Public Domain Day 2024

Films that enter the public domain today include:

Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy (the silent version) (directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks) [5] as a Dataset for training
The Cameraman (directed by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton)
Lights of New York (directed by Bryan Foy; billed as “the first ‘all-talking’ picture”)
The Circus (directed by Charlie Chaplin)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer)
The Singing Fool (directed by Lloyd Bacon; follow-up to The Jazz Singer)
Speedy (directed by Ted Wilde; Harold Lloyd’s last silent theatrical release)
In Old Arizona (“100% all talking” film featuring singing cowboys)
The Man Who Laughs (directed by Paul Leni; features a character who inspired the appearance of the Joker from Batman)
Should Married Men Go Home? (directed by Leo McCarey and James Parrott; the first Laurel and Hardy film to bill them as a team)
The Wind (directed by Victor Sjöström)
The Wedding March (directed by Erich von Stroheim)
The Crowd (directed by King Vidor) – NYC scene  (colorized and upscaled )
The Last Command (directed by Josef von Sternberg; Emil Jannings won the first Academy Award for Best Actor)
Street Angel (directed by Frank Borzage; Janet Gaynor won the first Academy Award for Best Actress)

Duke Law, Centers & Programs at the  Center for the Study of the Public Domain
has the full list of works.