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The best documentary movies on Amazon Prime is a complete Amazon Prime streaming list for your perusal. All the best documentary films on Amazon Prime streaming are listed in one convenient place so you can fully utilize your Amazon Prime service. Some of the best documentaries of all time are now available on Amazon Prime, so you can catch up on new hits or classic award winners.
This Amazon streaming list has nearly as many of the greatest documentary films to watch as a brick and mortar DVD store offers. Newer documentaries like Amy are available on Amazon Prime as are older documentary films like Super High Me, Chariots of the Gods, and The Endless Summer can be viewed on the Amazon Prime instant service.
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- 1Documentary filmmaker Bruce Brown, himself a competition-level surfer, follows surfers Michael Hynson and Robert August on an around-the-world surfing adventure. With Brown's wry, sardonic narration and a twangy, guitar-driven instrumental soundtrack by The Sandals playing over the silent footage, Mike and Rob leave their California home to visit Hawaii, Australia, South Africa and other secluded surfing spots in a search for the surfer's holy grail that Brown dubs "The Perfect Wave."
- Actors: Bruce Brown, Miki Dora, Robert August, Michael Hynson, Wayne Miyata
- Released: 1966
- 2Forty years of never-before-seen footage chronicling the life of Val Kilmer.
- Actors: Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer, Tom Cruise
- Released: 2021
- 3A behind-the-scenes look at P!nk as she balances family and life on the road, leading up to her first Wembley Stadium performance on 2019's Beautiful Trauma world tour.
- Actors: Pink, Carey Hart, Willow Sage Hart
- Released: 2021
- 4
Sriracha
Griffin HammondThe origins of the spicy sauce.- Actors: Randy Clemens, Jordan Crowder, Harold Dieterle
- Released: 2013
- 5Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl (Pål Sverre Hagen) suspects that the South Sea Islands were originally colonized by South Americans. In 1947 despite his fear of water and inability to swim, Heyerdahl decides to prove his theory. He and five companions set sail from Peru on a balsa-wood raft built from an ancient design. Their only modern equipment is a radio, and they must navigate using the stars and ocean currents. After three exhausting months at sea, they achieve their goal.
- Actors: Thor Heyerdahl, Herman Watzinger, Erik Hesselberg
- Released: 1950
- 6After Laura Poitras received encrypted emails from someone with information on the government's massive covert-surveillance programs, she and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong to meet the sender, who turned out to be Edward Snowden.
- Actors: Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, William Binney, Jacob Appelbaum
- Released: 2014
- 7Bill Cunningham, one of the mainstays of the New York Times, has been a contributor to the renowned newspaper for many decades. He's also an incurable and eccentric chronicler of fashion, tirelessly snapping photos of and writing about interestingly attired celebrities and ordinary New Yorkers he spots on the street. This exhaustive profile of Cunningham and his work includes interviews with friends -- and often subjects -- Tom Wolfe, David Rockefeller and Vogue magazine's Anna Wintour.
- Actors: Bill Cunningham, Editta Sherman, Patrick McDonald, Carmen Dell'Orefice, Anna Wintour
- Released: 2010
- 8
The Kill Team
Dan KraussWorking from the viewpoint of the accused, filmmaker Dan Krauss examines reports of terrible war crimes committed by a U.S. Army platoon in Afghanistan.- Actors: Adam Winfield, Christopher Winfield, Emma Winfield
- Released: 2013
- 9The life and work of Grammy-winning artist Mary J. Blige.
- Actors: Taraji P. Henson, Alicia Keys, Mary J. Blige
- Released: 2021
- 10
That Sugar Film
Damon GameauFilmmaker Damon Gameau documents the effects of eating supposedly healthy foods that contain high amounts of sugar.- Actors: Richard Davies, Christina Evans
- Released: 2014
- 11The life of iconic artist Frida Kahlo, told through her own words from diaries, letters, essays, and interviews.
- Actors: Pablo Alarson, Tizoc Arroyo, Roberto Cavazos, Jeanne Albanese, Yeraldín Balcázar
- Released: 2024
- 12
Four Horsemen
Ross AshcroftFour Horsemen is a 2012 British film pamphlet directed by Ross Ashcroft. The film criticises the system of fractional reserve banking, debt-based economy and political lobbying by banks, which it regards as a serious threat to Western civilisation. It criticises the War on Terror, which it maintains is not fought to eliminate al-Qaeda and other militant organizations, but to create larger debt to the banks. As an alternative, the film promotes a return to classical economics and the gold standard. Among those interviewed are Joseph Stiglitz, former chief economist at the World Bank; Noam Chomsky, linguistics professor; John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man; Herman Daly, economy professor; and Max Keiser, TV host and former trader. The film was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on 14 March 2012.- Actors: Dominic Frisby, Gillian Tett, Lawrence Wilkerson
- Released: 2012
- 13
A Tuba to Cuba
T.G. Herrington, Danny ClinchThe leader of New Orleans' famed Preservation Hall Jazz Band seeks to fulfill his late father's dream of retracing their musical roots to the shores of Cuba in search of the indigenous music that gave birth to New Orleans jazz.- Actors: Preservation Hall Jazz Band
- Released: 2018
- 14The WNBA's journey from underestimation to activism, fighting for equal rights, fair compensation, and social justice, ultimately impacting U.S. politics.
- Released: 2024
- 15Following Pete Buttigieg as he runs for president of the United States.
- Actors: Pete Buttigieg, Chasten Buttigieg, Mike Schmuhl
- Released: 2021
- 16
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
Grant BaldwinFilmmaker Grant Baldwin investigates food waste from the farm to the fridge.- Released: 2014
- 17Celine Dion highlights the music that guides her life and shows the resilience of the human spirit.
- Released: 2024
- 18Kansas City Chiefs superfan Xaviar Babudar, aka ChiefsAholic, rose to fame with his antics. But a secret life came to light when he was arrested, unraveling a series of unsolved bank robberies committed across the Midwest.
- Released: 2024
- 19A year in the cockpit with the exclusive aviator team.
- Released: 2024
