Ever since learning about Kanopy back in June, I've been using the free, limited access made available through two libraries ? NYPL and Queens Library ? to watch primarily documentaries on architecture. If you live in the United States and have a card at a participating library, then you might know already that Kanopy is excellent for watching documentaries of all sorts but also independent films, foreign films, and classic movies. This isn't binge-watching on Netflix; it's expanding one's mind by watching educational, intelligent films on a variety of subjects. Below are 40 architecture films worth watching, organized by film production company.

Checkerboard Film Foundation:
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line. In the first decade of this century, DS+R jumped from obscure set and installation architects to the big leagues of building with the two large-scale NYC commissions discussed here.Philip Johnson: Diary of an Eccentric Architect. The numerous structures on Johnson's New Canaan, Connecticut, estate ? spanning nearly 50 years from the 1949 Glass House, are used to structure a history of one of the most important 20th-century architects.Rick Joy: Interludes. A short, relaxing film in which Rick Joy takes us through some of his desert houses and a property in Woodstock, Vermont, relatively close to where the architect grew up in Maine.Robert A.M. Stern: 15 Central Park West and the History of the New York Apartment House. You don't ...