Today Only: Free Movie download from AOL

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Today Only: Free Movie download from AOL

by Ryan Carter Dec 2nd 2006

AOL is offering 30 or so movie titles for free download today only (one per email address). You can get some of your favorites including:

Nacho Libre
The Muppets Take Manhattan
Mission Impossible 3
Spongebob Squarepants Movie
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
My Dog Skip
Failure to Launch
Jack Frost
Zoolander
Patriot Games
National Lampoon's Christmas
School of Rock
Last Holiday
The Perfect Storm
Jackass: The Movie
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights
Rugrats Go Wild
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Can't Hardly Wait
Maid in Manhattan
Star Trek 1
Men in Black
All I Want For Christmas
The Prince and Me
Only Natural
Analyse This
D.E.B.S.
Easy Rider
Flatliners
White Christmas
The Golden Child

You won't be charged at checkout, but a credit card is required to verify your U.S. address and you must have a screenname to download a movie. As you might imagine there is a backlog of downloads going on right now, but AOL is saying that everyone will be able to receive their full download in spite of the server load. Enjoy a free movie download from AOL. Here is the official T&C from the download page at AOL Video:

Terms and Conditions
Offer good from 12/2/06 at 6:00 am ET through 12/3/06 at 6:00 am ET, or until supply of free videos is depleted, whichever comes first. Open only to US residents, 18 or older, who have an AOL or AIM address. A credit card is required to confirm US address. Only the select videos listed on the promotional page are available for free. There is a limit of one free download per person and e-mail address.

DISCLAIMER: AOL is the parent company of Weblogs, inc. Download Squad is a member of the Weblogs, inc. network.

Tags: AOL, cinematical, download, free, movie, video

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Marc said 8:16PM on 12-02-2006

You cannot use IE 7 to download the movie! They want me to re-install IE 6. Are they crazy?

Does anyone know of a solution?

Ryan Carter said 8:16PM on 12-02-2006

Yeah, I was bummed that Firefox wasn't invited either.

Charles said 8:45PM on 12-02-2006

hmm... movies that they don't have to worry about being pirated

Joel Ivory Johnson said 9:10PM on 12-02-2006

Crap! Does not work with IE7 or on computers running Windowx XP 64, Windows 2003, or Windows Vista. All of my computers fall into that group.

I'm about to install XP on a Virtual Machine. Why didn't they have IE7 support *before* they started this promotional.

scotty said 10:01PM on 12-02-2006

If you're running IE7, search your folders for an older version of the file IEXPLORE.EXE. Chances are, you still have IE6 on your system and can simply load it by clicking the older version of this file.

Eric said 10:03PM on 12-02-2006

Not only that, but you need a credit card to get a free movie.

Aaron said 10:41PM on 12-02-2006

meh. this is what netflix is for.

Eric J said 11:16PM on 12-02-2006

Just how would the supply of free videos be depleted? Is AOL in danger of running out of bits?

Shawn said 11:30PM on 12-02-2006

AOL is crap, they could offer free movies year round and I would still never use their service. I hope they go bankrupt.

TheBlunderbuss said 11:50PM on 12-02-2006

Give em your credit card and info so they can sell it to people!
Take this post off immediately.

Gardiner Westbound said 6:34AM on 12-03-2006

The download "expires" after 30-days.

hey this is aol said 7:45AM on 12-03-2006

DISCLAIMER: AOL is the parent company of Weblogs, inc. Download Squad is a member of the Weblogs, inc. network.

DLight said 1:44PM on 12-03-2006

After finding a computer that still has Internet Explorer 6 (no easy task), I jumped through all the hoops until I realized they were going to require a credit card for a free movie. What idiots! I wonder if ANYONE downloaded a movie? Hopefully not.

Joel Ivory Johnson said 1:44PM on 12-03-2006

Managed to download the video, but the license acqisition won't work. :'(

travis said 4:01PM on 12-03-2006

hehe, they weren't kidding. my video just got finished downloading 0.o

Bootes said 12:05AM on 12-04-2006

Well it isn't one per person or at least it wasn't yesterday. I got all of them.

Brian said 7:12PM on 12-04-2006

I got charged a dollar for it.. screw AOL.

anoush said 1:01AM on 12-07-2006

hi, i interested of your site

Jellyfu said 3:48AM on 12-11-2006

I want to download DVD movie free

cynthia harris said 5:30PM on 2-21-2007

well i'm new to this site. i was just wondering how can i down load for free

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