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For educators

What are you teaching this week?

Pick a question worth asking and we’ll give you the lesson around it — documentaries worth the hour, the concepts underneath them, questions to argue about, and something to do afterwards. Built for parents teaching at home and teachers who want an hour that lands.

Browse the questionsBuild one for your topic

Free to use and to share. Nobody you send it to needs an account.

Start from a question

Each one is a complete journey — films, concepts, discussion, activities. Open any of them and use it as it stands.

What you actually get

A journey isn’t a playlist. It’s the lesson around the films.

  • One big question

    The spine of the whole thing. Not a topic — a question worth arguing about.

  • Films to watch

    Every one checked as genuinely playable. Runtimes shown, so you can plan the hour.

  • Learning objectives

    What someone should be able to say or do by the end.

  • Key concepts

    The handful of ideas that unlock the rest, defined in plain language.

  • A timeline

    Where events sit in relation to each other, for subjects where that matters.

  • Discussion prompts

    Open questions for the table or the classroom. No single right answer.

  • A quiz

    Quick recall check, if you want one.

  • Family activities

    Something to do away from the screen.

  • Sources & further reading

    Cited throughout. Books, articles, museums and places to go.

One question, three depths

Every journey is built in three layers, so the same question works for a ten-year-old and for a sixth-former. Teach the layer that fits, and the next one is already there when they’re ready.

  1. 101

    Start here

    The story and the stakes. Works from roughly upper primary upwards.

  2. 201

    Go deeper

    Causes, evidence and disagreement. Secondary and up.

  3. 301

    The hard part

    The open questions specialists still argue about.

Teaching at home

Say what you’re covering and who it’s for. Mark it as being for a child and give their age, and every film is drawn from our kids-safe pool — gated on what a film actually is, not on an age rating alone, because ratings lie.

Tell us which streaming services you already pay for and we’ll build the journey out of films you can genuinely watch tonight, rather than ones you’d have to rent.

Build a journey

Teaching a class

Every published journey is free to open and free to send on. Share the link and it works — no sign-up, no paywall, nothing for a student to create.

We don’t ask students for accounts and we don’t want their data. Set a journey as homework, then use the discussion prompts in the room the next day.

Browse every journey

Everything you could teach here

The full shelf. Follow any subject into the documentaries behind it — and if a journey doesn’t exist for what you need yet, build it.

The Cosmos & Physical World

Religion & Belief

Questions

Do I need an account to use a journey?
No. Published journeys are open to anyone — no account, no subscription. You only need Plus to build your own.
Can I share one with my class or another parent?
Yes, and whoever you send it to needs no account either. They open the link and it works. We never ask a student to sign up.
Is it safe for younger children?
When you build a journey you can mark it as being for a child and give their age. Films are then drawn only from our kids-safe pool, which is gated on content class rather than on age ratings alone.
Can I use these films in a classroom?
Journeys link to films you can watch. Whether a particular film may be screened to a group depends on that film’s licence and on the educational exemptions where you teach, which we can’t advise on. Most people use a journey as set-and-discuss homework rather than as a group screening.
What does it cost?
Reading and sharing journeys is free. Building your own is part of Plus.