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WikiFlix is like Netflix for public domain films, with no ads, no logins, and no data harvesting

Ellsworth Toohey
Jan 27, 2026
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)

What if Netflix only carried movies from the first half of the 20th century, charged nothing, and didn’t track your every click? That’s WikiFlix, a project from Wikipedia’s volunteer community that streams over 4,000 public domain films through a slick, modern interface.

The catalog pulls from Wikimedia Commons, the Interne…

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