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International Documentary Network – documentary.net

We offer legal high quality documentaries to stream and download for free. Only the best films get selected by us to guarantee quality content. Our docs educate, entertain, inform, teach, shock, explain. You get deeper insights, you increase your knowledge and maybe you gain some new perspectives.
Bored with the regular TV programming? Documentary.net allows you to see what you want, when you want and where you want to see it. You can enjoy the films on your computer, on tv-sets with internet connection, at home and/or on the way with your iPad or tablet.

You can browse by category, topic and length:

  • Short (up to 10 min): for watching on train, subway, on the go (iPad and tablet usage on the go)
  • Middle (10-30 min): more detailed docs, deeper insights
  • Long (30+ min): best consumed at home on laptop or home tv set. Take your time and dive into various topics

What differs us from the rest:

  • We only feature documentaries both perfect in filmmaking and technical aspects. We hate bad VHS tape rips or low quality encoded films with lots of artifacts in it. Film watching must not be a puzzle game!
  • Films are available worldwide. No territory restrictions. No more “this film is not available in your region…”
  • We do not post films that have been uploaded without permission of the rightholders or filmmakers like 99% of other free documentary sites do. Theses sites do not repect the hard work a filmmaker has to go through. They just go for much traffic = money with ads on their sites.
  • Most of the flicks can be watched on any device like iPad, PCs, Mac, iPhone, Android and more
  • We value and support filmmakers. Promote your own film or project for free
  • Get insights and updates in the documentary film industry
  • Meet and talk with fellow doc lovers and filmmakers
  • We provide an open and free documentary filmmaker forum and community at community.documentary.net (even earlier than alpha status…)

This is a project to value the genre documentary film.

Don’t forget to join us and support the idea of free documentary films.

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Feel free to use this description of documentary.net for news coverage:

Documentary.net offers free and legal film streaming of documentaries from all around the world without regional and technical limitations

The films can be viewed on PCs and Mac computers as well as on laptops or mobile devices like Android powered smartphones and tablets or iPhones and iPads. Users can browse through various genres or select from different lengths: less than 10min, 11-30 minutes or longer than 30 minutes.

Documentary.net works closely with filmmakers and producers to support their films but also to ensure the legal service. Filmmakers can also promote their films and trailers for free upon request.

The content on documentary.net is generated by thousands of professional content producers and TV-stations who provide their films on the internet for free. The number of documentaries produced has increased significantly over the last couple of years due to lower production costs and the possibility to distribute them worldwide almost for free.

The idea of documentary.net is to aggregate and curate all the available content. No need to browse different TV-channels, no need to worry if the video will play on your device. Documentary.net helps to save a lot of search time and does it all for you, free of charge. Just click on the topic that you are interested in and you are ready to explore the world in moving pictures.

Up to now the site offers over 500 films with more to come on a daily basis. Films vary from multi-million dollar projects to Academy Awards winners or Palme d’Or in Cannes. Still the majority are films from independent filmmakers who produce high quality films that will surprise you.

Join documentary.net and see what’s happening around the world!

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