SnagFilms is providing portions of its video library to Hulu, an online video service that offers hit TV shows, movies and clips at Hulu.com and other online destination sites — all for free, anytime in the U.S., for the launch of the company’s new documentary film section of the service.

SnagFilms brings the best nonfiction films to the web audience, promotes viral web distribution through virtual movie theater widgets, and engages viewers to assist in charitable and community efforts. “SnagFilms was created to make more great films available to the broadest possible audience. Now with Hulu we can delight viewers on one of the Internet’s most-visited video sites with a growing set of documentaries from our large library, and deepen the already broad set of entertainment choices that Hulu offers,” said Rick Allen, CEO of SnagFilms.

In addition to featuring documentary films selected from SnagFilms’ library of 600 films, the Hulu documentary channel will provide viewers with access to regular bonus content, including “Behind the Camera”, a question-and-answer feature with select documentary filmmakers. “`Behind the Camera’ will give viewers a never before seen look into documentary films and help viewers understand what drives documentary filmmakers to do what they do,” added Rick Allen.

SnagFilms also released new performance metrics achieved since its launch in July 2008, including:

• SnagFilms widgets have appeared on more than 300 million web pages;
• Over 1.5 million movies have been streamed;
• More than 20,000 “affiliates” having opened “virtual theaters” with SnagFilms content embedded in widgets on their pages;
• The SnagFilms library now contains 600 documentary films.