Apple TV+ has launched a limited time collection of movies to stream for free as part of your Apple TV+ subscription. The company has done this occasionally in the past to coincide with the themed release of new originals, but this is by far the biggest drop. Unfortunately, it is only available to subscribers in the US.
The collection includes big name titles like The Wolf of Wall Street, Saving Private Ryan, Mad Max: Fury Road and more.
Top comment by Jesse Nichols
I genuinely understand being frustrated about availability, but can you name a SINGLE legal streaming platform that offers the same content to every country? Netflix, Hulu, HBO, YouTube, Crunchyroll, Disney+, Prime, etc. This is how it works with EVERY service. Licensed content doesn't have universal availability on any platform. There have been many niche shows or features that I wanted to watch/test on Netflix or Hulu before finding out it was only going to be available in Japan (or wherever).
As it stands, the US is the market they've chosen to test this feature. This isn't surprising with the US being Apple's home base and the country with the highest GDP in the world. If this is a successful feature that leads to higher retention and/or more sign-ups, then they will inevitably roll this out to other countries.
For people that have been asking for Apple TV+ to get a back catalog of content, this might be it .. sort of. These films are very explicitly marked as limited time availability on Apple TV+. You only have until the end of March or April to stream them, before they go away. Additionally, because they have all been added in one single category in the app, discoverability of this content is less than ideal.
The move is perhaps a sign that Apple continues to experiment and ponder whether it should expand beyond its ‘all originals’ strategy for its streaming service.
Here’s the full list in the new “Great Movies on Apple TV+” collection:
- Saving Private Ryan
- Draft Day
- Titanic
- Captain Phillips
- The Accountant
- Mean Girls
- Catch Me If You Can
- Gravity
- The Bodyguard
- Star Trek: Into Darkness
- The Prestige
- Troy
- Horrible Bosses
- Jurassic World
- America Sniper
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Hurt Locker
- Star Trek
- Kill Bill Volume 1
- The Proposal
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Fight Club
- Star Trek Beyond
- 300
- Max Max: Fury Road
- I Am Legend
- Zombieland
- Men In Black
- How To Lose A Guy In in 10 Days
- Zodiac
- Argo
- 21 Jump Street
- Zoolander
- Minority Report
- Old School
- Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
- Black Hawk Down
- Kill Bill Volume 2
- Training Day
- Good Burger
- Two Weeks Notice
- Failure to Launch
- Fast Five
- Con Air
- Spider-Man
- Bad Boys
- Fast & Furious 6
- Knocked Up
- Wyatt Earp
- Spider-Man 2
About half of these titles will be available free until the end of March, and the remainder are dated through April. Some are available in 3D, so if you have an Apple Vision Pro, you can watch them in 3D through your headset.
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