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.

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

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 ...

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old ...

Twelve slashed zeros and a one, made of wood and latex paint, stand tall on the roof of the former church where the Internet Archive is headquartered in San Francisco.

Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz looks back at the work of actor and director Rob Reiner, whose films became part of ...

Here are The Associated Press’ Film Writers Lindsey Bahr and Jake Coyle’s picks for the best movies of 2025: ...

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Patton Oswalt, Martin Scorsese, Seth Rogen and more examine 1975 as a key cultural and historical turning point.

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...