# Where can I download free short videos? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-free-short-videos/357241 "2006-05-18T07:25:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-free-short-videos/357241/1 "2006-05-18T07:25:06Z")
I have always been interested in short films, especially cartoons and quirky animations; Atomfilms and iFilm are great, but a lot of the content can only be streamed. [PocketMovies.net](http://PocketMovies.net) is good and there’s also some good stuff at [archive.org](http://archive.org). But I’m looking for more sites where I can (legitimately) download short videos, animations etc, or sites that collect links to the sites of independent artists who also permit local download of their content. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-free-short-videos/357241/2 "2006-05-18T17:57:14Z")
[www.bellsouth.net](http://www.bellsouth.net) looks like it has some neat stuff. I’m not sure though, because for some reason I can’t seem to download them. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-free-short-videos/357241/3 "2006-05-18T18:44:18Z")
Hmmm… there’s a section of their site called videoVault, but it seems as though it’s just a wrapper for AtomFilms, which is mostly just streamed content. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-free-short-videos/357241/4 "2006-05-18T22:15:53Z")
Why no check [this list](http://dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Short_Films/) out? There’s a few broken links in their and a lot of the sites sre straeming only, but there’s also plenty of downloads available. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-free-short-videos/357241/5 "2006-05-18T22:17:50Z")
> [@Tapioca Dextrin](#): > > Why no check [this list](http://dmoz.org/Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Short_Films/) out? There’s a few broken links in their and a lot of the sites sre straeming only, but there’s also plenty of downloads available. Their’s a mistake in they’re somewhere :smack: ---
**Author:** ![KJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b2d939/32.png) [@KJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KJ)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-download-free-short-videos/357241/6 "2006-05-19T04:55:34Z")
Coincidentally, I’ve actually spent the last week and a half making a website that has a bunch of animations I’ve made on it, plus a few short films and some other stuff. It’s not _quite_ finished yet, but when it is I plan on starting a thread here, probably in MPSIMs.