It’s not exact­ly the same as watch­ing a film on the sil­ver screen. But you get what you pay for. Below, we have Frank Capra’s 1939 clas­sic, Mr. Smith Goes to Wash­ing­ton, star­ring Jim­my Stew­art and Claude Rains. For those who cling to the hope that democ­ra­cies can rid them­selves of cor­rup­tion and spe­cial inter­ests, this film is for you, and it also appears in our col­lec­tion of free online movies.

Get a high­er qual­i­ty copy of Capra’s clas­sic on DVD here.

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In 2006, doc­u­men­tary film­mak­er Jehane Nou­jaim (Con­trol Room) made a wish at the TED con­fer­ence (see below) — for world peace. For Nou­jaim, peace starts with cul­tur­al exchange, with get­ting to know one anoth­er. And since we all can’t trav­el, anoth­er way to achieve this is through film and its abil­i­ty to “take you into new worlds” and “across bor­ders.”

Two years lat­er, Nou­jaim’s wish may come true, and the uni­fy­ing pow­er of film will be put to the test. May 10 marks Pangea Day, a day when peo­ple from around the world (from Mum­bai and Cairo to Kigali, Rio and LA) will come togeth­er and watch the same films made by var­i­ous inter­na­tion­al film­mak­ers. “Watch par­ties” will be held world­wide, and the event will be broad­cast via web­cast and mobile phone. Below, we’ve also post­ed a movie trail­er intro­duc­ing the con­cept of Pangea Day. For more infor­ma­tion, click here. (Thanks Natasha for the heads up.)

Nou­jaim at TED

Pangea Day Trail­er

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