15+ Best Methods to Watch Full movies online Legally

When you want to watch free movies online, full-length films rather than just the trailer, it's hard to find them. But you won't believe the wealth of awesome movie entertainment you can watch online if you know where to look. We've scoured the Internet to find great resources for free, legal, full-length movies that are worth your time. The free movies come in all genres, from Comedy, Drama, Film Noir, Horror, Hitchcock, Westerns, Documentaries, to Animation, Family, Fantasy, History, Literature, Love, Music, Nature, and War. It's a comprehensive list of sources you can bookmark and share with other movie fans.

You'll find free movies to watch online at Hulu, Crackle, Open Culture, Internet Archive, Big Five Glories, Classic Cinema Online, and FreeMoviesOnline. For free documentary films, refer to SnagFilms, Documentary Film Network, and UbuWeb. The entertainment giants, Amazon, Youtube, Google Play and Netflix also have free full-length movies to watch online, and we tell you where to find them. Finally, your cable or dish provider has a huge online movie site you can watch absolutely free. Sweet !! Below we tell you how to find the right section on each website.

1. Hulu is a well-known website and a top choice to watch streaming movies for free online. Hulu is a joint venture of NBCUniversal Television Group, Fox Broadcasting Company and Disney-ABC Television Group, drawing on premium feature films from their extensive in-house movies. Hulu is entirely free but runs a lot of advertising.
   
   A few of your movie choices to watch are Breathless 1960, The Producers 2005, Gosford Park 2001, Marvin's Room with Meryl Street and Leonardo DiCaprio, Reservoir Dogs, The Ruling Class with Peter O'Toole, and Like Water for Chocolate.
   
   
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2. Crackle.com is a popular site where you can watch mainstream movies for free online. The full-length recent movies are provided free and uncut by Sony from their studio archives. You'll find free movies in popular genres like Action, Adventure, Animated, Anime, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Martial Arts, Music, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Sports, Thriller, War, and Western. Movies are also categoriezed alphabetically and by the year it was released, decade by decade from 1920's to 2010's.
   
   Selections include Lakeview Terrace with Samuel L. Jackson, The Glass House, The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks, A Knight's Tale with Heath Ledger, Once Upon a Time in Mexico with Johnny Depp, Underworld with Kate Beckinsale and The 6th Day with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
   
   
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3. Open Culture has over 500 free full-length movies you can watch online. The archives include classic films from days gone by, the great directors, Oscar winners, the box office winners and the famous stars. Film afficiandos will drool over these moves. The convenient movie directory is all on one page, albeit a very long page. The list is thoughtfully curated with a brief synopsis of the film and its history. All movies are free because they are in the public domain.
   
   There's no way to do justice to this online movie collection at Open Culture, but here are a few highlites: The first Cinderella movie made in 1899, Charlie Chaplin, John Barrymore, the first version of Frankenstein, D.W. Griffith, Lon Chaney, A Fistful of Dollars with Clint Eastwood, A Farewell to Arms with Gary Cooper, Captain Kidd with Charles Laughton, Sofia Coppola, Quentin Tarantino, Irene Dunne, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Fred Astaire, Marlene Dietrich, Steve McQueen, Jack Nicholson, Joel and Ethan Coen, and Maureen O’Hara.
   
   
   Watch free movies online at Open Culture
   
   
4. The Internet Archive is another awesome website where you can watch free, full-length movies online. Among the tens of thousands of movies, you'll discover classic comedies, film noir and sci-fi/horror, feature films, shorts, silent films and trailers to watch and download.
   
   Popular films at the Internet Archive are Night of the Living Dead, The Fast and the Furious from 1955, Suddenly with Frank Sinatra, and Royal Wedding - a musical with Fred Astaire and Jane Powell. You'll discover appearances by Charlie Chaplin, Errol Flynn, Ronald Reagan, and Laurel and Hardy. The Internet Archive is a non-profit website to preserve digital media for the future. You may upload movies if you own the copyright, or if they are in the public domain.
   
   
   Watch free movies online at the Internet Archive
   
   
5. Big Five Glories is a well-designed website where you can watch free, full-length movies online. Classic free movies in the public domain are grouped by decades from 1910 to 1970, plus silent films and color films. A drop down box groups movies by genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Film Noir, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Romance, Sci-fi, Thriller, War, and Western. This is a very attractive site with a good thumbnail and a synopsis of each movie.
   
   At Big Five Glories, you can watch The Last Time I Saw Paris, with Elizabeth Taylor and Van Johnson, Charade with Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Cold Sweat starring Charles Bronson, and The Phantom of the Opera from 1925 with Lon Chaney.
   
   
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6. Classic Cinema Online invites you watch hundreds of classic movies online, Animated, Comedy , Documentary, Drama, Action, Martial Arts, Adventure, Biographic, Crime, Film Noir, Mystery, Religious, Romance , Suspense - Thriller, Family, Musical, Sci - Fi, Horror, Shorts & Newsreels, Cartoons, Western, Holiday, Serials, and Action. The movie collection includes Walt Disney's Technicolor Fantasia and My Fair Lady 1964 starring Rex Harrison & Audrey Hepburn.
   
   
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7. Documentary Film Network offers 144 free documentary films and movies free of charge. All 144 are conveniently listed on the front page. Selections include Meltdown Part 1 The men who crashed the world, Tiger by the Tail, Dangerous Knowledge, Frost Nixon Interviews, Operation Condor, Evidence of a Lie: TWA 800, The War Against Cold Fusion, Tomb of Jesus, The Making of An Organic Farmer, and 1906 San Francisco Earthquake.
   
   
   Watch free documentary movies online at Documentary Film Network
   
   
8. FMO, FreeMoviesOnline, features a large selection of free movies, all in the public domain. The menu offers hundreds of free full-length movies to watch in categories of Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Western, TV Series & Serials, TV Shows & Sitcoms, Cartoons & Animations.
   
   Here's a brief selection: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland from 1972, Beneath the 12-Mile Reef with Robert Wagner,The Snows of Kilimanjaro with Gregory Peck, and The Brain That Wouldn't Die.
   
   
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9. Your cable or dish satellite company offers an excellent premium selection of free movies online to watch anytime. There is no additional charge for online viewing on demand, but you do need to log in with a customer account. Visit your cable provider at its online website to watch lots of free full-length recent movies online.
   
   For example, Dish Online has 6012 feature full-length movies online for customers to watch free.
   
   
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   If your cable provider is Time Warner Cable, you are also in luck. Time Warner subscribers are able to watch free more than 4,000 on-demand TV shows and movies online. You must be a Time Warner Cable subscriber in good standing to take advantage of this.
   Watch free online movies at TWCTV.com.
   
   
10. SnagFilms is where you can watch full-length documentary films online for free. The library of 3,000 documentary movies appeals to many interests: Adventure & Sports, Art & Music, Award-Winning, Celebrities & Fame, Comedy, Drama, Fascinating People, Family Friendly, Festival Films, Health & Food, History, Pop Culture, Romance, Science & Nature, Short Films, Politics & Social Issues and Thriller.
    
    At this free site you can watch documentary movies such as Super Size Me, The Times of Harvey Milk, Nanking, King of the Mountain, 1981, with Dennis Hopper, Yoga Inc 2007, Elvis, a 50th Anniversary Celebration 2004, and Phantom of the Opera 1999.
    
    
    Watch free online documentaries at SnagFilms.
    
    
11. UbuWeb is an all-volunteer site of unusual free documentary movies, avant-garde films, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts. You can watch unique, hard-to-classify artistic productions: the music of Jean Dubuffet, the poetry of Dan Graham, Julian Schnabel’s country music, the punk rock of Martin Kippenberger, and the diaries of John Lennon.
    
    
    Watch free online documentary movies at Ubu.
    
    
12. Amazon does not offer a selection of full-length free movies to watch at this time. But, if you are an Amazon Prime member, you can watch free movies, full length, to stream immediately and watch online at no additional charge. You may already signed up for Amazon Prime at $79 a year to get unlimited shipping of your orders. But, surprise, with Amazon Prime comes with a bonus of unlimited instant online viewing of movies.
    
    The humongous selection of A-list free movies includes literally thousands of choices: Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol, Rango starring Johnny Depp, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon, One For The Money starring Katherine Heigl, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman.
    
    
    
    
13. YouTube Movies hosts recently-released full-length free movies you can watch online. Most of the movies shown on the page are not free, but halfway down you'll find a link to "1000 Top Free Movies". At this page of 1000 top free movies at YouTube, movie trailers are mixed in with full-length movies, so you have to find them by trial and error.
    
    
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14. Google Play is a new digital content store formerly known as the Android Market. Here you can find your favorite music, movies, books, and Android apps and games for sale. You can also find a free Android Phone application called Free 5000 Movies, which connects you to a database of over 5,000 movies you can watch for free on your Android smartphone or any device that supports Flash. All movies listed on Free 5000 Movies are in the public domain and are part of Internet Archive. Watch Sci-fi, Horror, Crime, War, Western, Romance, Comedy, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, Musicals. The app is free and the Android Flash Player is free.
    
    
    
    
15. Netflix provides online streaming movie shows. When you sign up for a membership, you get a Free Trial Membership for the first month to watch with full-length movies online for free. After the first free month, the modest monthly membership fee takes effect, or you can cancel the membership.