Classic public domain film, digitally preserved and free to stream forever.
Meet John Doe (1941) is a Frank Capra classic in which a fired newspaper reporter invents a fictional everyman hero named John Doe — then hires a drifter to play the role — only for the hoax to snowball into a nationwide political movement that powerful men seek to exploit.
Starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward Arnold. This film is in the public domain and free to watch, download, and share.