Kanopy streaming service spotlights Arab American Heritage Month in April
The free and ad-free Kanopy streaming service is honoring Arab American Heritage Month in April with some 43 films and documentaries celebrating the richness and diversity of Arab American identity, culture and experience – available to anyone with a library card. A sampling of them can be found below:
- “Four Daughters” (2023)
- “Sirens” (2022)
- “Hamtramck” (2020)
- “Make America Laugh Again” (2020) (featuring Ramy Youssef)
- “American Muslim (2018)
- “May in the Summer” (2013)
- “Salt of This Sea” (2008)
Also new to Kanopy in April are the 1981 classic “Mommie Dearest,” “The Firm” from 1993 and the first season of the British TV series “Absolutely Fabulous” from 1981 along with the 2022 film “Joyride” starring Olivia Colman.
Kanopy offers what is undoubtedly the best library streaming service around, available to some 45 million people in the United States with a library card and through more than 85% of large American colleges and universities. It has more than 12,000 filmmaker and supplier partners. The service’s curated catalog of feature films and documentaries (available at kanopy.com) cuts across a variety of movie genres and TV classics, including Oscar winners like “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “The Whale,” “Thelma & Louise,” “Black Hawk Down,” the Paul Newman-starrer “Hud” and “Romeo & Juliet” (from 1968), to Academy Award nominees “Triangle of Sadness” “Lady Bird” and “EO,” to the Emmy-winning David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream,” to the classic 1960s TV drama “The Prisoner.”
Because of the depth of its content, the Kanopy service is prized among cinephiles, film buffs and film critics. The company partners with filmmakers and movie studios around the globe to give movie lovers free access to films that stimulate imagination, promote learning and spark meaningful conversations.
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