Here are the significant books, films and characters joining the list of works in the public domain on Jan. 1, 2026.

Based on a whodunit board game, the 1985 film is a perfect example of what pop culture can tell us about history.

One of the most controversial WW2 movies of the 21st century, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge, is heading to a new streaming home ...

Whether the driver is a British spy, a cop, an outlaw, or a time-traveling teenager, their cars live forever in our ...

With the race for the Oscars starting to narrow, and a small cadre of frontrunners monopolizing all the hot takes and column ...

If you're after some of the best animated movies of all time, classics like Spirited Away, Fantasia, and Toy Story 2 are all ...

This year, period pieces weren't cop-outs. Rather, they all flowed back to the present in films like One Battle After Another ...

Bardot made dozens of movies across her career with highlights including Christian-Jaque’s Babette Goes to War and Jean-Luc ...

Based on the life of Helmut Hubener, a seventeen years old who was executed under the Reich's rule, Matt Whittaker’s “Truth ...

The artifacts of 20th-century cinema are being preserved in museums, and in the care of private film collectors like Brian ...