15 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch on Disney+ Right Now

Disney’s mainline streaming service, Disney+, isn’t just for kid stuff. While the service offers plenty of animated classics, as well as movies and shows from the Star Wars and Marvel comic franchises, viewers looking for something a little more mature will find plenty to satisfy their bingeing, be it classic movies, documentaries or recent gems like the West Side Story remake by Steven Spielberg, 77. Somewhere in this deep catalog there’s a place for us. (And if you spend about $2 more per month to bundle in the Disney-owned streamer Hulu, you get access to even more adult-oriented content such as Abbott Elementary, Only Murders in the Building, The Handmaid’s Tale and Shōgun.)

Here are our picks for the best movies and series on Disney+.

Arctic Ascent With Alex Honnold (2024, 1 Season)

Alex Honnold, the rope-shunning climber at the center of the Oscar-winning 2018 documentary Free Solo, is back. After conquering Yosemite’s El Capitan, he teams with climber Hazel Findlay to mount an even more treacherous rock wall: Greenland’s Ingmikortilaq. The views are as spectacular as the nervy athleticism in this three-part National Geographic series.

Watch it: Arctic Ascent With Alex Honnold

The Beatles: Get Back (2021, 1 Season)

The Lord of the Rings auteur Peter Jackson, 62, sifted through 60 hours of unseen footage (and 150 hours of unheard audio) of the Fab Four making their final album, 1970’s Let It Be. The cameras capture the artists at work and play, with surprisingly little of the acrimony that legend said was roiling among the bandmates at the time. This three-part series is a deep dive for music fans, one that culminates in a remarkable final concert on the roof of the band’s London headquarters.

Watch it: The Beatles: Get Back

Hamilton (2020)

You may not have gotten to Broadway to be in the room where it happens, but you can experience Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning musical at home, with the entire original cast (including Miranda himself in the title role). The actor-musician’s hip-hop opera on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton is a mesmerizing achievement — and watching at home allows you to pause, rewind and catch all the wordplay of the lightning-fast lyrics.

Watch it: Hamilton

Hidden Figures (2016)

What’s not to love in a true-life drama about aspects of familiar history that have remained untold? The early days of America’s space program have been a Hollywood staple, thanks to films like The Right Stuff. But this drama looks at an unsung cadre of Black women (played by Taraji P. Henson, 53, Octavia Spencer, 54, and Janelle Monáe) who toiled behind the scenes on the complicated mathematical equations that sent John Glenn and other astronauts into space (and safely home).

Watch it: Hidden Figures

Isle of Dogs (2018)

Director Wes Anderson, 55, has a much-memed affinity for visually stylized filmmaking that naturally lends itself to the fussiness of stop-motion animation. He followed his Oscar-nominated 2009 gem Fantastic Mr. Fox with this oddly prophetic film about the outbreak of a canine flu in Japan that leads a totalitarian leader to quarantine all the nation’s pups on a remote island ordinarily used for waste disposal. There, the refugees lead an insurrection that’s as charming as the imagery.

Watch it: Isle of Dogs