Apple TV has become the one-stop destination for some of the best science fiction content available on streaming. Over the years, the streamer has invested heavily in the genre, churning out hit after hit, with some of its productions even earning a reputation as modern sci-fi classics. While Apple TV has largely maintained an exclusive strategy, with its platform primarily serving as a home for original productions, it occasionally expands its library with titles from outside the Apple ecosystem. Unsurprisingly, its latest batch of additions leans heavily into science fiction, bringing several acclaimed classics to the streamer.
The streamer has added a new section to its catalog titled “Great Movies Available Now on Apple TV,” featuring a collection of beloved titles ranging from ’90s classics to more recent hits from as late as 2015. The collection currently includes 19 movies, all of which are available to subscribers at no additional cost. Whether this unusual move is part of a broader strategy to help Apple TV close the gap with its streaming competitors or simply another temporary expansion of its library remains to be seen. For now, however, the response appears to be positive, with several of the new additions already climbing the streamer’s charts.
Among the catalog’s sci-fi offerings is Ridley Scott‘s defining masterpiece, The Martian. An adaptation of Andy Weir‘s acclaimed 2011 novel, the 2015 film has aged like fine wine. Starring Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars and forced to fight for survival after his crew leaves him behind, The Martian has proved remarkably durable in the decades since its release. The movie regularly finds its way onto the charts whenever it lands on a new streaming service, so its inclusion in Apple’s latest rollout comes as little surprise. Sure enough, just days after arriving on Apple TV, The Martian has shot up the charts and currently sits at No. 6.
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Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
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🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
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In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
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What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
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Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
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The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
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You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
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You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
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You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
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Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
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You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
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‘The Martian’ Is in Good Company on Apple TV
Apple TV audiences appear to be embracing the new rollout, with the streamer’s charts currently dominated by several of the recently added titles. Sitting at the highest position among the new arrivals is The Bourne Identity, another Matt Damon classic. The 2002 action thriller, directed by Doug Liman, was both a critical and commercial success and would go on to launch one of Hollywood’s most enduring action franchises. Fans of the series have also recently been given another reason to celebrate, with a sixth movie currently in development and All Quiet on the Western Front director Edward Berger attached to direct.
Other new additions making waves on Apple TV’s charts include the time-travel thriller Looper, Denis Villeneuve‘s acclaimed sci-fi drama Arrival, Will Smith‘s I, Robot, and Steven Spielberg‘s alien classic E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. With that lineup now sitting alongside The Martian, Apple TV’s latest expansion gives subscribers an impressive collection of genre favorites to revisit, and perhaps another reason to keep an eye on the platform’s library.
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