The Best TV Shows on Discovery+

Every Discovery+ Show Ranked From Best To Worst

Dive into our updated selection of Discovery+’s finest, featuring more than 20 series as of July 2025. Icons of Discovery+, Shark Week and It's Christopher Lowell made their debut in 1988 and 1999, setting industry standards. Showcasing over 20 shows from 1988 up until 2017, Discovery+ stands as a beacon of television excellence.

  • How the Universe Works
    How the Universe Works (2010)8.3

    A users' guide to the cosmos, from the Big Bang to galaxies, stars, planets and moons: where did it all come from and how does it all fit together? A primer for anyone who has ever looked up at the night sky and wondered.

  • Too Cute
    Too Cute (2011)8.1

    Witness the miracle of cute, from a kitten's first tentative steps, to a puppy's first call to the wild. The first few months of their lives are an adorable adventure. These furry friends are simply too loveable, too curious, too cute!

  • Chasing Classic Cars
    Chasing Classic Cars (2008)8.0

    Chasing Classic Cars follows master car restorer Wayne Carini as he embarks on a mission to uncover the world's most rare and exotic cars. Get an insider's look at the elite club of car collectors as Wayne buys, restores, and sells vintage rides.

  • MythBusters
    MythBusters (2003)7.8

    MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond Television Productions for the Discovery Channel. The show's hosts, special effects experts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman, use elements of the scientific method to test the validity of rumors, myths, movie scenes, adages, Internet videos, and news stories.

  • Ghost Adventures
    Ghost Adventures (2008)7.7

    Paranormal investigator Zak Bagans and his crew, Nick Groff and Aaron Goodwin, search for haunted locations both domestically and internationally. During their investigations, Zak and crew acquaint themselves with the general area; interview locals about the hauntings; and go face-to-face with the evil spirits who reportedly haunt these locations.

  • Manhunt
    Manhunt (2017)7.6

    Inspired by actual events, this true crime anthology series takes a deep dive into the dark, twisted minds of terrorists and follows the brave souls who hunt them down.

  • How Do They Do It?
    How Do They Do It? (2006)7.5

    An insider's look at the engineering and scientific miracles behind the things that form the modern world.

  • Shark Week
    Shark Week (1988)7.4

    The Discovery Channel's Shark Week, first broadcast on July 17, 1987, is a weeklong series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks. Held annually, normally in July or August, Shark Week was originally developed to raise awareness and respect for sharks. It is the longest-running cable television programming event in history. Now broadcast in over 72 countries, Shark Week is promoted heavily via social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

  • BattleBots
    BattleBots (2015)7.4

    BattleBots promises to wow viewers with next generation robots—bigger, faster and stronger than ever before. The show will focus on the design and build of each robot, the bot builder backstories, their intense pursuit of the championship and the spectacle of the event.

  • Everest: Beyond the Limit
    Everest: Beyond the Limit (2006)7.2

    Everest: Beyond the Limit is a Discovery Channel reality television series about yearly attempts to summit Mount Everest organized and led by New Zealander Russell Brice.

  • Alaska: The Last Frontier
    Alaska: The Last Frontier (2011)7.2

    Centers on the Kilcher family and their community outside Homer, Alaska. Begun by patriarch Yule Kilcher who immigrated from Europe during WWII, and currently led by his sons, Otto and Atz Kilcher (singer Jewel's father) the family have lived on their land for four generations. The show also features the homesteaders who live nearby and interact with the Kilchers.

  • Deadliest Catch
    Deadliest Catch (2005)7.1

    Forty-foot waves, 700 pound crab pots, freezing temperatures and your mortality staring you in the face…it's all in a day's work for these modern day prospectors. During each episode we will watch crews race to meet their quota and make it home safely.

  • Naked and Afraid XL
    Naked and Afraid XL (2015)7.1

    A group of the best survival experts in the world take on an un-survivable situation: 40 days. 40 nights. No food, water or clothes. To survive they'll need to master the environment, pushing far beyond the breaking point. Will even one be able to finish?

  • Gold Rush
    Gold Rush (2010)7.0

    Follow the lives of ambitious miners as they head north in pursuit of gold. With new miners, new claims, new machines and new ways to pull gold out of the ground, the stakes are higher than ever. But will big risks lead to an even bigger pay out?

  • Man vs. Wild
    Man vs. Wild (2006)6.9

    Bear strands himself in popular wilderness destinations where tourists often find themselves lost or in danger.

  • Naked and Afraid
    Naked and Afraid (2013)6.7

    What happens when you put two complete strangers - sans clothes - in some of the most extreme environments on Earth? Each male-female duo is left with no food, no water, no clothes, and only one survival item each as they attempt to survive on their own.

  • Gold Rush: Parker's Trail
    Gold Rush: Parker's Trail (2017)6.6

    Parker's Trail follows legendary gold miner Parker Schnabel during the Klondike off-season through various gold-related adventures.

  • American Chopper
    American Chopper (2003)6.5

    Paul Teutul, Sr. and his son Paul Teutul, Jr. manufacture custom chopper-style motorcycles.

  • Salvage Hunters
    Salvage Hunters (2011)6.1

    Meet modern-day treasure hunter Drew Pritchard. With demanding customers, high turnover, and one of the biggest decorative salvage yards in the UK, Drew is constantly on the road, crisscrossing the country in search of derelict gems and forgotten remnants. Drew loves the thrill of the hunt and while he gets his hands dirty in the country's architectural backwaters, his crack team of restorers is back at the shop giving old and rare finds a new lease on life.

  • It's Christopher Lowell
    It's Christopher Lowell (1999)N/A