32 titles on the air now, made between 1915 and 2023 - about 25 hours of viewing in all. 17 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 15 are shorts. 12 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.
Every title on Family Room, Starlite TV's channel for all ages: fairy tales, adventure stories and gentle comedies from the silent era onward. All are in the U.S. public domain.
Family Room runs 24/7 with family prime time from 6-9pm Pacific. Like Saturday Morning, it does not show network ads.
Where to start
Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.
Big Buck Bunny (2008)11 min · Saturday Morning, Family Room Big Buck Bunny is a short comedy made by the Blender Institute in Amsterdam, part of the Blender Foundation, the non-profit organisation behind Blender, the free and open-source 3D animation software.
★ = prime-time headliner. Click a title for its next showtimes in your time zone and the full rights evidence. Why these are free to show: Published before 1931: 17; Creative Commons license: 12; Public domain (documented): 3. How we check: Content & Rights.
Starlite TV is free and needs no account. It works like broadcast television: each channel runs its own 24/7 schedule, so you join whatever is playing when you tune in. Every title above has a page with its upcoming airtimes, converted to your local time. It plays in any modern browser on phones, tablets, computers and smart TVs.
Free classic family movies you can watch legally on Starlite TV: Peter Pan (1924), The Wizard of Oz (1925), Mary Pickford favorites, Shirley Temple's The Little Princess and more.
Free classic cartoons for kids: Felix the Cat, early Mickey Mouse and Disney's Alice Comedies, Fleischer's Out of the Inkwell, Popeye and Superman - streaming 24/7 on Starlite TV.
