Where to Find Free Movies and TV Shows Online

My complaint about all the services that seem to be available is that there are too many clicks required to access your content. e.g., Roku>Home Page>app>logon>scroll>look>back>look>back>etc. there was something comfortable about turning on the tv and just using channel up and down until you found what you wanted. I don't want to watch a bunch of movies or tv shows. I just like news, and thus use HAYSTACK as a news aggregator.

When I moved to my current home,I was going through my expenses and decided to get cable TV service last as it can get expensive.Time went by and I never ordered the service.

I still needed ISP service and went with a small local wireless ISP a couple of months after I moved in.The cost for it is very reasonable and I decided to keep things the way they are now.

As a result,I have no interest in movies and TV shows.They don't appeal to me as they once did.

Can't say enough good things about Kanopy and Hoopla. Kanopy's the place to go for things a little more off the beaten track. Huge selection. Hoopla tends to somewhat more commercial offerings although there are esoteric gems that do pop up. And NO commercials. What's not to like?

Here in Canada, the main TV networks (CBC Gem, Global, CTV) offer streaming services, with on-demand TV shows and movies, as well as some live TV feeds. There are ads, of course.

After you watch most of the current shows offered in prime time, I guess these services that offer shows from the past really shine.

Currently I am in an area where a simple indoor antenna gives me a large umber of channels. A scan for channels gives me a number of about 40. A few of these duplicate each other, and there are a couple home-shopping services that don't interest me, -- but really, you normally don't watch more than one show at a time.

One problem with streaming services -- you normally won't get real-time alerts for things like weather alerts, amber alerts, and so on.

I have to say that we use Hoopla a lot. It carries most of the British ITV and BBC shows. Great free resource. Kanopy has lots of esoteric shows and many older Oscar winners. However, I am sort of spoiled by some of the HD streams that you get from Prime and Netflix. Kanopy seems to have at times very low quality video in its streams -- almost like someone projected a film on a bedsheet and taped it with VHS. (These are mainly their older classics). But for the price, you can't beat these two.

Another comment. Check out and SUPPORT your local libraries. They can be a fantastic resource for any number of videos, whether via streaming or DVD or even sometimes VHS. (ours will even loan a VHS player if you need it.)

In case anyone wants to watch episodes of msnbc shows a few hours to a day late, topnewsshow.com

If you know or can easily and quickly find out about your excellent tips if they can be used in the UK.

Eg. can UK library cards be used to access US libraries? Probably not but others of your tips might or might not work in the UK.

I hope this doesn't start requests from the remaining 100s of countries!

Thanks for your good work.

Over 10 years ago, my wife and I cut the cord and paid for $150 antenna that got in many channels (including the "sub-channels like 2.2, 2.3, 6.2, 6.4, which are things like MeTV, Dabo, Create, Cozy, etc). A couple of years after that we got Roku for $100, and now has 35 regular channels (plus more if want) with thousands of old TV shows, originals, and lots of movies. Yes we watch the commercials. We know people who spend $250 a month on cable. We spent it over a decade.

I have a Samsung TV in my bedroom with an indoor antenna. Since I live in a medium-sized metropolitan area, I get TV broadcasts that carry all the major networks (I'm lucky). There are times when solar activity makes receiving OTA broadcasts impractical, but Samsung has a free solution in their included Samsung TV Plus service. It consists of perhaps hundreds or even thousands of free streaming 'live' TV 'channels', starting at channel 1000. I frequently watch channels such as Homefull and Home Refresh channels (for Mike Holmes/home remodeling programming), The Asylum and Midnight Pulp channels for cult classics, the Universe (Mysteries Solved) channel for science documentaries, a variety of the Movie Hub variants, and many more.

My Samsung TV is an older 'smart TV', and I have installed several apps, which include a variety of free services, so when I can't find anything I want to see on the above-mentioned channels, I can switch to an app for something to watch.

Other TV brands should follow Samsung's example, so everyone can enjoy similar ease of TV watching.

Ernie (Oldster)

Cord-cutting and streaming was so 2010s!
Now that it has practically decimated the cable industry, their honeymoon is over and reality is smacking both the providers of such service and the consumers hard.
As long as cable companies provide DVRs - to skip the commercials - I see no need for cutting my coax cable.
Being a hunter/seeker for entertainment in the 21st Century has become more costly and time consuming than cable+DVR+remote!

Bob
The embedded videos in your site cannot be switched off !
Just sayin

ROKU streaming service has LOTS & LOTS of free movies(old & new) and lots of old TV shows and current news programs. Gotta buy a ROKU device but then thousands of choices are available. Its what I watch almost exclusively.

You can add to the list of free TV/Movies -
https://www.lookmovie2.to/shows
completely free to watch/stream.
If you pay for a subscription, it allows you to download shows and keep a list of favorites or continue watching in a series.

This was a brilliant reminder of Kanopy. I knew it existed and use my Library online services regularly for e-books but had forgotten about Kanopy. I went into their site and created an account using my Library credentials. It was fast and easy. There is a huge amount of content. It's free and commercial free. Like I said, Brilliant, thanks Bob.