"The New Yorker Presents" combines documentaries, short scripted narrative films, comedy, poetry, animation and cartoons based on content from "The New Yorker", America’s most award-winning magazine. Each week, for the next five weeks, two new compilation episodes will be made available for Prime members on Amazon.com, with the first two available today. "The New Yorker Presents" intends to bring the pages of the magazine to life, drawing upon the reporting, fiction, humor, poetry, and cartoons that distinguish 'The New Yorker.' The first season will feature content from award-winning narrative directors and A-list talent from the worlds of film, television, art, and music, and will debut provocative and insightful documentary films from America’s most acclaimed non-fiction filmmakers. Here’s a sample of what's in "The New Yorker Presents".

Episode #1, debuting Feb 16th: In one segment from the episode, “Le Café de Balzac,” Paul Giamatti plays 19th-century French author Honore de Balzac, who supposedly drank 50 cups of coffee each day. Written by Brendan O’Hare; directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini (American Splendor).

Episode #1, debuting Feb 16th: In one segment from the episode, “The Agent,” filmmaker Alex Gibney (Going Clear) tells how the FBI could have prevented the 9/11 attacks – if it weren’t for the CIA.

Episode #2, debuting Feb 16th: In one segment from the episode, “The Ride of Their Lives,” filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Life Itself) profiles two young people competing in the world’s most dangerous sport – bull riding.

Episode #4, debuting Feb 23rd: In one segment from the episode, ““Brazenhead, C’est Moi” tells the story of Michael Seidenberg, who operated a secret bookstore in a Manhattan apartment…until he got an eviction notice.

Episode #5, debuting Feb 23rd: In one segment from the episode, “Couple’s First Dinner Party, Serves Six,” director Janicza Bravo gives us the recipe for a dinner gone wrong.

Episode #6, debuting March 1st: In one segment from the episode, “The Caging of America” writer Adam Gopnik contemplates the epidemic of mass incarceration in the United States.

Episode #11, debuting March 15th: In “Who’s Your Daddy?” we meet Kenny Burck, the world’s proudest father. His son is the Times Square street performer known far and wide as The Naked Cowboy.

Just one of many stories in "The New Yorker Presents"