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15 best documentaries on HBO Max to learn something new
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HBO Max offers an extraordinary selection of movies, and its documentary library alone has enough gems for hours of compelling viewing. But if you’re indecisive, have no fear: We’ve gone through the hundreds of documentaries on HBO Max and picked out the ones you absolutely have to make time to watch.
These movies prove the versatility of the documentary genre, both in terms of subject matter and form. They’ll immerse you in high school basketball, concerts, fights for racial justice, and so much more.
Here, in alphabetical order, are the best documentaries on HBO Max streaming now.
1. 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets
Marc Silver’s 2015 documentary recounts the 2012 death of teenager Jordan Davis, who was shot multiple times in a parking lot while listening to music with friends. His attacker was found guilty of first-degree murder, but only after a mistrial and extensive media coverage, which the film follows along with Davis’ friends, family, and trial proceedings. — Proma Khosla, Senior Entertainment Reporter *
How to watch: 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets is now streaming on HBO Max.
2. André the Giant
HBO’s original documentary André the Giant is a thoughtful examination of what it means to be larger than life. It gives André Roussimoff credit for his contributions to sports entertainment by identifying him as a pioneer who fully understood how gigantism, the medical condition responsible for his seven-foot-four frame, could elevate him to the status of a living myth. Interviews with wrestling personalities like Hulk Hogan, Ric Flair, and Vince McMahon offer a rare glimpse behind the curtain of kayfabe by documenting Roussimoff’s keen awareness of the awe he inspired and how his example transformed the WWF franchise into the massive performance showcase that exists now as the WWE. — Alexis Nedd, Senior Entertainment Reporter
How to watch: André the Giant is now streaming on HBO Max.
3. Class Action Park
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Welcome to Action Park! This New Jersey amusement and water park, built by former Wall Street tycoon Gene Mulvihill, was home to attractions such as Cannonball Loop and the Alpine Slide. It was also severely mismanaged and the cause of many injuries and deaths. Class Action Park reveals just how insane the story behind Action Park was, from the park’s madcap rides to Mulvihill’s shady tactics for keeping his venture afloat.
Through a mixture of fun animation and interviews with comedians who attended Action Park as children, Class Action Park keeps things light and humorous. However, it still exercises proper seriousness and restraint when discussing the park’s fatalities. Overall Class Action Park is a wild documentary about a truly wild place – you’ll come for the descriptions of the insane rides and stay for the nuanced exploration of nostalgia and childhood in the 1980s. — Belen Edwards, Entertainment Reporter
How to watch: Class Action Park is now streaming on HBO Max.
4. Everything Is Copy
HBO Films’ Everything Is Copy is the best kind of love letter: one that’s effusive in its admiration of its subject, but also clear-eyed about her quirks and imperfections. Journalist Jacob Bernstein explores the life, career, and 2012 death of Nora Ephron — known to us as the writer and filmmaker behind such movies as Sleepless in Seattle, You’ve Got Mail, and Julie & Julia, and to Bernstein as his mother.
Interviews with family members and famous friends (including Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and Mike Nichols), along with archival interviews and excerpts from Ephron’s own work, paint a portrait of a brilliant and ambitious spirit who lived by the motto stated in the title: “Everything is copy,” meaning that everything that happens in life can be fodder for a story later on. Though you wouldn’t mistake Bernstein’s documentary for a work by Ephron herself, the film’s warmth, candor, and humor make it a fitting tribute to the icon she was. — Angie Han, Deputy Entertainment Editor
How to watch: Everything is Copy is now streaming on HBO Max.
5. Gimme Shelter
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Originally conceived as a behind the scenes account of the Rolling Stones’ legendary 1969 U.S. tour, Gimme Shelter was ultimately transformed by the circumstances that unfolded around it. While the film does delve into various moments from the UK band’s cross-country trip, its value as a historical document is most evident in its on the ground account of the infamous Altamont Free Concert in 1970 and the circumstances leading up to that day.
California’s attempt to reproduce the success of Woodstock took the form of a massive free concert staged at the Altamont Speedway in 1969, drawing a crowd of about 300,000 people. The Hells Angels motorcycle club provided security for the event in what turned out to be an ill-fated decision that ended in a stabbing during the Stones performance. The filmmaking team led by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin captured it all, and Gimme Shelter, a triumph of the cinéma vérité movement, is the result. — Adam Rosenberg, Senior Entertainment Reporter
How to watch: Gimme Shelter is now streaming on HBO Max.
6. Grey Gardens
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In their famed 1976 film Grey Gardens, brothers and documentary team Albert and David Maysles pay a visit to a dilapidated mansion in the Hamptons. There, they profile the intriguing and tragic lives of a reclusive mother and daughter, both named Edith Beale, in a strange and winding character study unlike any other.
Relatives of First Lady Jackie Kennedy, the life stories of “Little Edie” and “Big Edie” are sensationalized in the documentary, and many argue that the film takes an inherently exploitative view of its subjects and their apparent mental health conditions. But as far as fascinating footage goes, Grey Gardens is a must-watch — capturing a unique family at the heart of a broader dialogue about the decline of political royalty and ‘60s-era Americana. — Alison Foreman, Entertainment Reporter *
How to watch: Grey Gardens is now streaming on HBO Max.
7. Harlan County, USA
Harlan County, USA drops us into small-town Kentucky in the 1970s to show us a time, a place, and a community — and to reveal wheat happens when a group of coal miners go on strike, incurring the wrath of the Duke Power Company. Barbara Kopple’s film follows the miners and their supporters (including their ferociously determined wives) into the front lines of the fight, from picket lines to town hall meetings to more intimate moments of grief or rage or everyday life.
As the battle intensifies, spilling over into violence, what emerges is a gritty portrait of hard-won courage against an all-too-familiar villain, captured through Kopple’s principled perspective. Harlan County, USA won Best Documentary at the 1977 Oscars, and almost half a century later, it’s still regarded as one of the best documentaries of all time. It’s as riveting, as powerful, and urgent as it was the day it was released. — A.H.
How to watch: Harlan County, USA is now streaming on HBO Max.
8. Hoop Dreams
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Hoop Dreams dives into the lives of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two young men from inner city Chicago who dream of making it big in the NBA. Both are recruited to play for St. Joseph’s high school’s highly regarded basketball program early on in the film, but over the next four years they take extremely different paths. Through Agee and Gates’ basketball careers, director Steve James explores issues of race, class, and how sports recruitment can cross into the realm of the exploitative and put undue amounts of pressure on young players.
What’s astonishing about Hoop Dreams is the level of intimacy James achieves with both Agee and Gates. He follows their journeys on and off the basketball court as they and their families experience parental separations, sports injuries, and financial struggles. The resulting documentary makes you feel like you’re experiencing life alongside Agee and Gates, so you desperately want them to succeed. It all comes to a head in the thrilling and tense basketball sequences. Even though these games were played decades ago, James makes every missed shot feel like a lost opportunity and every successful play feel like a massive victory. — B.E.
How to watch: Hoop Dreams is now streaming on HBO Max.
9. Original Cast Album: Company
If you’re a fan of the legendary Stephen Sondheim and George Furth musical Company, or of musical theater in general, this documentary is for you. Director D.A. Pennebaker trains a close eye on the original cast and orchestra of Company as they undergo an intense 15-hour recording session. You hear stand-out Company numbers such as “Being Alive” and “Getting Married Today” and get to see Sondheim at work. The film’s best and most famous sequence comes towards the end, when the great Elaine Stritch struggles to record “The Ladies Who Lunch.” It’s a gripping portrait of a performer trying to push through exhaustion and her own frustrations, and a perfect end to this stellar documentary. — B.E.
How to watch: Original Cast Album: Company is now streaming on HBO Max.
10. The Problem with Apu
The Simpsons’ Apu Nahasapeemapetilon may not have bothered most viewers, but Hari Kondabolu’s deep dive into the characters origins and legacy reveal a racist caricature that damaged a whole generation of South Asian Americans. The Problem With Apu reveals just how harmful Apu was at a time when South Asians were practically invisible, especially in Hollywood, where brown face and offensive accents stood in for actual representation until — well, they still do.
Kondabolu, an acclaimed comedian, speaks with many successful contemporaries — including Aasif Mandvi, Kal Penn, Sakina Jaffrey, Hasan Minhaj, and many more — all of whom are now shining examples of South Asian American talent and stories, who carry Apu’s burden to this day. — P.K.
How to watch: The Problem with Apu is now streaming on HBO Max.
11. Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
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Years after Robin Williams’ death by suicide in 2014, the loss of his talent and presence still stings. Come Inside My Mind paints a portrait of Williams through those closest to him; his son, ex-wife, best friends, and many more — a portrait of someone immensely, inordinately talented who battled mental illness for most of his life. Marina Zenovich’s documentary chronicles Williams’ whole life, from a sometimes lonely childhood to a meteoric comedy rise, addiction, relationships, and an often troubled career despite his cemented status as a legend. Clips of his performances remind us — though no one needs reminding — that there was and likely never will be another with Williams’ iconic spark of madness. — P.K.
How to watch: Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind is now streaming on HBO Max.
12. Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland
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When 28-year-old Sandra Bland was arrested for a traffic violation and subsequently found hanged in her jail cell days later, a two-year legal ordeal began. Filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner document the family’s battle with law enforcement while sharing Bland’s own video blogs and history of activism. Though her death was ruled a suicide, it remains surrounded by questions and the undeniable fact that it can’t be undone. — P.K. *
How to watch: Say Her Name: The Life and Death of Sandra Bland is now streaming on HBO Max.
13. Transhood
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In Transhood, director Sharon Liese documents the lives of Phoenix, Avery, Jay, and Leena, four transgender children and teenagers living in Kansas City, over the course of five years. It’s a moving portrait of its subjects’ – ages 4, 7, 12, and 15 at the start of filming – childhoods and transitions.
Transhood is intimate but never invasive, following its subjects with a caring and understanding eye. From consultations about gender-affirming treatments to interactions with friends, we get to know Phoenix, Avery, Jay, and Leena, as well as their parents, whose support and sacrifices fuel some of the film’s most emotional moments. Transhood doesn’t choose to lift Phoenix, Jay, Avery, or Leena up as monoliths of the trans experience. Rather, it celebrates the differences and similarities between their journeys and finds the beauty in their transitions, all while inspiring great amounts of compassion and empathy. — B.E.
How to watch: Transhood is now streaming on HBO Max.
14. Welcome to Chechnya
The third film from Academy Award-nominated documentarian David France, Welcome to Chechnya takes viewers on a guerilla-style investigation into the anti-gay purges that still plague the constituent republic of Russia.
Not only does the explosive project detail the abhorrent policies created by Vladimir Putin and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov to criminalize homosexuality, it also delves into the insidious culture the government has instilled in its citizens to encourage hate crimes. It’s a painful watch that demands attention from viewers, focusing in large part on the courageous efforts of underground networks working to help LGBTQ people escape the region.
What makes this doc stand out is the urgency. Documentary filmmaking can help us examine issues or events in greater detail, as well as preserve them for the historic record. Welcome to Chechnya does both with heartbreaking heroism, urging western audiences to at the very least acknowledge the genocide that continues to this day. — A.F.
How to watch: Welcome to Chechnya is now streaming on HBO Max.
15. Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music
This director’s cut of Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music is almost 4 hours long, but don’t let that stop you from watching. Director Michael Wadleigh’s 1970 film is a celebration of Woodstock, including performances from Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Crosby, Stills & Nash, and so many more legendary musicians. It’s also an engrossing look at the counterculture surrounding Woodstock, and the community that formed over the course of the festival. If you watch Woodstock and get a hankering for more musical documentaries, be sure to check out Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s Summer of Soul, an exceptional look at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. — B.E.
How to watch: Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music is now streaming on HBO Max.
Asterisks (*) indicate the write up comes from a previous Mashable list.
New On HBO Max In September 2022: House of the Dragon Season 1, Los Espookys Season 2
Summer is almost behind us, fall temps are in the air, and we’re about to flip the calendar over to September. That means there are many more reasons to stay inside and catch up with new content hitting HBO Max. Some of the content is available starting on September 1, while other shows and movies will be available a little later next month.
Next month on HBO Max is encouragingly packed, helped along right out of the gate by the final four episodes of Season 1 of House of the Dragon. Though audiences and critics have been split on the show, if you’ve been watching this far you will likely want to see it through.
Equally deserving of your seeing-through is Los Espookys, a sleeper comedy hit that is coming back for Season 2 after a three-year hiatus on September 16. The show’s core concept is both incredibly simple and incredibly out-there–it’s about a group of four Latinx friends and struggling professionals whose biggest passion in life is horror. In Season 1, the friends all join forces to form a peculiar business, providing horror to clients who need it. It’s a very particular and weird sort of humor on display in this show, equal parts courtesy of co-creators Fred Armisen and Julio Torres–both from Saturday Night Live–and surreal sketch writer Ana Fabrega (The Chris Gethard Show).
The 19 Best Sci-Fi Movies To Stream On HBO Max Right Now
You know what they say: You don’t know what you have until it’s gone. This time next year, who knows what HBO Max will look like as its new owners remove existing content and cancel or gut other projects? Right now, though, HBO Max is bar none one of the best streaming services out there both in terms of original content and back catalog materials. Warner Bros., as well as studios they’ve acquired or have licensing agreements with, has produced some of the very best science fiction cinema over the years. We waded through the huge glut of sci-fi content on HBO Max to find best way to use your time with the service.
This list runs the gamut of science fiction, from hard sci-fi and speculative fiction to features for kids and classic monster movies. There is certainly something on this list that will make you stop and say “hey, that’s not sci-fi!” no matter your definition. However, every movie on this list is more than worth watching, whether because it’s just a great movie or because it sets the stage for what would come after.
1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
Released over a year before we would land on the moon for real, 2001: A Space Odyssey takes us to the moon, to Jupiter, and far beyond. This is about as hard as hard science fiction gets; even 55 years later, the visual effects still hold up incredibly well thanks to director Stanley Kubrick’s relentless commitment to accuracy and realism. It’s also a fascinating story about man’s place in the universe, the dangers of technology, and the incomprehensibility of deep space. It’s a slow movie, but a beautiful one.
2. 28 Days Later
We’re pretty zombied out these days after a thousand seasons of The Walking Dead, but when 28 Days Later first hit, it felt like a fresh take on the walking dead. Instead of lumbering, moaning corpses, the zombies of 28 Days Later are as fast as they are ruthless, making every encounter with them terrifying. You don’t just sneak by these guys–you stay away from them. If you see them, you run.
3. The Matrix Series and The Animatrix
The virtual world of The Matrix turned our mundane everyday world into the playground of trenchcoat-clad rebels and G Men that seem to be everywhere at once. Somehow virtually every scene of this movie is memorable and quotable. While the films that followed never quite reached the hype level, they still make for interesting, memorable watches that combine filmmaking, technology, and philosophy into one epic package.
The Matrix is an iconic film that lays out a fascinating world–but necessarily focuses all of its effort on its main character, Neo. There’s a whole wide world of possibility out there, though, and The Animatrix explores the many different ways the Matrix could manifest. This animated anthology gives us insight into the robot revolution, the ways humanity tries to fight back against the machines, and the many ways in which the Matrix can glitch. If you love the Matrix but are yearning for something more than Neo and his crew, The Animatrix is what you need.
While the latest entry in the franchise, Matrix Resurrections, is divisive, fans of the series won’t want to miss it as it has a lot to say not just about Neo’s journey, but about the journey of the films themselves and their fans as well.
4. The Batman
The latest entry in the Batman franchise doesn’t lean on science fiction as hard as many of the other films in this list, but it gives us a look at a young and inexperienced Bruce Wayne still figuring out what it means to be Batman. He already has some of his infamous detective tools, like a set of contact lenses that record everything he sees, but he just as often stumbles and struggles as he learns to use his new tools. It’s a long film, but one of the best-looking superhero films in a while, and Robert Pattinson brings this awkward, antisocial Bruce Wayne to life perfectly.
5. Blade Runner
This list is filled with influential films, but few are as influential as Ridley Scott’s 1982 film Blade Runner. While it was a box office bomb, it has become a science fiction classic beloved by fans of the genre. It has inspired elements of films from Total Recall and the Matrix, and continues to be one of the most atmospheric films of all time…
6. Blade Runner 2049
But then, how do you make a sequel to a 30-year-old, iconic sci-fi film that has a conclusive ending? Ask Denis Villeneuve, because Blade Runner 2049 is the answer. Blade Runner 2049 both explores a brand new story and follows up on the implications of the original, but it’s also a gorgeous film full of Villeneuve’s trademark epic shots.
7. The Day After Tomorrow
The title of this movie might sound like a rom-com film, but it couldn’t be further from it. The 2004 film follows father and son Jack (Dennis Quaid) and Sam Hall (Jake Gyllenhaal). Jack suspects the world is about to go through a huge, overnight climate shift that begins a new Ice Age, and Sam is just trying to survive in New York City. The Day After Tomorrow is a classic disaster film both for how much fun it is to watch and for how utterly untethered from reality it is.
8. Equilibrium
Finally, someone dared to ask: what if Fahrenheit 451 had really cool gun fights? Equilibrium is one of Christian Bale’s early sci-fi films. Set in a future where people take medication to suppress their emotions and, thus, lose interest in art, music, and anything else that brings us passion, Bale’s character is a Tetragrammaton Cleric, an investigator and enforce trained to take down any instances of rebellion against Libria’s emotionless regime. The Clerics use Gun Kata to fight the revolutionaries, treating pistols more like melee weapons than ranged ones. The plot is simple–you know how it goes from the opening moments. But Bale and co-star Sean Bean give the characters gravitas, and the action sequences are well worth the price of entry.
9. Ex Machina
Alex Garland’s Ex Machina is about artificial intelligence, irresponsible inventors, and the dangerous potential of new technology. A programmer named Caleb (Domnhall Gleeson) wins a chance to visit the estate of his company’s CEO (Oscar Isaac). There, his boss introduces him to his latest experiments in making an artificial but convincing facsimile of a human (Alicia Vikander). The characters manipulate each other for their own agendas, and we have to ask over and over which of these characters is the most human–and what is it exactly that makes them human? The haunting ending will stick in your mind for days.
10. Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park is simultaneously one of the greatest achievements of practical visual effects and one of the earliest uses of convincing CGI–and despite all that technology it also manages to be one of the best sci-fi movies ever. When the dinosaurs that were terrifying park guests weren’t animatronic, they were made with revolutionary CGI technology that rebels at Industrial Light & Magic had to create after hours and in secret to get made. If they hadn’t, we might’ve ended up with a very different film.
11. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Mad Max was thinking about climate change before it was even on the lips of most people in the world. After nuclear war destroys the planet, the few left behind scramble to survive, finding water where they can and roaming the wasteland in cobbled-together cars. George Miller and his crew couldn’t have known at the time that they were creating the look of the post-apocalypse, countless movies and games have aped what he did in The Road Warrior…
12. Mad Max: Fury Road
Then, in 2015, Miller returned to the characters for the first time in decades and gave us not just a new Max Rockatansky with Tom Hardy, but a brand new protagonist, Charlize Theron’s Furiosa. Fury Road feels authentically Mad Max while giving us a brand new villain to hate and a different, more broken version of the hero we’re used to. Fury Road isn’t a sequel,
13. Moon
The Earth’s helium supply is dwindling, but our moon still has plenty. In the near future, Lunar Industries mines Helium-3 from the moon’s surface through an automated system supervised by one man, Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell). As Sam begins to hallucinate, he becomes suspicious that not everything he’s been told is true. Director Duncan Jones creates an intimate, beautiful movie that brings in themes of humanity, capitalism, and artificial intelligence to create a tight, engaging science fiction film. Content Warning: The AI in this film is played by Kevin Spacey, who sucks.
14. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
One of Miyazaki’s earliest anime films, Nausicaa reads more like a fantasy than science fiction, but it’s sci-fi through and through. Set 1000 years after an apocalyptic war that left much of the world a toxic wasteland, Nausicaa lives in a small pocket of humanity in a grassy, windy valley. Venturing outside, however, is a dangerous activity that requires a glider and a gas mask. It’s one of Miyazaki’s most beautiful films and one of his best loved.
15. Pacific Rim
Guillermo del Toro is best known for quiet, tense, and scary films like Pan’s Labyrinth and the Devil’s Backbone, but movies like Hellboy and Blade II are a good reminder that he’s just a big nerd with a great eye for film. While those movies looked to comics for their inspiration, Pacific Rim looks to Japanese Kaiju monsters like Godzilla and giant hero stories like Ultraman and Power Rangers. Pacific Rim is packed with entertaining performances from actors like Charlie Day, Idris Elba, and Ron Perlman, and fun special effects that show off the battles between the monsters rising out of the sea and the mecha pilots working overtime to hold them back.
16. Space Jam
Is Space Jam a basketball film, a Looney Tunes flick, or a sci-fi movie? I don’t know, does a space monster fold Michael Jordan up into a basketball, causing the retired basketball player to join the Tunes in their quest for victory and freedom? Space Jam isn’t just one or another of these genres, it’s all three. It’s time to come on and slam and welcome your whole family to the jam.
17. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
If we posted this list without Terminator 2: Judgment Day, we’re pretty sure our nerd cards would be revoked. T2, like Aliens before it, takes the sci-fi horror premise of the original film and reimagines it, thanks to James Cameron, as a sci-fi action blockbuster. The film’s visual effects were revolutionary at the time, and stand up better than you might think given how old it is, and the film is a blast from start to finish.
18. Total Recall
A list of the best sci-fi films isn’t complete without at least one entry from Paul Verhoeven. Total Recall jumps off of Philip K. Dick’s short story, We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. When protagonist Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) takes a virtual vacation in the form of memory implants, things get very weird very quickly, and it gets difficult to tell what’s real and what isn’t. The movie is filled with iconic visuals like Kuato and the folding disguise Quaid uses. Schwarzenegger feels shoehorned in here–an example of an early 90s movie using a giant star that doesn’t fit the film to try to sell it to a wide audience–but he and the movie are both quite enjoyable all the same.
19. Westworld
For 1973’s Westworld, it’s less about the film and more about the groundwork it would lay. The screenplay written by Michael Crichton will sound very familiar to anyone who has watched the HBO series of the same name, now at the end of its fourth season: Robotic actors at an adult-oriented theme park malfunction, sending everything into chaos. Not only would this eventually be reimagined into the series we see today, this is one of Michael Crichton’s early experiments with theme parks gone awry, a subject he would master with Jurassic Park 20 years later.
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iPhone 14 Display Production Weighted Most Toward Pro Max Model, Least Toward Max Model
In the period between June and September, the iPhone 14 Pro Max has the highest share of panel production, comprising 28 percent of shipments. The iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro are close behind at 26 percent each, but the iPhone 14 Max trails behind at 19 percent. Production numbers are similar with the iPhone 14 Pro Max accounting for 29 percent of production and the 14 Max accounting for 21 percent of production.
Young says that iPhone 14 Max display panel shipments will “make up a lot of ground in September,” which suggests that any initial supply issues at launch should clear up quickly.
During the iPhone 14 development cycle, there were rumors that the new 6.7-inch iPhone 14 Max that replaces the 5.4-inch iPhone mini was behind schedule due to lockdowns and production issues. Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said at the time that suppliers would work overtime to catch up and that we could see little impact on device availability.
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House of the Dragon premiere crashes HBO Max streaming, mostly on Fire Sticks
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Besides unreleased and disappearing content, there have been plenty of complaints about the HBO Max streaming apps since they launched. Still, they’ve generally held up well under the stress of premieres for content like Tenet, Wonder Woman, The Matrix, or Westworld, but for HBO there may not be anything like a Game of Thrones premiere.
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In potentially devastating news for kids and parents, about 200 episodes of Sesame Street have been removed from HBO Max, Variety reports. Many of the dropped episodes are from the show’s earliest seasons, and the number of Sesame Street episodes on the service has fallen from around 650 to 456, according to Variety.
HBO and Sesame Street have been connected for years; WarnerMedia (now Warner Bros. Discovery) locked in a big five-year deal in 2019 to exclusively stream new episodes of the show, and Sesame Street first began airing on HBO in 2016.
“Sesame Street is and has always been an important part of television culture and a crown jewel of our preschool offering,” HBO Max spokesperson Chris Willard said in a statement to The Verge….