Race to the Red Planet

The Rise and Fall of the Maya

December 2025 •French

Despite decades of research, many mysteries remain about the ancient Maya. Now, archaeologists are unearthing new clues that transform long held ideas about how these people came to dominate vast areas of Mexico and Central America. Through immense lost monuments, ancient inscriptions and new forensic evidence, this series tracks the Maya from their earliest origins all the way to the present day, unlocking the dark secrets of the rise and fall of the Maya.

Continent 7: Antarctica

December 2025 •English

Take a journey to Antarctica to experience the world’s most extreme wilderness, to see the massive undertaking it is to support human life there, and to chronicle the world-changing science being done. Embed with missions on the ice, underneath it, and atop some of its peaks, as scientists and survival experts join forces to fight brutal conditions to help change the world.

Les mystères du Nil

December 2025 •French

Blue Planet II

December 2025 •English

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.

Aurora

December 2025 •English

Mars Rising

December 2025 •English

Taking a look at how challenges are being handled to prepare for a manned flight to Mars.

Amazon Abyss

December 2025 •English

Series following the high adrenaline adventures of a team of divers as they explore and film the depths of the world's greatest river system.

The Mars

December 2025 •Hindi

"The Mars" is a documentary series that delves into various aspects of the planet Mars, from its past to present and future.

Fired on Mars

December 2025 •English

After taking a one-way trip to the Red Planet, graphic designer Jeff Cooper finds himself adrift when his bosses unceremoniously eliminate his role.

The Martian Chronicles

December 2025 •English

The Martian Chronicles deals with the exploration of Mars and the inhabitants there.

Ashes to Ashes

December 2025 •English

Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.

Mars

December 2025 •English

The maiden crew of the Daedalus spacecraft must push itself to the brink of human capability in order to successfully establish the first sustainable colony on Mars. Set both in the future and in the present day, this series blends scripted elements set in the future with documentary vérité interviews with today’s best and brightest minds in modern science and innovation, illuminating how research and development is creating the space technology that will enable our first attempt at a mission to Mars.

Race to Mars

December 2025 •English

Race to Mars is a 2007 Canadian television mini-series about a fictitious mission to Mars that is based on contemporary international research. The first part aired on Discovery Channel Canada and its High Definition channel on September 23, 2007 and the second part on September 30. It was produced in association with Galafilm Inc. William Shatner narrates the miniseries. A companion book of the same title, written by Dana Berry, was also published in September 2007. It was offered as a selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. Mars Rising, a companion 6-episode documentary mini-series, aired from October 7 to October 21, 2007, using sequences shot for Race to Mars.

Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans

December 2025 •Japanese

On a terraformed post-disaster Mars, a group of child security agents rebel against the adults who betrayed them and the oppressive Earth government.

Classroom Crisis

December 2025 •Japanese

Humanity has successfully colonized all the planets in the Solar System, with intentions to continue into new frontiers. Individuals live stable lives in these colonies, including young high school students living in 4th Tokyo on Mars. Two of these students are Iris Shirazaki and Mizuki Sera. Iris is finishing her last year of high school while studying to be a test pilot while her friend Mizuki also works as a mechanic on the aircraft. Her own brother, Kaito, oversees Mizuki and Iris as their homeroom teacher and program director.

The Mars Project

December 2025 •English

By the year 2086 the united world has established a settlement of 200 people on Mars. Among them are four young teenagers – Elinn, Carl, Ariana and Ronny – who were born on the planet and consider themselves ‘Martians’ rather than ‘Earthlings’. Through the eyes of this core group (later joined from Earth by Urs Pigrato, son of the much-disliked boss of the Settlement) we see the unfolding of extraordinary events: first a plan to close down the Settlement; then, through Elinn’s mystical bond with the planet, an entire shift of humanity’s view of itself in the universe.

The Expanse

December 2025 •English

A thriller set two hundred years in the future following the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship's captain together in a race across the solar system to expose the greatest conspiracy in human history.

Metallic Rouge

December 2025 •Japanese

In a world where humans coexist with androids called Neans, a group known as the Immortal Nine rises up against society. Tasked with disposing of the revolters, a Nean named Rouge Redstar (aka Metal Rouge) and investigator Naomi Orthmann head to Mars to track them down…but first, Rouge wants some chocolate.

The First

December 2025 •English

Follow the first human mission to Mars, exploring the challenges of taking the first steps toward interplanetary colonization. The story focuses not only on the astronauts, but also on their families and loved ones, as well as the ground team on Earth.

Mobile Suit Gundam AGE

December 2025 •Japanese

Advanced Generation (A.G.) 101. The space colony Angel is attacked and destroyed by a mysterious "Unknown Enemy" with overwhelming strength. As this "UE" continues its attacks, a boy named Flit Asuno loses his mother when she is caught in the crossfire. Now in A.G. 115, Flit must fight using a new Gundam of his own creation, which evolves itself through battle. The curtain rises on an epic Gundam saga spanning 100 years and three generations.