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Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is a 2018 documentary about the legendary TV personality, Fred Rogers. Directed by Academy-Award-winning director, Morgan Neville, the movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.

Here’s how you can watch and stream Won’t You Be My Neighbor? via streaming services such as Netflix.

Is Won’t You Be My Neighbor? available to watch via streaming?

Yes, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is available to watch via streaming on Netflix.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? revolves around Fred Rogers, a television show host who once was a priest but changed his career to bring joy to kids via his show, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. After his death, the movie came out on Rogers’s 90th birthday, celebrating his works compiled in a documentary.

Through this documentary, Neville has cleverly brought out the nuanced aspect of what went inside Rogers’ head to create a masterpiece like Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood that helped so many kids. The film also highlights how with his show, he tackled pretty intense issues like death and divorce. It presents the genuineness with which Rogers worked to ease the kids into explaining otherwise hard life truths.

With Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Morgan Neville has also showcased how Rogers voiced his inner thoughts via puppets and the voices of many characters. Overall, the documentary is a memoir of the late Fred Rogers that acts as a warm hug for people dealing with challenging situations.

The movie’s cast comprises Fred Rogers’s wife, Joanne Rogers, and his son, Jim Rogers. It also has interviews and archival footage of Fred’s biographer Max King, and others.

Watch Won’t You Be My Neighbor? streaming via Netflix

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? is available to watch on Netflix. Netflix offers many other heartwarming and touching documentaries like The Last Dance, Iris, and Jiro Dreams of Sushi, among many others.

You can watch via Netflix by following these steps:

1. Visit netflix.com/signup
2. Choose a payment plan from the following:
   • $6.99 per month (standard with Ads)
   • $15.49 per month (Standard)
   • $22.99 per month (Premium)
3. Enter your email address and password to create an account
4. Enter your chosen payment method

The cheapest Netflix Standard with Ads Plan provides all but a few of its movies and TV shows. However, it will show ads before or during most of its content. You can watch in Full HD and on two supported devices at a time.

Its Standard Plan provides the same but is completely ad-free while also allowing users to download content on two supported devices with an additional option to add one extra member who doesn’t live in the same household.

The Premium Plan provides the same as above, though for four supported devices at a time, with content displaying in Ultra HD. Users get to download content on up to six supported devices at a time and have the option to add up to two extra members who don’t live in the same household. Netflix spatial audio is also supported.

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? synopsis is as follows:

“For more than thirty years, and through his television program, Fred Rogers (1928-2003), host, producer, writer and pianist, accompanied by his puppets and his many friends, spoke directly to young children about some of life’s most important issues.”

NOTE: The streaming services listed above are subject to change. The information provided was correct at the time of writing.