New July Amazon Prime Movies, TV Full List: HBO Hits, Movie Classics — ‘Gandhi’ To ‘The Warriors’
Amazon Prime stands tall in July with an impressive new list of classic movies and fan-favorite TV shows offered for free to Amazon customers who pay the $99 annual fee for Prime — a service that includes a lot more than free streaming video.
For TV buffs, four classic series from HBO — the pay cable network that over the past couple of decades has taken over the position once occupied by PBS as the premier outlet for quality television — will become binge-watch fare for Amazon Prime subscribers.
Actually, Amazon Prime offers the most popular show currently on PBS as well on its list of new offerings for July 2015. Season 5 of the hit British import Downton Abbey debuts on July 1.
The new HBO releases hit Amazon Prime starting on July 16, when Season 3 of the 1920s-period gangster drama Boardwalk Empire goes online, along with Season 5 of the tongue-in-cheek Southern Gothic vampire series True Blood.
One week later, Amazon Prime releases the first two seasons of one of HBO’s more polarizing shows, the Aaron Sorkin political-journalism drama Newsroom — and a week after that, on July 30, HBO’s ode to Hollywood “bro” culture, Entourage, goes online.
But Amazon Prime presents a healthy lineup of classic Hollywood feature films in July as well, starting on the first day of the month with the revisionist western Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. When the George Roy Hill-directed film came out in 1969, Newman was a veteran star and one of Hollywood’s biggest names.
But Butch Cassidy was the movie that turned Redford from a popular pretty boy into one of the most powerful box office draws of his generation.
Also on July 1, one of the most controversial movies of the 1970s, the action-packed street-gang thriller The Warriors, hits Amazon Prime. When the film hit theaters in 1979, screenings were marred by outbreaks of gang violence, and politicians turned the movie into a punching bag. But the film has gone on to be recognized as one of the most groundbreaking entries in the action genre.
July 3 sees the Oscar-winning biopic Gandhi alongside Stanley Kubrick’s brilliant Cold War satire, Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb.
Here is the complete list of Amazon Prime July releases.
July 1
- Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
- Drive Me Crazy
- Dowtown Abbey (Season 5)
- The Day The Earth Stood Still
- Thumbelina
- Bulworth
- Heidi
- Wayne’s World 2
- 48 HRS.
- The Bad News Bears
- The Brady Bunch Movie
- The Butcher’s Wife
- Cadillac Radio
- Dirty Dancing
- Dragonslayer
- Flashdance
- Friends and Lovers
- Harlem Nights
- Heaven Can Wait
- King Kong
- The Odd Couple
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
- Stuart Saves His Family
- UHF
- The Warriors
July 2
- Annedroids (Season 2)
- Glory
- Underworld Evolution
July 3
- Gandhi
- Dr. Strangelove
July 5
- Extant (Season 2)
July 10
- The Expendables 3
July 11
- Two Men in Town
July 16
- Boardwalk Empire (Season 3)
- True Blood (Season 5)
July 18
- Glee (Season 6)
July 23
- Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate
- Newsroom (Season 1 & 2)
July 24
- Hercules (2014)
July 30
- Behind the Candelabra
- Entourage (TV Series)
July 31
- The Skeleton Twins
The July lineup is one of the stronger months for Amazon Prime movies and TV for quite some time, and these offerings make a welcome alternative to the usual lineup of big budget blockbusters that will dominate the multiplexes this summer.
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