PBS Distribution has launched PBS Documentaries in Canada on Amazon’s Prime Video.
The doc-focused subscription channel with round 1,000 movies, together with from Ken Burns and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Nova, Frontline, American Masters, Nature, American Expertise, Impartial Lens and Pov, might be obtainable for Canadians for CAN$5.99 (US$4.35) a month after they have already got an Amazon Prime or Prime Video subscription.
The transfer into Canada for the PBS Documentaries follows the launch of the PBS Masterpiece Channel north of the border in 2020.
“We’re delighted to supply a major quantity of high-quality content material, together with our award-winning documentaries to followers in Canada. This providing enhances our profitable launch of the PBS Masterpiece Prime Video Channel in Canada,” Andrea Downing, president of PBS Distribution, mentioned in a press release on Tuesday.
PBS TV stations have lengthy aired in Canada, however the launch of the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel permits catch-up viewing, together with of basic Ken Burns docs like The Vietnam Battle, Baseball, The American Buffalo, The U.S. and the Holocaust.
“When the channel launched within the U.S. a number of years in the past, it fulfilled a dream that we’d had for a few years — for our full library of labor to dwell in a single simply accessible vacation spot. We additionally sit up for including our subsequent movie — our first non-American topic — Leonardo da Vinci, to this assortment in November,” Ken Burns mentioned of the Canadian channel launch in his personal assertion.
Leonardo da Vinci, a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon — and the long-lasting filmmaker’s first movie a few non-American topic because it explores the Italian Renaissance grasp’s artwork and scientific explorations — will air Nov. 18 and 19.
Different unique docuseries to get library viewing in Canada consists of The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, The Gilded Age, Gospel and Discovering Your Roots.