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What’s new on Amazon Prime in August 2018

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Looking for what’s new on Amazon Prime? Here’s every new movie and show coming to the service in August 2018, plus our picks for the best movies to watch. The big new releases on Amazon Prime, the one to watch for is Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, a Prime original series that stars The Office’s John Krasinski as a CIA analyst thrust into the war on terror in the Middle East. The 10-episode series is a big-budget Hollywood production and one of Amazon’s most ambitious projects to date. 

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New on Amazon Prime in August 2018: Editor’s picks

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Based on the 1967 novel by Joan Lindsay, cinephiles will likely be familiar with Picnic at Hanging Rock from Peter Weir’s 1975 adaptation of the same name. Both versions focus on the disappearance of a group of students and a governess from an Australian girls school called Appleyard College during a picnic on Valentine’s Day, 1900. Where the miniseries and the film diverge is in how they chronicle the aftermath of these events. While the film resolves little of the mystery, choosing to focus more on the effects the women’s disappearance has on the school and its denizens, the miniseries expands the story to include more from Lindsay’s novel, providing additional backstory and answering some of the questions the movie ignores. —Chris Osterndorf

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Lady Bird

Lady Bird made me reconsider Dave Matthews Band. In Greta Gerwig’s debut feature, Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a bull-headed high school senior, listens to the 1996 single “Crash Into Me” with her best friend after they get their hearts broken. I wasn’t expecting the scene to hit so hard—the song has been used in movies to schmaltzy effect, and DMB rendered a punchline—but it was the first of several times my eyes involuntarily welled up.  —Audra Schroeder

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The Remix

Singing competitions are a dime a dozen and a staple of reality television. Amazon’s The Remix takes a familiar format and adds a simple wrinkle: 10 duos will create remixes of popular Bollywood songs and judges whittle the groups down until a winner is crowned. The show features some of India’s most popular singers and DJs, and the result is a high energy and highly entertaining show. —Eddie Strait

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New movies on Amazon Prime in August 2018

Aug. 1

Cinderella Story
American Gigolo
American Ninja
American Ninja III: Blood Hunt
Be Cool
Black Mask
Black Rain
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Boomerang
Cold War
CSNY/Déjà Vu
Curse of the Starving Class
Double Whammy
Fat Man and Little Boy
Fled
Flight of the Intruder
Freedom Writers
Frequency
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Get Shorty
Heartbreakers
High Noon
Hoosiers
Hurt Locker
I Went Down
In & Out
Jacob’s Ladder
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child
Joe
John Grisham’s The Rainmaker
King Corn

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Nick of Time
No Way Out
Original Sin
Out of Time
Private Parts
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
Species
Species II
Species III
Stir of Echoes
Stir of Echoes 2: The Homecoming
Teen Wolf
Teen Wolf Too
The Blair Witch Project
The Elephant Man
The Ninth Gate
The Prince and Me
The Soloist
The Time Machine

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The Usual Suspects
True Colors
Tunnel Rats
Vegas Vacation
Watchmen

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Aug. 2

America Divided: 201

Aug. 6

Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams

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Aug. 7

Having Our Baby
It Takes Guts

Aug. 8

All I See Is You
Blood Ties

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Aug. 9

America Divided: 202

Aug. 10

Bleed for This

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Aug. 14

I Am Not Lorena

Aug. 16

America Divided: 203

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Aug. 17

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*Gringo (Prime Original movie)

Aug. 21

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Ambassadors of the Sky
Two of a Kind

Aug. 23

America Divided: 204

Aug. 25

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Disobedience
The Escape of Prisoner 614
Woman Walks Ahead

Aug. 26

Mother!

New shows on Amazon Prime in August 2018

Aug. TBD

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*All or Nothing: Manchester City (Prime Original series)

Aug. 1

#MeToo: Now What?

Aug. 10

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*Agatha Christie (Prime Original series)

Aug. 14

Avoiding Apocalypse
*The Stinky & Dirty Show (Prime Original series)

Aug. 31

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Billy the Exterminator
Hangar 1: The UFO Files

*Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan (Prime Original series)
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Still not sure what to watch on Amazon? Here are the best Amazon originals, the best documentaries on Amazon Prime, the best 4K movies, thrillers on Amazon Prime, and the sexiest movies you can stream right now. 

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Here are the best comedies on Amazon Prime when you need a laugh, sad movies to make you cry, kids movies for the whole family, the best thrillers to get your heart racing, and the classic movies on Amazon Prime everyone should see.

This article is frequently updated for relevance.

 
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