New Orleans Public Library adds Kanopy, a streaming service featuring art house films and documentaries

admin · 10-25-2017, 03:30 PM

Great news for lovers of art house and classic cinema: The New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) is now offering free subscriptions to Kanopy, a free streaming service with more than 30,000 titles ? including those from the Criterion Collection, as well as film festival award winners, documentaries (including Ken Burns), PBS series, independent cinema, foreign films, classics, shorts and more.

Users with a library card can go to the Kanopy website, create an account and immediately begin streaming as many as 12 free movies a month. Kanopy works on Android and iOS devices, and there's a Roku app as well.

A quick browse through Kanopy's library shows dozens of New Orleans- and Louisiana-related titles, including Tchoupitoulas ? A Portrait of New Orleans; Mosquitoes and High Water: The Isleños of New Orleans; The Sons of Tennessee Williams; Bayou Maharajah;*Getting Back to Abnormal; and Dirty Energy:*Firsthand Stories from the Deepwater Horizon Disaster,

The NOPL also has another streaming service, Hoopla, which features more general interest titles.?

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admin Site Admin Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Orleans Posts: 11,971 Blog Entries: 2	New Orleans Public Library adds Kanopy, a streaming service featuring art house films and documentaries Great news for lovers of art house and classic cinema: The New Orleans Public Library (NOPL) is now offering free subscriptions to Kanopy, a free streaming service with more than 30,000 titles ? including those from the Criterion Collection, as well as film festival award winners, documentaries (including Ken Burns), PBS series, independent cinema, foreign films, classics, shorts and more. Users with a library card can go to the Kanopy website, create an account and immediately begin streaming as many as 12 free movies a month. Kanopy works on Android and iOS devices, and there's a Roku app as well. A quick browse through Kanopy's library shows dozens of New Orleans- and Louisiana-related titles, including Tchoupitoulas ? A Portrait of New Orleans; Mosquitoes and High Water: The Isleños of New Orleans; The Sons of Tennessee Williams; Bayou Maharajah;Getting Back to Abnormal; and Dirty Energy:Firsthand Stories from the Deepwater Horizon Disaster, The NOPL also has another streaming service, Hoopla, which features more general interest titles.?