Prime Video Schedule March 20-26: New TV and Movies

Academy-Award winner Top Gun: Maverick headlines the Prime Video schedule March 20-26.

Starting Friday, March 24, Prime Video subscribers will be able to watch Top Gun: Maverick. Written by Peter Craig, Justin Marks, and Eric Warren Singer, the film explores the end of the dogfighting era in the world of drone technology and fifth-generation fighters. Maverick is now a flight instructor, who took Bradley Bradshaw, the son of Maverick’s former partner Nick “Goose” Bradshaw, under his wing. Originally released on May 27, the film grossed over $1.4 billion at the box office during its theatrical run. The movie won the Oscar for Best Sound after six nominations, including Best Picture.

Joining Cruise are Miles Teller, Jon Hamm, Val Kilmer, Jennifer Connelly, Glen Powell, Monica Barbaro, Danny Ramirez, Manny Jacinto, Jay Ellis, Bashir Salahuddin, Jean Louisa Kelly, Charles Parnell, Ed Harris, and others.

Tony Scott directed the original Top Gun film starring Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, and Tom Skerritt. The film won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for “Take My Breath Away,” which was performed in Berlin. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”