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WARSAW — The popular, on-demand film streaming service Kanopy is now available for free through Warsaw Community Public Library.

Kanopy joins other video streaming services offered at WCPL, including Hoopla, as well as RB Digital’s Acorn TV, IndieFlix and Qello Concerts.

Library cardholders can access Kanopy and sign up to start streaming films instantly by visiting warsawlibrary.kanopy.com. Films can be streamed from any computer, television, mobile device or platform by downloading the Kanopy app for iOS, Android, AppleTV, Chromecast or Roku.

Offering what the New York Times calls “a garden of cinematic delights,” Kanopy showcases more than 30,000 of the world’s best films, including award-winning documentaries, rare and hard-to-find titles, film festival favorites, indie and classic films and world cinema with collections from Kino Lorber, Music Box Films, Samule Goldwyn, The Orchard, The Great Courses, PBS and thousands of independent filmmakers.

With the motto “thoughtful entertainment,” Kanopy provides WCPL’s patrons with access to films of unique social and cultural value; films that are often difficult or impossible to access elsewhere and programming that features diversity, with a wide array of foreign language films and films on race and current affairs.

The Kanopy collection includes indie hits like “Hunt For the Wilderpeople” and “2 Days in Paris,” classic masterpieces like “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” and “Seven Samurai” and award-winning documentaries like the 2017 Oscar-nominated “I Am Not Your Negro” and Sundance Film Festival winner “Mother of George.”

Kanopy was founded in 2008 by CEO Olivia Humphrey as an educational tool for colleges and universities. More than 5 million Kanopy users stream the most acclaimed movies and documentaries from award-winning filmmakers, and experience the best in independent, classic film and world cinema.

Kanopy features public performance rights, which allows authorized users to show the films in large group settings, such as classrooms, as long as no admission is charged and no profit is made.