Netflix has launched in the UK with a catalogue of streaming movies and TV shows. On the surface that catalogue isn’t massively exciting, what with it not being particularly big or filled with a great amount of very new things.

But then most new things are shit, and quality doesn’t need company. For whatever reason, the current Netflix collection has plenty of ‘90s US independent movies (well, Miramax) and a few choice picks from United Artists and ‘70s New Hollywood.

The service is currently offering a 30 day free trial, so here are 30 things that I would describe as “amazing” without too much thought. That’s one a day! If you’re useless enough not to have seen any of them so far.

The Idea: After losing a proxy fight to the activist investor Carl Icahn, Blockbuster’s then CEO faced a new obstacle: executing strategy in the face of boardroom opposition. He looks back on what he might have done differently.

You should, however, be sweating the Western. Because not least among their virtues is that Joel and Ethan Coen care and care deeply about genre. Virtually all of their movies are a loving pastiche of one genre form or another, whether playful (like Hudsucker’s newspaper comedy or The Big Lebowski’s skewed take on the hardboiled detective), not so playful (No Country For Old Men) or both somehow at once (Miller’s Crossing, Fargo). And the Western is fickle. You’ve got to contend with books, movies, radio, and TV, all with their own assumptions, all alternating giddy hats-and-badges-and-guns-and-horses entertainment and stone-serious edge-of-civilization Greek-tragedy-meets-American-origin-stories primal rites.

Tim Carmody's answer to Frank Chimero's question: Looking to do some sort of survey on film history. Any sort of open curriculum out there like this that runs in tandem with Netflix Instant?