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Some of the best Revolutionary War movies focus on individuals' experiences beyond just the battles and leaders of the time. Films like "Revolution" and "The Patriot" offer different perspectives, from a father searching for his son to a farmer who becomes a reluctant hero. "1776" uses musical numbers to bring the historical figures to life, making the story of the American Revolution engaging for all audiences.

Although the Revolutionary War is a period widely touched upon in history lessons, there is still much to learn about it from the best movies about the subject. Films that delve into the history of the American Revolution include depictions of the founding fathers and pivotal battles that turned the tide of the war. However, some of the greatest movies in the genre incorporate the experience of civilians and the perspectives of people experiencing the war from all walks of life.

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A brand new “The Boys” spinoff series, the second season of “Wheel of Time” and football highlight a robust lineup of new movies and shows coming to Amazon Prime Video in September. “Gen V,” a spinoff of “The Boys” set at a college, premieres on Sept. 29, while new episodes of “The Wheel of Time” Season 2 are rolling out all month long after the season premiere on Sept. 1.

Thursday Night Football is streaming starting Sept. 14, and a whole host of library movies worth checking out – from “Four Weddings and a Funeral” to “Dracula” to “10 Things I Hate About You” – are now streaming.

There’s also the premiere of the original film “Cassandro” starring Gael Garcia Bernal as a gay wrestler, and the acclaimed drama “A Thousand and One” comes to Prime Video on Sept. 19.

Check out the full list of what’s new on Amazon Prime Video in September 2023 below.

It’s a deceptively big month on Prime Video in September! To kick things off, The Wheel of Time will be back for a second season on the service, while a live-action The Boys spinoff series called Gen V will be capping off the original series content later in the month.

But there are also some interesting new projects lined up between those two biggies. On September 15, Jenna Coleman and Oliver Jackson-Cohen star in what is sure to be a delicious tale of revenge. Wilderness, based on B.E. Jones’ novel of the same name, stars Coleman as a heartbroken wife who discovers her husband has been cheating on her after she gives up her whole life to move over to America with him and support his career.

You should also keep an eye out for Cassandro, landing on Prime Video on the same day. The film, which has been...

There is no shortage this September of new (and old) things to watch on Prime Video! The Amazon streamer is adding over 300 new TV series and films to its library this month, from highly anticipated season premieres to classic movies.

Included in the list this month are many Amazon Originals, including the highly anticipated “Cassandro,” starring Gael García Bernal, and the Season 2 premiere of the high fantasy series “The Wheel of Time,” starring Rosamund Pike.

But if you’re looking to revisit old favorites, Prime Video will be adding hundreds of movies to its library, including the “Bourne” franchise, “The Birdcage,” and many, many others.

Not sure where to start? Check out The Streamable’s picks below for what’s coming to platform this month!

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Hamilton will debut on Disney+ on July 3rd, the start of a long holiday weekend. The Walt Disney Company paid good money for the Broadway phenomenon, a reported $75 million for the rights to the film, which features performances by the original cast (we wrote a primer on the cast and where they are now).

If you’re healthily avoiding crowds and already had your fill of fireworks, here are 10 more movies and TV shows that explore the American Revolution from different angles.

1776 (1972)

Making the Founding Fathers sing was truly revolutionary when Sherman Edwards’s musical debuted on Broadway in 1969. The plot traced how the Second Continental Congress decided on independence; there are lots of fun character moments but really no other story. After the show won the Tony for Best Musical, Hollywood mogul Jack Warner hired most of the cast and director Peter Hunt to make a movie. Then...

For Virginia Tech student Colin Goddard, April 16, 2007, started out like any other Monday, with no sign that it was “going to be the craziest experience” of his life.

That changed with the sound of gunfire early that spring morning on the campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

The bullets signaled the spread of a shooting rampage by 23-year-old Virginia Tech senior Seung-Hui Cho — who gunned down 32 people and wounded 17 others before turning the gun on himself.

Six more people were injured when they jumped out of windows to escape his fire.

Sparking yet another intense round in the debate about guns in America,...

The dead began walking the Earth one April morning, but their moans and voracious appetites are only the beginning in the Night of the Living Dead: Revival comic book universe, an ambitious extension of George A. Romero's classic 1968 film. If you haven't read them or want to experience their most enhanced versions yet, Double Take recently released trade paperbacks of all ten Revival series (each one comprised of five issues), and we've been provided with ten graphic novels (a complete set of the overall series thus far) to give away to one lucky Daily Dead reader.

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Prize Details: (1) Grand Prize Winner will receive (10) Night of the Living Dead: Revival graphic novels, including:

(1) Home graphic novel (1) Z-Men graphic novel (1) Dedication graphic novel (1) Remote graphic novel (1) Soul graphic novel (1) Medic graphic novel (1) Slab graphic novel (1) Honor graphic novel (1) Rise graphic novel (1) Spring graphic novel

How to Enter: For a chance to win,...

As Evans County residents sipped their coffee while the sun spilled over the horizon and onto their small Pennsylvania town one April morning in 1966, they could not have had the slightest idea that over the next 24 hours, they would be faced with the ravenous zombies, aliens from the far reaches of space, and worms that like to wriggle into your ears once your pulse peters out.

The remarkable stories of these eclectic townspeople have made for some damn fine reading over the previous four issues in Double Take’s Night of the Living Dead: Revival series, and with the #5 issues out today, readers can witness the first phase of these incredible story arcs come to their conclusions. But the end is really a new beginning for these stories and their characters, and what happens in these final issue #5 panels will surprise (and likely delight) readers, including both those who...

His films are stylish glitterbombs of sex and death. As The Neon Demon arrives, the director talks about couples therapy, turning down Rihanna – and witnessing a stranger die in an La parking lot

On an April morning last year in Los Angeles, Nicolas Winding Refn dropped his daughter at school and walked into a parking lot. He was shooting a new film, but still scouting locations. The lot stood behind Musso and Frank, the Hollywood steakhouse whose regulars once included Steve McQueen. There, he found a young man on the asphalt, bleeding nightmarishly; another man was hunched over him, trying to staunch the blood. With no one else in sight, Refn attempted to help. It was no good. The man died. Soon the Lapd arrived. He had never seen anyone die before.

He told me this story a few weeks later, still in La. I asked if he had felt emotional.

This story first appeared in the May 15 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. It's 8 a.m. in Los Angeles on a late-April morning, and Natalie Portman, 33, is not quite her usual glamorous self. The past few weeks have been tough for the globe-trotting actress turned style icon turned writer-producer-director. First, she was in London for six days, finishing the sound mix of her new film, an adaptation of Israeli author Amos Oz's memoir A Tale of Love and Darkness, which marks her feature directorial debut;

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This story first appeared in the June 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. Rabid fans of PBS' ratings dynamo Downton Abbey -- of which there were 26 million worldwide last season -- will recall that the first telephone was introduced to the titular country manse in season one's seventh episode. But on a rather (and typical) wet April morning at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England, 67 miles west of London, actress Laura Carmichael is coping with a decidedly more 21st century issue during a break in filming the series' upcoming fifth season. Photos On the Set of 'Downton Abbey' "I'm trying

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Welcome to the Wrigley Field of auto racing.

Indeed, Martinsville Speedway, home of the Goody's Headache Relief Shot 500, airing Sunday, Oct. 27, on Espn, is to Nascar racing what the venerable Chicago edifice is to baseball: old, intimate, and steeped in the kind of history and tradition that make purists genuflect. A throwback to a much different era.

As the sun glistened on the southern Virginia track's aluminum stands on a cool early April morning, Sprint Cup cars qualifying for that weekend's race thundered around the half-mile "paperclip" at speeds approaching 120 mph in the straights and nearly 100 mph for an average lap. In fact, Jimmie Johnson would set the track record for average speed on this day, of 98.4 mph.

For Johnson, who would go on to win that weekend's race - his eighth career Cup victory here - Martinsville represents good old-fashioned "boys have at it" racing at its finest. It's...

FEARnet is proud to present brand new fiction from Nightmare Magazine. Once a month, we'll be featuring a story from Nightmare’s current issue. This month's selection is “How Far to Englishman’s Bay” by Matthew Cheney. Please tell us what you think and enjoy!

How Far to Englishman’s Bay

by Matthew Cheney

Max had made the decision that April morning to close up the bookshop and go away for once and for all, but he hadn’t told anyone yet, and he needed somebody to take the cat, so it was a good thing Jeffrey showed up an hour before closing.

“I think Carmilla wants to go home with you,” Max said, watching Jeffrey roam, as always, through the military books. Jeffrey didn’t reply. He took a tattered Shooter’s Bible off the top shelf and held it up.

“Do you really think this is worth ten bucks?...

This story first appeared in the June 28 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. It's a mid-April morning at the Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood, and Aaron Sorkin's nerves are getting the best of him. "I have no ideas right now," the Oscar-winning writer confesses once his office door has shut. Soon, the cast of The Newsroom, his HBO cable-news drama whose first season was in equal measures praised and pilloried, will need to begin shooting an episode that he has yet to begin writing. He's aware that the holdup is worrisome -- for HBO, which is

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Dexter Morgan is going to meet his maker. Not literally — well, perhaps literally — but definitely figuratively. The eighth and final season of Showtime’s drama will introduce Dr. Evelyn Vogel, a psychiatrist played by veteran British actress Charlotte Rampling.

Vogel seeks out Dexter’s help because a killer is stalking her. She also holds a big key to his past: Vogel helped Dex’s father Harry invent “The Code” that he used to manage his son’s psychotic impulses (that is: Dex only kills people who deserve it).

On a chilly April morning in Long Beach, the Dexter production team was shooting a scene at a snack bar on the beach. Dex (Michael C. Hall) and Vogel discussed his frustration with his estranged sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter). In the background, extras hired to play volleyball players tossed the ball back and forth underhanded over the net, while joggers ran in...

There was nary a tough topic left unexplored by the six drama writer/creators who gathered on a foggy April morning in downtown Los Angeles to chat about their craft on the eve of Emmy season. In the frank, freewheeling discussion, five showrunner veterans -- Alex Gansa, 52 (Homeland, Showtime); Aaron Sorkin, 51 (The Newsroom, HBO); Matthew Weiner, 47 (Mad Men, AMC); D.B. Weiss, 42 (Game of Thrones, HBO); Kevin Williamson, 48 (The Following, Fox); and one television newbie, Beau Willimon, 35 (House of Cards, Netflix) -- share their lingering insecurities about writing, the pain and pleasure of adapting source material, how

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