Google adds 400 full-length videos to YouTube catalog

By on Aug 27, 2010 at 8:14 AM
General August 27, 2010

Google has launched a new “Movies” category on its streaming-video site YouTube. The videos, which range from bizarre to obscure, are full-length films (we’re not sure some of them were ever in theaters) and are completely free. YouTube’s head of video partnerships, Donagh O’Malley, was quoted by The Guardian as saying: “This is one of many efforts to ensure that people can find all the different kinds of video they want to see, from bedroom vlogs and citizen journalism reports to full-length films and TV shows.” You can browse the catalog by heading over to youtube.com/movies; there seems to be an abundance of Jackie Chan and Three Stooges flicks. O’Malley continued, “We hope film lovers enjoy the range of titles in this free library, whether catching up on a mainstream hit or delving into the vast archive of classic films from decades past.”

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  • Mark Thomas

    Man, there is some shite in that collection! :)

  • Bernie

    Cool! I will have to check it out.

  • Tony

    Their regular videos barely play. How do they plan on showing a whole movie?

    • skyy_flyer

      You get a better internet connection?

      • Tony

        I have an excellent internet connection. YouTube just sucks ass.

      • skyy_flyer

        I never have any problems, watched the Puppet Master series with no problems and my internet connection isn’t even that great due to Comcast being, well Comcast.

      • Tony

        I also have Comcast, and yes, they do suck as well. I don’t ever have any problems with Hulu, NetFlix, Vimeo, etc.- just YouTube.

    • Mike

      Uh, it’s common knowledge that Youtube has horrendous bandwidth. I don’t understand it.

  • Mohammad

    ok. what now?

    • Abe Froman

      I put my sausage in your mouth.

      • John

        shut you mouth ass hole

      • ruben

        excuse me!!!is this a gay site????

  • TONY

    Netflix ftw!

  • Usman

    A lot of the same movies as are available on Hulu. Way too many Bollywood movies too… though Mira Nair’s Kama Sutra is a good one. Lots of chocolate skin in that one. ;)

    • AndroidFella

      But the key difference there is that people outside of the USA can access them!

      Hulu sucks balls if you’re not an American.

      • Akash M

        Or you know, get Hotspot Shield and watch it with no problems. Atleast thats what I’ve been doing for the past 7 months…. works well. :D

  • MadSkillz

    Kama Sutra all day baby! LOL

    • Darnell

      Isn’t YouTube the site that was supposed to be anti-porn?

      Now it seems the porn is OK if THEY post it via one of their special movie deals.

      It’s sort of like a state that claims to outlaw gambling, but has a state run lottery.

      So much for the great moral titan named Google/YouTube. Oh, but we knew that once they stayed in China!

      • Topher86

        Technically, the state run lottery is more like a fund raising raffle. Most of the money goes to state run programs, especially scholarships and day cares, pre-K learning, stuff like that. I doubt most of my friends back in high school would have went to a state school if they didn’t receive a lottery funded scholarship.

      • Darnell

        A raffle with a multi-million dollar prize, it’s all gambling, even the raffle. Raffles are just typically something more voters are involved in and don’t want banned, that’s the bottom line. Government money goes to abuse and waste.

        Being one who went to school without any state lottery scholarship, I know the cries that there needs to be a lottery for ‘education’ are bogus.

        People who run casinos can claim they EMPLOY PEOPLE. But the governments of many states won’t allow them to create jobs, by banning their gambling sites.

        It’s all hypocrisy at it’s finest.

        YouTube now has their own porn that they gain ad revenue from. But no-no to anybody else posting it.

        It’s just funny seeing the hypocrisy and all the excuses made up for it. I won’t waste time on this further.

      • Usman

        Have you seen the movie? It’s not porn at all.

  • dwayne

    The movies play really well on my EVO! Free movies!

  • Topher86

    hold on hold on…didn’t they already have a movies cat on YouTube? Or is this like a refresh of the catagory?? I’m confused….

  • Cheap Tric

    Politicians were sitting around thinking about making a voluntary tax and were thinking of how to creating one. They came up with the lottery! The State Lottery raise funds and only gives back a portion of the total funds raised. It survives under the persumption of false hopes, a dollar to win millions, and best yet the easy most thoughtless way. To become rich! The American Dream! What would you do with a million? Those commercials are golden!!

    • trooth

      The lottery is the only way to effectively tax the dumb and poor.

  • Kendall Spann

    i saw that fan-made lord of the rings movie on youtube and it was really cool

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