Since the start of 2025, Warner Bros. Entertainment has released 31 movies on YouTube, all available for free.

Most of these offerings aren’t available on the Warner Bros. streaming platform, Max. There’s no explanation as to why the entertainment giant has made these movies free to watch on YouTube, or why this perplexing set of films was selected, but it’s one less barrier to accessing some (admittedly obscure) content without a subscription or paywall.

Warner Bros. Discovery recently started uploading more than 30 full movies to YouTube for free, offering a wide mix of cult classics, obscure titles and infamous flops. Among the films the entertainment giant has added to the Bay Area streaming service since the beginning of the year are beloved gems like Christopher Guest’s 1996 mockumentary “Waiting for Guffman” and Jackie Chan’s 1997 martial arts romp “Mr.

Warner Bros. Entertainment has been uploading a number of movies from its catalogue to YouTube. While most of these aren't necessarily classics, there are plenty of interesting titles to check out.

The list of movies spans various genres and decades, ranging from classics to cult favourites, ensuring a broad appeal including iconic titles like “Mutiny on the Bounty” featuring Marlon Brando, the Eddie Murphy sci-fi comedy “The Adventures of Pluto Nash”,

Warner Bros. is jamming YouTube with free full-length flicks. Since January 1, the company has uploaded 33 features that are free to view, according to a report from Variety. The move is to bring in digital ad revenue according to the publication.

So it seems like dropping older and lower-demand movies on YouTube is effectively free money for parent company Warner Bros. Discovery, which has been in a phase of cost-cutting, layoffs, and corporate refocusing since 2022,