New Streaming Film Collections on Kanopy for Your Viewing Delight

Posted on June 11, 2025 at 6:00 am

Our digital resource Kanopy offers quality, thoughtful entertainment with streaming movies, documentaries, and TV series for free over Wi-Fi and the internet.

SCLD introduced Kanopy in 2023 with variety of different collections and later added the Kids collection. We’ve now expanded this offering to include the Family Friendly Collection and Streaming in Spanish Collection.

Kanopy is great for practicing your understanding of new languages while viewing world language films. Some ideas for entertaining with Kanopy also include:

• Regular family-friendly film viewings
• A watch party with friends
• Date night at home

Entertainment doesn’t need to be costly. Check out Kanopy for a wide variety of free viewing, with an in-district library card.

New Collections

Family Friendly

The Family Friendly Collection includes heartwarming adventures, animated classics, and feel-good stories the whole family will love.

Here are a few to watch:

• Bookworm
• Maya the Bee Movie
• Jim Henson’s Labyrinth
• Endgame
• Miss Austen Regrets

Streaming in Spanish

The Spanish Collection includes popular global films for Spanish speakers, offering an immersive viewing experience. Films and documentaries including titles that are either completely in Spanish, have Spanish subtitles, or are dubbed in Spanish.

Here are a few to check out:

• The Enchanted: Els encantats
• Not Such an Easy Life: Una vida no tan simple
• The Bride: La Novia
• The Method: El método
• Embrace of the Serpent: El abrazo de la serpiente

Continuing Collections

Kids Collection

Check out Kanopy Kids Collections for over 600 engaging short videos and TV series, such as Top Kids Picks, New Favorite Stories, and Stories from Around the World. Along with Scaredy Squirrel, Go Buster, Knuffle Bunny, and other animated friends, you’ll find collections of story time favorites, rhyming stories, and read-along tales.

Easy Watching

Discover crowd-pleasing comedies, entertaining and informative documentaries, popular classic cinema, and family-friendly films with the Easy Watching Collection. Titles include Mona Lisa Smile, The Three Musketeers, 13 Going on 30, and Hubble: The Wonders of Space Revealed.

Favorites

These fan-favorite films and documentaries feature crowd pleasers and acclaimed actors. The Favorites Collection includes Point Break, Howard’s End, Ken Burns: The Dust Bowl, and Death Comes to Pemberley.

Diversity Collection

The Diversity Collection of multicultural and diverse stories and storytellers focuses on broad range of popular and compelling films and documentaries, including Rent, Roots, Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, and Chan Is Missing.

World Cinema

World Cinema Collection is a selection of international films that spans various cultures. Unlock recent theatrical hits and critically acclaimed classics, including Nowhere in Africa, Becoming Astrid, Still Life, and Lady Vengeance.

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