is also packed with curiosities and oddities including sporting events, old news broadcasts, and propaganda films.
Here's another collection of relatively obscure movies and TV shows that you can stream for free. Viewster is ad-supported with an interesting mixture of content and apps for various platforms.
You can find documentaries, cult classics, and film festival favorites at Snag Films. Everything is neatly categorized, so you can dip into the strange mixture and identify something worth watching. The content is ad-supported and it's available as an app for all the major platforms.
This is a creative hub for a lot of amateur and indie filmmakers, and you'll find a wide variety of videos divided into lots of different categories. Most of the content is short form and you aren't going to find big name shows or movies, but there's still some very interesting content on there.
Honorable mentions
There are a few other locations worth mentioning, although the first two are mostly curated lists that point to content on YouTube or the Internet Movie Archive. First there's Top Documentary Films, which lists documentaries in various