Prime Video is bringing an action-packed August to your screens.
Prepare for gripping true crime with Hunting The Yorkshire Ripper and The Hunt for Shannon Matthews, plus Prime Original action-thriller The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, starring Jack Carr and Chris Pratt.
Discover what's coming to Prime Video in the UK next month—whether you're in the mood for edge-of-your-seat true crime specials, high-octane action, or family entertainment.
Prime Video is bringing an action-packed August to your screens.
Prepare for gripping true crime with Hunting The Yorkshire Ripper and The Hunt for Shannon Matthews, plus Prime Original action-thriller The Terminal List: Dark Wolf, starring Jack Carr and Chris Pratt.
Discover what's coming to Prime Video in the UK next month—whether you're in the mood for edge-of-your-seat true crime specials, high-octane action, or family entertainment.
3 August
In the late 1970s, infamous serial killer the Yorkshire Ripper seemed to be taunting the police with handwritten letters and creepy tape recordings. But in fact, Peter Sutcliffe was operating in the shadows – and the police had been taken in by a very costly hoax.
Hunting The Yorkshire Ripper introduces viewers to former Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Gregg, at the time a rookie detective working on the Ripper manhunt. Unable to get the hoaxer’s voice out of his head, after rising up through the ranks, Gregg set out to get closure, putting together a cold case team to track down the man who – by diverting police away from the real perpetrator – allowed Sutcliffe to continue killing, leading to an interrogation room showdown decades in the making.
13 August
Butterfly is a character-driven spy thriller that explores complex family dynamics within the treacherous world of global espionage. It's centered on David Jung (Daniel Dae Kim), an enigmatic, highly unpredictable former US intelligence operative living in South Korea, whose life is blown to pieces when the consequences of an impossible decision from his past come back to haunt him, and he finds himself pursued by Rebecca (Reina Hardesty), a deadly, sociopathic young agent assigned to kill him, and Caddis, the sinister spy organisation she works for
13 August
In season 2, exiled from home, Frank, Barry, and Sammy soon find themselves in New Foodland, a shining utopia for food and humans alike. But beneath the city’s glossy fridges and cheery smiles lies a dark secret that threatens the entirety of sentient food society.
17 August
The Hunt for Shannon Matthews revisits the astonishing story of a nine-year-old girl's disappearance in February 2008, the police investigation to locate her, and the response in the local community and beyond.
27 August
Co-created by The New York Times bestselling author of The Terminal List, Jack Carr, and Season One creator-showrunner David DiGilio, The Terminal List: Dark Wolf is a prequel series with an origin story that follows “Ben Edwards” (Taylor Kitsch) throughout his journey from the Navy SEALs to the clandestine side of CIA Special Operations.
The series is an espionage thriller that explores the darker side of warfare and the human cost that comes with it. It also features Chris Pratt reprising his role as “James Reece.”
31 August
The early discovery of a body buried in a concrete tomb in a seemingly ordinary neighbourhood triggers an investigation that would go on to uncover a shocking and bizarre chain of events and lead to three trials in order to eventually bring the killers to justice.
Featuring compelling interviews with the investigators at the heart of the investigation and the victim’s devastated family – and a narrative that unfolds like a suspenseful thriller – this true-crime two-parter details, for the first time, every twist and turn of an almost unbelievable story of betrayal, deception and brutal murder.
Coming Soon
6 August
In the action-comedy The Pickup, a routine cash pickup takes a wild turn when two mismatched armored truck drivers, Russell (Eddie Murphy) and Travis (Pete Davidson), are ambushed by ruthless criminals led by a savvy mastermind, Zoe (Keke Palmer), with plans that go way beyond the cash cargo. As chaos unfolds around them, the unlikely duo must navigate high-risk danger, clashing personalities, and one very bad day that keeps getting worse.
9 August (MGM+, £5.99 / month)
This prequel to the Outlander series focuses on the lives and courtship of the parents of Jamie Fraser: Brian Fraser (played by Jamie Roy) and Ellen Mackenzie (played by Harriet Slater) as well as Claire Beauchamp's parents, Henry Beauchamp (played by Jeremy Irvine) and Julia Moriston (played by Hermione Corfield).
After a nasty incident almost ended his career, Sonny Hayes has retired from Formula One and now races a Porsche, but when an opportunity comes from the owner of a struggling team, Sonny makes a return to Formula One racing, alongside a hot new rookie teammate, but soon realises that he can't take the road to redemption on his own.
Superman must reconcile his alien Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as reporter Clark Kent. As the embodiment of truth, justice and the human way he soon finds himself in a world that views these as old-fashioned.
Five years post-Jurassic World: Dominion (2022), an expedition braves isolated equatorial regions to extract DNA from three massive prehistoric creatures for a groundbreaking medical breakthrough.
The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance
in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do "one last job" by an all-female squad of criminals.
