Curtain up for History Play on Prime Video
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Joseph O'Halloran
| 02 May 2019

Promising to bring customers award-winning entertaining documentaries and factual series on-demand, Amazon has added A+E Networks’ History Play to its line-up of Prime Video Channels in the UK, Germany and Austria.

At launch, History Play will offer UK Prime members programming such as WW2 Treasure Hunters, The Curse of Oak Island and Hunting Hitler. In the former, leading detectorist Stephen Taylor and celebrities unearth secrets from the Second World War, while the latter shows a crack squad of experts who go on the search for the truth and a dedicated mission to discover what treasures could be buried in The Curse of Oak Island.

“We’re thrilled to now offer Prime members in the UK, Germany and Austria access to a wide-range of popular documentaries and series for the first time with A+E’s on-demand subscription service, History Play, through Prime Video Channels,” said Julian Monaghan, European MD of Channels at Amazon Prime Video. “History Play adds an incredible line up of ground-breaking stories across different areas of history, to the wide selection of entertainment we offer customers through Prime Video Channels in the UK, Germany and Austria.”

Dean Possenniskie, managing director, A+E Networks EMEA, added: “Launching History Play is a great opportunity to share our quality content with new audiences through Prime Video Channels. With our mix of UK talent-led commissions and our best-in-class factual programming from around the world, History Play will present a unique offering to Prime members.”