Must watch documentary picks for this week – All FREE with Amazon Prime! These are top-rated, critically acclaimed and highly buzzed about movies. (Don’t have Prime? No worries, click here to start your free trial today)
4.3 stars – 973 Amazon reviews
8.1/10 IMDb
CITIZENFOUR is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving unprecedented access to Edward Snowden as he hands over classified documents providing evidence of mass indiscriminate and illegal invasions of privacy by the NSA.
4.5 stars – 2,544 Amazon reviews
6.5/10 IMDb
The Hornet’s Nest is a groundbreaking and immersive feature film, using real footage and told through a father and son’s eyes.
4.7 stars – 1,371 Amazon reviews
8.1/10 IMDb
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich makes an eloquent and impassioned argument about how the devastating effects of America’s widening income inequality not only threaten the middle class but also the very foundation of democracy itself.
4.1 star – 730 Amazon reviews
6.3/10 IMDb
Based on the New York Times best-seller No One Would Listen, Chasing Madoff is the compelling story of how Markopolos and his team of investigators pieced together a chain of white-collar predators and revealed some of the most frightening truths behind the infamous scandal.
4.5 stars – 127 Amazon reviews
7.1/10 IMBd
Experience the incredible true story of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland’s courage to help change the world. Joan witnessed the ugly realities of segregation and racism first hand and vowed to one day do something about it.