Tuesday's memorial service for Michael Jackson in Los Angeles is the hottest ticket ever, with nearly 17,000 seats at Staples Center offered and more than 1.6 million fans applying online. L.A. officials are urging everyone without tickets to stay away from the area but you know that won't happen.

What kind of people will spend hours, even days on vigil outside the arena without any chance of getting into the show? The same kind of Jackson fans who haunted the L.A. courthouse during the pop star's 2004-2005 trial for sexual misconduct with a minor, and the gates of Neverland where Jackson returned during adjournments.

We Are the Children is a 57-minute documentary crafted by Dianna Dilworth from hundreds of hours of interviews during the trial with uber-devoted Jacksonphiles, who aren't necessarily the social misfits and loony types that cynics would presume them to be. It's a perfect companion piece (maybe antidote) to the wall-to-wall TV coverage of Jackson's postmortem celebrity. Just click on this link to watch it.

Listen to these fans' stories of lifelong devotion, watch them coo over collections of MJ memorabilia, hear them defend a man who the masses convicted long before he was acquitted, and become fascinated with the effects of vicarious celebrity on ordinary folks. It's a interesting watch, worth the time and occasional commercials SnagFilms.com drops into the mix to pay the bills.

We Are the Children never was distributed to theaters, as some fine works aren't in a box office-driven industry. SnagFilms gives those nearly-forgotten movies an online home, free of charge to visitors, with a library of titles that I read about in industry publications but rarely have a chance to see.

Movies like Inside John Lennon, which is smartly being paired with the Jackson documentary under the banner "Taken Too Soon." You can also find the drop-out-of-society documentary Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa, which several readers asked about coming to Tampa Bay theaters and never did. Many of SnagFilms' offerings are political in nature and unabashedly biased in content, with something out there for folks on both sides of the fence.

You can also find socially conscious documentaries such as The Times of Harvey Milk, Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me and Skid Row, in which Pras from the Fugees spends time with L.A. homeless community.Or you can revisit National Geographic-style docs on exploring Titanic, confronting sharks, asteroids and UFOs, or chasing tornadoes.

The price is right. The movies are better. Check it out.