About Gratis Global

The best of human knowledge is already free. It is just scattered. We find it, verify it, and broadcast it, so the only thing between you and learning is pressing play.

Gratis Global began in 2017 as a single collection of free documentaries. It has grown into a network of standalone services, each built around one kind of free learning: documentaries, lectures, language guides, and coding resources, with more on the way.

Everything here is free to use, with no account required to watch or read. We do not host the films, lectures, or courses ourselves. We point you to them where they already live for free, on YouTube, Vimeo, university sites, public archives, and the open web, and we do the work of finding what is worth your time, checking that the links still work, and organizing it so it is easy to browse.

What we believe

A good documentary, a clear lecture, or the right guide can change how someone sees the world. Cost should not decide who gets access to that. An enormous amount of excellent material is already free and legal to watch. The problem was never scarcity. It was that nobody had gathered it in one place and kept it in good order.

So that is what we do. Every service on the network is meant to feel like its own product, focused on doing one thing well, while sharing the same promise: free, verified, and easy to use.

How it works

We continuously gather resources from trusted public sources, check that each one is still live and freely available, and write a short, honest description of what it is. Links rot over time, so we sweep the catalog regularly and flag anything that has gone dark. When something is no longer available for free, we say so rather than sending you to a dead page.

We are also building toward native apps and personal features like saving favorites and tracking what you have watched, so the same free catalog travels with you across the web and your phone.

Free, and staying that way

Running the network costs money, so some pages carry advertising, and we may add optional accounts and features over time. The core promise does not change: the documentaries, lectures, and guides stay free to watch and read, with no paywalls. If you ever hit one, something has gone wrong, and we want to hear about it.

Have a suggestion, a correction, or a resource we should include? Get in touch. This catalog gets better because people tell us what is missing.