Free Documentaries

Are you looking for a documentary film to show in class? Take a look at SnagFilms.com. This is a site that helps filmmakers distributes their films online. These aren't just YouTube clips, but full feature films that have aired at film festivals and come from known sources such as PBS and National Geographic.

You can view the films on the site or "snag" the film for your own blog or a social networking site. This is easily done without any technical knowledge. If you are wondering what the catch is, there are some ads. Documentary filmmakers usually struggle to distribute their content and this is a pretty ingenuous way to distribute films. The filmmakers and SnagFilms.com split the revenue from advertising.Filmmakers also get a chance to sell DVDs of their films from SnagFilms.com .

Take a look at the Top Rated films on the site. These include such titles as The Times of Harvey Milk, The Future of Food and Refrigerator Mothers. All highly rated films on the Internet Movie Database.

You can either link directly to the film and watch it on the SnagFilm website. Here is the one about a search for the infamous Afghan girl who appeared on the cover of National Geographic in 1984.

Search for the Afghan Girl - Watch the Documentary Film for Free | Watch Free Documentaries Online | SnagFilms

Or you can snag it and watch it on your own social media site. Here is how a snagged film looks like on my blog. All I had to do was copy the code and paste it into the blog.

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Note the "Create one" link at the bottom of the window. It allows you to create your own playlist of multiple documentaries in three easy steps. Here is my list below. You can scroll through all of the documentaries that I have selected to watch by sliding the blue button to the right, at the bottom of the screen.

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