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Sparks

A welder at work on a new Netflix building: sparks fly against deep shadow and a bright sky. Netflix's encoding team sho...

2017 TV-G Documentary
Movie

Tears of Steel

Scientists build a time machine to prevent a robot apocalypse in this live-action/CGI hybrid film from the Blender Found...

2012 TV-PG SciFi, Action, Drama
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Big Buck Bunny

A giant rabbit takes sweet revenge on three bullying rodents. Award-winning Blender Foundation animated short.

2008 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Casper: Boo Ribbon Winner

Casper enters a talent show with surprising results. 1954 Famous Studios cartoon.

1954 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Popeye: A Date to Skate

Popeye and Olive Oyl go ice skating, but Bluto has other plans. Classic 1938 Fleischer Studios animation.

1938 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
Movie

Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau's 1922 German Expressionist horror film. Count Orlok travels to Germany to spread plague. The original vampi...

1922 TV-PG Horror
Short

Minnie's Yoo Hoo

One of the earliest Mickey and Minnie cartoons. A 1930 musical short with the classic Mickey Mouse theme song.

1930 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
Short

Casper: Boos and Arrows

Casper tries to make friends at summer camp but his ghostly nature keeps causing chaos. 1954 Famous Studios.

1954 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Steamboat Willie

Walt Disney's 1928 landmark — the first cartoon with synchronized sound throughout. Mickey Mouse's debut.

1928 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Popeye: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

Popeye retells the Aladdin story in this lavish 1939 Fleischer Studios two-reel Technicolor special.

1939 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Kids
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Popeye: Ancient Fistory

Popeye narrates the story of cavemen, with Bluto as the villain. 1953 Famous Studios cartoon.

1953 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Popeye Meets Sindbad the Sailor

Popeye's epic 1936 Technicolor special — the first Popeye two-reeler. Fleischer Studios' landmark animation.

1936 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Action, Kids
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Casper: Bull Fright

Casper meets a friendly bull who's afraid of bullfighters. Together they stand up to the arena. 1955 Famous Studios.

1955 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
Movie

Night of the Living Dead

George A. Romero's genre-defining 1968 horror classic. A group of strangers barricade themselves in a farmhouse as the d...

1968 NR Horror
Short

Plane Crazy

Mickey Mouse's first-ever cartoon (produced before Steamboat Willie). Mickey builds an airplane inspired by Charles Lind...

1928 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Sol Levante

A warrior's journey through mystical realms, in a flamboyant burst of high fantasy. Hand-drawn by Production I.G for Net...

2020 TV-PG Animation, Fantasy, Action
Movie

The General

Buster Keaton's 1926 silent masterpiece. A Confederate engineer pursues his stolen locomotive through enemy territory du...

1926 TV-G Comedy, Action
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Astro Boy: The Last Day on Earth

Astro Boy must save humanity in this 2001 animated special from Tezuka Productions.

2001 TV-PG Animation, SciFi, Action, Kids
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Casper: Boo Scout

Casper tries to join a scout troop but keeps scaring everyone away. 1951 Famous Studios cartoon.

1951 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Hooked Bear

Donald Duck tries to catch fish at a national park but gets outsmarted by a clever bear. 1956 Disney comedy short.

1956 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
Movie

His Girl Friday

A newspaper editor schemes to stop his ex-wife from remarrying in this fast-talking 1940 screwball comedy starring Cary ...

1940 TV-G Comedy, Romance
Movie

D.O.A.

A man discovers he has been fatally poisoned and has only days to find his own killer. 1950 film noir classic.

1950 TV-PG Thriller, Crime
Short

Menger Sponge: A Flight in 360°

A silent flight through an endless world of Menger sponges, a fractal rendered at 8K in every direction. Nothing moves a...

2020 TV-G Animation, Education
Short

Paragliding over Tolmin, in 360°

A flight over the green hills above Tolmin, Slovenia, with the Soča river winding through the valley below. The camera ...

2021 TV-G Sports, Documentary
Short

Astro Boy: Volume of the Blue Knight

Astro Boy faces a powerful foe in this 1999 short by Tezuka Productions. The legacy of Osamu Tezuka — the 'God of Mang...

1999 TV-PG Animation, SciFi, Action, Kids
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Casper: Boo Moon

Casper befriends a moon man in this charming 1954 cartoon. Classic Famous Studios animation.

1954 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Spring

A shepherd girl and her dog face ancient spirits to continue the cycle of life. Blender Foundation's visually stunning o...

2019 TV-G Animation, Fantasy, Kids
Movie

Charade

A Hitchcockian thriller starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. A woman is pursued by several men who want the fortune h...

1963 TV-PG Thriller, Romance, Comedy
Movie

The Phantom of the Opera

Lon Chaney stars in the 1925 silent horror classic. A masked phantom terrorizes the Paris Opera House to promote his pro...

1925 TV-PG Horror, Drama
Documentary

Artemis I Rolls Out, in 360°

Stand inside NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building in August 2022 as the Space Launch System rocket for Artemis I begins its ...

2022 TV-G Documentary, Education
Short

Sintel

A young woman searches for her lost baby dragon in a fantasy world. Blender Foundation's emotionally powerful animated s...

2010 TV-PG Animation, Fantasy, Drama
Short

Mickey's Surprise Party

Mickey and Minnie prepare a surprise party in this charming 1939 Disney short.

1939 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
Short

Popeye: Assault and Flattery

Popeye and Bluto compete for Olive Oyl's affections through the ages. 1956 Famous Studios.

1956 TV-G Animation, Comedy, Kids
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Pepper & Carrot: The Potion Contest

Teenage witch Pepper and her cat Carrot compete in a potion contest. An animated motion comic of David Revoy's webcomic.

2017 TV-G Animation, Fantasy, Kids
Short

Tsumiki no Ie (The House of Small Cubes)

An old man in a town slowly submerging underwater dives through his flooded house, reliving memories at each level. Acad...

2008 TV-G Animation, Drama

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