Stream Movies With Your Library Card

In honor of Women's History Month, we are sharing some great movies available to watch with your FVRLibraries card on Kanopy.

If you are new to Kanopy, you are in for a treat! This streaming service includes independent films, classic films, documentaries, kids' programming and more.

Once you create your account with your library card, you will receive 40 tickets per month. Every video is labeled with its ticket cost and viewing period upfront. Kanopy Kids also offers unlimited browsing and viewing — no tickets required!

Here is a quick guide to getting started and instructions on how to create an account: https://www.fvrl.org/resource/kanopy/

Now grab a bowl of popcorn, a comfortable seat, and start streaming! To get you started, here are a few of our favorite movies female-centric movies currently available on Kanopy:

Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, TONYA is a dark comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history.

Winner of Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role and nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role and Best Achievement in Film Editing at the Academy Awards.

Based on her book, this World Premiere film follows Simone Biles through the sacrifices and hard work that led her to win 19 Olympic and World Championship medals.

Biography of children's author Beatrix Potter, including how she overcame a domineering mother and the chauvinism of Victorian England to become a best-selling author.

Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, Payal Kapadia’s revelatory fiction feature debut explores and celebrates the lives and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai. Centering on three women who work together at a city hospital, Kapadia’s radiant film is a soulful study of the transformative power of friendship and sisterhood, in all its complexities and richness.

In this inspiring biographical drama, Alabama tire factory supervisor Lilly Ledbetter (Patricia Clarkson) discovers she’s been underpaid for years compared to her male coworkers. Refusing to stay silent, she takes her fight for equal pay all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, ultimately inspiring the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. With strong turns by John Benjamin Hickey and Thomas Sadoski, Lilly honors one woman’s battle that helped change American labor law forever.

Written and directed by Academy Award nominee Ava DuVernay, ORIGIN chronicles the tragedy and triumph of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson as she investigates a global phenomenon of epic proportions. Isabel experiences unfathomable personal loss and love as she crosses continents and cultures to craft one of the defining American books of our time. Inspired by the New York Times best-seller “Caste,” ORIGIN explores the mystery of history, the wonders of romance and a fight for the future of us all.

The vibrant cultures of India, Uganda, and the American South come together in Mira Nair’s MISSISSIPPI MASALA, a luminous look at the complexities of love in the modern melting pot. Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda by the dictatorship of Idi Amin, twentysomething Mina spends her days cleaning rooms in an Indian-run motel in Mississippi. When she falls for the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius, their passionate romance challenges the prejudices of both of their families and exposes the rifts between the region’s Indian and African American communities. Tackling thorny issues of racism, colorism, culture clash, and displacement with bighearted humor and keen insight, Nair serves up a sweet, sexy, and deeply satisfying celebration of love’s power.

Alicia Silverstone shines as the 15-year-old Beverly Hills High School student who thrives on shopping, enjoys the perfect social life, and plays matchmaker to all her friends… just don’t ask her who she’s dating, as if! Directed by Amy Heckerling, and inspired by Jane Austen’s Emma, CLUELESS is a smart, charming, and hilarious classic that truly captures what it was like to be a teen in the 1990s.

A documentary presenting the live recording of Aretha Franklin's album AMAZING GRACE at The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972.