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The 10 Best Things Coming to Prime Video in August
Hit series ‘Reacher’ is back, the ‘Thursday Night Football’ preseason kicks off and a Novak Djokovic documentary traces tennis’s GOAT
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Maia Reficco and Eva Longoria play a daughter with a chronic health issue and a mother with an overprotective streak--on a trip to Mallorca--in "The Last Sunrise," coming August 26 to Prime Video.
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What better way to cool off during a late-summer heat wave than with some quality time in your air-conditioned living room? Amazon’s Prime Video offers plenty of new options while chilling out this month: Here are the month’s 10 top picks.
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Coming Aug. 1
Moonstruck (1987, PG)
Do you love this Oscar-winning 1980s rom-com? Me, I love it something awful. Cher stars as a widowed Brooklyn bookkeeper who sparks an unlikely connection with her fiancé’s estranged brother, a one-handed baker played with laconic charm by Nicolas Cage. Their scenes together have a grown-up authenticity, and the supporting cast (including Olympia Dukakis as Cher’s blunt mom) is the real deal.
Coming Aug. 5
Sterling Point, Season 1
Annie and Connor (Ella Rubin and Keen Ruffalo), 17-year-old twins raised by their single dad (Jay Duplass, 53), come into a surprise inheritance: an island in Canada belonging to their mysterious grandfather. There, Annie discovers new friends (and hints of romance) as well as long-buried secrets about her family.
Coming Aug. 7
Piece by Piece (2024, PG-13)
You didn’t expect pop music and fashion innovator Pharrell Williams, 53, to tell his life story in a conventional way, did you? The hat-fancying composer of the Despicable Me films who snagged an Oscar nom for the bouncy 2013 hit single “Happy” has chosen to animate his history with Lego minifigures. (Of course he has.) The result is a trippily colorful journey through a creative genius’s singular mind.
Coming Aug. 9
The Chosen in the Wild With Bear Grylls, Season 1
Fans of faith-forward The Chosen will be drawn to this nature adventure series in which Man vs. Wild alum Bear Grylls, 52, leads actors from the show through outdoor adventures in visually stunning locations like Utah’s Castle Valley, Canada’s Au Sable River and New York’s Adirondack Park. He also asks them how their Christian faith shapes their approach to life and day-to-day challenges.
Coming Aug. 12
Reacher, Season 4
Alan Ritchson returns as former Army cop and one-man vigilante Jack Reacher in Prime Video’s hit action series. In the new season, based on Lee Child’s 2009 novel, Gone Tomorrow, Reacher witnesses a suicide on an NYC subway. The situation quickly escalates into a multifaceted conspiracy involving local cops, the FBI and a lethal terrorist group.
Coming Aug. 19
Is God Is (2026, R)
There’s nothing remotely stagy about writer-director Aleshea Harris’ debut film, which is based on her award-winning off-Broadway play. Kara Young and Mallori Johnson pulsate with Black female rage as twin sisters who are commissioned by their long-presumed-dead mother (Vivica A. Fox, 62 on July 30) to seek vengeance on their monster of a father (Sterling K. Brown, 50) for deliberately setting a fire that badly scarred all three women. The sisters hit the road like latter-day Hamlets turned avenging angels, pausing only to occasionally ponder the ethics of their pursuit and the possibility of forgiveness. Harris creates a kinetic, well-crafted mix of Quentin Tarantino, the Old Testament and Clint Eastwood Westerns. It’s a bloody good time with a humanist heart beating just beneath the wounded skin.
Coming Aug. 20
Novak Djokovic: The Wolf in Winter (2026, NR)
The tennis star, who began his career on the hardscrabble courts of his native Serbia, rose to stake a claim as the arguable GOAT of the sport: He has 24 Grand Slam titles (the most of any male player) as well as an Olympic gold medal and spent a record 428 weeks at world No. 1. This feature-length doc explores his childhood in a war-torn nation, the sacrifices his modest family made to support his playing and the passionate intensity that has made him both a polarizing figure and a great athlete.
Coming Aug. 26
The Last Sunrise (2026, R)
The course of young love never did run smooth. In this movie based on a 2025 YA novel by best-selling author Anna Todd, a college student (Maia Reficco) with a chronic illness heads to the Spanish island of Majorca with her mom (Eva Longoria, 51) for what may be her last good summer. There she falls for a local guy (Fernando Lindez) who helps her embrace the moment and forget her diagnosis … at least for a while.
Coming Aug. 27
Nickel Boys (2024, PG-13)
RaMell Ross’ Oscar-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning 2019 novel is a challenging film on two levels. For one, it follows two Black youths (Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson) who endure horrific abuse at a reform school in the Jim Crow–era South. But Ross also takes a radical approach to telling their story, inserting us into the point of view of his characters for long stretches (we only see their faces in reflections) and letting the audience piece together the details of their histories. This is a remarkable film that rewards the patient viewer.
Thursday Night Football (TNF)
Prime Video’s coverage of the new NFL season kicks off with a preseason game: the New England Patriots at Cleveland’s Huntington Bank Field, starting at 7 p.m. ET. Legendary play-by-play announcer Al Michaels, 81, returns with five-time Emmy-winning analyst Kirk Herbstreit, 56, and sideline reporter Kaylee Hartung. Prime will stream 17 more games this season, including a Black Friday matchup between the Denver Broncos and the Pittsburgh Steelers as well as a wild card playoff game in mid-January.
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