Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

Between the wave of true-crime and celebrity docs, Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies in the US on Amazon Prime Video and Night Flight Plus is the one worth your evening. It knows exactly what kind of film it is from the opening scene, and never loses that thread. With 59 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. The storytelling serves the subject rather than the other way around. Start it on Amazon Prime Video whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

There is a reason Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies keeps coming up in conversation. Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies resists the urge to oversimplify a subject that deserves better. The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes that shaped that history. Skin will also study the gender inequality in presenting nude images in motion pictures and will follow the revolution that has created nude gender equality in feature films today. The involvement of Malcolm McDowell and Shannon Elizabeth signals a level of access rarely granted. Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies came out in 2020. Documentary work at this level requires access that is hard to get and storytelling that does justice to it — Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies has both. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Anyone after documentary work that genuinely informs rather than confirms will value Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. A contained runtime means every scene is doing real work. The subject drives every choice here, not the other way around. The kind of production you finish and immediately want to read more about.

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies was released in 2020, directed by Danny Wolf. The full 131-minute film is available to watch now. Find exactly where it's streaming below, and TV Butler Pro makes it effortless to track your progress as you go. Just search the name, and Butler finds it instantly, tells you which service has it, and remembers exactly where you left off.