Find classic movies, fascinating lectures, e-books, language courses and more – all for free on the Open Culture website.
The Open Culture website was founded in 2006 by Dan Coleman, who is the Director and Associate Dean of Stanford University’s Continuing Education Programme, and features information and resources that touch on nearly every knowledge base. Currently, it hosts some 1150 movies, 1500 online courses, 1000 audio books, 800 e-books and 48 language courses – all for free.
The movies are mainly classics, with quite a few curve balls thrown into the mix, and a couple of rare gems – so you can catch Cannibal! The Musical, the first film made by South Park’s Trey Peator, Eat, Sleep and Kiss, three short films by Andy Warhol, or Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Hitchcock’s Charade, or the Oscar-winning short film by Peter Capaldi, Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s an amazingly diverse collection.
The online courses include archaeology, architecture, art and art history, communication, design, philosophy, chemistry, environment, physics, psychology and more.
The audio and e-books books are equally jam-packed with everything from Aesop’s Fables to William Butler Yeats, and a whole alphabet in between. There’s poetry, science fiction, horror, mysteries, thrillers, classics … you get the idea.
And the language courses offer tuition that ranges from lessons in Bambara to Farsi, French to Hebrew, and Italian to Welsh – a cosmopolitan mix.
You can find it all at http://www.openculture.com/
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