Into Film+ Help Centre
Need some help? Find out more about Into Film+.
Launched in 2021, and created in partnership with Filmbankmedia, Into Film+ is the UK's first free* and rights-compliant streaming service designed explicitly for UK schools.
Designed, produced, and delivered with educators and their busy schedules in mind, Into Film+ enables you to easily stream a wide range of films, shorts, documentaries and TV programmes, allowing you to unlock the power of the moving image in the classroom like never before.
Into Film+ brings learning to life, providing curriculum-linked films and resources that support learning outcomes for pupils aged 5-19, giving thousands of educators a fantastic, user-friendly tool to help with lesson planning and enhance their teaching.
Film is an incredibly powerful tool for learning, engaging children of all ages and abilities, and can be used right across the curriculum. Whether you're a primary teacher wanting to bring the Vikings to life through a film, or a secondary educator hoping to embed modern language vocabulary into lessons, Into Film+ can support your teaching.
Into Film+ is enabling us to use film in ways we had never been able to before - clips and sections of films woven into our schemes of learning to increase engagement in lessons as well as helping students to understand difficult concepts.
Peter Holland, Lead Teacher for Film and Media Studies, Stourport High School & Sixth Form College
As the first free* streaming platform designed specifically for all school settings, Into Film+ is fully rights-compliant, removing any risk and enabling teachers to stream films safely and legally.
Featuring an ever-growing catalogue of hundreds of films, documentaries and TV programmes that cater to all pupils, Into Film+ features everything from timeless classics to independent short film and exciting new releases - all carefully selected to support your teaching of the curriculum, and packaged with curriculum-linked resources, discussion guides, and extra wraparound content from leading filmmakers.
As well as being of huge benefit to learning in the classroom, Into Film+ can also be a fantastic tool for extra-curricular settings, with film screenings the perfect activity to complement any number of extra-curricular activities or after-school clubs. And streaming a film can also be the ideal activity for periods of wet weather play or an end of term treat.
Into Film+ Special Features
Into Film+ Highlights
Our highlights feature allows you to save a useful scene or short segment of a film and then easily play it back whenever you need. So, rather than having to use the time-bar to scroll along to find the specific moment you're looking for, or needing to note down specific timecodes, you can use our highlights feature to easily access significant moments in a film, making it that much easier to illustrate key topics in classroom learning using film.
Into Film+ Playlists
Into Film+ Playlists allows you to assemble your created highlights into your very own playlists. That means, rather than having to navigate to different film pages to play all of your highlights around a certain theme or topic, you can bring them all together into one playlist and access them all at once.
Your playlists could run through a series of highlights that illustrate a particularly important point, or your playlist could be used to present highlights from films that explore the same topic from differing points of view. You can create as many playlists as you like to support your teaching - the only limit is your imagination!
Into Film+ Premium
If you're a state school in England, you'll also have access to Into Film+ Premium, which offers an extended catalogue of 600+ new releases, classic films, documentaries, and TV programmes.
Into Film+ Premium is available and free to use for all English state schools that hold a valid Public Video Screening (PVS) Licence from Filmbankmedia. State schools in England are automatically covered, as a PVS Licence is provided to them by the Department for Education (DfE).
So if you're an English state school, you won't have to do anything! Simply sign up for Into Film+ and you'll automatically get access to Into Film+ Premium as well, giving you access to an even greater wealth of streaming options to help support your teaching.
What's more, while Into Film+ can traditionally only be accessed at the location where your Public Video Screening (PVS) Licence is registered to, Into Film+ Premium allows you to access Into Film+ from outside of your registered location, giving you greater flexibility when lesson planning. You will be able to create highlights and assemble playlists from anywhere, helping save you valuable time amid busy classroom schedules.
How Do I Get Started?
To access Into Film+, all you'll need is an Into Film Account - it's completely free, and only takes a moment to set up. Into Film+ is free to use for all UK state schools that hold a valid Public Video Screening (PVS) Licence from Filmbankmedia.
Filmbankmedia PVS Licences are paid for on behalf of schools by all local authorities in England and by some local authorities in both Wales and Scotland. Into Film NI cover the license cost for some schools in Northern Ireland. For further information on licensing in your locality please see our FAQs.
If you're a state school in England that's funded by the Department for Education, you will automatically have access to Into Film+ Premium, which offers an extended catalogue of 600+ titles. Find out more about Into Film+ Premium in our FAQs.
If you don't have a PVS Licence, or aren't already covered, then a licence can easily be obtained from Filmbankmedia.
Filmbankmedia
Filmbankmedia licenses and distributes film and TV entertainment to many groups and is the licensing authority we work with to ensure schools, libraries and youth groups have the permissions to screen films from our catalogue.
* Screenings for an entertainment or extra-curricular purpose require a PVS (Public Video Screening) Licence from Filmbankmedia. State-funded schools in England are covered by the PVS Licence.
The core Into Film programme is free for UK state schools, colleges and other youth settings, thanks to support from the BFI, awarding National Lottery good cause funding, and through other key funders including Cinema First and Northern Ireland Screen.
