Maybe they’ve been doing it for a while, but I just figured out that Netflix.com allows subscribers X amount of hours of free viewing of selected programs each month. The amount of hours is based on the plan you’ve got. For instance, if you’re on the one-out-at-a-time-unlimited plan (or whatever it is that they call it), you pay around $9 a month. Along with receiving one DVD out at a time, you get 9 hours of free online viewing.
So, it’s a real bonus, imo.
Here’s some of the free shows that homeschoolers might be inclined to watch:
- Anne of Avonlea
- Sister Wendy: The Complete Collection
- In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great
- Battlefield Britain
- Shark Mountain
- Walking with Dinosaurs
- Gods and Generals (Civil War)
- Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire
- Gettysburg: The Boys in Blue & Gray
- Empires: Martin Luther
- Great Expectations (Masterpiece Theatre)
- Nature: Reptiles
- Greeks: Crucible of Civilization
- Empires: The Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance
- Modern Marvels: The Great Wall of China
- Modern Marvels: The Manhattan Project
- The Great Ships: The Pirate Ships
- Empires of Industry: Black Gold: The Story of Oil
- North and South (Britain, Gaskell)
- Our Mutual Friend (Dickens)
- In Search of the Trojan War
Plenty of others are also available for instant viewing. Of course, you’ve got to have a certain computer set-up; it won’t work on decrepit computers like my desktop.
Best part? They’re all commercial free. Rather ironic that I’d write that, no?
