The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Amazon, HBO, Hulu and More in May
Every month, streaming services add movies and TV shows to their libraries. Here are our picks from May’s new titles.
By Noel Murray
Published April 30, 2021Updated May 3, 2021
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New to Amazon
Starts streaming: May 14
At once historical and fantastical, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer- and National Book Award-winning novel “The Underground Railroad” depicts an alternate version of the 19th-century American South in which a literal subterranean railway helps ex-slaves escape from plantations, carrying them to freedom through a succession of strange and inhospitable lands. The director Barry Jenkins best-known for the Oscar-winning movie “Moonlight” has adapted the book into a ten-part series, starring Thuso Mbedu as Cora, who flees her captors in Georgia and
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, will begin airing on Apple TV Plus starting May 21st.
Variety reported the eight-part program is based on author
David Hepworth s critically acclaimed book,
1971: Never A Dull Moment, which chronicled the groundbreaking year, which solidified the place of the singer-songwriter and underscored the power and importance of what is now called “classic rock.”
1971 s producer
James Gay-Rees, explained, “I remember sitting in a room with David Hepworth as he gave me the context of what was happening socially and politically that year, alongside which albums were coming out that year. And. . . it was a slightly jaw-dropping moment, because the list just seemed to never end, and I couldn’t believe that all those records came out of that one year. I mean, some of these months alone are kind of iconic moments for music.”
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A new mini-series, titled,
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, will begin airing on Apple TV Plus starting May 21st.
Varietyreported the eight-part program is based on author
David Hepworth s critically acclaimed book,
1971: Never A Dull Moment, which chronicled the groundbreaking year, which solidified the place of the singer-songwriter and underscored the power and importance of what is now called classic rock.
1971 sproducer
James Gay-Rees, explained, I remember sitting in a room with David Hepworth as he gave me the context of what was happening socially and politically that year, alongside which albums were coming out that year. And. . . it was a slightly jaw-dropping moment, because the list just seemed to never end, and I couldn’t believe that all those records came out of that one year. I mean, some of these months alone are kind of iconic moments for music.
Photo: AppleTV+
Asif Kapadia is the show’s series director, and takes an executive producer role along with James Gay-Rees, David Joseph, and Universal Music Group’s Adam Barker.
Says Gay-Rees, “When we first engaged with David Hepworth, who wrote the book, I remember sitting in a room with him as he gave me the context of what was happening socially and politically that year, alongside which albums were coming out that year. And, like a lot of people, I’m a massive fan of some of the artists we feature in the series. But it was a slightly jaw-dropping moment, because the list just seemed to never end, and I couldn’t believe that all those records came out of that one year. I mean, some of these months alone are kind of iconic moments for music.”
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