August 30, 2010 by Trent Morgan
Digital video giants YouTube have announced that they will be launching a new service for their customers, which enables people to watch free movies through the site. According to the firm, they will be making over four hundred films available for their customers to watch online over YouTube, without being charged.
YouTube will be providing the service which “brings together a library of film ranging from past mainstream hits to cult classics and beyond, and YouTube hopes the Movies section will grow in time”, they have announced. The films which will be made available to customers include The Addiction, which was nominated for Best Film at the Berlin International Film Festival, Dark Side Of The Sun, starring Brad Pitt and Death Train, starring Pierce Brosnan.
In addition, titles will also include cult classics such as Cathy Come Home, the film that led to the founding of homelessness charity Shelter, Bollywood hits. YouTube also says it will offer cult classics, such as The Clan Of The Cave Bear (Daryl Hannah as a Neanderthal) and hidden gems like Loved (Sean Penn), a drama about physics in Oxford.
The company has gone in to partnership with www.blinkbox.com, a UK online film and TV aggregator. The site will be providing approximately 165 films as part of their new portfolio. The head of Video Partnerships for YouTube commented: 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. This is a first step.”
YouTube also provides a ‘catch up’ service which enables people to view full-length television programmes such as Peep Show, The Inbetweeners, and Fifth Gear from channel five and others.
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