Recommended Documentaries

Often, a documentary provides an in-depth dive into a person’s story, a particular trend, or a topic that is worth exploring if it has not been looked at previously before; Amazon Prime Video has a lot to offer in terms of finding the best rated documentaries for you! Its growing selection reflects how Amazon Prime Video continues to compete with other streaming services, such as Netflix, so if you want to see what documentaries you may be missing out on, read on and start watching!

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

“In 2001, 28-year-old Dr. Andrew Bagby is found dead in a park in Pennsylvania. He had been shot by his ex-girlfriend, who then fled to Canada, where she was able to walk free on bail, pregnant with Andrew’s child. Andrew’s enraged parents campaign to gain custody of the child and convict their son’s killer. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne pairs this story with home movies and interviews with those who knew Andrew, hoping to give his best friend’s son an opportunity to discover who his dad was.”

Stop Making Sense

“The band’s frontman, David Byrne, first appears on an empty stage, armed with only an acoustic guitar, and is gradually joined by bassist Tina Weymouth, drummer Chris Frantz, keyboardist Jerry Harrison and a cadre of backup singers as they perform the band’s hits, culminating in an iconic performance featuring Byrne in an enormous suit.”

Lorena

“Lorena Bobbitt became a household name in 1993 when she cut off her husband’s penis. She became the butt of jokes as her story became a fixture on cable news. Twenty-five years after the case of Lorena and John Bobbitt, executive producer Jordan Peele reinvestigates the story that made headlines around the world. “Lorena” explores vital moral issues and the missed opportunity for a national discussion about domestic violence and sexual assault that surrounded the scandal. The four-part series, which looks back at the trial and the media coverage of it, includes interviews with the Bobbitts as they look back at the newsmaking incident a quarter-century earlier.”

The Imposter

“Filmmaker Bart Layton chronicles the tale of Frederic Bourdin, a con artist who seemingly tricked a Texas family into believing he was a relative who disappeared years earlier.”

Stories We Tell

“Through a series of revealing interviews, filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates the truth about her family history.”

Time

“Entrepreneur Fox Rich spends the last two decades campaigning for the release of her husband, Rob G. Rich, who is serving a 60-year prison sentence for a robbery they both committed in the early 1990s in a moment of desperation.”

Val

“A look at the daily life of actor Val Kilmer with never-before-seen images spanning forty years of his career.”

Human Flow

“More than 65 million people around the world have been forced from their homes to escape famine, climate change and war, the greatest displacement since World War II. Filmmaker Ai Weiwei examines the staggering scale of the refugee crisis and its profoundly personal human impact. Over the course of one year in 23 countries, Weiwei follows a chain of urgent human stories that stretch across the globe, including Afghanistan, France, Greece, Germany and Iraq.”

LuLaRich

“The billion dollar clothing empire LuLaRoe stand accused of misleading thousands of women with their multi-level marketing platform.”

Dior and I

“Gifted artisans inside the Christian Dior fashion house help newly-appointed creative director Raf Simons pull together his first haute couture collection over the course of eight weeks.”