There are a lot of great and award-winning documentaries available in Amazon’s Instant Video catalog (many of them are also included in the Prime Instant Video catalog), and right now Amazon’s running a Save Big on Select Documentaries Sale as well. The sale includes such titles as (descriptions from IMDB):
Startup.com (R, 4/5 stars, currently priced at $4.99)
Friends since high school, 20-somethings Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman have an idea: a Web site for people to conduct business with municipal governments.
This documentary tracks the rise and fall of govWorks.com from May of 1999 to December of 2000, and the trials the business brings to the relationship of these best friends. Kaleil raises the money, Tom’s the technical chief. A third partner wants a buy out; girlfriends come and go; Tom’s daughter needs attention. And always the need for cash and for improving the site. Venture capital comes in by the millions. Kaleil is on C-SPAN, CNN, and magazine covers. Will the business or the friendship crash first?
– Written by jhailey
Tim Tebow: Everything in Between (Not Rated, 4.5/5 stars, currently priced at $7.99)
In the winter of 2009, Fiction approached long-time friend and aspiring NFL quarterback Tim Tebow, as his storied career was coming to and close at the University of Florida. The idea was to document Tebow’s evolution from college superstar and national celebrity to NFL rookie.
He accepted, and Fiction began rolling the cameras at the end of his final college game, all the way through the NFL Draft, four months later. At home, on the road, in the glaring public spotlight and out of it, the result was an unprecedented in-depth look at an American icon during a period of huge professional and personal transition.
– Written by Anonymous
Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man (PG-13, 4/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $7.99)
Legendary poet, singer/songwriter and alleged ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his L.A. home about his extraordinary life and times, interspersed with old footage from his private photo collection and lavish praise plus elaborately performed Cohen cover songs from a motley crew of colleague musicians, amongst whom Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Nick Cave, Jarvis Cocker and U2’s Bono and The Edge.
By way of dessert the latter two and their band mates even get to back up the man for a special performance of his own.
– Written by Swie Tio
Click here to browse the full Save Big on Select Documentaries Sale.
Documentaries in Amazon’s Prime Instant Video catalog currently include such titles as:
Through A Dog’s Eyes (TV-G, 4.5/5 stars)
Follows a handful of people as they journey through the heartwarming and often challenging process of receiving their service dogs from Canine Assistants in Georgia.
The Corporation (Not Rated, 4/5 stars)
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant economic, political and social force around the globe.
This film takes an in-depth psychological examination of the organization model through various case studies. What the study illustrates is that in the its behaviour, this type of “person” typically acts like a dangerously destructive psychopath without conscience.
Furthermore, we see the profound threat this psychopath has for our world and our future, but also how the people with courage, intelligence and determination can do to stop it.
– Written by Kenneth Chisholm
David vs. Monsanto (Not Rated, 4.5/5 stars)
Imagine that a storm blows across your garden – and that now, without your knowledge and without your consent, foreign and genetically-manipulated seeds are in your vegetable patch which you have nourished and maintained for over 50 years. A few days later, representatives of a large multi-national corporation secretly visit your home, only to return later and demand that you surrender all your vegetables and seeds.
Then, they file a lawsuit against you for the illegal use of patented and genetically-modified seeds that you never planted or used and, what’s more — the court rules in favour of the corporation!
Yet, you still fight back…
– Written by the film’s production company
Click here to browse the full listings of Documentaries in Amazon’s Prime Instant Video catalog.