This year, YouTube celebrated its twentieth anniversary, prompting younger users to wonder what life could have been like before it. The fiftieth anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which premiered in April of 1975, has inspired similar reflection among comedy enthusiasts.

With a modest budget furnished by Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, and other investors connected to the music world, they plunged themselves into a grimy, unglamorous vision of the Middle Ages….

… In celebration of its anniversary, the film has become available to stream free (albeit not in all regions of the world) on the official YouTube Movies & TV channel, where the latest generations of Monty Python fans first discovered their work.