Free Movies and Shows Based on Books on Kanopy
What is Kanopy?
Kanopy is a streaming service that partners with libraries and universities to provide free access to a wide variety of movies, shows and read alongs. The adult / older kid section using tickets (points) to limit access month to month but the kid section has no such limiter. You WILL need to create an account tied to either a library or a university. Once you log in you can browse their catalog, and it is pretty expansive. They do get in newer titles but they don't have exclusivity like Disney+ or Netflix so they once they get something pretty much all the other streaming services also have a chance to buy rights to it. However since it is no cost to you why not check it out? Best of all as of 10/11/24 Kanopy is AD FREE. Which is really nice since many other streaming services charge you and then still show ads.
Click here to start the registration. (We are in no way in a partnership with Kanopy, it is ajust a good service many people don't seem to realize is out there.)
How to find your local library.
If your local library doesn't have it you can always see if another library system by you does and will let you join. In some states if you are a resident you can also sign up at other libraries, at others they might charge. Everyday-Reading.com has a good article on this and they found some as low as $8/year. Just be sure to double check on Kanopy that they are included before you call and sign up.
The shows available on Kanopy change from time to time so if there is one you like be sure to watch it before it goes.
Examples of the SOME of the movies and shows available as of writing this that are based on Books:
Adults and Older Kids
- 1984
- 22 Bullets
- After Yang
- Alone in Berlin
- And Then There Were None
- Annihilation
- Between Two Worlds
- Black Hawk Down
- Blade of the Immortal
- Communion
- Confessions of a Hitman
- Death Comes to Pemberley
- Death on the Nile
- Diary of a Chambermaid
- Don't Look Now
- Dororo
- Eileen
- Endless night
- Everything Went Fine
- Farewell My Concubine
- Firefox
- House of the Spirits
- Howards End
- I Am David
- I'm All Right Jack
- Into the Whild
- Jamaica Inn
- Les Miserables
- Lies We Tell
- Lonesome Dove
- Love Rosie
- Matchstick Men
- Memento
- Metropolis
- Missing
- Mommie Dearest
- Naked Among Wolves
- Nosferatu
- Nowhere in Africa
- Perfume
- Purple Noon
- Quartet
- Rabbit Proof Fence
- Rebecca
- Reincarnated as a Sword
- Scarlet Pimpernel
- Sometimes They Come Back
- Tatsumi
- The Big Shot
- The Bookshop
- The Buccaneers
- The Canterville Ghost
- The Cruel Sea
- The Duchess
- The Graduate
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- The Imitation Game
- The Last Unicorn
- The Man Who Fell To Earth
- The Man Who Invented Christmas
- The Name of the Rose
- The Outpost
- The Road Dance
- The Third Man
- The Three Musketeers
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
- The Vourdalak
- The Woman in White
- Then She Found Me
- TinTin
- Travels with My Aunt
- Voyage of the Damned
- War and Peace
- Winter's Bone
- Wuthering Heights
Adapted From Children's Books (Young Children)
- A House for Hermit Crab
- A Very Brave Witch
- Arnie the Doughnut
- Bear Snores On
- Charlotte's Web
- Chicken Little
- Chrysanthemum
- Cinderella
- Corduroy
- Crazy Hair Day
- Crow Boy
- Curious George Rides a Bike
- Danny and the Dinosaur
- Dem Bones
- Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
- Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late
- Emily's First 100 Days of School
- Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure
- Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
- Hansel and Gretel
- Harry the Dirty Dog
- Here Comes the Cat!
- Hiawatha
- How Do Dinosaurs Go to School?
- How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
- Is Your Mama a Llama?
- Lucky Ducklings
- Luls and Tabitha
- Officer Buckle and Gloria
- Over and Under the Snow
- Owl Moon
- Rapunzel
- Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend
- Stone Soup
- The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
- The Elves and the Shoemaker
- The Gym Teacher From The Black Lagoon
- The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
- The Little Red Hen
- The Other Side
- The Snowy Day
- The Three Robbers
- The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs
- Tikki Tikki Tembo
- Too Many Tamales
- Unicorn (and Horse)
- What's Under My Bed?
- Where the Wild Things Are
- Whistle for Willie
