Classic cinema
Classic Cinema
Rediscover films that helped shape independent and alternative cinema.
Landmark, cult, and public domain films, back on the screen and shown with their history and sources.
Independent Classics
Made outside the studio system
Classics produced outside the major Hollywood studio system, even when a larger company later distributed them.
Independent classic
Night of the Living Dead 1968
Produced by Image Ten
Barbra and her brother Johnny are visiting their father’s grave in rural Pennsylvania when a stranger attacks them. Barbra escapes to an isolated farmhouse, where Ben and a handful of strangers barricade themselves in as the dead rise and close in. Shot around Pittsburgh by a small independent crew, George A. Romero’s first feature is widely credited with creating the modern zombie film.
- Halloween dusk-to-dawn marathonSat, Oct 31 · 12 hours nonstop from 6pm ET, with Pine Devil, The Little Shop of Horrors, Other Lily, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, Beware of Bunny, 096, and Sprite Fright
- October feature: opens Prime TimeThu, Oct 1 – Sat, Oct 31, every day at 8pm ET, followed by The Hitch-Hiker, The Little Shop of Horrors, and The Brain That Wouldn’t Die in rotation
- Classic horror3
- Classic sci-fi1
- Mystery & noir1
- Classic comedy1
How IFN shows classics
Checked, credited, and labeled accurately.
A film is not in the public domain just because a website says so. Before a classic plays on IFN, its U.S. public domain status is checked, or it is licensed, and its page names the source of IFN’s copy.
Not every old film is an independent film. IFN calls a classic independent when it was produced outside the major Hollywood studio system, even if a larger company later distributed it. Each film is labeled for what it is.