The Best Prime Video Action and Adventure Shows
The Best Prime Video Action and Adventure Shows
If you're a fan of action and adventure, Amazon Prime Video has a lot to offer. From high-octane thrillers to epic fantasy series, the platform has a wide selection of content that is sure to get your heart racing. In this article, we'll highlight some of the best Prime Video action and adventure shows currently available to stream.
The Boys
IMDB Rating : 8.7 out of 10
Amazon Prime Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Cast: Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Antony Starr as Homelander, Erin Moriarty as Starlight, Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, Jessie T. Usher as A-Train, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Chace Crawford as The Deep, and Tomer Kapon as Frenchie.
Director : Eric Kripke, Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, Dan Trachtenberg, Phil Abraham
Awards : Critics Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Streaming Series or Movie (Chace Crawford) and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects.
Synopsis : The series is set in a world where superheroes exist and are owned and controlled by powerful corporations. The Boys is a group of vigilantes who set out to take down corrupt superheroes who abuse their powers. The main character, Hughie, joins the group after his girlfriend is accidentally killed by a superhero.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan
IMDB Rating : 8.1 out of 10
Amazon Prime Rating: 4.5 out of 5
Cast: John Krasinski as Jack Ryan, Wendell Pierce as James Greer, Abbie Cornish as Cathy Mueller, Ali Suliman as Suleiman, and Dina Shihabi as Hanin.
Director : Morten Tyldum, Daniel Sackheim, Patricia Riggen
Awards : Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Design and the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing - Short Form - Dialogue and ADR in a TV Short Form - Dialogue and ADR.
Synopsis : The series follows the story of Jack Ryan, a CIA analyst who is thrust into a dangerous field assignment for the first time. He uncovers a pattern in terrorist communication that launches him into the center of a dangerous gambit with a new breed of terrorism that threatens destruction on a global scale.
The Man in the High Castle
IMDB Rating : 8.1 out of 10
Amazon Prime Rating: 4 out of 5
Cast: Alexa Davalos as Juliana Crain, Luke Kleintank as Joe Blake, Rufus Sewell as John Smith, DJ Qualls as Ed McCarthy, and Brennan Brown as Robert Childan.
Director : David Semel, Daniel Percival, John Fawcett
Awards : Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation – Short Form, and the Visual Effects Society Award for Outstanding Supporting Visual Effects in a Photoreal Episode.
Synopsis : The series is set in an alternative history where the Axis powers have won World War II and have divided the United States into two parts: The Greater Nazi Reich, which occupies the East Coast and the Midwest, and the Japanese Pacific States, which occupies the West Coast. The story follows characters living in the occupied territory who come into contact with a mysterious resistance movement known as "the Man in the High Castle" and a series of propaganda films that seem to show a different reality. .
The Witcher
IMDB Rating : 8.3 out of 10
Amazon Prime Rating: 4.7 out of 5
Cast: Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer of Vengerberg, and Freya Allan as Ciri.
Director : Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Awards : 2020 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects and the 2020 Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing - Short Form - Dialogue and ADR in a TV Short Form - Dialogue and ADR.
Synopsis : "Geralt of Rivia, a solitary monster hunter, struggles to find his place in a world where people often prove more wicked than beasts."
Hanna
IMDB Rating : 7.5 out of 10
Amazon Prime Rating: 4.3 out of 5
Cast: Esme Creed-Miles as Hanna, Joel Kinnaman as Erik, and Mireille Enos as Marissa.
Director : Sarah Adina Smith
Awards : No known Awards
Synopsis : "Follows the journey of an extraordinary young girl as she evades the relentless pursuit of an off-book CIA agent and tries to unearth the truth behind who she is."
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
IMDB Rating : 8.7 out of 10
Amazon Prime Rating: 4.7 out of 5
Cast: Rachel Brosnahan as Miriam "Midge" Maisel, Tony Shalhoub as Abe Weissman and Alex Borstein as Susie Myerson.
Director : Amy Sherman-Palladino
Awards : 2018 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy, and the 2018 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
Synopsis : "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is set in the 1950s and follows Miriam "Midge" Maisel, a Jewish housewife who discovers she has a talent for stand-up comedy and pursues a career in it after her husband leaves her."
The Grand Tour
IMDB Rating : 8.8 out of 10
Amazon Prime Rating: 4.7 out of 5
Cast: Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May
Director : Phil Churchward, Brian Klein, and Kit Lynch-Robinson
Awards : 2018 International Emmy Award for Best Non-Scripted Entertainment, the 2018 BAFTA Television Craft Award for Best Entertainment Craft Team, and the 2018 National Television Award for Best Entertainment Programme.
Synopsis : The Grand Tour is a British motoring television series, created by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and Andy Wilman, for Amazon Prime Video." The show features the presenters traveling around the world, testing out cars, doing stunts and taking part in challenges, and also visiting different places and trying out different foods.