University Libraries

For many years, Netflix has allowed teachers to screen documentaries in their classrooms: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/57695.  This link explains the language regarding Educational Streaming of Documentaries.  

Via their YouTube channel, NETFLIX has provided roughly 40+ educational documentaries available to screen, these films are legal to stream in class, for an event, at a community center, anywhere.

OPEN TO ALL, EVERYWHERE, NO NEED FOR NETFLIX ACCOUNT TO WATCH

Currently some of the titles:

• We the People
• Amend, the fight for America
• Our Planet'
• Chasing Coral
• 13th
•  Knock Down the House
• The White Helmets
• Babies
• Period: End of Sentence
• Abstract

GRANT OF PERMISSION FOR EDUCATIONAL SCREENINGS Netflix is proud to present original documentaries that speak to our users in a meaningful way. We know that many of you are as excited about these films as we are; and because of their informational aspects, you’d like to show them in an educational setting -- e.g., in the classroom, at the next meeting of your community group, with your book club, etc. Consequently, we will permit one-time educational screenings of any of the documentaries noted with this information, on the following terms: The documentary may only be accessed via the Netflix service, by a Netflix account holder. We don’t sell DVDs, nor can we provide other ways for you to exhibit the film. The screening must be non-profit and non-commercial. That means you can’t charge admission, or solicit donations, or accept advertising or commercial sponsorships in connection with the screening. Please don’t use Netflix’s logos in any promotion for the screening, or do anything else that indicates that the screening is “official” or endorsed by Netflix.

 

The above list of Netflix titles are available on their YouTube channel, for anyone, no Netflix account necessary.

Netflix offers more documentaries, not on their YouTube channel, you must have an account in order to screen.  So far I have not found the best way to locate these films. 

Searching Netflix Media Center individually, was the best way to discover if Grant of Rights are available.  Searching Netflix and Netflix Media are two different interfaces.  

VideoLibrarian, as of February 2022, has compiled a list of titles available for educational screenings. The Grant of Rights is a bit different, so yes, a faculty can screen in class, a group can have a screening, but Netflix asks that these be one time screenings per Semester (at least).

GRANT OF PERMISSION FOR EDUCATIONAL SCREENINGS Netflix is proud to present original documentaries that speak to our users in a meaningful way. We know that many of you are as excited about these films as we are; and because of their informational aspects, you’d like to show them in an educational setting -- e.g., in the classroom, at the next meeting of your community group, with your book club, etc. Consequently, we will permit one-time educational screenings - "one-time screening" means that you can't hold screenings several times in one day or one week, but if, for example, you're an educator who wants to show the film once a semester over multiple semesters, that's okay. Educational screenings are permitted for any of the documentaries noted with this information, on the following terms:

• The documentary may only be accessed via the Netflix service, by a Netflix account holder. We don’t sell DVDs, nor can we provide other ways for you to exhibit the film.
• The screening must be non-profit and non-commercial. That means you can’t charge admission, or solicit donations, or accept advertising or commercial sponsorships in connection with the screening.
• Please don’t use Netflix’s logos in any promotion for the screening, or do anything else that indicates that the screening is “official” or endorsed by Netflix.
• We trust our users to respect these guidelines, which are intended to help you share and discuss our documentary content in your community.

Additional list of titles as of Feb 2022

The following titles are available for a one-time educational screening. You must have a personal Netflix account in order to show these titles in the classroom during a face-to-face traditional setting. Always double-check the details page for each title, before showing, to ensure that the Grant of Permission is still applicable.

13th

Abstract: The Art of Design

American Factory

Athlete A

Audrie & Daisy

The Bleeding Edge

Bobby Kennedy for President

Chasing Coral

City of Joy

Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution

Cuba and the Cameraman

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

End Game

Extremis

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Follow This

Grass is Greener

The Great Hack

Heroin(e)

Icarus

Immigration Nation

The Innocence Files

Into the Inferno

The Ivory Game