Free 1950s movies, cartoons and shorts

118 titles on the air now, made between 1950 and 1959 - about 54 hours of viewing in all. 27 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 91 are shorts.

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Every title from the 1950s that is on the air at Starlite TV right now, across all of our channels, sorted by year. Films from this decade are on Starlite TV because they are U.S. government works, were published without a valid notice, or their copyrights were never renewed; each title page shows the evidence.

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Where to start

Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.

• D.O.A. (1950) 83 min · Case Files
  D.O.A. has one of the greatest opening hooks in movie history. A man walks through the long corridors of a police headquarters, steps into the homicide division and announces that he wants to report a murder.
• Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959) 62 min · Rocket Age
• Duck and Cover (1951) 9 min · Doc Vault
• Father's Little Dividend (1951) 81 min · Family Room
• Indestructible Man (1956) 71 min · Rocket Age
• The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) 77 min · Silver Screen
• Teenagers from Outer Space (1959) 85 min · Rocket Age