Netfilx as a learning tool

Many people have considered Netflix as a way of watching a movie or finding a good TV show to watch but it can have a good use in education as well. Many times watching a movie based off of a true story, or a well directed documentary is a great way to enhance the points of a lesson, however sometimes there are difficulties with this. Showing movies in class takes up class time, and sometimes students will be absent and miss the movies that other classmates saw. A great way to show movies would be to find one on Netflix. Netflix (Click here to visit their website) is relativity inexpensive at around $10/ month and will allow the student to go home and watch a required movie without hoping to find it at a movie store, or try to find a copy at a library. If there is a cost issue with students the instructor could set up an account and give out the password to students to be able to watch it on their own time. While finding the exact Hollywood might be difficult there is a extensive selection of historical and documentaries available.