YouTube is now offering visitors the ability to rent movies from their website directly. They are trying to compete with Netflix and Hulu and I can't say I blame them. There is a huge demand for streaming movies. The benefit of YouTube Movies is that they are also offering several free movies as well.
To access the free movies, visit YouTube Movies and then at the top of the screen you will see an "All Categories" drop down menu. If you click on that you will see "Free Movies" to the left. Click on that and then you will see all the free movies organized by categories (DISCLAIMER: It is important to note that several of the free movie selections are completely inappropriate for school, but I did not want to ignore sharing these resources because of that.) Since the movies are free, there is an advertisement before the movie shows. However, you can still use sites like Safeshare.tv and ViewPure and it will start the movies without the ads (Hopefully YouTube doesn't create a fix for this!)
I tried to use one of the sites that lets you download YouTube Videos...but there was no success.
There are several great movies for education that are free, especially in the Documentary and Biography section. Otherwise, here are a few examples of movies that are available:
Supersize Me
Down From The Mount
The Patriot
Home
The Battle of Britain
Fuel
To Kill a Mockingbird
21 (For you Math Teachers)
First Orbit
Thanks to Edudemic for sharing this with me.
