With Netflix’s DVDs by mail service now heading off into the sunset, movie trivia nerds now have decades of data to pull from regarding what kind of motion pictures flourished on this service and why.
Netflix gave people the ability to pull features from countless countries right into their homes simply by requesting them online, but what did people actually rent from this service? The list of the 50 most rented films on Netflix suggests that subscribers largely used Netflix to catch up on mainstream cinema they might have missed in the theater.
Projects like Hidden Figures, The King’s Speech, and The Fighter dominate the list.
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