Amazon Prime Video May 2021 Movie & TV Titles Announced

Amazon Prime Video May 2021 movie & TV titles announced!

As the month of April nears a close, Amazon Prime Video has unveiled its full list of film and TV titles coming to the streaming service in May, which includes the debuts of Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad miniseries, David Weil’s ensemble anthology series Solos and A24’s acclaimed psychological horror pic Saint Maud. The full lineup can be viewed below!

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Live Sports

Seattle Sounders FC on Prime Video (in Washington state)

For the second straight year, Prime Video will serve as Seattle Sounders FC’s official video streaming partner, with 20 locally broadcast MLS matches streaming this season throughout Washington state. The first game on Prime Video is May 12 when the Sounders travel to San Jose to take on the Earthquakes at 7:30pm PT. The Sounders round out the month on Prime Video by playing host to MLS newcomers Austin FC on Saturday, May 29 at 1:00 p.m. PST.

Yankees on Prime Video (in the Tri-State area)

Prime Video will stream 21 New York Yankees games this season throughout the Tri-state area including four games in May. Yankees games on Prime Video are available at no additional cost to Prime members throughout the Yankees’ home-team footprint, which includes New York state, Connecticut, northeast Pennsylvania, and north and central New Jersey. The streams feature Amazon’s exclusive X-Ray technology, which allows fans streaming on Android, iOS mobile, and Fire TV to access live in-game stats, team and player details, and real-time play-by-play information as they watch. May’s schedule on Prime Video is as follows:

• Friday, May 14 @ Baltimore – 7:00 p.m. EST
• Friday, May 21 vs. Chicago White Sox – 7:00 p.m. EST
• Saturday, May 29 @ Detroit – 4:00 p.m. EST
• Sunday, May 30 @ Detroit – 1:00 p.m. EST

New Originals:

• From Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Matthew Heineman (Cartel Land, City of Ghosts, A Private War) comes an astonishingly intimate portrait of one of the biggest international music superstars of our time. The Boy From Medellín follows J Balvin as he prepares for the most important concert of his career–a sold-out stadium show in his hometown of Medellín, Colombia. Available in HDR. Streaming May 7
• From Academy Award-winner Jenkins and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad is a new limited series that chronicles Cora Randall’s desperate bid for freedom in the Antebellum South. After escaping a Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad beneath the Southern soil. Available in UHD and HDR. Streaming May 14
• Join award-winning musician P!NK as she embarks on her record-breaking 2019 “Beautiful Trauma” world tour in P!nk: All I Know So Far, welcoming audiences to join her chosen family while trying to balance being a mom, a wife, a boss and a performer. Mixing footage from the road, behind-the-scenes interviews and personal material, director Michael Gracey (The Greatest Showman) gives audiences a glimpse behind the curtain of the circus that she calls life. Available in HDR. Streaming May 21
• Solos is a seven-part anthology series that explores the strange, beautiful, heart-breaking, hilarious, wondrous truths of what it means to be human. Performed by eight of the finest actors of our time, this anthology series spans our present and future and illuminates that even during our most isolated moments we are all connected through the human experience. Available in UHD and HDR. Streaming May 21
• No one knows who invented Panic or when it first began. But in the forgotten rural town of Carp, Texas, the game is the only way out. Every summer the graduating seniors risk their lives competing in a series of challenges that force them to confront their deepest fears for the chance to win life-changing money. Anyone can play. Only one will win. Let the games begin. Available in UHD and HDR. Streaming May 28

New Movies to Prime:

• Flight (2012) – Academy Award-winner Denzel Washington stars in this thriller from Robert Zemeckis, the Academy Award-winning director of Forrest Gump and Cast Away. Airline pilot Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) miraculously lands his plane after a mid-air catastrophe but questions arise as to who or what was really at fault. Streaming May 1
• Skyfall (2012) – James Bond’s (Daniekl Craig) loyalty to M (Judi Dench) is tested as her past comes back to haunt her. As MI6 comes under attack, 007 must track down and destroy the threat, no matter how personal the cost. Streaming May 5
• Breach (2020) – Bruce Willis stars in the action-packed, Sci-fi thriller. Fleeing a devastating plague on Earth, an interstellar ark comes under attack from a new threat; a shape-shifting alien force intent on slaughtering what is left of humanity. Streaming May 7
• Saint Maud (2020) – A newly devout hospice nurse (Morfydd Clark) becomes obsessed with saving her dying patient’s (Jennifer Ehle) soul – but sinister forces, and her own sinful past, threaten to put an end to her holy calling. Streaming May 13

Double Feature Movie Night:

• The Da Vinci Code (2006) – Directed by Ron Howard, a symbologist (Tom Hanks) is caught in a 2000-year-old web of secrecy and uncovers the truth about The Holy Grail — a truth that could shatter the very foundations of Western Civilization. Streaming May 1
• Angels & Demons (2009) – In Ron Howard’s thrilling follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, expert symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) follows ancient clues on a heart-racing hunt through Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by the deadly secret society, the Illuminati. Streaming May 1
• Nanny McPhee (2006) – A governess (Emma Thompson) uses magic to rein in the behavior of seven ne’er-do-well children in her charge. Streaming May 1
• Nanny McPhee Returns (2010) – Nanny McPhee (Emma Thompson) arrives to help a harried young mother (Maggie Gyllenhaal) who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman’s children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons. Streaming May 1
• Aliens (1986) – James Cameron’s knockout sequel to ‘Alien’ finds Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) off to save a space colony on the planet where the first alien reigned. Streaming May 1
• Alien 3 (1992) – Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battles another alien predator after her spacecraft crash-lands on a remote prison planet. Streaming May 1
• Alien: Resurrection (1997) – The fourth ‘Alien’ film resurrects the late Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) when her DNA clone is created to hatch both a nasty plot and a batch of alien offspring. Streaming May 1

Here’s what’s new on IMDb TV (Amazon’s free streaming service) in May

• Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) – Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are married assassins who have no clue about each other’s job–until each is assigned to whack the other! Streaming May 1
• Star Trek (2009) – The greatest adventure of all time begins with Star Trek, the incredible story of a young crew’s maiden voyage aboard the most advanced starship ever created: the U.S.S. Enterprise. Streaming May 1
• The Tooth Fairy (2010) –  A bad deed on the part of a tough minor-league hockey player (Dwayne Johnson) results in an unusual sentence: he must serve one week as a real-life tooth fairy. Streaming May 1
• Hotel Artemis (2018) – In 2028, Los Angeles is in the midst of the most violent riot in its history. Four bank robbers, injured after a botched heist and on the run from the police, head to their only hope for survival- the HOTEL ARTEMIS. Serving as both a penthouse and an ER, the Hotel Artemis only caters to one exclusive clientele: criminals – all of who now set their sights on the robbers. Streaming May 8

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