Where To Watch HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ For Free On Juneteenth

“Watchmen” aired on HBO in the fall, but even non-subscribers can get a chance to see the acclaimed series this weekend. It will be available for free on the weekend of Juneteenth.

HBO announced on Thursday that “Watchmen” will be free from Friday, June 19 through Sunday, June 21. The 9-episode series can be streamed on HBO.com or watched on TV via Free On Demand.

Those who subscribe to HBO can, of course, always view the series on HBO Max. There will also be a marathon of the series on both HBO and HBO Latino starting at 1 p.m. EDT on Friday.

Juneteenth celebrates the date that the last remaining people who were slaves in the Confederacy were set free. Celebrated on June 19, it’s also called Freedom Day or Emancipation Day.

“Watchmen” deals with racism and white supremacy that parallels much of what is currently happening with civil rights protests. When Rolling Stone asked writer Cord Jefferson if the HBO show was “unusually prescient,” Jefferson said the writers just looked at history.

“I think that history’s prescient,” the writer said. “Particularly when it comes to racism and how black people in this country are treated. The fact that we made a show about police violence and white supremacist violence, and, several months later, we’re dealing with police violence and white supremacist violence, that’s just because we’re making a show about history. Unfortunately, police violence and white supremacist violence are something that you can set your watch to in the United States of America.”

“Watchmen” is technically a sequel to the famous graphic novel of the same name, but it doesn’t necessarily require viewers to read the 1980s-set book or watch the 2005 movie adaptation. It also becomes a prequel when it goes back to the Tulsa massacre in 1921.

Additionally, HBO is making several titles available for free from June 19 to July 2 on HBO.com: “Being Serena, Bessie,” “Whoopi Goldberg presents Moms Mabley,” “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” “United Skates,” “Jerrod Carmicheal’s Home Videos,” “Lil’ Rel Live In Crenshaw,” “The Apollo,” “Baltimore Rising,” “Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas” series, “Notes From The Field,” “King In The Wilderness,” “Say Her Name: The Life & Death of Sandra Bland,” “4 Little Girls,” “We Are The Dream,” and select episodes of several TV shows including “The Wire,” “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” and “Treme.”