Warner Bros. has been quietly tossing its old movies up on YouTube

Per Variety, the studio started the new program, sans fanfare, back at the start of 2025, having apparently cut a deal with YouTube to put ad-supported versions of what is now a library of 33 movies up directly on its YouTube channels. (The company had previously licensed some of its films to the YouTube storefront, but now it’s just simply sticking them up on its channel.) The movies are an extremely eclectic list pulled from various Warner Bros. brands, eras, and verticals—this may be the only film playlist you’ll ever see that somehow encompasses both Mutiny On The Bounty and Critters IV—but they’re all there, ready to be watched with the usual complement of ads. (It’s worth noting, too, that none of these movies are available for streaming on the company’s own Max; this is a whole separate thing, apparently of a piece with the studio’s recent willingness to license shows and movies to other ad-supported freebie services like Tubi and Roku.)

As noted by Variety, the most popular upload, by far, has been Jackie Chan’s 1997 film Mr. Nice Guy; some (i.e., 1.6 million) people will apparently watch Chan be a charming goofball badass when they could be streaming Don Knotts classic The Incredible Mr. Limpet, or the 2000 Dungeons And Dragons movie, or Brian De Palma’s famously disastrous Bonfire Of The Vanities adaptation. There’s simply no accounting for taste, we guess.