A Review of SnagFilms.Com The Internet's Best Free Movie Site

Forget Youtube and Google Video. Snag a Movie at SnagFilms.Com Instead

The old cliche "you get what you pay for" is sometimes false. Snagfilms.com has proven it.

No cable television company has ever run lines down the road I live on, and I doubt I would subscribe if they ever did. Most of the films coming out in theaters do not appeal to me. I have also begun to tire of google video and youtube. In the past few months I had started to despair of finding any more decent movies to watch. Then one day I stumbled upon SnagFilms.

Snagfilms was launched in 2007 and now has over 500 films viewers can watch for free. If you like fictional films, Snagfilms is not for you. The company only shows documentaries. Since I prefer documentaries and believe that the best filmmaking in the world today is being done by documentary filmmakers, this is not a problem for me.

SnagFilms has a number of channels you can watch on your computer, including PBS, Peter Jennings Reporting, National Geographic and Arts Alliance America.¹ You will undoubtedly already have heard of some of the films at SnagFilms. For example, you can watch Supersize Me, Morgan Spurlock's 2004 documentary about fast food corporations and obesity.

Let me tell you briefly about just two of the documentaries I watched at SnagFilms. Paper Clips, directed by Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab, is a 2004 film about a group of children from Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee. Trying to understand the concept of six million, they decide to collect six million paper clips, one for every Jewish person the Nazis killed during the Holocaust. They succeed in their goal, but more importantly they succeed in understanding better what the Holocaust was all about.

Born Again is the story of Director Markie Hancock's fundamentalist Christian childhood and her 20-year struggle to leave the church. She finally decides to tell her family that she is a lesbian. The movie focuses primarily on her relationship with her parents and two brothers before and after she tells them that she is a lesbian.

Both of these films were excellent, although I liked Paper Clips better. Both are representative of the high quality documentaries available at SnagFilms.