What’s On TV – New to Amazon Prime UK Saturday 3rd June 2017

Title: Fatherless (2017)

Format: Film
Genre: Comedy; Documentary
Certificate: PG
Platform: Amazon Prime
Date Added: 3rd June 2017
Cast: Baron Vaughn, Scharlotte Confer – Vaughn, Rhiannon Houch, Kenneth Williams
Synopsis: Baron Vaughn (Grace & Frankie, Mystery Science 3000) sets out to meet his father for the first time. On this journey he explores what it means to be a black man who grew up without a father and the importance of the village that raised him while cracking a few jokes along the way.

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Title: Rappas (2009)

Format: Film
Genre: Comedy
Platform: Amazon Prime
Date Added: 3rd June 2017
Cast: Tyrell Ellis, Jeffrey Pierce, Omar Mosley, Hakin Muhammad
Synopsis: Twins Gary and Cary are set on being big time rappas…only problem is they don’t have any talent! Desperate for big bucks and fame they are suckered into signing a bogus 30 album deal with Twitch Records. Now their only way out of the deal is $100,000 or pull off the biggest heist anyone has ever seen.

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Title: Songs of Freedom (2015)

Format: Film
Genre: Documentary; music
Certificate: U

Platform: Amazon Prime
Date Added: 3rd June 2017

Synopsis: Join opera singer Measha Brueggergosman, on a personal journey as she explores the music of her ancestors and performs a powerful selection of freedom songs that came from Africa to North America. Songs of Freedom offers a dynamic stylistic blend of historical documentary, personal quest and musical performance.

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Title: The Firm (2009)

Format: Film
Genre: Crime; Drama
Certificate: 18
Platform: Amazon Prime
Date Added: 3rd June 2017
Cast: Richie Campbell, Daniel Mays, Ebony Gilbert, Ben Shockley, Calum McNab
Synopsis: Dom is a wannabe football casual who’s drawn into the dangerous world of the firm’s top boy Bex. Accepted for his fast talking and quick humour, Dom becomes one of the boys. But as Bex and his gang clash with rival firms, the violence spirals out of control and Dom finds it’s not easy to get out. Stars British Blacktor Richie Campbell as ‘Snowy’

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Title: Game (2017)

Format: Film
Genre: Drama
Certificate: PG
Platform: Amazon Prime
Date Added: 3rd June 2017
Cast: Rick Fox, Nicole Williams, Tye White, Jamie McShane
Synopsis: A new kid shows up at the high school boys’ basketball tryouts and instantly makes an impression. Will talent and drive be enough to make the team?

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Title: Finding the Gold Within (2014)

Format: Film
Genre: Documentary
Certificate: PG
Platform: Amazon Prime
Date Added: 3rd June 2017

Synopsis: Finding the Gold Within follows six African American college students from Akron, Ohio for three and a half years. They have been mentored for seven years by the youth program Alchemy, Inc. Each of them is hell-bent on disproving society’s stereotypes and low expectations. What will their paths and trials look like? How will they follow their dreams?

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Title: Unfinished Life (2005)

Format: Film
Genre: Drama
Certificate: 12
Platform: Netflix
Date Added: 2nd June 2017

Cast: Morgan Freeman,Jennifer Lopez, Robert Redford,  Lasse Hallström, Josh Lucas, Damian Lewis, Camryn Manheim, P. Lynn Johnson, Lynda Boyd, Becca Gardner, Rob Hayter

Synopsis: A grieving widow and her daughter move in with her estranged father-in-law in Wyoming, where time allows them to heal and forgive.