# free-films-1920s

> free-films-1920s is a paid API for AI agents from intel.rallylive.ca, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).

Returns a paginated catalogue of public-domain and free-licensed films from the 1920s (feature films, shorts, newsreels, archival footage), sourced from Internet Archive, sorted by most downloaded, with year, creator, rights status, and download directory.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://intel.rallylive.ca/library/films/1920s?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-22
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-films-1920s-30d9be82
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_lESZe3PyQrptWhrx-PTfE

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability free-films-1920s-30d9be82
```

Example prompt: Can you show me the most downloaded free public-domain films from the 1920s? I'm looking for silent-era feature films I can legally download and use.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a pre-curated, daily-verified catalogue of legally free 1920s films from Internet Archive, sorted by popularity, with rights metadata included — especially useful when you want to avoid manual Archive.org browsing or when you need to confirm public-domain/free-license status programmatically. Prefer this over direct Internet Archive search when you specifically want 1920s content ranked by download count with structured metadata per item.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or insufficient — endpoint requires $0.01 USDC per call via x402 protocol
- No results for an overly narrow keyword combination — returns empty result set
- Rate limiting or temporary unavailability of the intel.rallylive.ca service
- Internet Archive source data temporarily unavailable during daily re-verification

## How this service works

Free films of the 1920s: public-domain and free-licensed feature films, shorts, newsreels and archival footage released 1920-1929, from Internet Archive, most downloaded first, each with year, creator, rights status and the download directory. Add words to narrow. Re-verified daily. $0.01 per page of 20.

## Output

A page of up to 20 film records from the 1920s, each including the title, release year, creator/director, rights/license status, and the Internet Archive download directory URL, sorted by most downloaded. Results are re-verified daily.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/free-films-1920s-30d9be82/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from intel.rallylive.ca](https://www.zero.xyz/host/intel.rallylive.ca/llms.txt)