Snag Films, a website that is a true service to the education community, now offers more than 800 free documentary films for online viewing. This represents an almost 33% expansion of the collection in the last six months. As I’ve mentioned in the past, Snag Films solves two real problems for the classroom teacher that shows documentary films.

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Snag Films is great for teachers because it makes many documentaries available for free and on demand. You don’t have to go searching through your school library, rummaging through your department’s storage closet, or spend any of your limited budget on a film that you may only use a few times per year.

Snag Films presents a solution to a problem that I always run into when showing a documentary in class. The problem is every time I show a documentary in class, there seems to be one or two absent students who then need to watch the film either after school or in the viewing room in the library. By embedding the documentary into your class blog or website those students who were absent the day the class watched the film can now watch it any time from any computer.