Legal movie downloads are available on many different sites on the internet. Some of these sites offer free movie downloads as well as subscription and paid downloads. You can watch the movie form your computer or laptop. If you want even better viewing you just need a video cable and audio cables and you can connect your computer to your television.

The sites that offer movie downloads and while many of them may contain the same content several sites may specialize in specific types of movies such as independent films or movie classics. One such site is Cinemania. This site offers paid subscriptions as well as free, ad supported movie downloads. You also can have the ability to burn one copy of the movie to a DVD.

iTunes also has TV shows and movies that can be downloaded onto your computer or iPod. In order to view downloaded movies form iTunes on your computer you will need to have a Windows or Mac operating system.

One of the largest mailing movie rental companies, Netflix, also offers a WatchNow service. Instead of waiting for movie DVDs to arrive in the mail you can watch them as streaming video. Not all DVDs are available for download but anything that is is available through Netflix.

Vongo is a subscription based movie download website. What makes Vongo unique is that you can watch their movies on three different media devices. Amazon also offers movie download services at Amazon Unbox. You will need the Unbox software or a TiVo to download and watch their movies.

Some sites have free movie downloads and one such website, BitTorrent Entertainment Network, uses peer-to-peer sharing for the free movies. This type of download is completely legal from this site. You should be careful though for other less well known sites as most pirated copies are downloaded using peer-to-peer sharing. Guba is a site that specializes in free downloads for older movies as well as independent films.

Wal-Mart has its own movie download site in which you can also burn the movie to DVD. Movies are available from the Wal-Mart Video Downloads store. MovieFlix is a site that offers premium movie downloads for using a monthly subscription service.

A great site that provides you with free, full length movies is Hulu. They selection is excellent and the site is very easy to use. It is possible one of the best free movie download sites online. Another such free movie download site is Surf the Channel though sometimes there are difficulties downloading your movie.

IMDB is a movie database that has a limited number of movies and TV shows available for download. Other websites that have free movie downloads include Joost, Freetube, Public Domain Torrents, Internet Archive: Moving Image Archive, Babelgum, Google Video and OVGuide. Always make sure that you are downloading any free movies from a reputable site so you are not downloading a pirated copy or a movie that might have some sort of malware attached.