Magic on Amazon Prime In October!
We are now in October, or what I consider Magic Month, I thought I’d share with you ALL of the various magic related programming that can be found on Amazon Prime. I don’t have access to Netflix, so I can’t cover them other than to say that is the home to Justin Wilman’s shows.
This list is probably not complete, I may have missed one or two things. OH, and not all of these shows are free to watch. Many are. But also a lot of them require either rental or purchase and I think one of them requires a subscription, but that episode in featured in two places on the site so you can access it without the subscription too.
Here we go. For the Houdini Fans:
- Houdini 1953 with Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
- Houdini the MiniSeries with Adrien Brody
- Death Defying Acts with Guy Pierce as the worst rendition of Houdini, ever. Unwatchable in my opinion, but you might like it. Total fiction
- The Magic of Houdini : an old 1970s documentary with Walter Gibson, Milbourne Christopher, Sid Radner and James Randi.
- The Magic of Houdini: A British documentary of sorts with comedian Alan Davies
- Houdini’s Lost Secrets: Documentary which first appeared on History channel I think.
- Fairy Tale: A True Story which is has Houdini as a supporting character played very well by Harvey Keitel.
- Would You Believe It : A documentary in which Houdini is just one of the stories featured.
- Houdini & Doyle The Fox TV Series (fictional)
- HOUDINI Unlocking the Mystery
TV Series on Magic Include
- Mindfreak by Cris Angel
- Magic & Beyond hosted by Michael York might feel very dated
- Street Magic from 2015 a series
- Master Mindfreaks Vol 1 w/Cris Angel
- Hip Hop Houdini
- Penn and Teller Magic & Mystery Tour
- Lost Magic Decoded by Steve Cohen, his History Channel series
- When Magic Goes Horribly Wrong
- David Blaine Decade of Magic Vol 1
- Something Unusual TV Series from Italy
- Penn and Teller’s Bullshit TV series
Documentaries on Magic
- Lost in the Shuffle which is NEW
- The Expert At The Card Table
- Deceptive Practices about Ricky Jay
- An Honest Liar about James Randi
- DEALT about Richard Turner
- Long Tack Sam
- Magic Camp about Tannens Magic Camp
- Quiet Masters: the History and Relevance of Black Magical Artists
- Kalanag Hitlers Magician There are two of these and appear to be the same, but offered by two different platforms. Get the one without the subscription.
- Siegfried and Roy The Original Tiger Kings
- Magicians Life In the Impossible, as I recall this one is hard to watch
Finally the Movies About Magic
- Billy Topit staring Lance Burton
- The Prestige with Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale
- MAGIC with Anthony Hopkins from the 70s
- Escape Artist the Movie from the 70s
- The Illusionist with Edward Norton
- The Illusionist animated movie
- HUGO which is a fictional movie featuring George Mellie
- The infernal cauldron, The Hilarious Posters, The Old Hag, the Impossible Balancing Feat, Whimsical Illusions, Excelsior! The Prince of Magicians, The Impossible Voyage, all short films by George Mellies, available if you have a MAX Subscription
- The Great Buck Howard, loosely based upon the life of Kreskin
- 10. Penn and Teller Get Killed
Full disclosure, I’ve not seen every one of these shows or movies. And there were some that didn’t make the list because they were so bad, mostly, independent sorts of things that just looked horrible. There may be some horrible ones on the list yet, lol. So buyer beware if you decide to rent or purchase some.
