PUBLIC DOMAIN STATUS: According to Festival Films: DEFINITELY PUBLIC DOMAIN
The lists that follow contain mostly American films made before 1964. These films are undisputedly in the public domain in the USA. In most cases no underlying music or literary rights have been claimed.

ACTION/ADVENTURE:

• ABDULLA THE GREAT (1954) 79 Color. Gregory Ratoff Arabian Nights story.
• ADVENTURE ISLAND (1947) 66 Color. Rory Calhous, Rhonda Fleming.
• BENEATH THE 12 MILE REEF (1953) 101 Color. Robert Wagner sponge dives.
• BIG CAT (1949) 77 Color. Preston Foster hunts vicious cougar.
• BIG TREES (1952) 89 Color. Kirk Douglas logging film.
• CAPTAIN KIDD (1945) 89 Randolph Scott, Charles Laughton.
• CAPTAIN SCARLETT (1953) 78 Color. Richard Greene.
• DANIEL BOONE (1956) 76 Color. Bruce Bennett frontier action.
• DRUMS IN DEEP SOUTH (1951) 86 Color. Guy Madison Civil War story.
• GUNG HO! (1943) 87 Randolph Scott World War 2 battle film.
• HERCULES UNCHAINED (1960) 97 Color. Steve Reeves.
• LONG JOHN SILVER (1954) 109 Color. Sequel to "Treasure Island."
• MOHAWK (1956) 79 Color. Scott Brady. Iroquois uprising.
• MUTINY (1952) 77 Color. Angela Lansbury. War of 1812.
• MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932) 70 Mad hunter stalks Fay Wray.
• OUTPOST IN MOROCCO (1949) 91 George Raft in French Foreign Legion.
• SALOME, WHERE SHE DANCED (1945) 90 Color Yvonne De Carlo.
• SON OF MONTE CRISTO (1940) 103 Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett
• SUNDOWN (1941) 90 Gene Tierney, George Sanders.
• SWAMP DIAMONDS (1955) 73 Color. Marie Windsor & escaped convicts.
• WHITE ORCHID (1955) 77 Color. Peggy Castle jungle adventure.
• TARZAN'S REVENGE (1938) 70 Glenn Morris as the ape man.
• TARZAN THE FEARLESS (1933) 85 Buster Crabbe.

WESTERNS:

• ABILENE TOWN (1946) 89 Randolph Scott
• AMERICAN EMPIRE (1942) 82 Richard Dix
• ANGEL AND THE BADMAN (1947) 99 John Wayne.
• FIGHTING CARAVANS (1931) 80 Gary Cooper leads wagon train.
• THE KANSAN (1943) 79 Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt.
• KANSAS PACIFIC (1953) 73 Color. Sterling Hayden builds railroad.
• THE OUTLAW (1943) 115 Jane Russell. Howard Hughes film.
• PAINTED DESERT (1931) 75 William Boyd, Clark Gable.
• RAGE AT DAWN (1955) 87 Color. Randolph Scott infiltrates outlaw gang.
• SANTA FE TRAIL (1940) 110 Errol Flynn
• SITTING BULL (1954) Color, 105 min. Dale Robertson.
• TERROR OF TINY TOWN (1938) 63 All-midget B-Western.
• VENGEANCE VALLEY (1951) 83 Color. Burt Lancaster.

COMEDY:

• AFRICA SCREAMS (1949) 80 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello
• COLONEL EFFINGHAM'S RAID (1945) 70 Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett
• COUNTRY GENTLEMEN (1936) 65 Ole Olson & Chic Johnson.
• ETERNALLY YOURS (1939) 91 Loretta Young, David Niven
• FLYING DEUCES (1939) 65 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
• GHOSTS ON THE LOOSE (1943) 65 East Side Kids vs. Bela Lugosi
• THE GORILLA (1939) 66 Ritz Brothers, Bela Lugosi
• GULLIVERS TRAVELS (1939) 77 Animated color feature
• HALF SHOT AT SUNRISE (1930) 78 Wheeler & Woolsey.
• INSPECTOR GENERAL (1949) 102 Danny Kaye. Color.
• JUDGE PRIEST (1934) 81 Will Rogers
• LIFE WITH FATHER (1947) 118 William Powell, Irene Dunne
• LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (1960) Roger Corman horror spoof.
• LOVE LAUGHS AT ANDY HARDY (1946) 93 Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone
• MILKY WAY (1936) 89 Harold Lloyd
• MY FAVORITE BRUNETTE (1947) 87 Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour
• NOTHING SACRED (1937) 67 Color. Carole Lombard, Fredric March.
• PARLOR, BEDROOM, BATH (1931) 75 Buster Keaton.
• RAGE OF PARIS (1938) 75 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
• REACHING FOR THE MOON (1931) 67 Douglas Fairbanks, Bebe Daniels
• ROAD TO BALI (1952) Color, 90 min. Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour.
• SIN OF HAROLD DIDDLEBOCK (1947) 90 Harold Lloyd
• THAT UNCERTAIN FEELING (1941) 84 Ernst Lubitsch film with Merle Oberon.

SCREWBALL COMEDY:

• Bedside Manner (1945) Starring: Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Charles Ruggles Director: Andrew L. Stone B&W. 72 min.
• Delightfully Dangerous (1945) Starring: Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore Director: Arthur Lubin B&W. 92 min.
• Front Page, The (1931) Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian Director: Lewis Milestone B&W. 101 min.
• Greeks Had a Word for Them, The (1932) Starring: Joan Blondell, Ina Claire, Madge Evans Director: Lowell Sherman B&W. 79 min.
• Heartbeat(1946) Starring: Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou Director: Sam Wood B&W. 102 min.
• Her First Romance (1940) Starring: Alan Ladd, Edith Fellows, Wilbur Evans Director: Edward Dmytryk B&W. 77 min.
• Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri Director: Andrew L. Stone B&W. 63 min.
• His Girl Friday (1940) Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy Director: Howard Hawks B&W. 92 min.
• In the Money(1934) Starring: Skeets Gallagher, Louise Beavers, Junior Coghlan Director: Frank Strayer B&W. 66 min.
• Make a Million(1935) Starring: Charles Starrett, Guy Asher, Jimmy Aubrey Director: Lewis D. Collins B&W. 66 min.
• My Dear Secretary (1948) Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laraine Day, Keenan Wynn Director: Charles Martin B&W. 95 min.
• My Man Godfrey(1936) Starring: Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick Director: Gregory La Cava B&W. 95 min.
• One Rainy Afternoon (1936) Starring: Frances Lederer, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young Director: Rowland V. Lee B&W. 79 min.
• Philadelphia Story, The(1958 ) Starring: Dorothy McGuire, John Payne, Mary Astor B&W. 55 min.
• TV Movie Road Show(1941) Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard Director: Hal Roach B&W. 87 min.
• Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven(1948) Starring: Florence Bates, Clem Bevans, James Burke Director: William Castle B&W. 76 min.
• Ticket to Paradise (1936) Starring: Roger Pryor, Wendy Barrie, Claude Gillingwater Director:Aubrey Scotto B&W. 62 min.

ROMANTIC COMEDY:

• Admiral Was a Lady, The (1950) Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Steve Brodie, Hillary Brooke Director: Albert Rogell B&W. 87 min.
• Angel on My Shoulder(1946) Starring: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains Director: Archie Mayo B&W. 101 min.
• Beyond Tomorrow(1940) Starring: Charles Winninger, C. Aubrey Smith, Maria Ouspenskaya Director: A. Edward Sutherland B&W. 84 min.
• Black Eyes(1939) Starring: Otto Kruger, Mary Maguire, Walter Rilla Director: Herbert Brenon B&W. 72 min.
• Dance Hall(1941) Starring: Carole Landis, Cesar Romero, William Henry Director: Irving Pichel B&W. 73 min.
• Divorce of Lady X(1938) Starring: Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Ralph Richardson Director: Tim Whelan B&W. 92 min.
• Doughnuts and Society(1936) Starring: Louise Fazenda, Ann Rutherford, Hedda Hopper Director: Lewis D. Collins B&W. 63 min.
• Fit for a King(1937) Starring: Joe E. Brown, Helen Mack, Paul Kelly Director: Edward Sedgwick B&W. 56 min.
• Greeks Had a Word for Them, The(1932) Starring: Joan Blondell, Ina Claire, Madge Evans Director: Lowell Sherman B&W. 79 min.
• Heartbeat(1946) Starring: Ginger Rogers, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Adolphe Menjou Director: Sam Wood B&W. 102 min.
• Her Bridal Night(1956) Starring: Brigitte Bardot, Louis Jourdan, Micheline Presle Director: Pierre Gaspard-Huit B&W. 95 min.
• Her First Romance(1940) Starring: Alan Ladd, Edith Fellows, Wilbur Evans Director: Edward Dmytryk B&W. 77 min.
• Hi Diddle Diddle(1943) Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri Director: Andrew L. Stone B&W. 63 min.
• His Private Secretary(1933) Starring: John Wayne, Evalyn Knapp, Alec B. Francis Director: Phil Whitman B&W. 60 min.
• In the Money(1934) Starring: Skeets Gallagher, Louise Beavers, Junior Coghlan Director: Frank Strayer B&W. 66 min.
• Indiscreet (1931) Starring: Gloria Swanson, Ben Lyon, Arthur Lake Director: Leo McCarey B&W. 92 min.
• Lost Honeymoon(1947) Starring: Franchot Tone, Ann Richards, Tom Conway Director: Leigh Jason B&W. 71 min.
• Made for Each Other(1939) Starring: James Stewart, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson Director: John Cromwell B&W. 92 min.
• Make a Million(1935) Starring: Charles Starrett, Guy Asher, Jimmy Aubrey Director: Lewis D. Collins B&W. 66 min.
• Mr. Robinson Crusoe(1932) Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Sr., William Farnum, Earle Browne Director: A. Edward Sutherland B&W. 71 min.
• One Rainy Afternoon(1936) Starring: Frances Lederer, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young Director: Rowland V. Lee B&W. 79 min.
• Private Life of Don Juan(1934) Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., Merle Oberon, Benita Hume Director: Alexander Korda. B&W. 87 min.
• Reaching for the Moon(1931) Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Bebe Daniels, Edward Everett Horton Director: Edmund Goulding. Black and White 67 min.
• Rich and Strange (1932) Starring: Henry Kendall, Joan Barry, Percy Marmont Director: Alfred Hitchcock. B&W. 92 min.
• Road Show(1941) Starring: Adolphe Menjou, Carole Landis, John Hubbard Director: Hal Roach. B&W. 87 min.
• Royal Wedding (1951) Starring: Fred Astaire, Sarah Churchill, Keenan Wynn Director: Stanley Donen. Color. 93 min.
• Sin Takes a Holiday (1930) Starring: Constance Bennett, Kenneth MacKenna, Basil Rathbone Director: Paul L. Stein. B&W. 81 min.
• Wedding Rehearsal(1932) Starring: Merle Oberon, Roland Young, George Grossmith Director: Alexander Korda. B&W. 84 min.