Free classic action and adventure movies
30 titles on the air now, made between 1917 and 1951 - about 47 hours of viewing in all. 29 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 1 are shorts. 20 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.
The complete action and adventure lineup on Starlite TV: swashbucklers, aviation and war pictures, and adventure films. Each title is in the U.S. public domain, with the evidence on its page.
They play 24/7 on Adrenaline, with the big features in prime time.
Where to start
Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) 143 min · Adrenaline
Long before Charlton Heston drove a chariot in the 1959 version, there was this: the original big-screen Ben-Hur, and the most expensive film of the silent era. - Hell's Angels (1930) 132 min · Adrenaline
Hell's Angels is the epic that the young millionaire Howard Hughes — before he was famous as an aviator, industrialist and recluse — poured his money and obsession into for three years. - The Mark of Zorro (1920) 74 min · Adrenaline
In 1919 the pulp writer Johnston McCulley introduced a new hero in a serial called The Curse of Capistrano: Zorro, a masked swordsman defending the poor of Spanish California against corrupt officials. - Wings (1927) 140 min · Adrenaline
Wings was one of Paramount's most ambitious productions of the 1920s, with a budget reported at around $2 million. Director William A. Wellman was chosen because he was the only Hollywood director who had flown combat missions in the war (he had served as a fighter pilot with the Lafayette Flying Corps). - Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) 131 min · Adrenaline
- The Sheik (1921) 86 min · Adrenaline
