View SXSW documentaries online for free

If you're bitter about not getting to go to Austin, Texas, this year for the SXSW film festival, put those sour grapes down. At least you can watch a handful of documentaries featured in the lineup online thanks to Snag Films.

The films:

Darkon - This documentary takes place in Baltimore, Md., which has been re-imagined as the kingdom of Darkon. Amused by fantasy role-playing gamers fighting each other in real time? This might be your movie.

Crawford - You might recall Gov. George W. Bush buying a ranch in the one-stoplight town of Crawford, Texas, (population 700) just prior to his run for president in 1999. This established his folksy image. Bush's decision to intertwine his life with this small town America doesn't go without repercussions for the populace of Crawford. At first, they're trampled by the press corps, patriotic tourists and boomtown opportunists. Later 20,0000 impassioned protesters and counter-protesters converge in the town as it becomes a microcosm for a nation in flux and a reflection of the Bush era.

Heavy Metal in Baghdad - A feature film documentary that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda from the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003 to the present day. Playing heavy metal in a Muslim country has always been a difficult (if not impossible) proposition, but after Saddam’s regime was toppled, there was a brief moment for the band in which real freedom seemed possible. That hope was quickly dashed as their country fell into a bloody insurgency. From 2003 to 2006 Iraq disintegrated around them as Acrassicauda struggled to stay together and stay alive, never letting their heavy-metal dreams die. Their story echoes the unspoken hopes of an entire generation of young Iraqis.

Run Granny Run - Doris “Granny D” Haddock laced up her sneakers and walked across America to rally against the influence of big money in elections—making both friends and enemies inside the Washington beltway...when she was 90 years old. Now 94 and still fed up with politics as usual, she jumps at an unexpected chance to run for U.S. Senate in the state of New Hampshire.