Why is iMovie not free for my MacBook?

Okay so apparently, this is my first question here in this site and I'm wondering how some people get iMovie free on their macbooks while I don't get it for free. I have to pay $15 for it. I just updated my macbook air to the newest update version and also this mac is made in 2011 (as it says on the bottom part) well you know I'm new to this site and I hope I don't get any hates if ever I didn't give full details. I tried downloading it by pressing "buy app" but it's still waiting until now and there's not progress. Any explanation on why I have to buy mine while others get it for free?

You won't get an answer in the wrong forum.   No Air can run a Classic operating system.  Here is the MacBook Air forum:
MacBook Air
It should have been bundled with your Mac according to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMovie
It would appear the seller did not do a proper procedure in selling.   Contact AppleCare to make sure your machine isn't a stolen machine, or if they can put the applications up in the App Store for you to download all the pre bundled software that came with the machine.  

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