Best on Max•Best Movies & Shows on Max — February 2026
Max (still feels wrong not calling it HBO Max) remains the prestige TV kingpin. Band of Brothers (9.4), The Wire (9.3), Chernobyl (9.3), and Game of Thrones (9.2) — this is the platform where you go when you want to feel intellectually superior about your viewing choices. The nature documentary presence is wild too, with three Planet Earth variants in the top ten.
Here's the thing about Max that people forget: it's the best value in streaming right now. While Netflix is spending billions on content that disappears after two weeks, Max has a back catalog that's basically a film school education. The Wire alone justifies the subscription. Add in Game of Thrones (yes, even with that ending) and the unmatched documentary selection, and the only real complaint is that Warner Bros. keeps changing the name every 18 months.
Looking for the best movies and shows on Max this February 2026?
Max is packed with acclaimed series and films, making it one of the best libraries for prestige viewing.
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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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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 II
IMDb: 9.4 Year: 2016
David Attenborough presents a documentary series exploring how animals meet the challenges of surviving in the most iconic habitats on earth.
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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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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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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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Game of Thrones
IMDb: 9.2 Year: 2011
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
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The Hunt
IMDb: 9.2 Year: 2015
This major landmark series looks in detail at the fascinating relationship between predators and their prey. Rather than concentrating on ‘the blood and guts’ of predation, the series looks in unprecedented detail at the strategies predators use to catch their food and prey use to escape death. Sir David Attenborough narrates.
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Life
IMDb: 9.1 Year: 2009
David Attenborough looks at the extraordinary ends to which animals and plants go in order to survive. Featuring epic spectacles, amazing TV firsts and examples of new wildlife behaviour.
Last updated: February 26, 2026