What to Watch in September: 23 Notable TV Shows & Streaming Movies

by Jason Dietz, Metacritic Features Editor – August 30, 2021

The month ahead will bring the long-awaited Y: The Last Man and Impeachment: American Crime Story, a Billie Eilish special, an unusual anime take on Star Wars, a new sci-fi epic, the return of What We Do in the Shadows, and more. In the gallery on this page, our editors have selected the most interesting TV and movie titles debuting at home in the next month, listed in order by premiere date.

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Steve McQueen documentary trio

Uprising
Documentary miniseries debuts September 17 on Prime Video

Black Power: A British Story of Resistance
Subnormal: A British Scandal
Documentary films debut September 17 on Prime Video

After making just four films over the first decade-plus of his feature film career, British director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) has suddenly kicked into high gear (metaphorically, unlike the other Steve McQueen). Last year, his highly acclaimed Small Axe anthology brought five new films to Prime Video. This month, he returns to the streamer with three new titles, and in a switch from his past work all of them are nonfiction works.

Two of them are features that he produced but did not direct. George Amponsah's Black Power examines the rise of the Black Power movement in the UK during the 1960s. Directed by Lyttanya Shannon, Subnormal examines the real-life London public school segregation scandal that was depicted in the Small Axe title Education. The third title, Uprising, is a three-part, three-hour miniseries directed by McQueen with James Rogan that draws connections between three key events in 1981: the Brixton riots, the Black People's Day of Action, and the New Cross Fire.

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