Netflix Released 10 of Its Documentaries to YouTube, So You Can Watch Them for Free
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The company explained in a blog post that it released the selection of films and TV show episodes for teachers and students, who used to be able to screen Netflix documentaries for free in the classroom but can no longer do so now that schools are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Each documentary comes with extra educational resources, and Netflix will also release Q&As with some of the filmmakers. “We hope this will, in a small way, help teachers around the world,” the company wrote.
The Netflix documentary films now accessible for free include:
- 13th, Ava DuVernay’s look at racial injustice in the American prison system
- Chasing Coral, about the disappearance of the world’s coral reefs
- Knock Down the House, which follows the 2018 congressional campaigns of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other progressive Democrats
- Period. End of Sentence, about what happens when a group of women install a sanitary pad machine in a rural village outside Delhi, India
- The White Helmets, which follows three volunteers of the Syria Civil Defense during the Syrian Civil War
- Zion, a portrait of a wrestler born without legs who grew up in foster care