At The Streamable, we love saving our readers money. In some cases, we can even save all your money. As streaming services jockey for attention, most of them offer free trials to lure new audiences. We’ve catalogued as many streaming services as we can find, and this list should keep you entertained for years if you play your cards right.
If you want to unlock the majority of these services, make sure you have a subscription to Prime Video, since many streaming services only offer their free trials through the Amazon service.
Live TV Streamers with Free Trials
If you want to replicate the cable TV experience without the high fees and with greater flexibility, a live TV streaming service is the way to go. These services offer live sports, news, and entertainment. Want to make sure you’ll be able to see your favorite live channels? Just consult our Service Matchmaker.
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DIRECTV STREAM
If you love TV, no streaming service offers more channels than DIRECTV STREAM. This flexible service offers four different levels of subscription, and you can access all 35 of the top cable channels. If money is no object, you can access 220 channels. DIRECTV STREAM has an unlimited DVR that keeps your recordings for 90 days.
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Fubo
An A+ option for sports lovers, Fubo offers 25 of the top 35 cable channels and Bally Sports Networks. You’ll get a 1,000-hour DVR.
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Philo
Smart savers will appreciate the bargain that is Philo. You’ll get 18 of the top 35 cable channels. The price is so much lower because you won’t have any sports channels, but you can watch “Yellowstone” on the Paramount Network. Philo has an unlimited DVR, although you can only keep shows for 30 days.
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Bally Sports+
Bally Sports+ is a direct-to-consumer streaming service that offers live games for those who want access to your local Bally Sports RSN without subscribing to a cable or satellite package.
With the service, you can stream local games from 16 NBA teams, 12 NHL teams, and 5 MLB teams.
Major SVODs with Free Trials
These services are the crown jewels of streaming. A subscription video on demand (SVOD) service provides access to the most popular entertainment available. You’ll see cutting-edge drama, hilarious comedy, thought-provoking documentaries, and buzz-worthy reality shows. Each of these industry leaders offers something special.
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Amazon Prime Video
With the biggest movie library in streaming, Prime Video has a generous 30-day free trial and the option to add bonus subscriptions - this nifty feature will be important for most of the free-trial streamers we profile here, so plan your subscription carefully.
Prime Video subscribers get original series like “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,” “The Boys,” “Fleabag,” “Jack Reacher,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Invincible,” and “The Underground Railroad.” Standout original movies include “One Night in Miami,” “Sound of Metal,” “The Big Sick,” “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” and “The Tomorrow War.”
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Hulu
Another great streamer with a 30-day trial, Hulu offers TV shows like “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “Only Murders in the Building,” “Nine Perfect Strangers,” “Dopesick,” “The Dropout,” and “Pam & Tommy.” Hulu is also the home to the great shows from FX like “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Atlanta,” “Fargo,” “The Bear,” “Welcome to Wrexham,” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.”
You will get a solid rotating library of Hollywood films that come and go from the platform. The TV library has a lot of classic shows like “Twin Peaks,” “Cheers,” “The Golden Girls,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “The X-Files,” “Frasier,” and “Home Improvement.”
Importantly, if you have Hulu, you can also add free trials of HBO Max, Showtime, Cinemax, and STARZ.
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Max
No one does TV like HBO, and this streamer gives you access to some of the best shows of the last 25 years: “The Last of Us,” The Sopranos,” “True Detective,” “Euphoria,” “Succession,” “The Wire,” “Deadwood,” “Game of Thrones,” “Sex and the City,” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” You’ll also get hit shows from other networks like “Friends,” “South Park,” and “The Big Bang Theory.”
You’ll also get 100 years of Warner Bros. films, including blockbusters like “The Matrix,” “Terminator 2,” and Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman films.
Important: To access this free trial you’ll need to first sign up through Prime Video or Hulu. You cannot get the trial directly through HBO Max.
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Paramount Plus
One of the hottest streaming services is Paramount+. With high profile titles like “Top Gun: Maverick,” “1883,” “Tulsa King,” and “1923,” the streamer is on a hot streak.
Subscribers get access to the best shows from BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Smithsonian Channel. This means kids will be endlessly entertained by “PAW Patrol” and “Spongebob Squarepants.” It’s also home to the Star Trek movies and TV shows.
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discovery+
Discovery+ is your hub for unscripted TV galore. You’ll find much-loved shows from A&E, Animal Planet, Discovery, Food Network, HGTV, History, Lifetime, Magnolia Network, OWN, TLC, and Travel Channel.
Popular shows on the platform include “Hell’s Kitchen,” “Chopped,” Sister Wives,” “Planet Earth,” “Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy,” “Married at First Sight,” “90 Day Fiancé,” and “1000-lb Sisters.”
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Apple TV+
Apple TV+ brings you high-quality original shows and movies including Best Picture winner “CODA,” popular sitcom “Ted Lasso,” and dramas like “The Morning Show” and “Severance.” Apple TV+ is also home to MLB baseball games on Friday nights and MLS Season Pass.
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Paramount+ with SHOWTIME
Get a library of Hollywood standout films with Showtime. Fans of the service also love their adult dramas like “Yellowjackets,” “Billions,” “American Gigolo,” “Dexter,” “George & Tammy,” “Your Honor,” “Homeland,” “Ray Donovan,” and “Shameless.”
Thanks to its partnership with A24, you’ll see a lot of those great independent-minded films like “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “X,” “The Green Knight,” and “Midsommar.”
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STARZ
STARZ brings adult dramas and comedies like “Gaslit” with Julia Roberts, “Outlander,” “BMF,” “Party Down,” “The Serpent Queen,” and the “Power” series. You’ll also find the Spider-Man films “Homecoming,” “Far From Home,” and “No Way Home.”
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AMC+
AMC+ is a premium streaming bundle that includes the best from AMC, BBC America, IFC, SundanceTV, Shudder, Sundance Now, and IFC Films Unlimited containing original, award-winning series, popular movies, festival favorites, plus horror, sci-fi, true crime, and thrillers. You’ll see hits like “Mad Men,” “Mayfair Witches,” “Hell on Wheels,” and “Interview with the Vampire.”
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MGM+
Previously called “Epix,” this service offers up Hollywood movies and shows like “A Spy Among Friends,” “Godfather of Harlem,” “Chapelwaite,” “Domina,” “Bridge and Tunnel,” “Hotel Cocaine,” and “Belgravia: The Next Chapter.”
Sports Streamers with Free Trials
If you can’t get enough of your favorite sport, these streamers take you further inside the action. Watch live games, get exclusive access to unique content, and discover more about your favorite athletes with these great services.
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NFL+
NFL+ allows fans to watch live local and primetime games on mobile and tablet devices. And with an NFL+ Premium subscription, you can watch replays of every single game without ads, condensed game replays, and coaches film. The service also allows fans to choose their audio stream (home, away, and national calls). The Premium plan also includes NFL RedZone on TV.
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NBA League Pass
For basketball fans, NBA League Pass offers the opportunity to follow one team or the entire league with every game (blackout restrictions apply). Prices and features vary greatly, depending on what you’d like to watch.
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MLB.TV
MLB.TV is the official streaming service of Major League Baseball. You can see every out-of-market game live or on demand, and choose home or away TV and radio feeds. The app allows fans to watch up to four games simultaneously on the same screen through their Multi-view feature.
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FITE+
FITE+ has become TrillerTV. It is a live streaming service site and app for MMA, professional wrestling, boxing, Muay Thai, traditional martial arts, among other combat sports. It streams 1,000+ live events from 200+ promotions. It also has subscription packages, and thousands of hours of live, VOD, and free programs.
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FUEL TV+
FUEL TV+ is a video streaming service with more than 2,000 hours of series, movies, events and specials all from the world of Action Sports. With FUEL TV+ you have access to their entire library of genre-defining programs all on-demand and commercial-free.
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Echoboom Sports
Echoboom Sports is a video streaming service dedicated to extreme sports. Viewers will see films about skateboard, snowboard, ski, surf, bike, snowmobile, off-road, and more.
General Entertainment Streamers with Free Trials
If you’d like to dig a little deeper for movies and TV, these services go the extra mile.
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Hallmark Movies Now
Hallmark Movies Now is a cable-free subscription service that offers thousands of hours of Hallmark’s signature feel-good programming in the form of movies and ongoing series. Nearly all media found on the service is exclusive to the Hallmark brand, created either specifically for Hallmark Movies Now, or pulled from another source of Hallmark such as Hallmark Channel, Hallmark Movies and & Mysteries, or Hallmark Drama. The service is straightforward, offering complete ad-free access to all content with the choice of either a monthly or a yearly subscription.
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Lifetime Movie Club
Lifetime Movie Club is an extension of the Lifetime channel—an ad-free streaming service that gives you new and classic Lifetime movies, and exclusive premieres. So if you didn’t catch titles when they aired on Lifetime or LMN, such as “Nightmare PTA Moms,” “Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secrets,” “Harry & Meghan: Becoming Royal,” or “The Pregnancy Pact”—they can be found here.
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Filmbox
FilmBox is a video streaming service offering Hollywood movies, favorite evergreens, world cinema gems, and popular TV series. The service is also notable for its library of Turkish TV shows.
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FlixFling
FlixFling is a video streaming service with 5,000+ little-seen titles and the option to rent or buy premium films for 48 hours. Rental prices range from 99 cents to $7.99.
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MovieSphere
MovieSphere is a video streaming service for hits, cult classics, and everything in between. Some of the titles can be viewed for free with ads on Freevee.
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Nebula
Nebula is a paid video streaming app created by YouTube creators within the Standard creator community. It is designed to let YouTube video creators test-drive new content before posting it on established YouTube channels. The app’s content comes in a variety of categories, including Music, History, Gaming, and Film and TV. Videos, podcasts, and classes are available.
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ScreenPix
ScreenPix is a video streaming service offering popular films in every genre from the 60s to the 90s.
Kid-Focused Streamers with Free Trials
If you have children, you know the struggle of trying to keep them entertained while helping them learn. These great streamers will fit the bill, offering a safe place to watch. Fire up a free trial, and enjoy some peace and quiet while your kids discover something new.
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Noggin
Noggin, owned by Nick Jr., is a VOD app for preschool kids ages 2+. You’ll get access to an expansive library of educational games, eBooks, activities, and exclusive shorts. There are also 1,000+ ad-free full episodes of kid-friendly shows like “PAW Patrol,” “Peppa Pig,” “Bubble Guppies,” and more. Paramount+ does have most of the shows available on Noggin if you’d like a service that also caters to adults.
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Hooplakidz Plus
HooplaKidz Plus was a video streaming app for kids that makes learning easy with 650+ curated videos. Content ranges from Nursery Rhymes to 230+ preschool songs and learning videos. The app appears to be dead as of 2024, replaced by All Babies Channel Plus.
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Hopster Learning
Hopster Learning is an ad-free video streaming and interactive app that is kidSAFE+ Coppa certified with access to 2,000+ family-friendly preschool TV shows, formal early childhood curriculums from around the world, educational games, preschool books, music, and more.
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Hellosaurus
Hellosaurus is a unique video streaming app for kids — it has interactive features, so kids can play music or make art or appear in the videos alongside the stars. Hellosaurus features creators like The Wiggles, Kidz Bop, Mother Goose Club, Kids Diana, Cosmic Kids Yoga, Bounce Patrol, and Super Simple.
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Kidstream
Kidstream offers hours of educational, award-winning TV shows for preschoolers and kids of all ages and interests such as science, arts and crafts, dance, music, sports, adventure, action, imagination, problem solving, and social & emotional learning. The on-demand channel features shows like “LazyTown,” “Madeline,” “Space Kids,” “Guess How Much I Love You?,” “Science Max,” “Ella the Elephant,” and more.
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Da Vinci
Da Vinci is a streaming service for children 7+. It includes 13,000+ hours of award-winning TV shows and documentaries that encourage creativity, social-emotional learning, and curiosity. The app includes 200+ games developed by academics in childhood education and cognitive development.
In some app stores, this is called Da Vinci Kids.
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Kartoon Channel
Kartoon Channel is a video streaming service catering to children. All programs are carefully curated to be entertaining and enriching, but also to ensure there is no violence, no negative stereotypes, no inappropriate language, and no excessive commercialization.
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Boomerang
Boomerang is a video on-demand service offering cartoons like “Bugs Bunny,” “Tom & Jerry,” “The Looney Tunes,” “Scooby-Doo,” and more. There are over 5,000 episodes from the libraries of Warner Brothers, Hanna-Barbera, as well as MGM’s animated library and new original content.
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Ryan and Friends Plus
Ryan and Friends Plus is a video streaming service with the star of “Ryan’s World” and the hit Nickelodeon show “Ryan’s Mystery Playdate.” The service offers fun, educational shows, cartoons, and exclusive content! Featuring science experiments, DIY crafts, pretend play, challenges, and tons of other kid-favorite activities that are fun for the whole family.
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Pokémon
Fans of the Pokémon series will enjoy the franchise’s video streaming service. The Amazon Prime Video channel provides Pokémon movies and shows as far back as 1999.
Horror/Cult Streamers with Free Trials
If you enjoy screaming while streaming, these spooky services are perfect for you. From garden-variety slashers to supernatural scares, these streamers explore the dark side of entertainment. For fans of cult classics, these services can also be essential. Sometimes low-budget thrills are even more fun.
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Shudder
Shudder is a streaming video service specializing in horror, thriller and supernatural fiction titles. The service has a vast library of both classic and contemporary films as well as new, original programming such as Wolf Creek, and Slaxx. Shudder also benefits from content courtesy of AMC including Eli Roth's History of Horror and fan-favorite zombie survival series The Walking Dead. The platform is available to users in the U.S., Canada, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland.
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ARROW
An adjunct to the older Arrow Films DVD label, ARROW is known for its presentations of grungy, cult, and horror genres, along with straightforward arthouse and classic titles, and even international content. New titles are updated to the service monthly.
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Dark Matter TV
Dark Matter TV is a free ad-supported subscription video streaming service app that includes podcasts, documentaries, television series, and feature films targeting niche audiences and only has genres like horror, science fiction, true crime, and action.
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Fear Factory
Fear Factory is a video streaming service dedicated to horror films. Subscribers can enjoy thrills and chills by adding Fear Factory as a channel on Amazon Prime Video.
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CONtv
CONtv has thousands of hours of programming serving Comic Con fans. Viewers will find titles focused on horror, sci-fi, anime, martial arts, and cult classics, fantasy, gaming, grindhouse, superheroes, as well as exclusive originals.
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Monsters & Nightmares
A curated collection of genre movies and television brought to you by Magnolia Pictures and Magnet Releasing, Monsters & Nightmares has categories ranging from psychological thrillers to sci-fi, pure horror, dark comedy, myths & monsters, and more. New movies are added every month.
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Troma NOW
Troma NOW is a video streaming service dedicated to the popular cult movie studio. See classic B-movies like “The Toxic Avenger,” “Class Of Nuke ‘Em High,” “Tromeo & Juliet,” “Cannibal! The Musical,” “Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead,” and “Terror Firmer.”
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Warriors & Gangsters
Warriors & Gangsters is a curated streaming video service featuring genre Movies and TV, brought to you by Magnolia Pictures. Immerse yourself in the greatest collection of adrenaline-pumping, fist-pounding, bone-breaking experiences straight from the big screen and the world of MMA.
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XLTV
XLTV is a video streaming service with 100+ hours of feature film programming including curated channels — Macabre for horror & genre films, Turbo for action films & thrillers, Lifeframe for documentaries & biopics, and Pace for multicultural films.
Anime Streamers with Free Trials
If you love the variety and complexity of overseas animation, these streamers should be part of your library. From joyful kids shows to gripping and graphic dramas, these services offer something for everyone.
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Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is a subscription video streaming service catering to fans of anime with over 30,000 episodes. Viewers can see new episodes of shows one hour after they air in Japan, and read hundreds of chapters across dozens of manga titles. Some of their more popular titles are Dragon Ball Super, Attack on Titan, and Fire Force.
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HIDIVE
HIDIVE is an independent video streaming service for anime fans. The catalog contains 500+ niche content ranging from movies, OVAs, simulcasts, dubs, exclusives, live-action titles subbed shows, and simulcast versions broadcasted directly from Japan. There are tons of anime titles such as ‘Haikyu,’ ‘Kaiji,’ ‘Made in Abyss,’ and ‘The Promised Neverland.’
Documentary Streamers with Free Trials
Truth can be stranger than fiction. With these streamers, you’ll get documentaries that open your eyes, tickle your funny bone, and move you to action.
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PBS Documentaries
Get access to the past 50 years of documentaries with the Amazon Prime Video add-on channel, PBS Documentaries. The ad-free streaming service provides over 1,000 hours of programming, which is mainly PBS’s original documentary films and television shows and features.
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Docurama
Docurama is a video streaming service focused on documentaries. Users will see award-winning films direct from the Sundance or Toronto or SXSW film festivals.
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Dox
Dox is a video streaming service dedicated to documentaries. It includes many award-winning and popular films like “Man on Wire,” “Jesus Camp,” and “Jiro Dreams of Sushi.”
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Daring Docs
Daring Docs is a video streaming service that spotlights documentary films. You can subscribe to Daring Docs as a channel on Amazon Prime Video.
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Doc Club
Doc Club is a video streaming service for documentaries. You can add it as a subscription via Amazon Prime Video.
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Docsville
Docsville is a global documentary platform with an on-demand library of hundreds of documentaries from all genres, periods, and languages. Its documentaries cover various contemporary pop figures ranging from Louis Armstrong to Tupac as well as informational topics like international politics, foreign history, and many more.
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XiveTV Documentaries
XiveTV Documentaries is a video streaming service with 2,000+ hours of long-form documentaries in areas such as history, science, space, wildlife, and adventure. XiveTV features its own original content plus shows from more than 20 major media organizations, including ITV, Sky Vision, Digital Rights Group, and Cineflix.
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Ecoflix
Ecoflix is a video streaming service dedicated to saving wildlife and the natural world with a circle of giving. 100% of Ecoflix membership fees go directly to fund non-profit conservation initiatives to save animals and the planet.
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Green Planet Stream
Green Planet Films is a video streaming service dedicated to environmental education. The library has categories like Climate, Economy, Energy, Initiatives, Waste; Culture, Ecology, Social Relationships, Urbanization; Air, Atmosphere, Weather and Pollution; and Food, Agriculture, Forestry, Soil, Minerals and Natural Resources.
International Streamers with Free Trials
While we usually turn to Hollywood to keep us entertained, the rest of the world is pushing boundaries and helping the entertainment world expand in new directions. Give these services a whirl to go beyond your ordinary entertainment options.
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Acorn TV
Acorn TV is an excellent choice for viewing television programming (and the occasional film) produced outside the United States, primarily content from the United Kingdom. The service also creates original content and has a library of hundreds of TV shows. Of particular note are their award-winning mysteries and dramas. Popular hits include “Happy Valley,” “Line of Duty,” “Murdoch Mysteries,” “MIdsomer Murders,” and “Poldark.”
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BBC Select
BBC Select is a documentary streaming service offering premium programming from the BBC. See programs based on history, travel, true crime, art, royalty, and more.
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Best of British Television
Best of British Television is a video streaming service focused on English movies and TV.
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BritBox
BritBox is a hub for hundreds of TV shows and films produced in the UK. Enjoy your favorite classics like Doctor Who (1963) and Mr. Bean (1990), new original series like Sticks and Stones (2019) and There She Goes (2018), and watch special live events, tune into premieres, and keep up to date with current affairs and soap operas streaming direct from the UK. Oftentimes programming that premieres in the UK can be viewed internationally at the same time via the service.
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PBS Masterpiece
PBS Masterpiece is a video streaming service for exceptional British drama and award-winning TV series from around the world.
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Topic
Topic is a streaming service from First Look Media that strives to offer varied, content-rich best TV and film from around the globe. From thought-provoking original shows and movies, to award-winning films, Topic’s selection is a curated collection of indie works, arthouse, period pieces, and more. Explore their wide array of dramas, comedies, documentaries, talk shows, and shorts.
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ViX
ViX is a video streaming service focusing on Spanish-language content. Users will see 100+ TV channels, thousands of movies, TV series and soap operas, soccer leagues, and 24/7 news. For more exclusive content without ads, users can subscribe to ViX Premium, which has 40,000 hours of content, featuring originals and library content from Univision and Televisa’s pool of programming. ViX Premium includes 7,000 hours of live sports, including Liga MX and UEFA Champions League soccer.
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Viaplay
Viaplay is a video on demand service focused on Nordic storytelling with more than 1,500 hours of award-winning content. The content library includes “Trom,” “Furia,” and “Partisan.” The line-up also includes Viaplay’s provocative young adult drama “Threesome,” a broad range of compelling documentaries, and much more.
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FlixLatino
FlixLatino is a video streaming service for award-winning movies, series, and documentaries, originally produced in Spanish. The programming consists of contemporary releases from all Spanish-speaking countries, without dubbing, and in the best quality. Movie premieres occur every Thursday, and series premiere on Saturdays. The programming refreshes monthly.
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Vemox Cine
Vemox Cine is a video streaming service featuring Spanish-language films. The service features primarily action, comedy, and drama.
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MHz Choice
MHz Choice is a streaming service featuring new and exclusive international mysteries, dramas, and comedies—unedited with easy-to-read English subtitles. The service offers 2,500+ hours of content.
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France Channel
France Channel is a video streaming service offering popular French films and TV series. All content is available with English subtitles or dubs. You’ll also see French cartoons and live news.
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ChaiFlicks
ChaiFlix is a streaming video service featuring Jewish and Israeli content. It has hundreds of award-winning films, television series, documentaries, shorts, culture, music, stage performances, and more.
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J-Edge
J-Edge is a video streaming service focused on edgy Japanese movies and TV shows.
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OnDemandKorea
OnDemandKorea is a service that provides free streaming and downloads of Asian series, K-dramas, and the like. Available in both Korean and English. All programs are updated within hours after they air in Korea. The service offers 500+ movies and more than 400K+ hours of content.
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KOCOWA
KOCOWA is a subscription video streaming service that exclusively provides Korean entertainment ranging from K-dramas to K-reality, K-variety, documentaries, and K-pop from the top three broadcasters KBS, MBC, and SBS. There are 1,000+ Korean television shows like ‘Descendants of The Sun,’ ‘Ghost,’ ‘My Love From the Star,’ and ‘The Good Witch.’
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BongFlix
BongFlix is a video streaming service offering Bengali films. It can be accessed as an Amazon Prime Video channel.
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Viki
Viki is an on-demand video streaming service with programming from China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Viki has thousands of titles that are sourced from Asian distribution and production firms, along with its own original programming.
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Eros Now
Eros Now is a video streaming service featuring Bollywood hits. The service features action, romance, comedy and more. Users will find 13,000+ movies, web series and films, TV shows, and Lakh music titles.
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Pinoy Box Office
Pinoy Box Office (or PBO) is a video streaming service from the Philippines. It features a large catalog of films from the country, along with many titles with Tagalog audio.
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Pongalo Next
Pongalo Next is a video streaming service featuring Spanish-language movies and telenovelas. The parent company was acquired by ViX, so interested viewers will be better off with ViX Premium.
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TOKU
TOKU is a streaming service offering a variety of anime, tokusatsu, and Asian programming. Its titles are from Media Blasters, Tsuburaya Productions, MonoFilm Sales, and others.
Black Entertainment Streamers with Free Trials
Representation matters, and too often, the big streamers are missing the mark for important communities. These streamers focus on the Black American experience with a great variety of shows.
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ALLBLK
ALLBLK a video streaming service that focuses on modern Black TV and film with a long list of new originals, exclusives, independent features, popular network TV, nostalgic Black cinema, stage plays, and lots more. There are about 200+ titles in total.
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BET+
BET+ is an online streaming service from BET Networks, launched as a joint venture with Tyler Perry Studios. As one of the largest online subscription video-on-demand services focused on the Black audience and lovers of Black culture, BET+ features more than 1,000 hours of premium content including new, exclusive programming, iconic TV series, movie favorites, as well as documentaries, and specials from BET Networks. BET+ offers original programming from Tyler Perry, including his plays, series, and box office hits.
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Brown Sugar
Brown Sugar was launched in 2017 by Bounce TV, a multicast African-American television network. With a selection of more than 300 films and shows, this VOD streaming service has a large collection of classic black cinema.
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kweliTV
kweliTV is a video streaming service that celebrates culturally rich stories about the global Black experience. 98% of its films have been official selections at film festivals; 65% of its films are award-winning. The service hosts 600+ indie films, documentaries, animation, and web shows.
Older/Classic Streamers with Free Trials
Sometimes, you just need a throwback fix. Whether you’re an older person looking to rewind to Hollywood classics, or someone who just wants to delve into the roots of the motion picture industry, these streamers will take you back in time.
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The Film Detective
The Film Detective is a streaming service that provides access to classic Hollywood films. The service contains more than 3,000 titles divided into categories like classic Westerns, Mystery, Family, Horror, Mystery, Family, Film Noir, Cult, Silents, Shorts, and Documentaries.
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Best TV Ever
Step into the past with the video streaming service Best TV Ever. Subscribers will see TV hits from yesteryear like “The Colgate Comedy Hour,” “The Jack Benny Program,” “Medic,” “Our Gang,” and more.
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Best Westerns Ever
Saddle up for adventure with Best Westerns Ever. The Amazon Prime Video channel serves up classic movies and shows about the Wild West.
Performing Arts Streamers with Free Trials
If you love music, comedy, or stage performance, these streamers offer incredible content you can’t find anywhere else. Start a free trial today to get a front-row seat to see the masters of their crafts.
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BroadwayHD
BroadwayHD is a convenient live theater streaming service with a catalog of over 300 productions ranging from classic plays, Shakespeare, musicals, Hollywood movie adaptations, concerts, ballets, and more.
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nugs.net
Subscribers to nugs.net get access to 25,000+ live concert recordings, including performances from Metallica, Bruce Springsteen, Jack White, Pearl Jam, Dead & Company, and Billy Strings. Livestreamed performances are available in HD or 4K. Listen to new and archive recordings in MP3 quality or opt for even better sound with lossless MQA 24-bit and immersive 360 Reality Audio.
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Qello Concerts
Qello Concerts is a video streaming service for full-length, on-demand concerts and music documentaries from the 1920s to today. You’ll see exclusive concerts from megastars like Paul McCartney, Elton John, Kanye West, Metallica, Adele, Bon Jovi, Guns N’ Roses, Tony Bennett, Justin Timberlake, The Weeknd, Andrea Bocelli, Carrie Underwood, and many more.
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Stingray Classica
Stingray Classica is a video streaming service with classical music, operas, and ballets from around the world.
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Mint Comedy
Fans of standup comedy will enjoy the video streaming service Mint Comedy. Watch your favorite comedians live-streamed from world-famous comedy clubs like the Comedy Cellar, Live from The Comedy Store, Live from Carolines, Jessica’s Jugs & Jokes, The Vibe Shift, and Harrison Greenbaum’s Mystery Box.
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Marquee TV
Marquee TV is a video streaming service dedicated to the arts. Discover incredible performances of ballet, contemporary dance, opera, theater, classical music, and documentaries, all hand-picked by experts. Live and special events are also available for an additional fee.
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Thunderflix
Thunderflix is a video streaming service dedicated to heavy metal. Subscribers willl see new releases, live performances, documentaries, behind-the-scenes footage, and official content from their favorite artists. The service profiles everything from the headbanging riffs of thrash and death metal to the dark and atmospheric passages of black metal. The artist lineup includes Metallica, Black Sabbath, Megadeth, and Slipknot.
Independent/Arthouse Streamers with Free Trials
Tired of the same old stories? Maybe it’s time to dip into the independent scene. These streamers push the boundaries with low budgets and high passion. While you won’t find many blockbusters here, you will find personal stories told with singular vision.
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The Criterion Channel
The Criterion Channel is a movie lover’s paradise, featuring thousands of historically groundbreaking feature films since the dawn of cinema. Thematically programmed and tailored by genre, year, director, or themes, the service is a treasure trove of milestone movies and hidden gems. Here’s where you’ll find classics like Ikiru (1952), The Gold Rush (1925), Eraserhead (1978), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), and many more.
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Sundance Now
AMC-owned streaming service Sundance Now has thousands of exclusive TV shows and movies which including original series. There are plenty of genres to choose from such as Action, Classic, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Foreign, Romance, Suspense, etc. New titles are added every week and there are usually one or two exclusive premieres per month.
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Magnolia Selects
Indie distributor Magnolia Pictures continually adds content to its streaming service, Magnolia Selects, which has lots of popular films like “Melancholia,” “Let the Right One In,” and “Compliance” as well as many niche choices, comedy, documentaries, and genre-focused content.
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MUBI
The global curated film streaming platform features a substantial collection of 800+ films, documentaries, and shorts with a new movie added every day to the lineup. As a production company and film distributor, MUBI produces and distributes exclusive films by emerging and established filmmakers, which are only available on its platform. The streaming service is available in more than 190 countries.
Viewers can add MUBI as an Amazon Prime Video channel, so the content can be available there as well as in the MUBI app.
Students can enjoy a 30-day free trial and a discounted membership at $6.99/month.
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iNDIEFLIX
iNDIEFLIX serves up thousands of independent movies, shorts, TV shows, and documentaries from around the world.
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IndieFlix Shorts
IndieFlix Shorts is a video streaming service with a library of short films from around the world.
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IndiePix
IndiePix is a streaming service for independent movies featuring award-winning films from the festival circuit around the world. Viewers can find many features focused on global issues, such as women’s empowerment, African/Diaspora, and ‘Eye-opening Docs’, or films that honor diversity.
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Fearless
With a library of over 3,000 titles from over 1,500 independent filmmakers and creators, the streaming service offers anything from documentaries to comedies, animated shows, and international titles. Fearless releases new content weekly (every Friday).
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FilmDoo
FilmDoo is a UK-based video streaming service that specializes in independent and world cinema. Nearly every title available is a short film.
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IFC Films Unlimited
This subscription video on-demand streaming service is a destination for hundreds of independent films that are theatrically-released and award-winning. Films in the library come from IFC’s three distribution labels: IFC Films, Sundance Selects, and IFC Midnight.
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Film Movement Plus
Film Movement Plus is a video streaming service with a curated selection of independent and world cinema, cult and arthouse classics, festival favorites, documentaries, and short films.
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Strand Releasing
Strand Releasing is a video streaming service for foreign language, American independent, and documentary films.
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Indie Club
Indie Club is a video streaming service focused on independent film.
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OVID
OVID is a streaming service providing access to thousands of documentaries, independent films, and international content. The service offers films covering urgent political and social issues, climate change, and economic justice, as well as creative documentaries made by world-famous directors, modern features, and genre films. New films are added to the collection every two weeks.
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Cohen Media Channel
Cohen Media Channel is a video streaming service spotlighting independent films. It includes drama, documentary, and classic movies.
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Pure Magic Pictures
Pure Magic Pictures is a video streaming service featuring totally original films and shows from a group of filmmakers in Brooklyn. The service says its content is aimed at “punks, geeks, and weirdos.”
Science & Learning Streamers with Free Trials
If you’re looking to get smarter, these streaming services are here to help. Learn more about history, master a new skill, or discover something new about the world. Start streaming for free today.
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The Great Courses Signature Collection
The Great Courses Signature Collection is an Amazon Prime Video channel that can help you learn almost anything. Discover how to play chess, learn new languages, practice guitar, get exercise tips, and learn about science and animals. There is also content related to history, hobbies, and more.
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History Hit
History Hit is a video streaming service with 500+ shows, 1,000+ podcast episodes, and 5,000+ history and related travel articles.
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HISTORY Vault
HISTORY Vault is a streaming service from The HISTORY Channel that delivers some of the cable channel’s best-known series and documentaries. It is a separate paid service than the free HISTORY app and gives you access to content you don’t normally see on the HISTORY Channel prime-time lineup.
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MagellanTV
MagellanTV offers 3,000+ documentaries and series that span nearly every topic. Among the platforms titles is “Life Is One: Growing Up Sunbear,” along with curated documentary sections for 4K space films like “Hubble Eye in The Sky 4K,” true crime content such as “Customs,” and stay-at-home travel guide programs like “Germany From Above.” New programs arrive on the service every week.
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Wondrium
Wondrium is a subscription video service with thousands of online courses (with 8,000+ video lectures and up to 600 guidebooks), documentaries, series, and exclusives from short-form to long-form videos. These educational videos cover a wide range of subjects such as math, science, history, biology, chemistry, crafts, art, music, personal development, chemistry, foreign language, English, French, Spanish, German, and other categories. There are lectures added monthly, so there is always something new to learn.
Exercise/Health/Food Streamers with Free Trials
Want to get healthier? These streamers will help you lose weight and gain muscle while improving nutrition. You can start streaming for free, and add some skills that last a lifetime.
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Fitfusion by Jillian Michaels
FitFusion is a video streaming service for hardcore fitness addicts as well as beginners. No matter what your fitness goals FitFusion has you covered. Whether you want to lose weight or train for a marathon, FitFusion is a virtual one-stop-shop for on-demand streaming premium workouts from the worlds most renowned trainers.
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AcaciaTV
AcaciaTV is a streaming video service focused on fitness. Users will learn yoga, interval training, core, dance, barre, and more.
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BeFiT
BeFiT is a video streaming service focused on fitness. Viewers will see workouts in various styles like yoga, pilates, cardio, dance fitness, HIIT, and more. The platform features personalities like Denise Austin and Billy Blanks Jr.
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Wellness Plus by Psychetruth
Wellness Plus by Psychetruth is a video streaming service focusing on yoga, fitness, and nutrition.
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Daily Burn
With the Daily Burn video streaming service, you’ll get access to high-quality workouts from top trainers to help you meet your fitness goals. Get workouts focused on core, cardio, yoga, pilates, and dance. The service has exercises for beginners and advanced users.
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Grokker Yoga & Fitness
Grokker is a video streaming service focused on physical fitness. Users will see yoga, fitness, and cooking videos.
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Yoga International
Yoga International is a video streaming service dedicated to fitness.
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Gaia
Gaia is a streaming service focusing on “consciousness-expanding” videos, with 8,000+ films, original shows, yoga and meditation classes, and more. The service also offers access to live-streamed events and workshops. Content focuses on ancient origins, spiritual growth, alternative healing, personal development, and paranormal explorations.
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Tastemade+
Tastemade+ is a video streaming service featuring thousands of hours of food, travel, and home & design shows, and documentaries. See online cooking classes and more.
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Food Matters TV
Food Matters TV is a video streaming service focused on nutrition and wellness. The online subscription service offers guided programs on topics including detoxing and stress relief, yoga and exercise, how to get better sleep, prepare for the birth of a child, and fight cancer and other diseases – all through healthy eating and lifestyle choices. Documentaries, recipes, and interviews with top global experts are one click away.
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Cocina ON
Cocina ON is a Spanish-language video streaming service dedicated to the art of cooking. Get inspired by award-winning and home-style chefs from Latin America. The service is available as an add-on channel on Amazon Prime Video.
Religious Streamers with Free Trials
If your faith is important to you, these streaming services are designed to elevate your entertainment.
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Great American Pure Flix
Great American Pure Flix provides access to thousands of “clean” faith and family-friendly movies, original series, documentaries, and more. Content ranges from romance, adventure, comedy, and even kid-friendly content.
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UP Faith & Family
UP Faith & Family is a video streaming service focused on family-friendly and religious programming. The service is home to shows like “Heartland,” “Bringing Up Bates” and “Butter + Brown.” You can also stream family movies, cooking and design shows, Christian movies, kids favorites, Christmas movies, music specials, comedies, and more.
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Yippee
Yippee is an American religious subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service with thousands of hours of “faith-filled” series for kids ages 2–10. Plus, it is the exclusive streaming service of “The VeggieTales Show.”
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Destiny Image TV
Destiny Image TV is a streaming video service catering to Christian viewers with movies, TV shows, masterclasses, courses, documentaries, conferences, how-to’s, educational, health/fitness, plus evangelical and inspirational/devotional titles.
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Woman Evolve TV
Woman Evolve TV is a faith-based, personal growth video streaming service from Sarah Jakes Roberts. The content includes recordings of live seminars, podcasts, and video series from faith leaders, business mentors, financial coaches, and other notable women.
LGBTQ+ Streamers with Free Trials
While the big streamers offer a handful of titles for the LGBTQ+ community, there’s not enough variety if this content is important to you. These services were created to cater specifically to the rainbow of sexual and gender identities.
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Dekkoo
Dekkoo is a video streaming service with movies and TV shows for gay men. Dekkoo offers an array of award-winning films crafted by provocative directors focused on entertaining stories from across the globe.
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Here TV
Here TV is a video streaming service with a library of LGBT content, featuring hundreds of hours of award-winning movies, series, documentaries, and short films.
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OUTtv
OUTtv is a video streaming service with LGBTQ2+ focused programming. It features popular series, documentaries and movies from all over the world as well as original productions exclusive to OUTtv. New content is added every month.
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Revry
Revry is the world’s first global queer streaming network. The service offers a uniquely curated selection of narrative and documentary films, cutting-edge series, groundbreaking podcasts, music albums and videos, and the most original queer-focused content in the world.
Special Interest Streamers with Free Trials
Not every streamer fits in an easy category. If you have a hobby, there’s likely a streaming service catering to you. Whether it’s a specialized sport, a tabloid interest, fashion, animals, or gardening, these services can expand your entertainment options.
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Passionflix
Passionflix is a streaming service dedicated to movie and TV adaptations of romance novels and erotic fan fiction.
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PBS Living
PBS Living is a video streaming service offering iconic public media lifestyle and how-to content. The channel features series such as “Antiques Roadshow,” “Finding Your Roots, and “The French Chef,” as well as new favorites like “Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street” and “No Passport Required.” The best way to see it is to add the channel on Amazon Prime Video.
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Sleep Sounds & Meditation
If you’re looking to bring some calm into your life, Sleep Sounds & Meditation may be the streaming service for you. Packed with content designed to relax your mind and improve your focus, this Amazon Prime Video channel is dedicated to improving mental health.
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MyOutdoorTV
MyOutdoorTV is a video-on-demand subscription service featuring outdoor adventure shows, how-to videos, and wild game recipes. Get 20,000+ episodes and thousands of hours of hunting, fishing, and shooting content.
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MotorTrend+
MotorTrend+ was a video streaming service featuring automotive shows including top-rated series such as “Roadkill,” “Dirt Every Day,” “Hot Rod Garage,” and “Wheeler Dealers.” MotorTrend+ shut down in March 2024. Its content will migrate to Max and discovery+.
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The Surf Network
The Surf Network (sometimes styled as “TheSurfNetwork”) provides streaming access to the world’s largest surf video library, featuring surfing’s biggest athletes, made by award-winning filmmakers. Subscribers will see everything from 70s surf classic films to the latest brand videos. The service offers professionally produced films and videos covering all aspects of the surf lifestyle.
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Hi-YAH!
Hi-YAH! is a video streaming service featuring martial arts and Asian action movies. It offers hundreds of hours of programming, refreshed monthly, including films from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Tony Jaa, Johnnie To, Yuen Woo-Ping, and more.
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Young Hollywood
Young Hollywood is a video streaming service focused on the lives of celebrities.
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PixL
PixL is a video streaming service offering family-safe original movies and miniseries. Subscribers will see timeless dramas, wholesome comedies, and love stories that lift the human spirit and span generations.
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True Royalty
True Royalty is the world’s first and only on-demand service devoted to Royalty, with the best shows about the Royals from around the world and throughout history, right up to the present day.
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Cinémoi
Cinémoi is an award-winning film, high-fashion and international lifestyle video streaming service with movies, TV series, originals, exclusive global events, and specials.
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Inside Outside
Inside Outside – House & Garden is a streaming channel bringing you the best design shows and competitions from around the world. From creative insights and simple tips to inspirational DIY solutions, these award-winning shows are changing the way audiences view design, and helping people make their lives more beautiful.
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FidoTV
FidoTV is a video streaming service dedicated to programming about dogs. Viewers will see stories of animal rescues and learn training tips, and details about breeds.
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ClayShare
ClayShare is a video streaming service hundreds of full-length pottery and ceramics classes and thousands of tutorial videos.
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Level News
Level News was a live TV streaming service that provided access to just 10 news channels: NewsNation, C‑SPAN and Law & Crime; international news on NHK World Japan, France 24, and Euronews; and business news with Bloomberg TV and Bloomberg Quicktake. The service shut down September 30, 2023.
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Fox Nation
Fox Nation is an entertainment streaming service created by Fox News and gives subscribers access to full, commercial-free episodes from well-known right-wing personalities like Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, as well entertainment from Kevin Costner, Kelsey Grammer, Sharon Osbourne, Roseanne Barr, and Rob Schneider. Fox Nation service can be accessed as a standalone streamer or as an add-on to the live TV streaming services DIRECTV STREAM and Fubo. Start streaming today with a 60-day free trial.
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Open Television
Open Television is a video streaming service for intersectional TV, with artists and their creative visions at the center. OTV began in 2015 as part of an ongoing research project at Northwestern University. It aims to support artists and communities marginalized by their race, gender, sexuality, class, religion, disability, or nationality.
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KlowdTV
Klowd TV is a live TV streaming service catering to fans of right-wing outrage content. While 68 channels are available for free, users can choose to pay for access to more content. The service offers Info Wars, The First, Newsmax, OAN, and other similar channels. Most of the channel lineup is available elsewhere, including Pluto TV.
True Crime Streamers with Free Trials
If creepy murders and unsolved mysteries are important to you, check out these streamers with a focus on crime.
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A&E Crime Central
A&E Crime Central is a streaming service that brings you the best of A&E’s true crime documentaries and series including “60 Days In,” “After the First 48,” “Girl in the Box,” and more. Stream over 1,500 commercial-free videos anytime, on your favorite device. New videos are added every week.
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REELZ
REELZ is a video streaming service featuring true crime TV shows. Though the service frequently rebrands, its Amazon Prime Video channel is currently called “REELZ Famous & Infamous Select.” The service is an offshoot of the REELZ linear channel. If you want to watch “On Patrol: Live” and some other REELZ shows, you should get a live TV streaming service that carries the channel, like DIRECTV STREAM, Philo or Sling TV.
Completely Free Streaming Services
While all the streamers above offer free trials, all the streamers below are always free. Nearly all these streamers are ad-supported, meaning you’ll have to sit through occasional commercials to watch a show or film. In some cases, you can choose to pay to remove ads. But you’ll find a staggering amount of entertainment available without paying a penny.
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Tubi
Tubi is a free video streaming service that includes on-demand access to 200,000+ movies and TV episodes - more than any other streaming service. Its ad breaks are shorter and less frequent than most free services. Fox executives have called their service “TV on steroids.”
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Freevee
Freevee is a free video streaming service that includes on-demand access to thousands of movies and TV shows. The service also offers 400+ virtual live streaming channels like Dove Channel, CON TV, Docurama, Tastemade, and AMC Presents. Freevee was previously known as IMDb TV.
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Plex
Plex is a free streaming service that includes on-demand access to 50,000+ movies and TV shows. The service also offers 1,100+ free-to-stream live TV channels in 193 countries. Users can also connect Plex to their computers to stream and share any media they have on their hard drives.
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Roku Channel
The Roku Channel is a free live TV streaming service that provides 350+ live linear streaming channels and more than 80,000 free movies and TV shows. The library contains entertainment from several different decades, including some major hits.
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Xumo Play
Xumo Play is a free video streaming service that includes on-demand access to several movies and TV shows. Xumo Play offers 290 free virtual channels, including those focused on reality TV, vintage TV, and game shows.
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Kanopy
Kanopy is a streaming platform for independent films and documentaries. It has a collection of more than 30,000 films such as a wide array of dramas, comedies, biopics, and television series. The library includes award-winning films and shows from major television networks like HISTORY, A&E, and PBS.
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Hoopla
Hoopla is a free streaming service accessible with your library card. The service features movies and TV shows, along with millions of audiobooks, ebooks, comics, and more. The BingePass feature also allows free access to services like Curiosity Stream, Hellosaurus, and Hallmark Movies Now.
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Redbox
Redbox is a free ad-supported video streaming service with dozens of live streaming channels and on demand movies. Users can also rent or buy movies through the platform.
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Cineverse
Cineverse is a free ad-supported video-on-demand service featuring 19,000+ films and TV series. The library includes content from sianCrush, Bloody Disgusting, The Bob Ross Channel, The Country Channel, CONtv, CONtv Anime, Crime Hunters, Docurama, The Dove Channel, The Elvis Presley Channel, Fandor, and Screambox. Subscribers can go ad-free for $2.99/month.
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Crackle
Crackle is a free video streaming service that includes on-demand access to movies and TV Shows. Its TV collection is more notable than its film library. You’ll find old hits like “Just Shoot Me,” “NewsRadio,” “ALF,” “TJ Hooker,” and “Red Dwarf.”
Crackle also features “Crackle Original” series such as “On the Ropes,” “Snatch,” “Going from Broke,” “Hidden Heroes,” and “The Oath.”
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Samsung TV Plus
Samsung TV Plus is a free streaming live TV and on-demand service that is available on select Samsung TV’s, mobile devices, and refrigerators. Watch 200+ live TV channels and thousands of movies and shows on demand, all for free.
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VIZIO WatchFree+
WatchFree+ is VIZIO’s free streaming service, available on its SmartCast TVs. There are 260+ free channels and 6,000 titles on demand, providing immediate access to live and local programming and a wide library ranging from thousands of movies, news, sports, music, kids & family, multicultural, and more. Top channels include CNN, FOX Sports, Hallmark, ION Plus, LEGO Channel, MLB, NBC News Now, and Stories by AMC.
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Funimation
Funimation was a streaming service focused on Japanese animation. As part of Crunchyroll’s unification of fan services, the Funimation app and website were closed on April 2, 2024.
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Herogo TV
HeroGo TV is a free streaming service offering 12 channels and 1000+ hours of on demand video.
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Screambox
Screambox is a video streaming service that delivers every type of horror imaginable, from Supernatural to Slashers, Classics, Zombies, Extreme, Psychological, Cult, Underground, Banned Movies, and more. There are also five video series available for non-subscribers to watch for free.
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WaterBear
WaterBear is a free, environmentally-focused streaming video service with award-winning documentaries, enlightening short films, and impactful series.
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Shout! Factory TV
Shout! Factory TV is a free streaming service featuring lots of cult TV shows, movies, comedy, original specials and more. Users can watch “Space: 1999,” “The Prisoner,” “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” “ALF,” “Farscape,” and more.
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Runtime
Runtime is a free streaming service with hundreds of movies and shows available. You’re unlikely to recognize any of the titles, but you may find some content worth a closer look.
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It's Real Good TV
It’s Real Good TV is a video streaming service that pulls together the libraries of some older apps: Heartland Network, Retro TV, and Rev’n. You’ll see content around snow sports, MMA, motor sports, and country music.
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DistroTV
DistroTV is a free streaming service with 270+ free channels featuring live shows, movies, sports, news, gossip, and lots more. The platform features an array of genres and categories, such as News & Opinion, Español, Desi - Indian & South Asian, Business, Comedy, Classics, Fun & Games, Local News, Live Sports, Outdoor Entertainment, Reality TV & Documentaries, Lifestyle, and more.
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Fawesome
Fawesome is an ad-supported streaming service with 10,000+ movies and shows. Users will see movies from studios like Paramount, Lionsgate, FilmRise, Cinedigm, and more.
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FilmRise
FilmRise is a free ad-supported video streaming service featuring Hollywood films and TV shows. Unlike most AVOD services, you cannot stream FilmRise in your browser.
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Mometu
Mometu is a free streaming service with 200+ live channels and lots of on-demand titles. The service offers hand-curated collections of films.
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RetroCrush
A streaming service dedicated to the “Golden Age of anime,” RetroCrush has hundreds of classic shows from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, plus around 40 features. With a mix of subtitled and dubbed content, there are different genres from Comedy to Historical, Horror, and Mecha.
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LocalBTV
LocalBTV gives users the ability to watch free local broadcast TV without an antenna on their computer, phone, tablet, or TV (aka virtual-over-the-air or vOTA streaming). The platform is available in 53 US markets/DMAs, powers 704 local broadcast TV channels, plus 88 “hyper-local” Community Video channels. The service paused operations in November 2023. It is unclear if it will return.
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Saltbox TV
Saltbox TV is a free video streaming service for adults 55+ to meet their unique health, entertainment, and engagement needs. Saltbox TV is dedicated to accessibility, and they are constantly working on adding compatibility to the devices that older adults are most familiar with. Saltbox TV aims to empower users to continue learning, connecting, and engaging, whether they live at home or in retirement communities.
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Midnight Pulp
Midnight Pulp is a video streaming service dedicated to “streaming all things strange.” The eclectic library features South Korean coolness, Chinese gothic horror, Super 8mm horror comedy, Kung Fu westerns, vintage erotica, and more.
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Kino Cult
Kino Cult is a free video streaming service for “unapologetically weird cinema.” The service offers recent arthouse discoveries with hundreds of outrageous midnight movies and grindhouse classics.
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Documentary+
Documentary+ is a free, ad-supported streaming service spotlighting real-life stories. There are dozens of high-quality films available.
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Fandor
Fandor is an on-demand video streaming service that specializes in independent films and is home to a library of thousands of classic movies, documentaries, foreign, and indie films. There are always at least 6,000 titles on the platform. A limited library is available for free, but a paid subscription is needed to access all titles.
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FlixHouse
FlixHouse is a free, ad-supported, live, and on-demand streaming service that offers indie movies, thought-provoking documentaries, TV shows, and 170+ live TV channels from local and international content partners.
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The Explorers
The Explorers is a streaming service offering high-quality nature content, including video and photos from users. Users will see videos of animals, landmarks, and natural wonders from around the world. Most videos are short (about 1 minute), but premium subscribers can see longer documentaries.
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Classix
Classix is a streaming service showing movies and TV shows from the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s. While some content is free, you can unlock the full library with a one-time payment of $3.99. This app is only available on Apple TV and iPhone/iPad.
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First Responders Network
First Responders Network is a free video streaming service highlighting the adventures of police and EMS crews, along with rescues and ride-alongs. You’ll also see games from the National Public Safety Football League.
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Rewarded TV
Rewarded TV is a free video streaming service that gives out crypto tokens as viewing time accumulates. Those tokens can be used to unlock premium content.
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Angel Studios
Angel Studios is a streaming service featuring totally original shows bankrolled by the platform’s users. Users can watch shows on the platform, evaluate and support prototype shows, or even submit their own shows for consideration. Angel Studios’ biggest hit is “The Chosen,” a show about Jesus Christ that can be seen on many other streaming platforms.
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Dove Channel
Dove Channel is a streaming service offering family-friendly, usually Christian programming. It also offers a small selection of classic TV shows. Some titles are available for free, while a larger library is available to premium subscribers.
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Great American Community
Great American Community is a free video-on-demand service featuring content related to cooking, fashion, lifestyle, gardening, pets, parenting, DIY, relationships, philanthropy, fitness, wellness, devotions, and more. The service is an offshoot of the popular Great American Family and Great American Living channels.
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IZZY
IZZY is a streaming video service offering 600+ Israeli movies, TV shows, and documentaries. The service does have some content available on a free tier, but the full library is only available with a paid subscription.
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Freebie TV
Freebie TV is a free streaming service featuring a small library of on-demand films and live channels.
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Barstool Sports
Barstool Sports is a video streaming service primarily targeting young men. While some content is sports-centered, other shows are dedicated to food and lifestyle content.
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Bleacher Report
Bleacher Report is a video streaming service that offers live wrestling events from AEW and ROH. While the TV app centers on wrestling, the mobile app provides original sports programming including pro highlights and analysis.
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HappiTV
Happi TV is a free video streaming service made by and for members of the LGBTQ+ community. It offers a collection of Queer Cinema and TV series. Users will find entertainment categorized into categories like Drag, Gay, Lesbian, Suspense, Podcasts, Transgender, Uplifting, Foreign, Crime, Bisexual, Musical, Born This Way, and Interviews.
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BYUtv
BYUtv is a free video streaming service created by Brigham Young University. Its purpose is “to create purposeful, engaging viewing and listening experiences that entertain, inspire, uplift, and improve families and communities.” Popular shows include the Angel Studios Jesus Christ biography “The Chosen” and the long-running sketch comedy series “Studio C.”
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Mountain West Network
Mountain West Network is a video streaming platform for fans of that college sports conference. Watch your favorite Mountain West teams across all 18 sports. The Mountain West Network streams hundreds of live events throughout the year and you can watch them all on the app. Get exclusive live and on-demand content from all of the MW’s institutions including Air Force, Boise State, Colorado College (women’s soccer), Colorado State, Fresno State, Hawai‘i (football), Nevada, New Mexico, San Diego State, San José State, UNLV, Utah State, and Wyoming.
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Glewed TV
Glewed TV is a free video streaming service with thousands of hours of TV shows, movies, and documentaries. Content spans genres such as Travel & Exploration, Sports, Comedy, Action & Adventure, Crime & Mystery, and more.
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UnChainedTV
UnchainedTV is a free video streaming service with TV, documentaries, plant-based cooking shows, live news, and more. The service focuses on animal rights, health, and climate.
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Canela.TV
Canela.TV is a free video streaming app with TV series, movies, sports, documentaries, telenovelas, and more. The service offers 20,000 hours of content and 50+ linear channels. Content can also be sorted by country: Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, International entertainment is available in Spanish and English.
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Nuestra.TV
Nuestra.TV is a free, fully bilingual OTT streaming platform for the holistic Hispanic market, across cultural diversity, generations, and languages. The platform includes thousands of hours of content and 40+ FAST channels. Enjoy movies, TV series, novelas, concerts, cartoons, cooking shows, family movies, documentaries from leading producers in the United States, Latin America and Spain.
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LIV Golf Plus
LIV Golf Plus is the streaming service for the controversial golf league owned by the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund. The app provides live video coverage for every 2023 event, as well as highlights from prior tournaments. On launch day, at least, we could not fast-forward or rewind while watching tournament replays.
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Globoplay
Globoplay is a Brazilian streaming service with access to all Globo channels, classic and new telenovelas, Brazilian films, series, original productions, news, and the entire Globoplay exclusive catalog.
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Red Bull TV
Red Bull TV is a free streaming service dedicated to extreme sports like snowboarding, climbing, surfing, and more. The content is extremely well produced, with amazing camera angles, pulse-pounding soundtracks, and incredible athletic feats.
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FOX SOUL
FOX SOUL is a free streaming platform with entertainment designed for primarily Black audiences. The service offers over 1,300 hours of live and interactive programming annually. The service features a linear feed and on-demand titles.
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Vudu
Vudu was a video streaming service that primarily served as a paid video-on-demand (PVOD) marketplace, though the platform offered some films for free with ads. In February 2024, Vudu was renamed Fandango at Home. Users’ Vudu libraries remained intact with the rebrand and can be accessed through their Fandango accounts. Confusingly, ‘Fandango at Home’ and ‘Fandango’ share the same login information, but users cannot use credit cards, promotions, or gift cards associated to their Fandango account on the At Home service.
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ALTRD.TV
ALTRD.TV is a video streaming service with exclusive content for “psychonauts, cryptopunks, players, wellness seekers, growers & stoners.” Viewers will see NFT-based TV shows, original comedy series, plant-medicine education, journeys through music festivals and paranormal adventure shows, and Social Club TV.
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Hipstr
Hipstr is a free streaming app and channel with documentaries, scripted series, and exclusive Hipstr Originals like “Wake & Bake with Dom Brown.” The service features mostly independent films.
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Popcornflix
Popcornflix is an OTT service offering free ad-supported streaming video of feature-length movies, webisodes, original content, and film school originals.
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Positiv TV
Positiv TV is a national and free 24/7 movie network showcasing favorites from Hollywood studios and independent providers. The service aims to offer stories of hope, courage, compassion, honor, redemption, and triumph. Movies are presented on a linear virtual channel - you cannot watch on demand.
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Means TV
Means TV bills itself as “the world’s first worker-owned, anti-capitalist streaming service.” All the content espouses a left-wing ideology.
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Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth is a fan-propelled community that produces game reviews, comedy shows, podcasts, machinima, and original episodic content. From humble beginnings back in 2003 the company has expertly navigated internet culture and trending media to grow a fan base that is now millions strong.
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AcresTV
Acres TV is a free video streaming service for farmers. Learn about crop protection, farm buildings, finance, food safety, and weather. Viewers will get information and entertainment featuring some of the top voices in agriculture, as well as educational insights into agronomy, equipment, seed, and more. AcresTV presents insightful perspectives from farmers, researchers, and industry leaders.
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Rad
Rad (formerly the Littlstar app) is a modern streaming service with NFTs, on-demand, live events, and TV featuring the biggest content creators and studios in the world; all powered by blockchain, XR, and other technology. The platform markets itself as having content “for the raver, gamer, sneaker-head, sports fan, and beyond.”
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Legrity
Legrity is a free video streaming service that feels like cable access. Individuals can sign up to distribute their shows on the platform. Most content is free, although some is paywalled.
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AiryTV
Airy TV is a free live video streaming service offering movies, TV, comedy, and sports. Users will see rugby, beach volleyball, tennis, gymnastics, field hockey, and wrestling. These channels are notably not high quality, but there is variety.
Free Ad-Supported Streaming Services for Kids
Parents on a budget will appreciate these streaming options for kids. In most cases, the ads are minimal and not terribly jarring. In the case of PBS Kids, the ads are rare and entirely benign.
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PBS Kids
PBS Kids is a free online streaming platform serving toddlers and preschoolers. All content here is kid-friendly and safe. Children will learn lessons about emotional regulation, creative thinking, and problem-solving, with shows focused on science, reading, and more. Standout shows include “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” “Wild Kratts,” and “Molly of Denali.” It’s a must-have service for anyone with young children.
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HappyKids
HappyKids is a free video streaming service with 55,000+ episodes of kid-friendly content. It includes popular titles like “Peppa Pig Minis,” “Tayo the Little Bus,” “Garfield and Friends,” and shows about Minecraft and Roblox.
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Kidoodle.TV
Kidoodle.TV is a video streaming service designed for kids 12 and under and and offers show and movie suggestions based on age range. The platform has a content library that contains 45,000 episodes of popular TV shows, Kidoodle.TV Originals, educational programming, gaming content, and more. The content varies by region with new titles regularly added. Notable series include Little Angels, Dude Perfect, and Paw Patrol to name a few.
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Ameba
Ameba is a children’s video streaming service that is full of educational programming. The content catalog comprises 14,000+ episodes and 2,800 hours of kid’s shows.
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Sensical
Sensical is a free streaming service for children ages 2-10. It includes on-demand access to 15,000+ hand-selected videos and 50+ topic-based channels.
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Toon Goggles
Toon Goggles is an on-demand streaming service for children (13 and under) that offers an array of animated and live-action titles as well as fun and engaging games, news stories, educational content, and a kid-safe music service that plays pop hits.
Always Free News Streaming Services
While you won’t be able to get live CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC on free services, you can find free news channels on platforms like Plex, Pluto TV, and Tubi. These services listed below are helpful on the local level as well. Nearly every local news affiliate has a free way to watch, and a mix of these services will serve you well if you don’t want to pay.
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Haystack News
Haystack News is a streaming service that pulls together news coverage from 400 local, national, and international providers. Users will see reports from ABC Owned Television Stations, CBS Television Stations, Cox Media Group, Fox Television Stations, Hearst Television, Hubbard Broadcasting, Nexstar Media Group, Scripps and more. You can use the service for free with ads or eliminate commercials for $4.99 / month.
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Very Local
Very Local is a free streaming service providing local news, weather and exclusive local original series from all 27 Hearst Television markets.
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VUit
VUit is a free video streaming service that includes on-demand access to content produced by 260+ local TV news stations around the United States. Its partners include Lilly Broadcasting, Heritage Broadcasting, and Gray Television. The service covers 78% of the nation’s DMAs.
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NewsON
NewsON provides instant access to live and on-demand newscasts from 275+ local TV station partners in 165+ U.S. markets. Viewers can personalize their experience by setting favorite stations and watching breaking news coverage of major events and storms from multiple local stations. The service covers more than 80% of the U.S. population.
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Local Now
Local Now is a free video streaming service that includes on-demand access to movies and TV shows. The service also provides several virtual streaming channels, including newscasts from New York, Denver, Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, Nashville, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Diego, and West Palm Beach. Over 220 cities in the United States have a localized feed. Local Now offers live severe weather coverage from The Weather Channel to people viewing in areas impacted by the severe weather event
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NewsNation
NewsNation is a free standalone streaming app that mirrors the content on its linear channel. It includes news and opinion clips from shows like “CUOMO,” “Dan Abrams Live,” “Banfield,” and “On Balance.” The interface is identical to Haystack News, allowing users to follow specific topics and rate clips with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down.
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FOX Weather
FOX Weather is a 24/7 live weather service that offers coverage around the country. It includes forecasts, radar imagery, weather-related news, and live cameras at sites around the United States. The service is free and ad-supported. You can view the livestream at the top of the Watch tab in the FOX Weather mobile app.
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WGN-TV+
WGN-TV+ is a TV streaming service from the popular Chicago broadcaster. It offers news, weather, and sports, with specific sections for entertainment, daytime lifestyle programming, investigative stories, and even short WGN films. Since WGN is not available on most live TV streaming services, this is a nice workaround.