Stream on Demand: Disney’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’ and a new season of ‘Orange is the New Black’

What’s new for home viewing on video-on-demand and Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other streaming services.

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Emma Watson and Dan Stevens are “Beauty and the Beast” in Disney’s lavish live-action remake of their animated musical from filmmaker Bill Condon. Luke Evans, Josh Gad, and Kevin Kline fill out the human cast and Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, and Emma Thompson voice the enchanted singing servants (PG). Also on DVD and Blu-ray and at Redbox.

“A United Kingdom” dramatizes the true story of the Botswana chieftain (David Oyelowo) who married a white British woman (Rosamund Pike), creating political and diplomatic turmoil in the 1950s (PG-13).

Also new: the surreal thriller “A Cure for Wellness” with Dane DeHaan and Jason Isaacs (R), British drama “The Sense of an Ending” with Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling (PG-13), and Danish World War II drama “Land Of Mine” (R, with subtitles).

True stories: “Finding Kim” follows the transition of a Seattle transgender man, “In the Steps of Trisha Brown” profiles the work of the groundbreaking ballet choreographer, and “A Good American” profiles a revolutionary codebreaking tool (all not rated).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is “Band Aid,” a comedy with Zoe Lister-Jones and Adam Pally as a married couple who start a band as a form of therapy (not rated), and the high school sports drama “Miles” with Tim Boardman and Molly Shannon (not rated)

Netflix

Season five of “Orange Is the New Black,” Netflix’s most popular original show, opens with women of the minimum security prison in the midst of a riot and taking hostages. 13 episodes.

Kid stuff: “Trolls” (2016), the animated comedy inspired by the line of dolls, features the voices of Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake (PG).

Rainn Wilson plots a bank robbery in “Shimmer Lake,” a comic caper thriller told in reverse order (not rated).

“Suite Française” (2014), set during the Nazi occupation of France, stars Michelle Williams, Kristin Scott Thomas, and Margot Robbie (not rated).

Foreign affairs: from Hong Kong comes Johnnie To’s clever crime thriller “Three” (2016) and from South Korea comes the disaster film “Tunnel” (2016) (both not rated, with subtitles).

More streaming TV: “TURN: Washington’s Spies: Season 3” (2016) arrives as the fourth and final season begins on AMC.

Amazon Prime Video

Martin Scorsese is an executive producer of the four-hour, six-part documentary “Long Strange Trip: The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead” (2017), directed by award-winning filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev and featuring plenty of archival footage of the band in performance and off stage.

“I Am Not Your Negro” (2016), a portrait of the life and career of James Baldwin, earned an Oscar nomination for Best Documentary (PG-13).

The six-part series “Le Mans: Racing is Everything” goes behind the scenes of the famous 24-hour race.

Steven Soderbergh rounds up a bunch of friends (George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and more) for the jaunty, breezy caper films “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001) and “Ocean’s Twelve” (2004) (both PG-13).

Foreign affairs: The comedy “The Brand New Testament” (Belgium, 2015) proposes that God is a grumpy old man living in Brussels (not rated, with subtitles).

Cult: “Birdemic” may not be the worst film ever made but its slapdash effects, risible writing, and nonexistent performances have made it a cult favorite on the midnight movie circuit. See it with friends (not rated).

Amazon Prime / Hulu

Pierce Brosnan is a designer drug entrepreneur in the thriller “Urge” (2016, R), Richard Gere stars in “Arbitrage” (2012), a thriller set in the culture of corporate trading and financial misbehavior (R), and Kristen Wiig stars in the comedy “Girl Most Likely” (2013, PG-13).

Hulu

The documentary “Dumb: The Story of Big Brother Magazine” charts the rise and fall of the skateboard counter-culture magazine that gave us MTV’s “Jackass” (not rated).

You could describe Miike Takashi’s “13 Assassins” (Japan, 2010), a remake of a 1963 classic, as a samurai “Dirty Dozen” with wild swordplay action (R, with subtitles).

Streaming TV: the seventh and final season of the TNT crime drama “Rizzoli & Isles” and “Tyrant: Season 3” from FX.

HBO Now

Carl Reiner interviews fellow nonagenarian overachievers Mel Brooks, Dick Van Dyke, Betty White, and others in the documentary “If You’re Not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast” (not rated).

Also new: Eva Green in “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” (2016), a fantasy directed by Tim Burton (PG-13), and “Shakespeare in Love” (1998), which won seven Academy Awards (R).

Showtime

The new original series “I’m Dying Up Here” delves into the competitive world of stand-up comedians in 1970s Los Angeles. Michael Angarano, Clark Duke, Andrew Santino, and Ari Graynor play the hopefuls and Melissa Leo is a club owner grooming the next generation. New episodes each Sunday.

FilmStruck / Criterion Channel

Julien Duvivier’s French dramas “David Golder” (1931) and “La tête d’un homme” (1933), both starring actor Harry Baur, reveal a versatile, creative filmmaker in the early sound era who, at his best, found innovative and expressive ways to tell moving and entertaining stories.

Acorn TV

Rodger Corser stars as a former heart surgeon starting over after a career-ending scandal in “The Heart Guy: Series 1,” an Australian medical drama originally titled “Doctor, Doctor.” Two episodes now available, new episodes arrive each Monday.

Also new: BBC comedy “Count Arthur Strong: Series 3” with Steve Delaney.

At Redbox: “Beauty and the Beast,” “Transformers: Age of Extinction,” “Fist Fight,” “Fifty Shades Darker,” “The Last Word”

Sean Axmaker is a Seattle film critic and writer. His reviews of streaming movies and TV can be found at http://streamondemandathome.com.