Best on Apple TV Plus•Best Movies & Shows on Apple TV+ — February 2026
Apple TV+'s strategy continues to be "fewer shows, but make them really good" — and it shows. Their top ten is dominated by heavy hitters like Band of Brothers (9.4), Planet Earth (9.4), and Chernobyl (9.3). Yes, they're sharing a lot of these with other platforms, but Apple's presentation and streaming quality are arguably the best in the business.
The real Apple TV+ flex is consistency — there's nothing below 9.3 in their top ten, which is absurd. Bluey and The Joy of Painting sitting alongside The Wire is the kind of range most platforms dream about. The knock on Apple has always been catalog size, and that's still true — but when you filter by quality per dollar, they're punching way above their weight for $9.99/month.
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Band of Brothers
IMDb: 9.4 Year: 2001
Drawn from interviews with survivors of Easy Company, as well as their journals and letters, Band of Brothers chronicles the experiences of these men from paratrooper training in Georgia through the end of the war. As an elite rifle company parachuting into Normandy early on D-Day morning, participants in the Battle of the Bulge, and witness to the horrors of war, the men of Easy knew extraordinary bravery and extraordinary fear - and became the stuff of legend. Based on Stephen E. Ambrose's acclaimed book of the same name.
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Planet Earth
IMDb: 9.4 Year: 2006
David Attenborough celebrates the amazing variety of the natural world in this epic documentary series, filmed over four years across 64 different countries.
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Seven Worlds, One Planet
IMDb: 9.3 Year: 2019
Millions of years ago, incredible forces ripped apart the Earth’s crust creating seven extraordinary continents. This documentary series reveals how each distinct continent has shaped the unique animal life found there.
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Blue Planet II
IMDb: 9.3 Year: 2017
There is nowhere more powerful and unforgiving yet more beautiful and compelling than the ocean. Join us and explore the greatest yet least known parts of our planet.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
IMDb: 9.3 Year: 2005
In a war-torn world of elemental magic, a young boy reawakens to undertake a dangerous mystic quest to fulfill his destiny as the Avatar, and bring peace to the world.
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Bluey
IMDb: 9.3 Year: 2018
Bluey is an inexhaustible six year-old Blue Heeler dog, who loves to play and turns everyday family life into extraordinary adventures, developing her imagination as well as her mental, physical and emotional resilience.
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The Joy of Painting
IMDb: 9.3 Year: 1983
The Joy of Painting was an American television show hosted by painter Bob Ross that taught its viewers techniques for landscape oil painting. Although Ross could complete a painting in half an hour, the intent of the show was not to teach viewers "speed painting". Rather, he intended for viewers to learn certain techniques within the time that the show was allotted. The show began on January 11, 1983, and lasted until May 17, 1994, a year before Ross' death.
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The Wire
IMDb: 9.3 Year: 2002
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.
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Chernobyl
IMDb: 9.3 Year: 2019
The true story of one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history: the catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl. A tale of the brave men and women who sacrificed to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
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I Was a Stranger
IMDb: 9.3 Year: 2025
A Syrian doctor and her daughter flee Aleppo, setting off a chain of events that binds five strangers together. A smuggler, a soldier, a poet, and a coast guard captain collide in a crisis that tests their courage, their choices, and their humanity.
Last updated: February 26, 2026