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Stream on Demand: ‘Titanic’ sails to Netflix, while ‘Zookeeper’s Wife’ lands On Demand

By Sean Axmaker For The Spokesman-Review

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

Pay-Per-View / Video-On-Demand

Jessica Chastain is The Zookeeper’s Wife in the drama based on the true story of Warsaw zookeepers who helped over 200 Jewish Poles escape the Nazis during the German occupation (PG-13). Also on DVD and Blu-ray and at Redbox.

Ryan Gosling, Rooney Mara, Michael Fassbender, and Natalie Portman star in Song to Song,” Terrence Malick’s scattered romance set against the Austin music scene (R), and the documentary Man in the Camo Jacketlooks at musician Mike Peter’s battle with cancer (not rated).

Available same day as select theaters nationwide is the comedy Austin Foundwith Linda Cardellini as a struggling mother who puts her family in the lens of the media (not rated).

Netflix

James Cameron’s romantic epic Titanic (1997) with Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet won 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture and was the biggest moneymaker of all time on its release (PG-13). Also new are comedies Best in Show (2000) from Christopher Guest and friends (PG-13) and Delicatessen (1991) from France (R) and family-friendly classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982, PG).

From Australia comes the compelling TV miniseries Deep Water (2016), a crime drama with Yael Stone (of “Orange is the New Black”) and Noah Taylor as Sydney police detectives uncovering a history of hate crimes buried by the cops for 20 years.

Netflix debuts two new shows: young comedian showcase The Standups and animated Castlevania inspired by the classic video game.

More streaming TV: CBS crime dramas NCIS: Season 14,” “Criminal Minds: Season 12,” “Blue Bloods: Season 7,” and Hawaii Five-0: Season 7,” CW supernatural shows iZombie: Season 3 and The Originals: Season 4,” BET romantic drama Being Mary Jane: Season 4,” and Australian series Offspring: Season 6.”

Kid stuff: teen and tween drama Degrassi: Next Class: Season 4and animated shows Dawn of the Croods: Season 4 and Luna Petunia: Season 2,” plus animated feature Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa(2008, PG).

Amazon Prime Video

20th Century Women (2016) stars Annette Bening as a single mother of a teenage boy determined to give him good life lessons with the help of Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, and Billy Crudup. Bening earned an Oscar nomination for her performance (R).

Asghar Farhadi’s Iranian drama The Salesman (2016), which won the Oscar for foreign language feature, explores a provocative story of violence, trauma, and vengeance around a stage production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” (PG-13, with subtitles).

A retired business mogul (Shirley MacLaine) hires a journalist (Amanda Seyfried) to write her obituary in advance in the comedy The Last Word(2017, R).

Also new: Oscar-winner Cold Mountain(2003) with Nicole Kidman and Renée Zellweger (R), Emmy-winning TV movie Playing for Time(1980) with Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Alexander (not rated), baseball romance Bull Durham (1988) with Kevin Costner and Susan Sarandon (R), and classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) with Audrey Hepburn (not rated).

Amazon Prime / Hulu

“Nerve” (2016) stars Emma Roberts and Dave Franco as high school kids in an addictive game of increasingly dangerous challenges (PG-13) (Amazon Prime and Hulu).

Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins, and Michael Peña star in “The Lucky Ones” (2008), a road movie about American soldiers back from service in Iraq (R) (Amazon Prime and Hulu).

“Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” (1982) (Amazon Prime and Hulu) and “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” (1991) (Amazon Prime and Hulu) are among the nine films featuring the casts of the original series and “The Next Generation” (all PG).

Back on Earth we have the westerns “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1967) with Clint Eastwood (R) (Amazon Prime and Hulu) and “Johnny Guitar” (1954) with Joan Crawford (not rated) (Amazon Prime and Hulu).

Hulu

The first season of Six,” the History Channel dramatic series inspired by the missions of Seal Team Six, is now streaming.

Newly added films this month include the political thriller Syriana (2005) with George Clooney and Matt Damon (R), Ang Lee’s Jane Austen adaptation Sense and Sensibility (1995) with Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet (PG), cult science fiction thriller Dark City(1998) with Rufus Sewell and Jennifer Connelly (R), and the western melodrama The Furies(1950) with Barbara Stanwyck (not rated).

HBO Now

Ruth Negga earned an Oscar nomination playing Mildred Loving (opposite Joel Edgerton) in Loving (2016), a sensitive and moving dramatic portrait of the couple whose interracial marriage in segregated Virginia began a legal battle that went to the Supreme Court (PG-13).

The Words That Built America (2017), narrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough, showcases the words of our founding fathers (not rated).

Also new: horror film The Other Side of the Door (2016, R), Tom Cruise in Minority Report (2002, PG-13) and Mission: Impossible II(2000, PG-13), and superhero films “The Dark Knight“ (2008, PG-13) and Watchmen (2009, R).

Showtime Anytime

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is disillusioned idealist Edward Snowden in Snowden,” Oliver Stone’s drama about the NSA whistleblower who leaked thousands of classified documents revealing illegal government surveillance (R).

Stand-up: Erik Griffin: The Ugly Truth

FilmStruck / Criterion Channel

FilmStruck adds “desert” adventures The Four Feathers (1939, not rated) with Ralph Richardson, Gunga Din (1939) with Cary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and The Wind and the Lion (1975) with Sean Connery (PG), and British crime thriller They Made Me a Fugitive(1947) with Trevor Howard (not rated)

New on Criterion Channel are George Cukor’s crime melodrama “A Woman’s Face” (1941) with Joan Crawford and John Frankenheimer’s jagged “Seconds” with Rock Hudson, (both not rated), part of a special “Changing Faces” collection, and Andrew Haigh’s romantic drama “Weekend” (2011) from Britain (not rated).

Acorn TV

The first two episodes of the third series of the Australian legal drama Janet King are now available, with new episodes arriving each Monday.

Also new: Helen Westis a three-part British mini-series starring Amanda Burton as a crown prosecutor.

At Redbox

“The Zookeeper’s Wife,” “A United Kingdom,” “A Cure for Wellness,” “CHiPS,” “Game of Thrones: Season 1”

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