The Black Bar Archive

A collection of curated free media resources across movies, television, games, music, and education. Each source is vetted for safety, quality, and ease of use.


I. Movies and Television

  • Cineby.app
    A website providing unlimited free streaming for almost every movie, television show and documentaries.
  • Xprime.tv
    The second best alternative to Cineby, providing much of the same content, it's almost a clone. A very reliable back-up.
  • AnimeKai.me
    The best site for streaming any and all Anime. Features hard subs and high quality dubs in many languages.
  • BestSeries
    The Cineby of Television. A free streaming platform dedicated and specialising in Television series.

II. Gaming

  • GOG Games
    One of the best safe websites to get free games easily. Slow download speeds are unavoidable but it remains a reliable and safe place to get free games.
  • Steamrip
    A safe place to get steam ripped games. A very pleasing user interface combined with a lack of adverts make it easy to use.
  • AnkerGames
    A personal favorite, AnkerGames stands out because it has suprisingly stable and confident download speeds, mirrors and sources for the games.

III. Music and Podcasts

  • YouTube Music Desktop
    This open source desktop app is a free unofficial music streaming service that utilises Youtube and the almost infinite library of music to essentially frankenstein a really slick music experience with a built in ad-blocker.
  • Pocketcasts
    A free streaming site offering up a wide array of podcasts aggregated from many other paid sites. Some podcasts may be absent from this, simply due to copyright, but most of the time you can find 95% of what you would find elsewhere.

IV. Courses and Education

  • Tut4IT
    This website offers free educational courses from sites like Udemy, where you would potentially pay upwards of $100 for a course, but on Tut4IT, you can find the whole courses avalible for download. Absolute incredible resource.
  • FreeEducationWeb
    As the name implies, this website gives you access to high quality free education, on the web obviously. Another brilliant resource.
  • HistoricFilms
    History does not lie and we cannot let it be tarnished by the biases and agendas of the modern day evils. Sites like this help to fight against that very process. HistoricFilms features over 50,000 hours of historical stock footage. To license it and use it, obviously there is a charge, but to just wade through the overwhelming catalog, it is 100% free.
  • OnlineCoursesClub
    This website is dedicated to providing a large array of free art courses and resources. From everything to exploring how Marvel uses its distinct visual style to enhance storytelling, to 3d character modelling and the art of creating documenteries, this site is as absolute gem

V. Literature

  • Bookracy
    Bookracy is a website where you can find free e-books, comics and manga. It has many banned books and previously censored peices of literature such as The Handmaid's Tale (Banned USA) and all of Orwells bibliography (Banned in numerous countries).
  • Liber3
    Similar to the first entry, Liber3 has a similarly sized database of free and open books.
  • BookFrom.net
    BookFrom.net is once again a simple repository of free books, not much variation in this catagory, which is a good thing at the end of the day.

VI. VPN's

  • WARP(1.1.1.1)
    Created and maintained by Cloudflare (The largest cybersecurity and web security company in the world), WARP could be considered the perfect VPN. It is free, no adverts, created by guys who clearly know what they are doing (Market cap of 72 Billion dollars) and is user freindly.
  • Bitmask
    Bitmask is a relatively new VPN but still retains a high level of security and privacy all for free. Bitmask's mission statment is based in that non-profit nature and seems to be a great alternative to WARP.
  • Proton
    ProtonVPN allows you to connect to a VPN with no limit for free. However, if you wish to have customisation, (Country, Internet Speeds and bandwidth), you would have to pay. Proton is an established and verified suite of privacy centered software however, and is a good alternative if you just want the simplest, least configurable service.

VII. Live TV and Sports

  • TV Garden
    TV Garden is the ultimate live TV streaming service and features an interactive map to find and watch any TV channel from any country.
  • EasyWebTV
    EasyWebTV features a much more basic and barebones user interface, but its not too hard to find your way around, it too features a wide array of TV and Sports.
  • RBTV+
    Specialising in live Sports, RBTV is one of the best aggregators of free live streams for any events with a very easy to use interface.