Age of Disclosure Becomes Prime Video’s Breakout Hit, Beating One Battle After Another
Prime Video's UFO documentary The Age of Disclosure is defying expectations, rocketing past some of the year's biggest blockbusters, including One Battle After Another, to become a breakout hit.
Turns out aliens beat dinosaurs, spies, and haunted dolls. A new UFO doc called 'The Age of Disclosure' just landed on Prime Video and, per Deadline and the film's own team, it immediately scorched the service's movie charts. Not bad for a documentary about government secrets and non-human tech.
So what did it actually do?
In its first 48 hours on Prime Video, 'The Age of Disclosure' set a new platform record for the highest-grossing documentary. Exact dollars are under wraps, but the producers say the film launched as the No. 1 purchase and No. 2 rental across all movies, not just docs, and held those slots for the first eight days. Two weeks in, it is still sitting in the top ten on Prime Video's New Releases Best Sellers chart, and it continues to be the No. 1 and No. 2 documentary in purchase and rental, respectively.
And yes, it apparently out-earned a handful of big studio titles in that window:
- Warner Bros.' One Battle After Another
- Warner Bros.' Weapons
- Warner Bros.' The Conjuring Last Rights
- Universal's Jurassic World: Rebirth
- Disney's Tron
- Paramount's Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Quick note on the chart talk: Prime Video splits its store into purchases and rentals, which is why you see a film ranked in two places at once. The brag here is that this one topped both sides of the store simultaneously and stuck there for over a week.
What is 'The Age of Disclosure'?
Director Dan Farah, who produced Steven Spielberg's 'Ready Player One', says he spent the last three years making this thing in secret. The film leans into a very big claim: that there has been roughly 80 years of global cover-up around non-human intelligent life, and that major nations have been quietly racing to reverse-engineer technology of non-human origin. On camera, you get testimony from 34 people tied to the U.S. government, military, and intelligence community who, according to Farah, are sharing what they can legally say based on their direct work.
The doc drops right as Washington is unusually engaged on the topic. Lawmakers have been holding bipartisan hearings on UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena), and there is a proposed UAP Disclosure Act backed by Senators Schumer, Rounds, and Gillibrand pushing for more transparency about what the government knows.
Farah and the producers pitch the film as unprecedented in access and scope. They also argue the real roadblock is not elected officials but the entrenched system around them. As Farah told Deadline:
'This is the biggest issue of our time. It is the permanent bureaucracy in various intelligence agencies and private defense contractors and inside of the military that are gatekeeping this information and keeping it from us and our elected officials.'
The bottom line
Even without hard revenue figures, the performance on Prime Video's charts is eye-catching: a conspiracy-heavy, talking-heads documentary blew past flashy franchise fare, at least in the store rankings that matter for the platform. If you are UAP-curious, it's on Prime Video now to rent or buy. If you are skeptical, well, that record says plenty about what people are curious enough to click on.